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Creamy Cauliflower Soup With Toasted Pine Nuts

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If you love creamy soups, but don’t care for all the butter and heavy cream… cauliflower is your new best friend! This is a dairy-free soup recipe that I re-engineered in a healthier way from a cookbook many years ago and it is still one of my favorites. When you blend cooked cauliflower with vegetable stock , it makes an amazing creamy base for virtually any soup without the traditional “cream” – and it’s extremely healthy and delicious… To make this soup a bit richer and creamier, I also added some culinary coconut milk . There is so much flavor from the spices and coconut that you won’t believe this soup is dairy-free!  You just need a few basic ingredients, most of which you probably already have in your pantry. Start by dicing up a couple onions, a few cloves of garlic, and a large head of cauliflower. The soup will be blended later, so don’t worry too much about how pretty your chopping is!  Get out your favorite soup pot and get ready for your house to smell incredible…

Back on the Flax

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Good morning! Happy Thursday! I’m back on the flax train after slacking last month. If you remember, I’ve done  seed cycling for several months now, and it was working great. My periods were regular, my skin looked amazing, my mood was mostly steady, and I didn’t have too many PMS symptoms, except for night sweats, which I’m starting to think I will have for my entire life. (I get them right before my period when estrogen levels drop. Apparently, I’m just really sensitive to the change.) Last month, I continued to take the recommended  supplements , but I skipped out on the flax and other seeds in my diet, and I definitely noticed a difference. My skin was dry and broke out. I felt much more exhausted and moody. And my PMS symptoms sucked this month (weepy, sore breasts, cramps). I’m assuming the lack of flax is what made things go haywire, so I’m back on the flax train with the hope that it’ll be a better month. This morning, I made Banana Flax Oatmeal for breakfast. I usually

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Primal Challenge Point: Test Vitamin D Levels

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“In the winter months, when the sun’s rays are not intense enough to generate sufficient vitamin D production (this is the case for three to five months per year for locations in North American—you know it’s downtime for D when you can’t get a tan even with prolonged sun exposure), supplements and safe-designated artificial tanning implements can be useful or even essential if you are at high risk for deficiency. If you have an indoor-dominant lifestyle or even a hint of aforementioned risk factors, you should regularly test your blood for vitamin D. (Make sure it’s for ’25-vitamin D’ or ‘serum 25(OH)D.’ You can order this test directly from an online provider like direct labs.com. or, if you are getting a routine checkup, insist they include vitamin D in your blood panels. (Unfortunately, it’s often not included.)” —From The New Primal Blueprint For more on vitamin D sources, deficiency, testing and recommended levels, see The New Primal Blueprint or check out past articles on MD

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