Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
Dinner is done before my morning coffee is finished.
I really love “all” of my slow cookers because they make healthy living much easier. Throw a bunch of healthy stuff in a pot and cook. See? Healthy and easy.
Here I am showing you that I had the day’s dinner essentially “done” (and cooking) before I even finished my morning cup of coffee. It’s that easy. (Ok, so I had drank about 1/3 of the mug and then refilled it for the picture, not realizing it would look like I hadn’t had any. Um that’s crazy, of course I had a few sips as I prepared the food for the slow cooker.)
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
HAMWhey ingredients. Good stuff.
I find myself, way more often than not, thinking about food when I’m going to bed at night. I am either thinking about how I ate for the day with a check and balance effort or I am thinking about a new recipe I want to create or I am planning my breakfast for the following morning.
Last night I did two of those.
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
Chicken livers and veggies.
… You are eating chicken liver and you can’t decide whether you have bitten the inside of your mouth and you are tasting blood from it, or is it the chicken livers that is giving you that taste? Well, they don’t say it’s a good source of iron for nothing, eh? Chicken livers fall into that category of I must want to live a long life… cuz I’m eating chicken livers.
Ewww.
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Sunday, January 25th, 2015
My slow cooker collection.
I wouldn’t have felt compelled to share my slow cooker collection with the world except that the last two people who came to our home exclaimed, “Wow why do you have so many slow cookers?”
Doesn’t everybody? Just kidding. I know most people don’t have a stash of slow cookers.
I asked Kamea the other day, “Kamea, if someone asked you about your mom, like, what does your mom do? What would you say?”
Her response… “I’d say you like pots.”
Me: “Ha – cute and funny but make sure you emphasize the “s” on the end of pot.”
It is what it is. I love the kitchen and cooking and everything that comes with it – pots and all.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2015
Hello spin bike. We meet again.
We joined a great gym over the summer (2014), and when I looked at the fitness schedule of classes offered I saw a lot I wanted to take.
But. I was out of shape. Therefore, I created a plan of attack in how I would eventually make my way into classes. Simply this: I needed to be in shape before I took classes to be in shape. Makes perfect sense to me. I liken it to cleaning the house before the housekeeper comes – you know who you are.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
A chair begging to be read in with a cuppa tea in mom’s back yard.
I’m lucky that my mom lives only about 38 minutes from our home which makes for frequent visiting. That’s especially great when my mom is one of my daughter’s favorite people – Nana is big fun. Part of that Nana-fun extends beyond Nana to include her house with four dogs and a crazy yard of colors and imagination. The backyard is of decent size and filled with rocks, flowers, bird houses, bird feeders, bird baths, windmills, tons of wind chimes, tinsel on the trees, holiday lights on the trees year round, and what’s turning out to be an organic citrus orchard.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
Today’s farmers’ market treasure booty with crazy alien lettuce on the left.
I’m overwhelmed with gratitude in this moment at how wonderful our farmers’ market is here in Scottsdale. Not only is it local and fresh, but … I’m spoiled because it’s also certified organic. Gratitude full on.
Today, I was in wonder as I saw purple cauliflower, orange cauliflower, and even green cauliflower. Super fresh broccoli and so much more.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
Raw egg yolks for a primal n sexy food.
When I’m wanting to feel extra cool, and dare I admit, extra sexy…. I eat raw egg yolks. I don’t know why I like it so much because it’s not for the flavor. However, if I think about it, the flavor is pretty nice.
If I think about it even more, I probably think it’s so bad-ass because it feels primal. That’s hot.
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Kamea and independent play offers me time to myself
I needed to make changes this year. Changes I made.
Last year, 2014, was a fun year, but pretty busy and consuming. There were times I felt a bit out of control as I navigated motherhood, wifehood, and balancing my insane foodie passion among other things. Culinary School anyone?
As some of you might know, for 2014, I was drawn to working on one goal throughout the year and that was meditation. I wrote about it here in more detail with info on how I did it with tips. I had decided that meditation, and calming my mind in general, was of paramount importance to my well being, even more so than diet and exercise.
How did it go? Well, it was a successful endeavor for the most part. Meditation, even if only a few minutes a day, became a regular part of my life. Mission accomplished. I also found that I immediately went to deep relaxing breaths when stress appeared – it became my natural response.
So why did I still feel a bit crazed as 2014 was coming to a close? I thought meditation would have been the answer to, well, almost everything. It helped for sure and I will continue to practice it. I imagine my telomeres lengthening with each session, and there are undoubtedly longevity benefits manifesting as a result.
I needed more though. Something was just too jittery in me to feel totally at peace and I don’t think it’s the coffee I drink. I felt a bit unbalanced and it made me uncomfortable.
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Monday, January 19th, 2015
Lunch: Large smoothie and sardines cuz I want to live longer.
I’m sitting here eating my lunch after a Basic Yoga class.
I’m eating sardines and a large veggie smoothie. It’s soooooo not a fun lunch. I’d rather toast some of that organic 3-day fermented sourdough bread from my freezer and slather it with a butt-load of grass-fed butter. Yes sireeee that’s what I really want.
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Hi! I'm a chef, author, homeschooling mom, and I love to eat and cook super healthy food. I'm a former vegan, now real-food omnivore, who enjoys coffee(!), dark chocolate, rebounding, and researching the latest tips for optimal living. 
