Blood Orange and Chili Pepper Tilapia and tri-color quinoa

1lb tilapia fillets
1 tbsp of ground chili powder
1 tsp pink Himalayan sea salt
1 lemon (squeezed)
1 tbsp ground pepper
1tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 blood orange (sliced)


Season fillets with all ingredients.  Place orange slices on top. Broil for 7 mins and serve.

Buffalo Rae's Turkey Burgers

1lb turkey meat
1 cup bread crumbs
1/3 cup mustard
1/3 cup yellow onion diced
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper

Combine all ingredients and form patties.  Grill medium heat 4 minutes on each side.  Add avocado and wickles (wicked good pickles) and enjoy.

Alli Galli's Fritada

Peppers, onions, spinach, mushrooms, basil and eggs.

Combine all ingredients.  Heat in large skillet at medium low heat for 15 mins.  Place in oven at 350 for another 10 mins and serve.

Sausage, Peppers and Onions: Breakfast Style

1lb sweet natural Italian Sausage (make patties)
1 green pepper chopped
1/2 yellow onion finely chopped
2 eggs

In skillet on medium heat cook sausage.  About 4 minutes on each side.  Once you flip the first time after four minutes, add pepper and onions.  Remove from heat and cook 2 sunny side eggs up on skillet.  Place eggs on sausage and serve with your favorite hot sauce.

Deeps' Chickpea Salad

5 cups spinach (baby, chopped) 14 ozs chickpeas (drained) 12 red onion (finely chopped) 2 tbsp of mustard 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 3 tbsps olive oil salt pepper In food processor add spinach, mustard, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper.  Process until spinach is finely chopped.  Rinse chickpeas and pour in bowl.  Add Spinach mix and red onion.  Toss and Serve.

Pear and Shrimp Shishkabobs

31-40 pieces of shrimp (roughly 1.5lbs)
3 bell peppers
4 zucchini
1 yellow onion
1 red onion
2 pears


Chop veggies and pear.  Rinse shrimp.  Marinate in whatever sauce you'd like.   A homemade sweet thai chili and garlic sauce was used for this recipe. Place on skewers and grill for 20 mins on medium high heat.  Turn every few minutes.  Platter and serve.

Seared Ahi Tuna on Garlic Toast with Citrus

Slice garlic baguette thin.  Sear Tuna on all four sides for a minute each.  Slice tuna and top with blood orange slice. 

Smoothie

Ginger, Carrot, Apple, raspberry, ice, orange juice

Low Country Boil

In a large pot of water add a ton of old bay seasoning.  Bring to a boil add crab, legs, shrimp, corn and potatoes.  Cook for 30 mins at a low simmer.  

Duct Tape Wallet

This is surprisingly easy.  Great craft for kids. This is the video one of the girls I watch found and we did this in half an hour. 

Banana Pancakes

Yummy!

you can replace eggs with chia seeds and make sure to use coconut oil on the griddle!

1.5 cups of unbleached flour
1 tsp of baking powder
1 egg
1 tsp of vanilla extract
1/4 cup of cane sugar

mix ingredients together and add banana slices half way through cooking time. 

Roasted Garlic

This is so easy and so delicious.  All you need is so foil, a clove of garlic a few tablespoons of olive oil and an oven.

Preheat oven to 375 and cut top off garlic clove.  Remove excess skin so that one thin layer is left.  Dip top that was cut into olive oil and let it soak for several minutes.  Turn the other way and place on foil.  Wrap the clove and put it oven for about 35-45 mins.  Keep checking, the garlic is done when it is slightly brown in color and slides out with a knife.  Spread on your favorite bread and enjoy!

Fish Tacos with Mango Chutney

All I have to say is BOMB!

Thank you Catneival

1.5lbs fresh cod
one lemon sliced
one lime sliced
fresh chopped cilantro
olive oil and some special spices
Diced mango,
diced red onion
sliced avocado
lettuce
tomatoe

PREHEAT OVEN TO 350, FOIL A 2INCH DEEP DISH AND SEASON YOUR FILETS, ADD OLIVE OIL, LEMON, LIME AND CILANTRO.  BAKE FOR 15 MINS FLIP HALF WAY THROUGH

REMOVE COD FROM DISH AND PLACE ON DIFFERENT PLATE AND SEPARATE FISH.

FOR MANGO CHUTNEY, DICE MANGOS, ADD CILANTRO, OLIVE OIL AND PEPPER

SLIVE AVOCADO TO ADD TO TACO

ON TORTILLA, LAYER LETTUCE, TOMATOE, ONION, FISH AND CHUTNEY

Beautiful Valentine's Flowers- an Homage to my Late Grandfather

My Grandfather passed on Valentine's Day this year and my amazing and creative friends came over and brought me a beautiful floral arrangement they made of lilies, white and green hydrangea, pink and yellow roses, etc. in honor of my grandfather and V-Day.  They are beautiful!  Thank you Carriage House Flowers, 190 Post Road East White Plains, NY for hooking it up.

Organic Homemade Spa Treatments

My friend Cara came over with a ripe avocado and was like "face mask time!" Obviously I was down, I'm always down to try out new organic things, and smushing an avocado all over my face seemed like a great idea after a long weekend.  Cara grabbed some eggs, some sugar, and a fork and went to town.

We separated the eggs white from two organic free range eggs (whatever I have to mention it because you should all eating organic).  and beat them until they were frothy.  Cara smushed the avocado and made a paste out of it.


We headed to the bathroom, washed the makeup off our faces (sadly no longer being 21 has its disadvantages) and did a lip exfoliation. We put chapstick on and then you rub sugar in circular motions around your lips for several minutes and then wash off.  Put chapstick or salve on when you're done and your smackers should be smooth. 

Next we decided it was a good idea to rub raw eggs on our faces.  Back to the bathroom we went and whipped the egg whites some more and then rubbed a thin layer over our faces. Be sure to avoid eyes and lips.  Let sit until it dries.  It will slowly tighten and it will help reduce poor size.  My face feels like it was just shot up with botox tight.  Rinse with a wash cloth and warm water.  Feel your skin, it should feel amazing. 

Now is a good time to put the avocado mask on since your pores are open.  Use your fingers and liberally apply the avocado all over your face.  I used a fork because I thought I was funny but I can tell you that it is alot easier to use your hands.  Let stand for 20 minutes, or until avocado goes from bright green to brown.  Rinse off and bask in the glory of your glowing face.  Apply a light moisturizer and enjoy!

That was definitely a good time and I really enjoyed using natural one ingredient items to nourish my skin.  All recipes courtesy of Cara T!