breakfast/brunch recipes

coconut water, green tea, whole fruit smoothie recipe

4 February 2012
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This might be a great start to your Super Bowl Sunday. With all the overindulgence this day may bring, a good start might be in order. If not a today then Monday this is a sure bet. Because no matter which team you are rooting for, this is a no win day when it comes to your [...]

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a balsamic strawberry bloody mary

27 July 2011
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because some days are just meant to be started with vodka.  That is just how it is. When I search back in the depths of my memory I remember hot summer mornings at my grandparent’s house in the tiny town of Darrington, in the foothills of the Cascade mountains.  The mornings were started with a [...]

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embrace the morning: green smoothie

17 May 2011
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I was inspired by a segment I saw on the Today Show yesterday called Beating the Bloat.  I hate that feeling and according to Kimberly Snyder eating fruit on an empty stomach is a way to avoid that problem and to jump start weight loss. She reasons that fruit digests quickly and if you eat [...]

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