This weekend, we celebrated Spring in our usual way – by getting outside and doing yard work! When it’s Spring cleaning time in our yard, I always start out cutting back blackberry vines (they grow at a sort of creep-fast rate here in the Northwest) with great vigor....
Ready for some new healthy ‘Bowl’ ideas? Here are two to try, both enhanced with extra antioxidants and anti-inflammatory from powdered Sencha tea. You can substitute Sencha powder with Matcha tea. Learning how to use matcha in cooking is a great way to add powerful...
As I’ve noted before, one of my kids wants to eat IMMEDIATELY upon rising, while the other usually needs some time to wake up first. While the adults in our house need and want a high-protein start to the day, the kids like as many carbs and sugar as I’ll let them...
Our family is making a strong effort to eat healthier – and it’s working for the most part! For us, ‘healthier’ means more vegetables and plant-based proteins, fewer refined grain products and animal products. We need to avoid gluten in our kitchen, but otherwise...
Here in the Northwest corner of the U.S, we’ve been snowed in for DAYS. We don’t get snow very often, we have lots of hills, few snowplows, and nobody knows how to drive in snow and ice…so everything comes to a halt when even a couple of inches of snow fall....
Here’s my update – I’ve been taking the Sei Mee Tea Anti-Inflammatory Adaptogen Blend for about 10 days now, and I think I’m seeing some positive benefits. I have a lot of trouble with dry-skin eczema on my hands and sometimes even my face; I’m very sensitive to...