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Yellow Summer Gazpacho
It feels like ages since I have been able to do any decent cooking. If my children aren’t eating some form of fried, processed pool food (horrors!), they are eating something I can whip up in 10 minutes. What is that, exactly? Let’s just say the Dalai isn’t opposed to serving bowl of cereal [...]
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Raw Chocolate Cashew Milk
If you were about to make my homemade cashew milk, you may just want to start here. Chocolate makes everything taste better, so why deprive yourself? Don’t feel guilty, it has some of the highest sources of magnesium, chromium and zinc you can find. I know you have heard a million times about [...]
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Gluten Free Banana Cake With Peanut Butter Glaze
You would think I’d learn not to buy so many bananas, because I inevitably have 2-3 a week that go brown. One banana freckle sends my kids running. So, I’ll either put them in my freezer, peel and all, until I’m ready to use them. Or, I’ll peel them, break them up, and [...]
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Homemade Cashew Milk
My mom always told me not to assume anything. Like the time 18 year-old Dalai assumed a woman was pregnant and told her congratulations. That didn’t go over well. I still cringe when I think of that one. Today I decided to take her advice. For too long I just assumed everyone knew how [...]
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Brussel Sprout and Kale Salad with Almonds
I was very skeptical. How could raw brussel sprouts be good in a salad? And with kale, no less. A leaf so tough even I can’t kill it in my garden. But a trusted friend told me it was amazing. Epicurious reviews were off the charts. So, I delved in. And delved [...]
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Four Favorite Things
1. Christine Macdonald, author of PoletoSoul blog and book, Pour Some Sugar on Me: Tales from an Ex-Stripper, never fails to crack me up one moment, and have me thinking about the meaning of life the next. How many ex-strippers/recovering addicts out there are using their crazy past to enlighten others? She just kicked off [...]
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Safe Sunscreen Guide for the Thrifty Shopper
I first wrote about sunscreen safety two years ago, in my article Is Your Sunscreen Safe? In it you can find the most common concerns with todays sprays and lotions which is…chemicals! You know how doctors will sometimes prescribe medicine in “topical” formula because the medicine is easily absorbed by our skin and into [...]
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The Dalai’s Recent Reads…
I have been very remissed in keeping you abreast of some good Dalai reading. Screw the mindless beach book, don’t you all want to hear about someone’s near death experience or a sprit guide’s message spoken through his medium? Now, that is what I call a page turner. Sometime I will create a separate page [...]
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Animal Kingdom
I figured if this trip was anything like my trip to the Brazilian rainforest, there would be lots of monkeys around. What struck me in Brazil was how the monkeys were so acclimated to humans they would interact with us like house pets. (Here, you can check out those cute little monkeys) Surprisingly, the [...]
Jungle Fever
We traveled almost everywhere in the Peruvian rainforest by boat. Sometimes a large three story ferry, but mostly by an open-air propelled canoe. You had to be prepared for rain at all times. Once, we got caught in a torrential downpour and couldn’t cross the river. We all got completely soaked as we tied up [...]
Back from the Jungle
Four o’clock Saturday morning I was woken up by banging on my door. Time to get up for our 5 am boat ride to the city of Iquitos where we catch our plane to Lima. That was 38 hours ago and I have yet to sleep in a bed. The few hours of in-and-out [...]