#1: LOOK BETTER — Make your own exfoliant: The exfoliant I make myself makes my skin ridiculously soft and positively glowing. Without measuring a thing; I mix up used coffee grounds, chopped cucumber, lemon juice, plain yogurt, and raw honey in my food processor until it forms a thick paste. According to Natural Living for Women: coffee grounds are antibacterial, exfoliating and stimulating to the skin. lemon juice provides an astringent quality plus the vitamin C provides a boost. honey is healing and soothing along with an ability to help skin retain moisture. yogurt contains lactic acid...

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Another great dish from the foodie folks at Gourmet Productions: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvOGPWJMO0[/youtube]

I discovered slide.com recently and what a great tool for sharing photos! I made my sister’s Turkey Spinach Soup recipe from The Denim Diet a few nights ago and took photos of each step and voila! I created a slideshow of the recipe in less than ten minutes. You can also include the slideshow in your blog’s sidebar permanently or change it whenever you feel like it. If you’ve got a healthy recipe to share and need a place to share it, just send me the link and I’ll post it on my blog! Just click on the image below to view the...

From www.gopro-lo.com Along with some roasted Brussels sprouts and stewed white beans, I ate a few slices of the Delicata Squash Rings shown above for lunch yesterday at Gourmet Productions, a darling restaurant and catering business not far from my house. They were ridiculously good and while noshing on them, I noticed a giant sign on the wall behind the cash register that said I could learn how to make them on youtube. Chef Jim shows you how! How cool is that? What’s even more awesome is that these beauties look E-A-S-Y to make! Bring them to your next potluck and wow your friends. All you...

courtesy of www.jacobbogatin.net It’s officially Fall weather where I live. A hot bowl of goodness is a great way to start your chilly Autumn morning. Have you noticed that there is always a bowl of porridge in fairy tales? I never knew that I’d been eating porridge all my life until my sister Kelly came up with the recipe below for my book.  In fact, porridge was likely responsible for many a good night’s sleep in my childhood. My sister makes a hearty porridge…she makes a hearty everything. I wish she lived next door to me. I’ve been trying to devise a plan where we have...

My cousin’s long-time significant other made all the food for a party I hosted at my house last night. He’s from Israel and now resides in Palm Desert, California where he owns and operates a Mediterranean restaurant called Omri Gomed. He is one outstanding chef (and a seriously nice guy on top of that…handsome too!) We all know how healthy (and delicious) a Mediterranean diet is for us, but it also makes for perfect party food. Try the menu below for your next get together. Our fabulous chef, Omri, made way too much food for the party. My cousin didn’t want to take the...

Photo Courtesy of Fandango.com A friend and I caught Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in the movie Julie and Julia last night. Just watching all that French food being prepared made my jeans feel tight! I highly recommend wearing sweatpants or anything loose-fitting to this movie. The dish that took center stage (or screen rather) was Boeuf Bourguignon. Click here for Julia Child’s recipe for Boeuf Bourguignon courtesy of Knopf-Doubleday. I rarely eat beef and when I do, I splurge on the good stuff (grass fed without hormones or antibiotics from as local a source as possible). Since seeing the...