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Feeling dependent on your daily and costly cup of caffeine? Craving an antidote to your tiredness that isn't accompanied by a high and a crash?
You've come to the right place.
When caffeine has you feeling down, try these eight tricks for natural, long-lasting invigoration.
(Cue relaxing-spa-meditation music)
1. Focus on what you're looking forward to today.
Whether it's seeing a friend later or the grilled cheese and chicken sandwich you're having for lunch, find what excites you today and focus on it when you're feeling particularly sluggish. A large part of exhaustion is actually the weight of stress and other negative forces, so give yourself a clarifying boost; focus on what you're looking forward to, and chances are, you'll start moving forward, too.
It's 9:06pm, and a familiar feeling starts rippling through you. As the credits roll on the film you just watched, you start to grasp your own ever-arching rolls and your face contorts to a horrified cringe.
Uh oh. You've received a visit once again from your noxious nemesis: Guilt.
Two dinners, three desserts and two hours of "a sedentary lifestyle" later, and what did you expect? Mankind commonly loses all control when faced with a steaming, enticing meal on the table.
Take charge of yourself with these six tricks:
1. Ask yourself: "Am I actually hungry?"
Protecting your face from harmful UV rays is just as important as picture perfect makeup. Your face often gets neglected when it comes to sunscreen application, but the intense rays of the Miami sun are not to be ignored! UV rays reach some of the highest rates in the nation in Miami, but you're in luck because we've got some products and tips that will give you the perfect look while protecting your skin from harmful sun exposure.
Often times, sunscreen products are oily, abrasive, odorous, greasy, caky, or thick. Reasons like this lead women to avoid the use of sunscreen products on their face. While no one wants to walk around looking like a frosted cup-cake or a glazed donut, there are ways to protect your skin without the mess.
If you're anything like me, you bought several cans of pumpkin puree just in case you needed to make 8 pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. But you didn't need to make 8 pumpkin pies, and now you have more cans left over than you really know what to do with. You could stick them in the back of your cupboard until the next Thanksgiving rolls around, or you could use them now to make a delicious breakfast that will leave you all toasty and warm inside.
These pancakes are perfect for those chilly winter mornings (or nights) when all you really want to do is cuddle up in your favorite blanket and drink warm apple cider or hot cocoa.
After weeks of preparation for the big Thanksgiving meal, cookery skills exhausted, I usually find myself completely pillaging the leftovers. It's all pumpkin pie for breakfast and turkey sandwiches for lunch until I finally arrive at the fridge to discover one lonely lump of sweet potato casserole making a break for the door and that second bag of rolls I didn't even open.
Fear not! Working at the bakery in Salem, we make dozens of bread puddings every week. They are sweet and sticky and dense, and if you flip the recipe from sweet to savory, you have a delicious meal, which is ridiculously easy to prepare, and versatile enough to serve with a salad for brunch or a cup of tomato soup for dinner. It also works as a super simple dish to bring to vegetarian friendly potlucks.
It's lunchtime in the Financial District and as offices empty, Town Hall is packed with crisp suits and briefcases. Town Hall is the place to be for a business lunch or even just a gourmet rendezvous. Sipping on a cappuccino at noon, I watched the place fill in a matter of minutes, waiters efficiently fulfilling orders for American Regional Cuisine with a lot of Southern flavor. On this visit, I enjoyed a Crispy Shrimp Po-Boy with horseradish remoulade, heirloom tomatoes, lettuce, and sweet potato chips. Wallets being a bit tight these days, I leave you with a Town Hall recipe you can make at home.
If you know how to temper chocolate these little treats are even better chocolate coated. Package nicely and you have an inexpensive holiday gift.
Candied Orange (Citrus) Peel
6 oranges, peel of
4 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar for rolling
You can harvest the peel in many ways. Here are three I recommend: 1) Cut the oranges in half and juice them. Cut each half in half again and take a spoon to scrape the pulp out, leaving a clean pith. 2) Score the orange peel like lines of longitude. Peel the orange and clean the inside of the peel with a spoon. 3) Buy a citrus peeler. This is my favorite method because it's quick and clean.
It’s that time of year when I get magazines in the mail with intriguing holiday recipes. I’ve seen about every version of pumpkin-something but, Martha Stewart caught my eye in Everyday Food Magazine with pumpkin doughnut muffins. While they’re just muffins that have been brushed in butter and dusted cinnamon-sugar, they have a donut-crunch and a moist center. Yum!
Pumpkin Donut Muffins Recipe
Adapted from Everyday Food Magazine.
For the Muffin Batter:
10 tbsp unsalted butter
3 cups or 15 oz all-purpose flour
2 ½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
1 tsp course salt
½ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ tsp ground allspice
⅓ cup buttermilk
15 oz pure pumpkin purée
¾ cup light-brown sugar
2 large eggs
There’s something about the bubbling golden brown crust on top of this spinach and artichoke dip that seems to whisper to every guest at the party that their first bite will not be their last. Without fail, this dip quickly disappears from the buffet table. Not bad, considering it takes less than 5 minutes to make.
Once you read the recipe there’s no denying that it is not carrot sticks served with low-fat yogurt. It’s decadent in the best way. And depending on how often you host a party, it can be worth putting your best foot forward even if it may not do your guests’ figures any favors. And, if your party’s really great, they’ll dance off the calories anyways.
With the holidays rapidly approaching (as all the stores and television commercials love to remind us) it’s difficult not to think about the big fat meals of the season. Being someone who has a heart attack when entering a mall or considering plane tickets, I turn my thoughts over to the lovely soirees of this time of year.
It's getting close to Thanksgiving, which means kick off for the grand march of entertaining: holiday parties, cookie bake-a-thons, jamming a jellying gifts, etc. This is the stuff that gets me excited.
I pull down all my cookbooks and start rustling the pages looking for ideas. If you're anything like me, you're probably invited to more than one event, and you would never even dream of showing up empty handed. Of course, what with all the health food trends and picky people out there, you are bound to run into at least one episode of what I refer to as The Holiday Vegan Problem. No matter whose house you're going to, there's always going to be one.
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