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Disclosure: “I received free samples of California Walnuts mentioned in this post. By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by California Walnuts and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time.”

If you are looking to make  a quick light meal,  creamy, garlicky, walnut thyme  mushrooms on a crispy toast is a great “go-to” recipe. The biggest lure of the recipe is that it comes together in about 15-20 minutes and taste like “pure comfort,”  especially on a cool, rainy, spring day. Serve it on its own or with a side of soup–take your pick.

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We humans are endowed by a variety of emotions; emotions are our gateway to feelings. Fear–one of the strongest emotions–has the power to protect us as well as paralyze us into inaction. As COVID-19 infiltrates our lives, fear has the opportunity to keep us safe as well as has the power to breed uncertainty and anxiety. Can we respond to this fear in a way that helps us?

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“Why should I waste my time in eating healthy and missing the pleasure of eating whatever I love, when we are all going to die one day?” Have you heard some version of this statement? I have; many times. In fact, I may have, at one time,  believed in a milder version, especially when I had to let go of some of my favorite foods to prevent getting migraines. But I couldn’t have been more wrong at the time. Eating healthy is less to do with how long we live or whether we get a disease or not, but something else. It mostly has to do with  getting the clean ENERGY that we need everyday to go through our lives.

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I recently came across yet another statistics on our (read women’s) constant love affair with diets. If the study outcomes are to believed, the 2012 study from Diet Chef reveals that an average woman spends 17 years on diets in her lifetime [1]. Nearly two-thirds (68%) of all the participants reported either their love of food or a lack of willpower to stick with a diet. The thought of never enjoying a favorite dessert  ever can definitely put a big dent in our resolve to stick with a healthy eating plan. If you can relate to not sticking to eating healthy for any reason, and I certainly do many times, then  “80/20” is an easy-to-follow concept.

The 80/20 concept in the context of a healthy diet entails eating healthy foods 80% of the time and enjoying your favorite not-so-energizing, indulgent foods that your body doesn’t like as much, 20% of the time. If you have crossed 40–yes, 40 years of age– I would highly recommend following this concept with 90/10 ratio. In my experience, the energy you gain by increasing the ratio of healthy foods would motivate you to bring the healthy food proportion close to 100%.

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Frisée & Cherry salad with balsamic vinaigrette celebrates summer. Put together in less than 20 minutes, this chickpea-loaded salad with bitter-sweet flavor profile  makes a quick light lunch.

If you find salads boring or insipid, you will change your opinion after eating this one. This salad features a scrumptious sweet-tarty-bitter-zesty flavor by combining cherries and (slightly) bitter frisée with zesty, tangy, garlicky balsamic vinaigrette….

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