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Peanut Butter Cookie

Larabar has just released some new flavors for their product lines: Larabar and Jocalat. Although they are all absolutely scrumptious, this has got to be my favorite: Peanut Butter Cookie. My taste buds tell me it is the perfect combination of salty and sweet. When taste testing the new flavors with my husband a few weeks ago, he turned to me and asked, 'So... what's the difference between these bars and a candy bar?" Heh heh heh..!!  Good question, John! What IS the difference? Larabars are derived from WHOLE FOODS; NO added sugar, preservatives, processed anything.

Peanut Butter Cookie Ingredients: Peanuts, Dates and Salt.

Sound Advice for Entrepreneurs

This is a piece of advice derived from the Urban Muse's notes, a woman who blogs about her adventures in reading, writing, and the creative life. She attended an entrepreneurship themed event presented by the Boston chapter of Ladies Who Launch back in May. She posted some of the 'best sound bytes' she picked up here. Here's the rest of her Naysayer quote:

'"Let the naysayers push you forward." Fortunately, most of the people in my life are supportive. But occasionally I run up against someone who just doesn't get why I want to write. One of the women talked about a banker who refused to give her a small business loan to open a clothing boutique, and it forced her to rethink her business model. She said that after thinking about it and refining her idea, it actually ended up better than what she'd envisioned before (now she has a mobile boutique)."'

Masha Dyans

 

For my birthday last month my sister gave me the most stunning card with a picture of a princess and a unicorn on it: she remembers my childhood love of unicorns. Whimsical, free and fun, Masha Dyans' illustrations light me up inside. Above is a sampling of her work: a blank card top left, remaining three are posters and cards alike.

Strawberry Pie

Earlier this season I made this recipe for my husband's birthday. I was very happy with how it turned out... couldn't keep my hands off of it long enough to even take this picture, as you can see. I'm the Stawberry Pie Monster... RRRAAARRRR!!!!

Recipe found at Happy Foody, who discovered it through Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Pass on the love and read on!

Raw Strawberry Pie
The Joy of Vegan Baking
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

It is best when served within an hour or two of preparing it, since
it is at its most fresh then, but it holds up just fine in the
fridge.

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Chilling Time: 1 hour
Servings: 8-12

Crust:
2 cups raw almonds or pecans
3/4 cup pitted dates, preferably Medjool

Filling:
5 cups sliced ripe strawberries
5 pitted dates, soaked 10 minutes in warm water and drained
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice

Place the nuts in a food processor and grind until they’re a coarse
meal. Add the 3/4 cup of dates (for the crust) and process until
thoroughly combined. Press the mixture into a non-stick or very
lightly oiled pie plate or spring form pan.

Arrange 4 cups of the sliced strawberries on top of the crust and set
aside.

In a food processor or blender, combine the remaining 1 cup of
strawberries with the 5 soaked dates and lemon juice. Puree until
smooth. Pour the sauce mixture over strawberries.

Refrigerate the pie for 1 hour before serving. This will help the pie
set and will be perfect for slicing.

Spirituality and Corn Chips

Deepak Chopra is featured in an interview on CNN Money.com right now speaking on the consciousness of money and business in today's age, this 'moment of crisis'. He has just released a new book called Why is God Laughing? The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

The Healthy Hippie

Healthy Hippie is a fabulously fun, health inspiring company created by Tara Silberberg. I met Tara at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition during our Immersion year, an intense health counseling and mentoring program. Always bursting with energy and a contagious festive flair, she embodies her brand in everything she does.

Healthy Hippie offers holistic health counseling, a line of handmade clothing called Yummy Wear, and a newly developed publication, Healthy Hippie magazine. I receive her free monthly enewsletters which arrive in my inbox packed with juicy tips on healthy living, amazing recipes, local music reviews, as well as Tara's latest adventures in her hometown, Burlington, VT. If you're interested in receiving her free enewsletter, sign up here.

Pictured above, Tara is savoring one of her recipes featured in her May enewsletter:

Avocado, Hummus, Sprout, Seaweed Wrap
Submitted by The Healthy Hippie. She was listening to Afromotive.

Ingredients
1 big sheet of nori seaweed
1/2 of an avocado
1/4 cup of clover sprouts
2 tbsp of hummus
Directions
Place all of the ingredients on top of the sheet of nori
Roll the nori into a burrito
Enjoy!!!  This is soooooo good!!!
Learn more recipes at www.healthyhippiemagazine.net

Sugar Blues

Fox News covered a story this morning on an inspiring child music education and charity program. Plugged In is a non-profit program for teenagers that teaches kids how to be in a rock band and, more importantly, about the importance of giving back to the community. Based in Needham, MA, their dual focus is to give young people a venue through which they can channel their creativity, learn to work in a group, and improve their music skills while learning about the value and importance of social activism.

They are performing at a benefit concert for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation on June 6, 7 & 8. You can visit their Upcoming Events page on their site for more details.

Immediately following this interview was an advertisement for an upcoming news documentary on energy drinks and how children are drinking them before playing sports to acquire energy, but then experiencing negative side effects due to the drinks' contents. The connection between Plugged In, childhood diabetes, and sugar consumption is quite audible and should be taught to all, especially our children.

I've been fascinated by how food affects the body for a long time now. My fascination grew dramatically after I read the book Sugar Blues, by William Dufty. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the full story behind sugar and its many names (or sucrose as it reads on the Full Throttle energy drink website, perhaps to fool its average consumer who may not know this is another word for common table sugar).

Although this book was first published decades ago, it's contents are still informative and inspiring today.

Flavor Tripping Parties

Riding a Flavor Trip is New York Times piece about flavor tripping parties in Queens, New York. The parties centralize around eating a 'miracle fruit': a West African berry that induces a sweet flavor from foods: for about an hour after eating it, nothing tastes the same!

Raw Food

Raw food is typically organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds that have not been heated above 115 degrees F, making them closer to their natural state. David Wolfe and Matt Amsden (pictured top left) are experts in the raw food world. They gave a fabulous presentation at Google, which you can watch on YouTube here. David says "When we talk about plant foods we talk about what's the basis of the food chain... Living food, raw plant food, has more nutrition. They have more enzymes, more antioxidants, more available vitamins, more usable minerals, more life force energy..." Matt Amsden is the author of RAWvolution, the book shown above. Looks pretty amazing to me, I can't wait to check it out!

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