Sweet Potato Nachos with Vegan Queso Recipe

I was watching “The Kitchen” this morning while I was working out, because don’t we all watch cooking shows while we’re trying to burn calories?  I have a theory that combining the two makes me even more hungry than I would have been just exercising and watching CNN. The struggle.

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Dinner Planner — Week of January 30th

Chinese New Year begins today, January 28th, with the Year of the Rooster. I thought I would share some interesting information from my friends at the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) World Foundation have to say about this new year. 

“This is an energetically powerful time to make room for the new—a new life, new hope, and new beginnings. Can you sweep away old habits to make way for a new perspective?  To make the most of this energetic shift, you need ample energy to make the transition and tackle endeavors in the new year. This is a good time to rest and clean house in mind, body, spirit: your saved energy will serve as a springboard to the changes you’ll pursue in the year to come. 

Traditionally, this period of preparation begins a week before the New Year, followed by a week or two of rest. This used to give farmers time to prepare and recharge before the busy planting season. However, even in modern Chinese culture, everyone takes a week-long holiday at the start of the New Year, and celebratory parties last for two weeks. 

Every year has a particular kind of energy, embodied by 12 animals, according to the Chinese zodiac. This year is represented by the Fire Rooster—an exciting, eccentric, yet loyal, hardworking, and proud bird. The Rooster is a symbol of energy. Why does it wake up in the early hours, right before dawn? Why does it sing and dance when the Sun rises? It intuitively knows when energy shifts and changes in the Earth, and as a fearless leader, it has no qualms about letting the rest of us know. Are YOU ready to “wake up” and harmonize with the Rooster? If so, this might just be your year to dance with the Rooster.”

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Lasagne Cupcakes Recipe

Photography By Erica Hampton

We are big football fans in this house and we actually root for a few teams.  I’ll share a little secret if you promise that it won’t affect our relationship.  Ok, good.  I am a lifelong NY Giants fan and my husband is a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan.  So you might guess that we both had a pretty fun season since both our teams made it to the playoffs.  But no matter how far your team goes, unless there’s a Super Bowl ring at the end of that journey, it always ends in disappointment. I am not trying to be negative, but it’s not “an honor to be nominated,” if you know what I mean.

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No-Bake Oatmeal Chip Breakfast Bars Recipe

You might think I wake up every morning and pull together a magazine-worthy breakfast spread for my family, but that would not be the case.  Weekends I can make a little effort and I will gladly pull together a casserole or a frittata with a fruit salad.  But on weekday mornings, we eat a lot of oatmeal, scrambled eggs and toast, yogurt and granola, smoothies, loaded toast, and pancakes (because I make the batter the night before.)  But these no-bake breakfast bars have changed my life.

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Dinner Planner — Week of January 23rd, 2017

PamelaSalzman.com will always be a political-free zone because #1) you likely don’t care what I think about politics and #2) it’s nice to know there’s someplace you can go to take a break from it all.  So here we are and I don’t know about the rest of you, but I still have a full-time job and a family to feed and I need to do my dinner planner today!  After I do a quick grocery run, I am going to do a little meal prep for the week, work on my book edits and then watch football while it rains like mad in LA all day long.  As if things weren’t already crazy enough out there, it’s actually raining in LA!  Have a great week!

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Five Friday Favorites 01.20.17

Happy Friday, my dears!  Normally that wold be music to my ears, but this weekend I will be buried in book edits.  If I am not eating, sleeping or watching football, I’ll be pouring over my manuscript with a fine tooth comb, so to speak.  All exciting stuff and I am grateful to be doing it!  In the meantime I have some great finds for you!

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Asian Pear Crisp with Coconut and Ginger Recipe

Photography by Erica Hampton

I am so frustrated that my website has been having difficulties the last few days.  Thank you for your patience!  To reiterate what I’ve been saying on social media, the site is not down, but just reeeallllly slow.  Keep trying to refresh the page you want and it will load eventually.  I am doing my best to get the issue resolved.  In the meantime, let’s have some fruit crisp!

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Dinner Planner: Week of January 16th

It has been so fantastic having my girls home from college, but they are going back this weekend.  Sad face.  I am already counting the days until spring break.  But life goes on, and so do work and school.

I wanted to mention that I am having some problems with my website loading.  I won’t be able to connect with my web programmer until Tuesday, so we’ll all have to hang in there a few more days.  Keep trying to load the page and it comes up eventually.  I apologize for the inconvenience.  I know it’s annoying to have to wait for a website to load. In the meantime, there are lots of delicious recipes you can make this week.

 

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