The holiday season is filled with sugary delights to tempt even the most steadfast health nuts I know. If they can’t make it through this unscathed what hope is there for the rest of us? Peanut brittle, cakes, pies, macaroons, or my mother’s famous southern pecan pralines. Dangerous treats waiting around every corner to ensare us in their web. Is this a hopeless battle? Nope… not at all.
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Are you staring at those Sweet Potatoes you bought for turkey day? Are you thinking they have to be laden with butter, sugar, and marshmallows to be good? Well, I want to give a quick alternative called Sweet Potato Whip. It is truly a luscious side dish or dessert much lighter but still oh soo tasty.
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Pin ItToday is a rainy New York day. The sky is grey and yet I am gloriously happy. However, that is NOT the way my morning started out at all. I still have the sniffles from this cold I’ve been fighting off all week. I tossed and turned all night worried about a myriad of […]
Pin ItToday was one of those days: 10 hours of work; literally running several blocks, two trains, and up a few flights of stairs to an audition. Then I darted as fast as I could after work to Costco to pick up my contact lenses before they closed. On the train ride home all I […]
The other night I became Cruella Deville. The final minutes of my Clarke Kent job began to tick away and the pangs of hunger hit. So, I went into my faithful “monster bag” for relief. For the first time in forever there was NOTHING. No nuts. No soy milk. No fruit. No chips. Not even any candy that the loving guy at security gives me each morning. NOTHING. Minutes to go, and I think “eh, no worries. It’s only 20 minutes until I get home”. I run downstairs and my train is right there! I’m thinking “Kimet”. We are rolling along just fine and then lurch! The train stops on the bridge for like 25 minutes. And then came Cruella!
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