Making Love in the Kitchen

How do I get a good night’s sleep?
One of Meghan’s followers asked me that question because she is now 50 and having trouble sleeping through the night. Well I wish I had the answer or something magical to give you but I suffer from the same problem. During pre and full on menopause it was much worse and I once read that we go back to the days of waking up with infants.
Here are some things that I have discovered that seem to help.

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What a week it has been. I have been doing my very, very best to abide the rules I wrote myself with my 21 Days To Health, program. My most favourite challenge of course is on day 3 when we must get ourselves to bed early. There are three things I love to bits that help me sleep like a baby.

Sleep mask to block out the light.
Lavender essential oil sprinkled on my pillow
3 capsules of Peaceful Spirit- my most fave bed time supplement in the whole wide world (more on that next week)
I have been loving these things even more as I spent just three nights last weekend on the other side of the country, 3 time zones away in Vancouver and then came back right in the swing of things. And you know what? No jet lag! Not even for one night. It was amazing.
I digress, as today I sit in the audience at TedX Toronto, invited to participate as a delegate, I wanted my brain powered up and ready to rock. And you know what does it? A green juice breakfast and a smoothie brunch.

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It is time to meet our great and bigger team. We’re growing over here and with this amazing group of people, so far we seem to be side-stepping the pains that can often come with it. You all know (and I’m sure) love Ms. Jen by now, with all her amazing info and her generously skilled hand at keeping me afloat when I take on enough to drown us both.

My love sweet lover sometimes refer to my rock star assistant Jen as my little fish (also known as Flipper).

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Do I really even have to answer that? Really? Do I?

No. Because it’s obvious. The berries!

A standard breakfast, so commonly a go-to, is granola and yogurt (or your fave nut milk), and a splash of berries. Why not turn that equation upside down and inside out? Make the berries the main attraction!

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I had a jolly ‘ole lover of a time travelling the isel of St. Lucia and can’t wait to show off some of my pics to you tomorrow. But the one thing I missed most was my kitchen. I missed having access to my clean, organized, pink kitchen and all the familiar tastes that go along with it. I was chomping at the bit, as they say, to get back into it and get cooking.

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Oh my sweet mommas! It has been a while since I was this excited for an event. Maybe not since my St. Lucia retreat (which sadly will be ending in 2 days). So because I knew I’d be in a funk when the fun in the sun came to an end, I had to bring in some sunshine. That sunshine is coming in the form of the Groove Master trainer herself, Ms. Brooke Yanzte.

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Trying new food is fun. Or at least it should be and it is one of the most fun parts of travelling- getting to try local goodies that are only available far away from home. This of course is therefore not particularly useful to you, but its’ interesting and will definitely pique your curiosity.

Ackee is awesome and I would love to lift it up into the realm of one of my favourite foods but it grows a little too far away for that. If it were eggs that kept me from being totally plant-based in my diet, than ackee would surely be the best solution. Ripe, boiled and then pan fried ackee is like the perfect mix of scrambled eggs meets firm avocado for texture. Forget tofy scramble- ackee fruit sauteed with some onions is the best scrambled egg replacement ever.

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The other option for the title of this blog was: My dad has cancer and my boyfriend dumped me.
They’re both equally bad if you ask me but I think the one I used might be the worst blog post title I have ever written, so I went with that.

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I feel like Thanksgiving is the holiday that kicks off the fall season. It’s a long weekend which is super, the leaves start changing which is fun and it’s also the season when I do the following: Hand out apples on a street corner in Toronto, Get deep into the root vegetables and squashes, Dress up as a cat of some kind and make a pumpkin dish with my dad.

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In case you haven’t noticed, or maybe have only been shopping at great big supermarkets where seasons don’t tend to exist, this is tomato season!

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One more summer weekend to go? Could this be? Just one more August weekend and then we wait nine months or so for summer to hit again?

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You know what I love? Right, that’s like answering do you know how many blenders went whirring this morning to make all of you breakfast.

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Guest post by Aletheia Zoe Chiang of La Fille Naturelle.
I first discovered capers at a family friend’s. There we were, gathered around the dinner table, enjoying our meal together, when it suddenly occurred to me that I happened to be eating the best salad I’d ever had in my life.

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You know how there’s photographers who are all over photographing babies, or buildings, or doors, or cars. If I were a photographer, I would photograph peppers. They are gorgeous!

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By Guest Blogger Yafa Sakkejha
I made dinner for my housemates last night – who aren’t raw vegans – and they adored the recipes, inspired from the French countryside. I looked through Julia Child’s classic French cookbook and modified recipes – for example, by using healthy raw fats instead of butter (i.e. macadamia nuts), and eliminating the heating process. Et voila.

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