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Teach Cooks Edition! Roasted Tomato (Dairy/Gluten Free) Pasta

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I feel like I’ve been cheating on life in the best possible way lately.

Dinner so easy it is almost embarrassing.

Except it’s not. It’s brilliant instead.

It is also gluten and dairy free if you choose it to be. Which I choose until I topped it with some pecorino – which means SHEEP in Italian – which means I can eat it! But you don’t have to.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, it’s what I’ve been eating the last two weeks. Because soon the tomatoes will be gone until next summer.

Last of the Season Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Brown Rice Pasta

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Ingredients:

Cherry tomatoes from the farmer’s market – giant bag or several baskets

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Whatever else you like spice wise with tomatoes

Foil lined rimmed cookie sheet

Super hot oven

Brown rice pasta – I used a whole bag because that’s how we roll around here. We LOVE leftovers.

What to do:

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.

Cook the pasta according to directions on the package.

While pasta water boils and/or pasta cooks, wash the tomatoes and put on the foil lined cookie sheet.

Drizzle with olive oil.

Shake on spices.

Put in oven until tomatoes are bursting open and some are charred.

Try to keep the oven door closed even though it smells divine in your house.

Remove from oven and scrape all the deliciousness from the cookie sheet and mix into the cooked pasta.

Drizzle in more olive oil if you want.

Top with your favorite cheese (or NOT).

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Ready to give it a go? I’d love to hear what you think.

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Yoga+Music {notquite365} – Springtime Can Kill You by Jolie Holland – Recipe Edition!

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It’s Tuesday and that means the Recipe Edition!

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Even though the no sugar, dairy, soy, gluten, vinegars, and stimulants restriction has come to a close, I’m still interested in keeping a lot of the habits I picked up during the month.

Home-cooking a majority of meals from scratch, buying lots of vegetables at the farmer’s market (and actually eating them!) and trying new recipes using ingredients in ways I hadn’t ever thought to use together.

Today’s recipe fits into each of those categories.

It was easy, healthy and delicious.

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Butternut Squash Pesto Gratin
Adapted from Giada’s Family Dinners

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

2 TBS unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch pieces, plus more for baking dish

1 (3 pound) butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1-inch pieces

salt and pepper

1/4 cup basil pesto

1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

2. Lightly butter 8 inch baking dish

3. Cut butternut squash in half, brush with olive oil, salt and pepper – roast on baking sheet, face up until soft.

4. Cool and cut squash into 1-inch pieces

5. Transfer the squash to food processor and blend until smooth and creamy.

6. Spoon half the squash evenly into the prepared baking dish.

7. Dollop half the pesto all over the squash and sprinkle with half the cheese.

8. Repeat layering.

9. Dot with butter and bake until the gratin is heated through and golden brown around the edges, about 40 minutes.

10. Serve

I served it with chicken and grilled zucchini.

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What about you?

Do you have any secret no-gluten foods you love? Vegetarian recipes you can’t get enough of?

Do you have any recipes to share?

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Today’s yoga brought to you by the sleepy home practice. Parent teacher conferences will keep me out of the studio today.

Wondering about Yoga+Music {notquite365}?

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Today’s music is –


Click the album cover for more info on the band and details how to buy this record. {hint, hint}

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Yoga Teaching Update:

NEW CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT!

Starting in March – first Sundays of each month – 90 minute – fully restorative class.

Please check my teaching schedule for more details.

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Occasionally I’ll still rotate into the FREE Fridays at 4:30 with the new It’s All Yoga teachers schedule

(21st and X in Sacramento) – you’ve got to sign up onlinewww.itsallyoga.com.

These classes are for every body – level 1/2. Bring your friends!

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Saturday Senses

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tasting :: brown rice toast – absolutely love this bread!

hearing :: can we stay in at recess to blog?

smelling :: sweet potatoes baking

seeing :: the week flying by so quickly i didn’t quite ever know what day it was.

feeling :: so.much.better!

wishing/hoping :: hoping round 2 of parent teacher conferences go smoothly – emphasis on listening and team building. and remembering to just breathe.

What about you?

What are your senses this Saturday?

Looking back, how was your week?

Leave a comment and tell me all about it.

This weekly tradition inspired by Pink of Perfection’s Five Sense Friday.

Don’t forget to click the links!

In Case You Missed It Edition, Volume 16

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Each week I’ll give you links to posts that made me laugh, cry, think or at least raise an eyebrow. Please click the links and check out the posts. You may find something that rocks your world too.

Leave me some feedback in the form of comments below on what you liked, what you hated and what you’d like to see more of. I’m here to help you find the best of what is online.

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My Best Of…

Teaching Simplicity got it right with Nurturing the Nurturer – teachers take note. Take the time to take care of yourself. Of course, we need to take care of ourselves when we’re sick but wouldn’t it be nice to nurture and nourish ourselves so we don’t get sick?

Another reason to get more zzzzzzzs…. to look prettier! It’s scientific.

Having a hard time thinking of things to add to a gratitude list? This blogger writes a thank you note a day and some of what she is thankful for is not the usual. Love, love, love it.

Are you a sunflower too? I find I perk up like a blossom with the lengthening days. Here’s a sunlight calendar to help keep track of your daylight minutes.

In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore {one of my favorite reads of the last few years} – he talks about it here. Slow down and stay awhile…

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Cleanse update:  a cold takes away a lot of desire to cook nourishing food. I really wanted someone to cook for me.

So I ate out.

Twice.

I didn’t follow all the rules, however I didn’t give in to all my comfort food throw backs either. I wanted a cheeseburger (I know, huh?). Instead I had a burger sans cheese. I ate some of the bread and threw the rest away.

The next day I went to a pot luck and skipped the dessert and soda table – my usual favorites.

The bowl of M&M’s sitting right in front of me didn’t go untouched, however after I realized I was eating sweets (the cold medicine made me really, r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w), I hid them behind the centerpiece on the table and promptly forgot about them.

Baby steps.

Things I have noticed: comfort food isn’t just about the food when I am sick, it’s also about someone else cooking. Processed foods are convenient, but don’t taste nearly as good as not processed foods. My cold isn’t nearly as devastating as ones I’ve suffered from in recent years. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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That is the In Case You Missed It Edition for this week, folks.

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Yoga+Music {notquite365} – Roomful of Smoke by Leslie and The Badgers — Recipe Edition!

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It’s Tuesday and that means the Recipe Edition!

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As you many of you know, I have not indulged in sugar, dairy, soy, gluten, vinegars, and stimulants for two weeks now. The only thing that I’m really missing is dairy. Not to worry though, my beloved dairy and I will be reunited mid February and I look forward to it.

So many people have been sending me recipes for me to try. Today’s came from my favorite TGBTS guest poster, Vanessa from The Beet Goes On. She found it on Bay Area Bites and thought it might be tasty.

Boy, is that an understatement.

My sweetheart thought this was delicious and he claims to hate dates. So don’t let the dates in it put you off. It honestly tastes like a milk shake – a sweet, creamy, almond-y, almost caramel milk shake.

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Vanilla-Date Smoothie from Bay Area Bites
Adapted from the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen

Serves: 2 if you are in the mood for sharing {or one in a pint glass}

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups Pacific Natural Foods almond milk (Original flavor)
4 pitted Medjool dates
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
10-12 ice cubes (a few big handfuls)
Sprinkle of cinnamon (optional)

Preparation:
Blend everything together until smooth.

Drink and wish you had more.

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What about you?

Do you have any secret no-gluten {sugar/dairy} foods you love?

Do you have any recipes to share?

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Today’s yoga brought to you by  Madeleine’s Gentle class.

Wondering about Yoga+Music {notquite365}?

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Today’s music is –

Buy this record!

Click the album cover for more info on the band and details how to buy this record. {hint, hint}

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Yoga Teaching Update:

FREE Fridays at 4:30 with the new It’s All Yoga teachers (21st and X in Sacramento) – you’ve got to sign up onlinewww.itsallyoga.com.

These classes are for every body – level 1/2. Bring your friends!

Looking for a restorative YogaNap ?

Please check my teaching schedule for more details.

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In Case You Missed It Edition! Volume 14

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Each week I’ll give you links to posts that made me laugh, cry, think or at least raise an eyebrow. Please click the links and check out the posts. You may find something that rocks your world too.

Leave me some feedback in the form of comments below on what you liked, what you hated and what you’d like to see more of. I’m here to help you find the best of what is online.

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My Best Of…

Have you read the WSJ article (via The New Perfect) on Amy Chua’s new parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother? It has clearly touched a nerve, more than 6,000 comments so far and has started a firestorm of articles and blog posts.

I found the article shocking, yet intriguing. I don’t agree with a lot of what she says and does (quite frankly I’m a little afraid of her), however I do agree kids could benefit from more practice and focus on learning. There has to be a middle place.

What do you think?

Do you think she goes too far or is she just helping her kids succeed?

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Mrs. Mimi writes one of my favorite blogs – It’s Not All Flowers and Sausages (there’s a book too!). In this post she takes on class size.

Perhaps We’ve Confused “Innovation” With “Insanity”

I couldn’t agree more.

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Frugal Babe pretty much sums it up with Why I Don’t Make New Years Resolutions.

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I don’t know about you, but there was a time in my life when I believed that if something didn’t fit there was something wrong with my body. I was too fat and completely misshapen. I would feel horrible about myself and quite honestly ususally console myself with food.

Somehow I finally got over that (I think it’s a combination of getting older and all the yoga). When I saw this post from The Connection Revolution, I wanted to cheer.

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Cleanse update: It’s been a quite a week of learning. Boy, there are a lot of opportunities to eat not-so-good-for-you foods. I was able to resist most and have found support within the bigger group.

Some things I noticed: I don’t miss sweets as much as I thought I would, I am fantasizing about eating yogurt (pretty sure this means I still love dairy), I am feeling remarkably more alert and have lost an inch from my waist – that wheat allergy is the real deal.

Someone asked me why I am doing this cleanse and the best answer I could come up with is I’m tired of being sick so much. Between the 4-5 colds a year and the horrible hay fever I feel like crap most of the year.

If I can feed myself differently and feel better, I am in.

Check out this post from Gluten Free Girl – it’s long, so if you want the part I really like go down to the “Food Lovers’ Cleanse” section.

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BONUS! This Swear Word Canister from Bows and Sparrows just made me laugh. I could make some seriously big money from my sailor mouth.

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That is the In Case You Missed It Edition for this week, folks.

Remember to click the links and leave some comments. This is a conversation, you know.

In Case You Missed Edition Archives: Volume 13, Volume 12, Volume 11,  Volume 10,  Volume 9, Volume 8, Volume 7,  Volume 6,  Volume 5,  Volume 4,  Volume 3,  Volume 2,  Volume 1

Saturday Senses

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Saturday Senses is a way to capture the spirit of each week.


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tasting :: rice and shine cereal

hearing :: pop songs that make me smile out loud

smelling :: everything just a little bit clearer.

seeing :: spring like light in the late afternoon – the days are definitely getting longer!

feeling :: better than i have in years (or ever).

wishing/hoping :: today is my lovely friend, michelle’s birthday. wishing her the happiest birthday of all the birthdays and hoping her journey back from belize is a safe one.

What about you?

What are your senses this Saturday?

Looking back, how was your week?

Leave a comment and tell me all about it.

This weekly tradition inspired by Pink of Perfection’s Five Sense Friday.

Don’t forget to click the links!