DIY Mosquito Repellent: Essential Oils for Skin Safety

Like daily sunscreen, it is important to protect your skin with mosquito repellent on a daily basis to protect against mosquito borne viruses. You can make your own herbal mosquito repellent at home. They are easy to make using safe and effective essential oils with research behind them.

Cost-Effective Skin Care to Fight PhotoAging

Everyone cares about their appearance to a certain extent. Beyond esthetics, the care and feeding of your skin has important implications for your overall health and wellbeing beyond vanity. Your skin is your body’s single biggest organ and also your gateway to good health. We now know that the skin plays a vital role inContinueContinue reading “Cost-Effective Skin Care to Fight PhotoAging”

UPDATE – Kosher L’Pesach Granola with Buckwheat

Passover Granola with Buckwheat This year – at least so far – I have been unable to find the quinoa flakes that were so helpful last year for my Passover Granola. So what’s a gal to do?! After asking at both of the likely stores nearby (there is one more a bit further away toContinueContinue reading “UPDATE – Kosher L’Pesach Granola with Buckwheat”

One More Granola Before Pesach….

It’s almost time to switch from making conventional granola with rolled oats to quinoa for Pesach. This week I am starting to see the early posts of baking, meal plans and questions about Passover recipes. Now that I have replenished our granola supply one more tome, I will also be focusing on Passover!

Traditional Challah

When you make home-made challah for Shabbat or festivals, you gain a three-fold blessing in  your own home:  sanctifying  the everyday with the special experience of challah baking,  bringing the aroma of this timeless Jewish ritual into your kitchen, and of course sharing a taste  of the ‘world to come’ with our loved ones.

Black-Eyed Pea Salad aka Aaron’s Appetizer

Black-eyed peas for New Years are a multicultural phenomenon, eaten to usher in the new year, as a symbol of luck, prosperity, and/or in association with other milestone events, including Emancipation of African-American slaves in January 1963. There is no reason to wait for the holidays to make this delicious black-eyed pea salad as an easy summer salad or nutritious add-on for your Buddha bowls.

Tossed Salad (American Salad)

American Tossed Salad may include lettuces, carrots, cucumbers and red peppers; the possibilities are limited only by your imagination Salad is an amazing source of the Prebiotics that your body needs every day. This is an easy recipe that anyone should be able to make at home and that will be a colorful and deliciousContinueContinue reading “Tossed Salad (American Salad)”