Garlic Lemon Salmon Recipe
(Serves 4)
Ingredients:
- 1.5 lb salmon (four 6 oz filets)
- 1-2 tbsp chopped garlic
- 1-2 lemons
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 tbsp lemon pepper
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions:
- Zest and juice lemon.
- Combine 3 tbsp olive oil, chopped garlic, lemon pepper, sea salt, and lemon zest in a gallon bag. Add salmon filets and marinate for 2 hours.
- Heat up grill or large skillet on medium high heat. Brush lightly with 1 tbsp olive oil.
- Place salmon on grill or in skillet. For grill, cook 5-8 minutes per side. For skillet, cook 10-14 minutes per inch of thickness or until flakey.
- After cooked, sprinkle with lemon juice and serve.
Moo Goo Gai Pan Recipe
(Serves 2)
Ingredients:
- 1 lb chicken, chopped into bite size pieces
- 6 cloves garlic
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 lb button mushrooms, quartered
- 1.5 cup snow peas
- 1/4 cup bamboo shoots, drained
- 1/4 cup water chestnuts, drained
- ½ tbsp coconut flour mixed with 2 tbsp water
- 2 tsp white pepper
- Marinade ingredients:
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 2 tsp coconut flour
- Sauce Ingredients:
- ½ cup chicken stock
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp sesame oil
Instructions:
- Combine all marinade ingredients and chopped chicken in a large bowl and let sit for 30 minutes to 2 hours.
- Mix sauce and set aside.
- Heat large frying pan or wok on medium high heat. Add 2 tbsp coconut oil and marinating chicken. Cook for 5 minutes or until chicken is done then remove chicken from pan and put on plate, set aside.
- To the heated pan, add 1 tbsp coconut oil, mushrooms, and snow peas to pan; cook for 5 minutes.
- Add bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, garlic, and chicken; cook for 2 minutes.
- Add sauce ingredients and stir. Add flour & water mixture and stir until sauce thickens.
- Turn off the heat, sprinkle with white pepper and enjoy!
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Delicious Healthy Superbowl Snacks
The Super Bowl is this weekend! Which means there will be lots of parties and food! To keep your healthy eating on track, make some delicious, healthy finger foods to bring to the party!
Check out these blog posts for some amazing recipes!
Cauliflower Pizza Bites
Spinach Artichoke Dip
Spicy Popcorn
Fruit Skewers with Yogurt Dip
The Power of Pilates
Believe it or not, Pilates was invented by a man, Joseph Pilates, as an exercise for men. It’s only been recent years that this exercise is dominated by women.
The benefits of Pilates are incredible: improved posture, increased energy, muscle building and toning, increased flexibility, weight loss, improved mind-body connection, and strengthens many other muscle groups in addition to strengthening your back and abs.
The purpose of Pilates is to maintain awareness of breath and alignment of the spine while doing deep abdominal and torso strengthening exercises. It’s challenging workout yet so gentle that it is the number one type of exercise used for injury rehabilitation. It’s easily adaptable to any fitness level, low impact, and only partially weight bearing.
Overall, Pilates is one of the most well rounded, excellent exercises! Which is why many present day yoga classes and strength training routines have incorporated Pilates moves!
Strengthen Your Core with Pilates
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Pilates is the BEST exercise to strengthen your core!!!
Many strength training exercises are actually Pilates moves because Pilates is so excellent at building strength!
If you want kick ass abs, you need to do Pilates 1-2+ times per week! You don’t need to go to the gym, you can do this at home! Check out this site for demonstrations of the proper way to do all the Pilates moves. Pick out the ones that seem the easiest to you and start there!
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Abs Are Made in the Kitchen
There is an 80/20 rule to getting results: 80% is nutrition, 20% is exercise.
To maximize your muscle building and fat burning, eat more of these foods:
1) Lean protein: 35% to 40% of your daily food intake should be protein, so eat more chicken, fish, lean beef, pork and eggs
2) Healthy fats: 35% of your daily food intake should be healthy fats, so focus on including more avocado, tree nuts & peanuts, and seeds
3) Plain full fat greek yogurt: an excellent source of lean protein and healthy fat that is rich in calcium
4) Berries: packed full of fiber which helps keep you full and antioxidants which improve blood flow and help you make the most of your workouts
5) Quinoa: whole grain and packed full of fiber, protein and complex carbohydrates that will give you fuel slowly
6) Beans & lentils: an amazing source of protein, fiber, and complex carbohydrates, they’re also full of vitamins which have shown to decrease blood pressure and keep your bones healthy
The Power of Gratitude
Consciously thinking about what you are grateful for improves your physical and mental health.
Thinking about the many blessings in your life is a healing process and there’s no better place to do this than your yoga mat. Yoga makes you slow down and focus on the here and now. It naturally brings to focus the little things to be grateful for, like your breath and your body.
Try out these yoga practices that cultivate gratitude
Ditching the Worry with Yoga
Yoga is fun! However, if you’re new to yoga it’s easy to be stuck in your head and think too much about what you’re doing. Remember that yoga is a practice, so don’t expect to be perfect. Just be in tune with your body.
To get the most out of yoga, ditch the worry and really focus on being present.
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