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Resolve to make pasta from scratch! The whole process only takes a little over half an hour.

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 pinch salt

2 eggs, beaten

1/2 cup milk

1 tbsp butter

INSTRUCTIONS

In a large bowl, stir together the flour and salt. Add the beaten egg, milk, and butter. Knead dough until smooth, about 5 minutes. Let rest in a covered bowl for 10 minutes.

On a floured surface, roll out to 1/8 or 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into desired lengths and shapes.

Allow to air dry before cooking.

To cook fresh pasta, in a large pot with boiling salted water cook until al dente.

Recipe courtesy of All Recipes

Last week, my boy and I visited our dear friend Nikki in Brooklyn for a late-afternoon brunch. I brought along a huge jar of batter to make these! Filled her apartment up with smoke, but we all agreed the ends justified the means.

Sourdough Hotcakes

Adapted from Carl Griffith’s Oregon Trail Sourdough brochure.

1/2 c sourdough starter

1 1/4 c warm water or milk

1 c flour

2 eggs

1 T sugar

1/4 tsp salt

2 T melted butter or canola oil

1 tsp baking soda

Butter or oil for frying

Maple syrup, jam, or whatever you like to top them up.

The night before, mix starter with milk/water and 1/2 cup of the flour. Leave in a warm place. In the morning, add eggs, sugar, remaining flour, and butter/oil. Right before cooking, add the baking soda.

Heat a griddle or cast-iron pan (other pans do work if you don’t have one) on medium-high. When you flick a little water onto the surface, and it bounces, it’s ready. Slap on a pat of butter and spread it evenly around. Pour or ladle on small amounts of the batter. Be cautious—it’s thin, and spreads more than you might think! When bubbles appear all over the surface, flip the hotcake with a spatula and cook briefly on the other side. Keep the finished hotcakes on a plate in a warm oven until you’re ready to eat.

If you don’t use up all the batter, mix in some extra flour and 1/2 tsp baking soda, and you’ll have some nice little biscuits.

If any of you have ever thought about teaching yoga or just spending more time to study it in depth. Here’s a really easy online certification program for yoga. I just went through the program and it was very insightful. I’ve already put together a small yoga class that I teach on weekends after getting certified.

Leg Exercise #1:

Name: Squats Gym Equivalent: Barbell / Dumbbell Machine Squats Area Targeted: Thighs/Front Of Legs

Leg Exercise #2:

Name: Lunges Gym Equivalent: Barbell / Dumbbell Machine Lunges Area Targeted: Thighs/Front Of Legs

Leg Exercise #3:

Name:

The Amazing Transformation of a Guy Who Didn’t Give Up!

Fyi

Yep.

Perfect for the moment

you know what i want to know

how the fuck did mr salt and mrs pepper make a fucking cinnamon shaker for a baby

  solve that mystery steve

found from dauntlessfitness and fitbeliever

ECTOMORPH

An ectomorph is a typical skinny guy. Ecto’s have a light build with small joints and lean muscle. Usually ectomorph’s have long thin limbs with stringy muscles. Shoulders tend to be thin with little width.

Typical traits of an...

Tumblr Tuesday: Earth Week Edition

Join me in celebrating Earth’s natural environment with these fully compostable and biodegradable Tumblr blogs! Photo of Beaver Brook by Noah Kalina.

Climate Adaptation Michael Cote is an environmental expert who wants to punch climate change in the face.

The Green Urbanist Green urbanism and environmental public policy.

Local Food Lab An incubator for sustainable food and agriculture startups.

Fuck Yeah Permaculture Working with nature, rather than against it, for sustainable systems.

Cabin Porn Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.

Weather Boner of the Day Photos of weather. Awesome weather.

Check out the Sustainability Spotlight for more!

It’s easy to look at fitness, nutrition, or fat loss through only a black or white lens. You’re either in or your out - total crash course diet or no point in even changing your ways. While there may be people out there that subscribe and function under this mentality, we’d argue that ...

Step one is to calculate your BMR with the following formula:

Women:

655 + (4.3 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 x age in years)

Men:

66 + (6.3 x weight in pounds) + (12.9 x height in inches) - (6.8 x age in years)

Please note that this formula applies only to...

-HMH Fit tip #7-

Got a goal? Get a plant.

Let it be a metaphor for your growth. See how it responds to the conditions you create for it. See how getting enough water and light makes it grow and give off a healthy and vibrant energy. Watch when you forget to maintain those conditions how it slows into dormancy or even drops leaves or browns at the edges.

Ask yourself:

“How am I like this plant?” “What conditions must I maintain to opitimize my growth?” “Who is the caretaker responsible for providing these conditions for me?” (Psst. It’s you.)

Make your daily visit to your plant a reminder to maintain the conditions that are carrying you to your goal. What is your “water and light”? Hopefully it includes actual water, but what else? Supportive family and friends? Maybe it’s getting enough sleep. Maybe it’s preparing your meals ahead of time, not letting yourself get hungry, going to the gym on your way home, going for a run when you wake up, journalling, or a combination of factors working in concert to create your fit, vibrant, healthy self.

Let your plant teach you how to pay attention to what works and what doesn’t. Let it teach you the necessity of patience and persistence as it stands strong but grows slowly.

Celebrate new leaves on your plant and let it draw your attention to new growth and strength you see in yourself.

Allow your plant to teach you hope and resilience. Maybe you’ll neglect it a while and come to it in a sorry state all withered and tired. Watch as you reintroduce the conditions that it favours for it’s health and see it spring back to it’s best.

When you reach that big, lush, green, happy-plant goal, roots all crowding the pot and leaves reaching and spreading like you can’t stop it, that is definitely not the time to remove the conditions that brought you there. It may seem as if the work is over. You’ve arrived. All happy and beautiful. Remember, you’re still growing. Remove your “light and water” and slowly you’ll return to a softer, shrunken you. That, in fact, is the time to give yourself a bigger pot. A bigger goal. More room for you to expand past what you thought was your end point. Make your point B your new point A and forget all about where you started before.

Let your plant be your partner in change and growth. Inhale it’s oxygen and exhale your carbon dioxide and feel free to say out loud, “I can take care of you just like I can take care of me.” Plants love to be talked to. You’re in it together :)

(this is a spider plant that started small from my grandmother. pretty sure it needs a name - suggestions?)

10 Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes!

For a humble root vegetable, the sweet potato sure does have a lot going for it. The orange tuber packs 438% of your daily value of infection-fighting vitamin A and, like carrots, sweet potatoes are a major source of skin-protecting beta-carotene. While bananas are often touted as the go-to source of potassium, a medium sweet potato has 28% more potassium than a banana. (The mineral helps your body absorb fluids to replace sweat losses.)

Whether sweet potatoes only enter your kitchen on Thanksgiving or they have a regular spot in your cooking rotation, you could probably use more delicious ways to prepare them. Here are 10 recipes for dishes from fries to soup—each with about 300 calories or less.

Spicy Sweet Potato Fries

Roasted Sweet Potato Salad

Gingered Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup

Spiced Sweet Potato Chips

Baked Sweet Potato Latkes

Rosemary Sweet Potato Wedges

Chili-Spiced Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Apple and Sweet Potato Hash Browns

Ginger Sweet Potato Cheesecake

Marshmallow Whipped Sweet Potatoes