Month: June 2014

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Grab your umbrellas this weeks forecast is a wet one! It has been on and off raining for the past two weeks. As much as I love to be outside and active, I also enjoy the rain. There is something so romantic and liberating about the rain.  You can stay in and curl up with a cup of tea to read a good book or watch a movie. If you have to go outside the gear can be pretty cute as well. From wellies, to umbrellas, to a classic trench, rain gear can be playful or classic. And in my perfect fantasy world this Burberry trench would be mine!

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This past week I made my first attempt at making a crab cakes with cucumber sauce recipe that I found through Clean Eating Magazine. For a first try they ended up being pretty delicious! It takes about 30 minutes to make and is really easy for anyone who is trying to learn how to cook (like me!). When I first started this journey of clean eating I thought it was going to be difficult to find things to eat that was more than just a salad with lemon juice dressing. After googling recipes, using Pinterest, and purchasing Clean Eats, I have found tons of tasty options and it has been so much fun trying new recipes and learning how to cook along the way!

First, the cucumber sauce:

12 fresh chives, cut into 3 or 4-inch lengths
1/2 cucumber peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded and cut into 3 or 4 pieces
2/3 cup plain reduce fat yogurt (the magazine insist on using regular not greek yogurt because it will be too thick)
Sea salt and fresh ground black pepper

In a food processor, puree chives, cucumber, and yogurt. Season with salt and pepper.

Then set aside.

Now for the crab cakes:
Zest of 1 lemon
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 lb cooked lump crab meat, picked over
1 1/3 cups whole-wheat panko bread crumbs
1/2 cup seeded and chopped red bell pepper
5 large egg whites
2 tbsp sunflower or safflower oil
8 large butter lettuce leaves
In a large bowl, combine lemon zest, lemon juice, crab, panko, bell pepper and salt. Stir in the egg whites.

Using damp hands shape the ingredients into 8 cakes, each about 3/4 inch thick.

Use a nonstick skillet to heat, on medium, 1 tbsp oil. Place the cakes, carefully, onto the skillet and cook for about 4 minutes per side or until golden brown.

After the crab cakes are finished place them onto the lettuce leaves, topped with the cucumber sauce and you are done. Dinner is served 🙂

P.S.–If you are looking for more clean eating recipes, here is a past post of a delicious salmon recipe I made from my new favorite cookbook.

Life is better with color 🙂
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1) Completely in love with this song and have it on repeat!
2) A delicious drink to make at your next party.
3) Can never go wrong with a cute peplum top. 
4) Play dress up with these colorful, chic jewelry pieces.
5) Spend your summer days in this shirt.
6) Just finished reading this book…. definitely entertaining!
7) When I grow up I want to be Misty Copeland! 
8) Such lovely words to live by!
9) I Love to do this 10-minute CrossFit workout at home.
10) Become a gracious guest with these summer host gift ideas.

In honor of the Tony Awards this past weekend, So You Think You Can Dance on TV tonight, and the American Ballet Theatre in the midst of their spring season, I felt it only appropriate to talk about my one true love. I have been dancing since I was 3 years old taking ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, and modern. Taking dance lessons has really defined who I am today and I would definitely not be who I am without the art of dance being a part of my life. The discipline, the strive, the hard work, the poise, the creativity, the musicality, and most important the physicality of it all has shaped me. It has been a few years since I have taken a class (need to get back into it) but everyday I am still inspired and feel the love I have for it!

Here are two beautiful performance pieces. One if from SYTYCD featuring (my future husband) Travis Wall and the other from one of my favorite choreographers Tokyo.

 

P.S.– please support the arts in anyway you can!
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