I learned a new term after my daughter reached a certain age:  drunk dialing.  The Urban Dictionary (www.urbandictionary.com) defines a drunk dial this way:  ”To make a regrettable late night phone call after drinking heavily.”  Last night I had terrible knee pain, as I have  had for several days.  It seems to always come at the

Well, here it is, after a week or so since I promised a hummus recipe. (I went ahead and froze the chickpeas.) Ingredients: ·2c cooked chickpeas ·1 head roasted garlic ·4T tahini ·4T lemon juice ·3T water ·salt to taste ·garlic powder or a clove fresh garlic Tom likes his hummus fluffy and found that adding more liquid tends to make it fluffier. If you

This is something I make all year long. I love to break it out for an mid-afternoon snack with some carrot sticks, sliced cucumber or even Hol-Grain Brown Rice Crackers. I go light on the tahini and I use water instead of oil. Keeps it really fresh tasting yet it’s really satistfying at the same time. 2 15oz cans

I was doing some guiding in the Old City yesterday and as lunch time came around I began to think about a little fastfood, how about hummus, my favorite is with snobar, ie. toasted pine nuts. Should I visit Abu Shukri, the other Abu Shukri or Lena’s? And what if you’re somewhere else in Israel

Just because you have no money, doesn’t mean you have to eat unhealthy!!!! That’s my Rachel Ray intro. And this is my $4 meal plan. I braved Trader Joe’s again today after work (thank god I beat the rush by leaving work at 7 pm…..hurray). First things first-a hefty bottle of wine. Second, fill my basket with

Hi All, I apologize for not posting last night, but I didn’t feel well and neither does my mom… We think we were poisoned by that pear we had, kind of odd… Either that or we have a stomach bug that comes and goes… One minute we feel fine, the next minute we feel sick to

Hi Ya’ll! Sorry this post is so short, but I hope you are all having a good Wednesday I’m posting everything in one giant post, hope you don’t mind! I’ll be back tonight… Breakfast: oats w/ vanilla & cinnamon, bananas, and 1/4 maple granola plank (yummy & delicious, but blueberry is still

Okay, maybe not a crisis persay, but I chipped my tooth! I have a permanent wire on the back of my bottom teeth because I had braces and I had eaten mango and it was stuck in the wire. So I tried to dig it out with this pick thing. Next thing I know a

I’m on a downward spiral of food doom. My disgustingly full stomach can vouch for that. I doubled up on workouts today to try to compensate for a teeny bit of the over indulgence. It can’t help much considering the entire weekend was pretty much a bust in terms of food amount consumption, but at

Another day of work and honestly, with each new day I think I am liking the job more and more. Everything is just so nice and relaxed, everyone is pretty friendly, and I have yet to do a task I didn’t like (well, except for sweeping the floor but that hardly counts). I didn’t even