Let me back track a bit and tell you about two things I love: 1) my juices, and 2) glowing skin. So to drink something I already love and it result in glowing skin…what more could I ask for?
We all know the benefits of drinking water for your skin, but there are also tons of benefits derived from juicing and a healthy diet, all of which shows up in your face and helps fight the aging process.
In the book you’ll find 75 recipes to make juices, milks, and other concoctions at home with either a juicer or blender. I can’t wait to make the chocolate almond milk or the coconut mint chip, but there was something that immediately caught my eye, an anti-aging antidote if you will.
I stumbled across Citrus 12 juice and this recipe has tons of skincare benefits. Raspberries contain high levels of the phytonutrients, ellagic acid, and anthocyanins. These antioxidant compounds are anti-aging and anti-inflammatory. Although they are tiny fruits, raspberries contain significant amounts of these phytonutrients, which can protect the body from disease and chronic illness.
I know, I know, while all that science above may sound complicated, the recipe itself is actually super simple!
CITRUS 12
MAKES 1 TO 2 (8-OUNCE) SERVINGS
2 oranges, peeled
1 tangerine, peeled
1 cup raspberries
If you follow me on Instagram you know that every Sunday I go to my local farmers market. At the market I picked up a bunch of random food and I literally go home and then try to figure out what to make with it.
I never shop with recipes in mind I just buy ingredients that are fresh, local and what I know I like.
When I got home I was feeling like having a salad but I realize I didn’t want to eat kale which was the only lettuce I bought. Instead I improvised and made this salad instead.
It was light delicious and most of all easy to make. After taking the pictures for this post I realized something was missing I then added in a little bit of balsamic and for me it tasted much better.
Peaches and Cheese Summer Salad:
Ingredients
3 ripe peaches (peeled, if desired)
8 ounces mozzarella, cut into chunks
Cilantro as garnish
*optional chopped Basil
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
Sea salt to taste
black pepper to taste
*optional balsamic vinegarette
Directions
Cut each peach into 6 to 8 wedges, then cut each wedge into thirds.
In a large bowl, combine the peaches, and mozzarella. Drizzle with the oil (use sparingly), put in the salt and pepper to taste, toss and garnish with cilantro for a little color.
I’ve gotten a lot of questions and you all have asked what I typically eat on a daily basis or during the week and what is my meal plan. I don’t typically eat the same thing every week or follow any kind of plan but I do eat and drink things that go towards a healthy lifestyle.
I wanted to show you an example of the types of foods I eat throughout the week but by no means is this a diet, do I always eat these same foods or do I expect them to all taste great.
Of course I do cheat and I’m not always perfect but here are some photos and examples of my daily meals. This is a long post and pretty much my food diary for the week so I hope you kind of get an idea on how I balance out the good, the bad and the fun (drinks!)
MONDAY
Let me start out by saying this week I am eating more healthy than I usually do. When I travel, I tend to eat really poorly so while I am at home I do the best I can.
Before breakfast, I had a green juice from Whole Foods with cucumber, kale, romaine, lemon, lime and coconut water. It was delicious.
This morning, breakfast started out with egg whites, asparagus and Tabasco sauce. I chop the asparagus first and cook that, then I take them out and sit them aside. I then cook the egg whites and add in the veggies. I spice it up with some tabasco after to give it some flavor. I personally love egg whites, some people don’t so adding these things in can help them taste not so bland.
For lunch I had a mixed greens salad with some cucumber and for dressing I used lemon juice and olive oil. I topped it with a small piece of salmon.
Dinner also was pretty healthy this day. Here we’ve got a salmon poke salad and blanched asparagus. I loveeee how blanched asparagus tastes! All you do is boil water, add salt, wait for the water to be boiling, throw in your veggies. When the fork can pierce the end easily they are done, usually around 3min. Then you can rinse then with cold water or submerge them in an ice bath if you want to be all fancy and technical. When they were cooled down and this perfect pretty green, I topped them off with a mix of olive oil and lemon juice.
For the end of the day and how I finish every dinner, I drink a cup of hot water with lemons. It really flushes out your body and is great to have first thing in the morning as well.
TUESDAY
Before breakfast I had a green juice from Whole Foods.
For breakfast, I made a blueberry lemon quinoa it was sooo delicious!
In the afternoon, my snack was pinapple with tajin and some lime juice.
And another snack was frozen banana bites and the middle was almond butter and a half a banana I smashed up and mixed together. A great treat.
For lunch it was really simple, blanched asparagus again and some chicken. I just season with salt pepper and lawry’s seasoning. Sear it on the stove 2min each side then pop it in the oven at 350 for 20-25min.
WEDNESDAY
I don’t know what I was thinking this day but I forgot to take pics of most of what I ate. But here is a green juice from whole foods and a salad I had that day with peaches and avocados.
After this, I went to Gracias Madre a Vegan Mexican restaurant in LA. I had the talam here is what they said is in it “Stoneground heirloom masa steamed in the husk filled with zucchini, onions and garlic, served with beans and escabeche 12.5″ Pretty good for no meat and no dairy.
I must have still been hungry after this because on my way home, I stopped and got a 4 piece chicken nugget from McDonald’s and some honey to dip it in, I love sweet and salty don’t you?
* PLEASE FOR GIVE THE LACK OF PHOTOS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK.
Like an idiot, I cleared the photos off my phone and I don’t have pics for these days so please use your imagination!
THURSDAY
I was busy this day too running around but for lunch I had sea bass with some sauteed veggies and dinner I had Mexican chicken lettuce wraps from The Cheesecake Factory.
FRIDAY
Today I was traveling to Charlotte, North Carolina, I knew I would be busy and not able to get the foods I wanted so I started my day with my favorite smoothie. This was organic green leaf lettuce, banana, ground flax seed, almond butter and coconut milk.
Before my flight, I grabbed a fruit cup, granola bar and a bottle of water. On the plane the food was ok, I ate chicken, edamame salad, a roll and then really yummy oreo dessert. I also drank a coffee and had a ginger ale.
For dinner when I arrived to my hotel, it was so late I couldn’t go anywhere to eat. The room service menu was so limited I had vegetable soup. After dinner, I had hot water with lemon before I went to bed.
SATURDAY
This morning I had room service and I ordered a egg white omelet with sauteed spinach, a pot of coffee and made my way to the Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash event.
For lunch, I met up with one of my college roomates and we went to this amazing place in Charlotte. I ordered crab cakes with poached eggs it was delicious.
After this we got a few drinks, ordered some hummus and walked it off in the muggy humid Southern weather.
I was also traveling this evening back to Los Angeles and it really is so hard to travel and eat well. A lot of what I eat are fresh fruits, veggies and fish and it is really hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle on the go. Airport foods are awful and I am fortunate to spend a lot of time traveling but it does make it difficult to eat well.
In the lounge, the only food they had to eat was vegetable soup. So I had some of this before my flight as I arrived sooo early to the airport.
SUNDAY
Today was another busy day for me. I traveled from Los Angeles to Bangkok this day, so again hard to eat on the go.
Well there is a week of eating, this isn’t a diet or a plan but just to show you that I mostly try to eat healthy instead of mostly eating bad. But I feel like being healthy most of the time, makes up for the times when I like to splurge a little and eat things that maybe aren’t the best for me.
This isn’t hard for me to do, because when I eat well, sleep and drink water I feel great, my skin is clear and I just move about my day better.
If anything here looks good to you and you want to see a recipe, leave a comment!
One of the first things I do when I travel to any city is google “Anthony Bourdain + city name” and jot down the names of restaurants with his stamp of approval. No joke, I have stalked his recommendations in Paris, Venice and even Lima, Peru. So doing this has become somewhat of a ritual for me.
He is a huge inspiration to me in my dreams of hosting a travel and food show, and the reason I respect him so much is his honesty. Because of this, I know that if he recommends it, it’s probably good and that was definitely the case (once again) in Paris.
From his 100th episode he shared about L’Avant Comptoir and I had to try it. After arriving to the little wine bar, I walked in to find a counter, no seats, a menu hanging from the ceiling and 4 locals drinking absinthe.
Check out my video below & photos from my first time dining there.
If you want to visit the tapas and wine bar in Paris, the address is 9 carrefour de l’Odeon, 75006 Paris and you can check out their yelp page here.
I also wanted to note this restaurant is reasonably priced. The small plates were priced around €4-7 and they also give you a huge bread basket. We left both stuffed and even ordered two glasses of wine and the total was €33
This title probably sounds completely disgusting to you, so if you clicked on this post you are brave! And if you are curious, it is actually a really good dish even though it sounds boring/odd/gross/too healthy.
I do all of my grocery shopping at either Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s or at farmers markets on the weekend. So like many grocery stores, I tried a sample walking around one day and came across these yummy noodles!
These are called GreeNoodle and they are just like any other “pasta” you would use, but these are vegan instead and only 90 calories a serving! It is really versatile and you can add it with any broth you have for a hot soup or use dressing instead and chill it in the fridge for a pasta salad alternative.
I like these noodles as a pasta salad, so I add in some Miso Sesame dressing and it is DELICIOUS at only 25 calories a tablespoon! This dressing add tons of flavor to anything that is bland like noodles, salad or meat. I used Galeo’s Miso Dressing and it is gluten free, all natural and has no MSG.
This recipe is really easy to make, yummy, healthy and can be paired with so many different ingredients. I’m going to share with you a base recipe … then you can add whatever you want to it! You can eat this as a meal if you add some protein, or keep it like this as a side dish.
Boil water and add in noodles. Let cook for 2-3 minutes.
Drain and put in bowl. Cover with plastic and refrigerate.
Take out of fridge, add chopped parsley, dressing and any optional additions.
