A delicious and healthy salad with kale & romaine lettuce mixed with currants, cashews and grilled salmon. Dressing can be pretty much anything you like but a honey mustard or a simple vinaigrette would be best.
In any case I plan to eat more and more of these types of salads.
We’re here in Scottsdale where it’s professional baseball spring camp training – busy time. We’ve decided to head off to Picacho Peak State Park for a few nights of desert camping – gorgeous area. In the meantime we love visiting the old town of Scottsdale for a fix of old fashioned cowboy history. More…
Downtown Scottsdale offers some of the finest galleries, specialty retail, culturalattractions and dining in the Valley of the Sun. Downtown Scottsdale is at the heart of the
bronze cowboys – pony express.
city’s art scene, with Contemporary and Western Art, Theatre and a wide variety of outdoor sculptures set amid the lush green lawns and sparklingfountains of Civic Center Mall.
Free stagecoach rides.
Scottsdale’s Arts District is home to a high concentration of galleries showcasing some of the best Western and Southwestern art in the country. Throughout “Old Town”, shopkeepers sell quality Native American crafts, offering everything from hand-woven Navajo rugs to Zuni silver jewelry.
Plazacowboy chop houseCanalSomething for us Cowgirls – “Garage” a place to fill up on clothes.Boots a plentysomething else for cowgirls – still in style here.
Step aside Kale….there are some new produce powerhouses that deserve attention.
Known for their A-to-Zinc spectrum of vitamins and minerals, leafy vegetables like spinach and collards have long been rated among the healthiest foods on the planet. But those old standbys – and their suddenly stylish cousin kale – are hardly the only greens that should be in your diet. Shake things up with these four super nutritious choices:
1) Bok Choy – belongs to the cruciferous (cabbage) family, a group known for its anticancer properties (which may be due, in part, to a high concentration of the antioxidant kaempferol).
2) Mustard Greens – may be more effective at lowering cholesterol and decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer than cabbage, broccoli and green peppers. But the way you cook them matters: according to a recent study in Food and Nutrition Sciences, mustard greens had greater cholesterol-lowering potential when sautéed than when boiled, steamed, or served raw.
3) Beet Greens – a good source of potassium, a mineral that can help control blood pressure. One cup delivers nearly 60 percent more potassium than the same amount of spinach. The leaves also contain vitamin A, which promotes good vision, and vitamin K, which may strengthen bones.
4) Chard – just one cup of cooked chard delivers almost 50 percent of your recommended daily value of magnesium, a mineral that may have the ability to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of diabetes. A scientific review of several studies found that increasing magnesium intake by 100 milligrams a day (that’s just 2/3 cup of cooked chard) can lower the risk of stroke by 8 percent.
Taken from Feeling Good – “O” magazine. Article by Johannah Sakimura.
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Fable Free Range Eggs, Kale Salad & home baked marble rye.
A good Breakfast. I have a few specific criteria for getting a great breakfast in a restaurant and usually I’m disappointed by at least one of them. 1) The home fries must not come out of a package 2)coffee must be above average 3) bread must be fresh 4) your bill should be met with something a bit more imaginative than a stale mint candy. Something like cookies would be perfect.
Fable on 4th in Vancouver surpassed my expectations.
In Palm Springs Cafe Europa did not disappoint especially with being able to sit outside in an attractive courtyard setting. The weather may have had something to do with it.
Cafe Europa in Palm Springs with french press coffee.
We’re pleased to announce the addition of Margarita Active Wear to Intrigue Imports.
With a vivid palette of latin inspired color and a cute daisy logo, the flattering Brazilian cut style means that you will get “bottoms up!” Made in Israel with quality, detail and comfort. Here is a sampling of the colorful brand’s attire.
It could be because I’m in Palm Springs and under the influence of the “mod squad” but lately I’ve been noticing a lot of Pucci designs.
Emilio Pucci (1914-1992) was crowned “The Prince of Prints” by the international fashion press and hailed from one of Florence’s oldest and noblest families. The press were smitten by his exuberantly colored prints and simple, effortless designs, so radical for the time. Their feminine and free-flowing body-conscious shapes translated seamlessly into weightless silk jersey dresses, resort-style sportswear and glorious evening gowns — must-haves for the jet-set crowd. Not to mention a good friend of mine who is in the process of buying out the recently re-launched Pucci sunglass collection that bears her same last name.
Vogue shoot by Irving Penn – 1990
The Pucci brand is famous for its pattern with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors. Not for the faint of heart. Along with swimsuits, scarves and lounge wear for suburban moms, he designed uniforms for flight attendants, insignia for the Apollo 15 astronauts and outfits for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Marilyn Monroe and even Madonna.
Pucci is today widely known for its fashionable luxury items and is 67% owned by the French Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Group.
You can shop for Emilio Pucci accessories, including handbags, scarves, hats, shoes and eyewear, from eLuxury.com, Net-a-Porter.com, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and at many boutiques around the world. The Emilio Pucci official website (Visit the Site) features runway videos, backstage photos and information about upcoming items.Coming soon to Intrigueimports.com (I wish).
As soon as I saw this recipe on a food blog I knew that it would turn out wonderful. Especially since I had orange flavored cranberries at home. I didn’t have brandy but substituted with over proof rum. Okay, so it was a little bit stronger but nonetheless tasted excellent.
Ingredients:
1 cup of dried cranberries
½ cup of brandy (I used overproof Rum)
½ cup (1 stick) of unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup of sugar
zest of 1 orange
1 egg, room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla extract
½ cup of milk, room temperature
juice of 1 orange (mine rendered 1/3 cup)
2 cups of all-purpose flour
2 tsp. of baking powder
1 tsp. salt
turbinado sugar to sprinkle on top
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-ince square baking pan.
In a small sauce pan add cranberries and brandy (or rum). Warm through over medium heat, about 5 minutes. The brandy should evaporate. Turn off heat and set it aside to cool.
Using a standing mixer, cream butter, sugar and orange zest until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined. Then add in milk and orange juice and continue mixing until combined.
In a medium bowl whisk flour, baking powder and salt until combined. Slowly add in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients. The batter will be thick. Fold in ¾ of the boozy cranberries into the batter and spread it evenly into the greased pan. Sprinkle the remaining ¼ of the cranberries on top. Then sprinkle some turbinado sugar evenly on top of everything else (batter and cranberries).
Bake for 30-40 minutes or until toothpick/tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Let the breakfast cake cool in the pan on the cooling rack.
Adapted from “For the Love of Cooking” by unihomemaker.com and then by intrigueimports.com
If you compare the following prices to the equivalent in Vancouver, B.C. you’ll find a HUGE difference. You can buy a palace here for the same price as a knock down there. It’s just the way it is. Here is what you can buy in P.S. for just under $100,000 +
For an asking price of $99,900. – a 900 sq. ft. two bedroom, two bathroom condo in secure gated community about a 15 minute drive from the center of town. Living area has a vaulted ceiling, newly re-modelled kitchen and the balcony off second bedroom overlooks pool and hot tub with partial mountain view. Quite attractive. See below:
From front entrance – one bedroom with ensuite on left.View from balcony off one of the bedrooms. Mountain view to the right. Asking $99,900.Kitchen has new granite counter top and tiles. Asking $99,900.
For an asking price of $279,000. you can buy a 1,400 sq. ft. Adobe style home with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Two beautiful outdoor spaces – one off kitchen with private hot tub and a gorgeous large upstairs deck with mountain views. Complex has a swimming pool and there’s a golf course close by. See 2 photos below.
For an asking price of $535,000. you will get a 1,500 sq. ft. uniquely private home in a gated community close to town with only 12 houses in the whole complex. Absolutely gorgeous home with 2 spacious bedrooms (each with own ensuite) at opposite sides of house. A nice office space, 2 car garage, outdoor living with private salt water swimming pool, hot tub and mountain view. Large kitchen area. See 2 photos below.
Units in the complex you see across the street were originally selling for $1,000,000. (I know because I looked there a few years ago) and now the only two remaining are going for about $500,000. – half the original asking.
These are just tiled stairs that I really like. I love Mexican tiles.
Until now the only Road Runner I was familiar with was on Bugs Bunny.
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own sake; in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank
Parker Palm Springs Hotel Lobby
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. – Salvador Dali
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire
Post-Modernism was a reaction against modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall
“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.” – Jackson Pollock
Parker Palm Springs Hotel Lobby
“The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.”- G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
“In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.” ― William E. Hordern
Bok Choy – belongs to the cruciferous (cabbage) family, a group known for its anticancer properties (which may be due, in part, to a high concentration of the antioxidant kaempferol).
Beet Greens – a good source of potassium, a mineral that can help control blood pressure. One cup delivers nearly 60 percent more potassium than the same amount of spinach. The leaves also contain vitamin A, which promotes good vision, and vitamin K, which may strengthen bones.
It could be because I’m in Palm Springs and under the influence of the “mod squad” but lately I’ve been noticing a lot of Pucci designs.
You can shop for Emilio Pucci accessories, including handbags, scarves, hats, shoes and eyewear, from eLuxury.com, Net-a-Porter.com, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and at many boutiques around the world. The Emilio Pucci official website (Visit the Site) features runway videos, backstage photos and information about upcoming items.
As soon as I saw this recipe on a food blog I knew that it would turn out wonderful. Especially since I had orange flavored cranberries at home. I didn’t have brandy but substituted with over proof rum. Okay, so it was a little bit stronger but nonetheless tasted excellent.
. Large kitchen area. See 2 photos below.
These are just tiled stairs that I really like. I love Mexican tiles.
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