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Following this truck down a street in Napa, made me hungry. I love goat cheese, in all styles.

Chicken feet and chicken bones are an excellent source for healthy nutrition if in moderation.
It is full of cartilage-building proteins and amino acids we all need. Given to dogs raw, help clean their teeth and builds cartilage in their joints. People although can not assimilate the bones raw or cooked, but in a well cooked broth humans can gain the benefits of this gelatin broth.
Refer to Sally Fallon for further information and recipe.
Brendan Brazier's Amazing Protein Bars 0r Balls
This is great for high energy before or after a good or rather great workout. I know it does not look like much but they are amazing for a good steady stable energy boost and in between healthy snack.
Ingredients
1 cup fresh or soaked dried dates
1/4 cup almonds
1/4 cup blueberries
1/4 cup roasted carob powder (or cocoa to make 100% raw)
1/4 cup ground flax seeds
1/4 cup hemp protein powder
1/4 cup unhulled sesame seeds
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. lemon zest
Sea salt to taste
1/cup sprouted or cooked buckwheat (optional)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries.
In a food processor, process all ingredients except the buckwheat and blueberries until desired texture is reached. Need buckwheat and berries into mixture by hand. Make into a 1 3/4 ounce bars or bars




ASK DR. MAO
From the words of Dr. Maoshing Ni otherwise known as Dr. Mao, a Taoist Traditional Chinese Doctor in Santa Monica, California.
Spring Clean Your Body
"Upon the arrival of spring, human cultures throughout the ages have instinctively cleansed and detoxified themselves and reorganized their living environments. The reasons are well-founded. First, we naturally need to cast off the winter blues and feel renewed. Second, according to Chinese medicine, the liver is most active in the detoxification process during the spring.
Toxins are processed and neutralized by the liver and gall bladder and are expelled from the body through the spleen-lymphatic system, skin, bladder, and bowels.
Simple things you can do to help rid your body of toxins include: simplify your diet daily, drink a lemon squeezed in a glass of hot water upon rising and drink vegetable juices.
Further insight and assistance in ultimate health, contact Ask Dr. Mao.
Simple pull out trays allow access to the back of the cupboard when you only have a cupboard and not a real life walk in pantry. I wish...This is a wish I have for everyone, for I love designing well organized and efficient pantries for my clients. Since I also cook and my close friend has 10 children I understand how important it is to have a full and well functioning pantry!

Napa vineyard worker tying off new vines getting ready for spring's harvest of great wines. Thank goodness it is not raining and the sun is warm for the hard workers, but of course the good rains and mud is a sign of a great harvest.