Marilu Henner's Blog, page 208

Featured recipe from Marilu's table * Currant scones

Sometimes we want something a little fancier for breakfast, and these scones do the trick.

Offer scones for a quick on-the-go breakfast or after school snack, or pack them in a school (or brown bag) lunch. (Who said you had to pack a sandwich?)

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Currant Scones

Yellow * Serves 10

2 cups unbleached flour

1/4 cup Sucanat®

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup soy margarine, cold

2/3 to 3/4 cup soymilk

3/4 cup currants

Preheat oven to 400...

Featured recipe from Marilu's table * Current scones

Sometimes we want something a little fancier for breakfast, and these scones do the trick.

Offer scones for a quick on-the-go breakfast or after school snack, or pack them in a school (or brown bag) lunch. (Who said you had to pack a sandwich?)

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Currant Scones

Yellow * Serves 10

2 cups unbleached flour

1/4 cup Sucanat®

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup soy margarine, cold

2/3 to 3/4 cup soymilk

3/4 cup currants

Preheat oven to 400...

Time to get moving

Yes, get up and get moving.

This is one of our favorite motivational songs, and it not only makes us want to dance, it makes us want to take action all day long – to move in a new direction, to give life to the seed of a new idea, to envision and create a new opportunity.

The future is yours to create.

//www.marilu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/03 Unwritten.mp3

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Take the Dear Diary class now in session, and get motivated to change your life!

 

Why the nutrition bill matters

Our friend Kathy at the Lunch Box Bunch blog wrote a great post on children's nutrition. She's a big dreamer when it comes to the food our kids should get at school… but if we don't dream big, we won't work hard to create change.

Here's an excerpt – go and read the whole thing!

Why the Nutrition Bill Matters: Even skeptics of increased government funding for programs have to agree that 1) education is crucially important in our country. And 2) no amount of education, from math to social...

Begin this moment

Hey, when are you gonna stand

Stop looking over your shoulder

See, there's a sun in the sky

And a moon that will take us 'til morning

When are you gonna stand

Stop and begin this moment

When it's time to make a change, we seem to think it always includes the idea of later. We like to put off all "diets" until Monday; all exercise programs until next month when we join the gym; all lifestyle changes (like not smoking) until January 1.

Why not start NOW? If you want to change your life...

Back to school countdown * School supplies

This is the time to get ALL your school supplies for the whole year. Even if you don't have kids in school!

This is when all the pens and notebooks and binders are on sale at the cheapest price of the year.

You can also get crayons and simple watercolors and glue and markers – you never know when you might want some simple craft supplies (keep them together in one drawer or shoebox, and you'll be prepared for an invasion of small children, too).

Restock your kitchen junk/utility drawer...

Start fresh

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly

Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye

I gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change

And breakaway

//www.marilu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/01 Change.mp3

 

This is what it feels like to break away from the old habits, to make a change, to start fresh with new habits.

Some of the habits we want to change are pretty simple – start flossing our teeth regularly, or take our supplements, or drink enough water every day, or go to bed on time...

Featured recipe from Marilu's table * Tabbouleh

Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern salad based on bulgar wheat. It's filling and has a bright, fresh flavor from the mint, tomatoes and lime juice.

Serve tabbouleh as a main dish salad on lettuce leaves, with whole wheat pita bread on the side.

Or serve it as a side dish – it provides the starch and some veggies to go along with the rest of your meal.

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Tabbouleh

Blue * Serves 4

1 cup bulgar wheat, uncooked
1 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped finely
1 cup scallions, chopped finely
1 cup fresh...

Change is in the air

Change is in the air for YOU.

August often brings a kind of doldrums – a time when there's no headwind or tailwind to push or pull you, and no incentive to create one, either. A time when coasting seems like the best choice.

The thing about no headwind is that conflict and confrontation often challenge us to be our best, and to bring our best game. No headwind? No challenge.

The thing about a tailwind is that success depends on support – from family, from friends, from co-workers, from...

Spirit Sunday * Fresh start

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

 

If you find yourself sprawled on the ground, having been knocked flat by some unforeseen circumstance or perhaps a crazy life decision, don't think you have to stay there. There's no need to accept the position (or the label that goes with it). Get up. Make a change. Create the opportunity. Do something. A fresh start is within your reach...