Health and Food

Martha Stewart’s Triple Layer Poundcake It occurred to me that it just might be possible not everyone is a pie fan. I don’t know anyone in my immediate circle who feels this way. By the slew of orders that’ve come in from the pie fundraiser I’m doing for our school, there are certainly a lot of pie lovers at Woodstock Day School (so far I’ll be baking 41 pies the Monday before Thanksgiving with the help of a friend—pray for us). Still, I imagine somewhere out there, someone is already thinking about the dilemma of wanting dessert for Thanksgiving, and nothing but a sea of pies (sounds like heaven to me!). Then I remembered Martha Stewart’s Triple Layer Poundcake that I made from a recent issue of her magazine. Side note: this thought process all happened while washing my hair in the shower. Obviously, I’ve got pie on the brain these days. Prep time: 20 mins Cook Time : 90 Mins Total Time : 1 Hour 50 Mins Serves : 10 Ingredients •                    2 sticks pl

Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake You have to try this no bake pumpkin cheesecake. You can enjoy all the deliciousness of a pumpkin cheesecake without the guilt. Low carb, no baking and only 4.9g net carbs per serving. You have to try this no bake pumpkin cheesecake. You can enjoy all the deliciousness of a pumpkin cheesecake without the guilt. Low carb and no baking! Prep Time : 15 minutes Total Time : 15 minutes Servings : 8 Calories : 355 kcal Author : Denise Wright (MyLifeCookbook.com) Ingredients •                    1 1/2 cups nuts I used 1 cup pecans & 1/2 cup walnuts •                    1 Tablespoon Lakanto sweetener •                    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon •                    8 oz cream cheese softened (room temperature) •                    1 cup heavy whipping cream •                    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon •                    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract •                    1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice •                  

Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Who doesn’t love a surprise inside? This Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Cake has a whole delicious peppermint cheesecake in the middle This Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Cake is seriously THE BEST!! Two layers of rich chocolate cake surround a mint lovers dream… peppermint cheesecake! Little bits of chocolate Ande’s chips folded into silky smooth cheesecake, it’s just plain delicious. Prep Time :10m Cook Time :45m Total Time :1h 25m Yield : 12 slices Ingredients Cheesecake •                    2 pkg (16 ounces total) cream cheese, room temperature •                    2/3 c (150g) granulated sugar •                    pinch of salt •                    2 large eggs, room temperature •                    1/4 c (153g) sour cream, room temperature •                    1/3 c (77g) heavy cream, room temperature •                    1/2 tsp. McCormick peppermint extract •                    4 -10 drops McCormick g

Egg In A Hole With Spicy Bacon And Guacamole Recipe Bagels are the perfect vessel to create this Mexican-inspired egg in a hole. Jazz up rashers of crispy streaky bacon with a sweet and spicy mix of chipotle, paprika and maple syrup and serve with a zingy tomato guacamole and perfectly cooked eggs. See method Serves : 4 Prepare : 5 Mins Cook :   30 Mins Calories / Servin: 663 Cal Ingredients •                    4 bagels, sliced in half horizontally •                    2 avocados •                    1 lime, juiced •                    8 cherry tomatoes, roughly chopped •                    4 tsp chipotle chilli and paprika paste •                    4 tsp maple syrup •                    12 rashers streaky bacon •                    1 tbsp olive oil •                    4 eggs Method 1.         Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C and line a baking tray with foil. If the bagel holes are small, cut away some of the centre. 2.    

12 Healthy Snacks You Need For Weight Loss And Health If you’re working on weight loss you need to read this. Here are some healthy foods that everyone NEEDS if they’re trying to lose weight. A flat tummy is made in the kitchen with healthy food choices and that have less calories and boost your metabolism. Have you been regularly working on your core but still see no results? Where is the 6-pack you’ve been working so hard to achieve? No matter how hard you work on getting that 6-pack, if you don’t eat the right food, it won’t ever show. It will forever be hiding under that layer of fat you feed with the wrong food choices you make. We’ve heard that abs are made in the kitchen, but do you know the recipe for it? To get the strong and shaped core you’ve been dreaming of, you need to rid your diet of junk and eat food that will not only boost your metabolism but also burn the unwanted fat you have stored up. Let’s take a look at 12 food options that will help you do just

Vegan Ricotta And Spinach Lasagna Back at the end of June (I checked Foursquare [it does have a point!]), my dad came to visit me in New York. If you want to know how much of a trooper my dad is, one night he agreed to take me out to a raw vegan restaurant in Gramercy Park that I was dying to go to. Typically I am dying to go to raw vegan restaurants, yes. To put it plainly, Pure Food and Wine is the greatest place on earth. Fuck you, Disney World. Even my dad, a meat-eating resident of New Orleans (something tells me a raw vegan restaurant would do awesome there – eep), thought the food was amazing. And he paid. Trooper. Ingredients Vegan Ricotta (you’ll use about ⅓ of this later on): •              1 ⅔ cups pine nuts (I meant to buy 2 cups but holy crap pine nuts are expensive and holy crap I’m bad at eyeballing so I adjusted because I’m a champion.) •                    1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons lemon juice •                    1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons nutriti