Food For Health: Cabbage

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Cabbage

It's time to get healthy, especially with the New Year here which of course  means New Years Resolutions.  Usually at the top of our list is eat a better diet and workout so why not put cabbage on your grocery list this month.  It is in season right now and it's super healthy for you. 

Cabbage can be eaten raw or cooked.  Cabbage contains a powerful antioxidant which is responsible for detoxing your liver.  Cabbage is rich in vitamin C.  The vitamin A in cabbage can help with skin problems like eczema, psoriasis, acne, and insect bites.  You create a poultice by grating the cabbage in a blender and wrap the content mixed with water in a cloth.  Place on the affected area for 15 minutes.  Got acne? If you steam the leaves of cabbage and place them on your face for about 15 minutes it'll leave your skin all cleared up by morning.  Cabbage is equally beneficial for your hair. 

It's filled with calcium, sulfur, iron, and magnesium.  Applying a mixture of boiled cabbage and freshly squeezed lemon juice on your scalp can promote hair growth.  Mash 1/2 cup boiled cabbage and 1/8 cup of fresh lemon juice in a blender to form a thick paste, massage the paste into your scalp and leave on for 30 minutes.  Shampoo and condition your hair as usual.  Drinking raw cabbage juice is beneficial for dry hair.  

Cabbage helps prevent cancer, its an immune booster,  it has anti-inflammatory properties, prevents cataracts, reduces the risk of alzheimers, helps treatment of ulcers, assists in weight loss, provides relief from constipation, and it provides relief from sore muscles.  For more information on the benefits of cabbage for your health check out our blog or our website for the link to stylecraze.com.

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For all of you fellow gardeners out there cabbage is pretty easy to grow if you want to add it to your garden.  Cabbage thrives in cool weather.  You can buy starts but cabbage is easy to grow from seed.  Plant outside when the temperature is 50 degrees and there are three leaves on the starts.  The farther apart you plant them the bigger the head of the cabbage will be.  Avoid wetting the leaves when you water to help prevent disease.  Cut back on watering as cabbage matures.  If leaves start to yellow, provide a midseason nitrogen boost with compost tea.

RECIPE

Ethiopian Cabbage Dish

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  1/2 cup olive oil
• 4 carrots, thinly sliced
• 1 onion, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1/2 head cabbage, shredded
• 5 potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes

Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook the carrots and onion in the hot oil about 5 minutes. Stir in the salt, pepper, cumin, turmeric, and cabbage and cook another 15 to 20 minutes. Add the potatoes; cover. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until potatoes are soft, 20 to 30 minutes.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/ethiopian-cabbage-dish/

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What's for Dinner? Thanksgiving Leftovers

Every year there are plenty of leftovers from Thanksgiving Day.  Let's not let it all go to waste!  We found some really great leftover ideas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Enjoy!  We hope your Holiday was as wonderful as ours was :)

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• Cranberry Pancakes
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• 3/4 cup Quick Cranberry Sauce
• 2 cups pancake batter

DIRECTIONS

1. STEP 1

   Reheat cranberry sauce with about 1 tablespoon water. Drain berries, reserving syrup.

2. STEP 2

   For each pancake, ladle 1/4 cup batter onto a hot griddle; sprinkle with 1 tablespoon berries. Flip pancake when it releases easily from pan; continue cooking until golden brown.

3. STEP 3

   Serve with butter, if desired, and reserved syrup.
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5. Penne With Goat Cheese, Kale and Turkey
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ingrEDIENTS

• 1 pound dried penne
• Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 large shallots, thinly sliced
• 3 small garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red-pepper flakes
• 1 1/2 teaspoons finely shredded lemon zest, plus more for garnish
• 1/4 cup dry white wine, such as Sauvignon Blanc or Chardonnay
• 1/2 bunch kale, tough stems removed, leaves thinly sliced crosswise (8 cups)
• 2 cups large shreds cooked turkey
• 6 to 7 ounces fresh goat cheese
• 1/2 cup pitted, halved Kalamata olives
• 4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 2/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONS

1. STEP 1

   Cook pasta in salted water according to package directions. Reserve 1 1/2 cups cooking water, then drain.

2. STEP 2

   Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add shallots, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, teaspoon pepper, and the red-pepper flakes, and cook, stirring occasionally, until shallots are translucent, about 3 minutes. Add lemon zest and wine, and cook until wine has evaporated, about 1 minute. Stir in kale and 1/4 cup reserved cooking water, and cook until kale wilts, about 3 minutes. Add turkey, and cook until heated through. Add goat cheese and remaining 1 1/4 cups reserved cooking liquid, stirring until sauce is creamy.

3. STEP 3

   Add pasta to skillet, and cook, stirring, until pasta is coated and most of the liquid has been absorbed. Stir in olives and lemon juice. Sprinkle with Parmesan and lemon zest. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
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5. Turkey Cobb Sandwich
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• 3 slices applewood-smoked bacon
• 1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) unsalted butter, softened, plus more for roll or bun
• 1 brioche roll or hamburger bun, split
• 1/4 ripe avocado
• 1 teaspoon crumbled blue cheese, such as Roquefort
• 2 thin slices tomato
• 1 medium egg
• 4 thin slices cooked turkey

DIRECTIONS

1. STEP 1

   Cook bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to paper towels to drain, and wipe skillet clean.

2. STEP 2

   Butter cut sides of roll or bun. Heat skillet over medium-high heat. Place roll or bun, buttered sides down, in skillet, and cook until golden brown, 1 to 3 minutes.

3. STEP 3

   Mash avocado and blue cheese in a small bowl. Spread mixture on bottom half of roll or bun. Top with tomato and bacon.

4. STEP 4

   Melt butter in skillet over medium heat. Add egg, and cook until white is set, about 1 1/2 minutes. Gently flip egg, and cook until yolk is runny in center but slightly set around edge, about 30 seconds. Remove from pan. Add turkey to pan, and heat through.

5. STEP 5

   Place turkey and egg on top of tomato. Top with remaining half of roll or bun, and serve immediately.
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7. Cranberry Tartlet
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• 12 (2 3/4-inch) squares of dough
• 6 tablespoons cranberry sauce
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream
• Sanding sugar

DIRECTIONS

1. STEP 1

   Arrange squares of dough in cups of a mini-muffin pan. Top each square with 1 1/2 teaspoons cranberry sauce; fold in edges. Freeze for 30 minutes.

2. STEP 2

   Beat together egg yolk and cream. Brush tartlets with egg wash; sprinkle with sanding sugar. Bake at 400 degrees until golden, 30 to 35 minutes.

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What's Yo Status? She Wee and Poo Pourri

What's Yo Status?

Shee Wee

The she wee allows you to pee standing up, like a dude. It comes with it's own little carrying case, where inside you'll find a funnel like cup and a tube. You simply connect the tube to the funnel cup, undo your pants, place the cup under your vagina and pee....You gotta start slow otherwise you'll have a mess on your hands. All in all it works pretty great. 

We've had a 75% success rate with the sheewee! which we think is pretty great, especially after some beers. It's a really great product for camping or some music festivals, even the side of the road on the way home from work at 3am...u know when either there's no bathroom or u don't wanna set foot in the portapot! 

Poo Pourri

This product is called poo pourri, and let me tell you, it's amazing! A definite 100 out of 100 score in our book...this shit works every time.  Poo pourri, is nice little bottle of mixed essential oils and other natural ingredients that you spray into the toilet before you make your business. 

Once you drop the kids off at the pool the pleasant aromas are released and the nasty poop scents are trapped below the poo pourri barrier. 

You can buy this poopourri online or over the phone, and it comes in several flavors. Which FYI, great customer service. We tried out the original scent & déjà poo. We also had a few of our guy friends try out the flavors royal flush and trap a crap. They were very pleased, as well as their special lady friends, due to the fact that they didn't have to smell their poop. This holiday season you can order Santa poo and secret Santa. Each bottle has a little pooetry on the label that is just as whitty as the names of the scents. 

Definitely check this product out it has the Lex and Mais stamp of approval, as well as many many other. They've sold over 4 million bottles, have received a 4.8 out of 5 stars and are beginning to go viral on social media. The commercial in itself sells the shit out of the idea. 

If you order a package deal, they'll send you a free travel sized poo pourri which comes in handy anywhere! They also have a pet spray, shoe deodorizer, kid friendly poo pourri & potty training book and tons of other hilarious scents. We want it all, but mostly shittin pretty! Check these guys out on all your social media, they're awesome!

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Lighten up with Lex and Mais- Food For Health: Cranberries and Sweet Potatoes

Food For Health

Sweet Potato

With Thanksgiving right around the corner we thought we'd talk about some sweet potatoes for our veggie and cranberries for the fruit.  Let's start it off with the sweet potato  There is another option for sweet potatoes besides the traditional yams, here in Hawaii we grow the most delicious deep purple sweet potato called Molokai sweet potatoes.  Sweet potato is in season right now so its a good time to add them to your shopping list plus they are a perfect side for your Thanksgiving day spread.  There are some great health benefits to adding this potato in your diet as well.  They are high in B6 which is known to reduce heart attacks and we've recently found out that a deficiency  in B6 vitamins could be the reason why you can't remember your dreams, they are a good source of vitamin c, they contain vitamin D which is perfect for the winter months when the sun is scarce and its so cold you can't get yourself to go outside, they contain iron and magnesium which we read that magnesium helps to regulate hormones so it might be a good thing to add in your diet especially around PMS time.  

Cranberries

Our fruit of this month and a perfect fruit to go along with turkey and tofurkey alike is cranberries.  Not only are they tasty but they also have some health benefits too.  Cranberry is the first fruit to reach for when you get the dreaded urinary tract infection, which Lex has had before and she knows first hand they hurt like a real bitch and cranberry supplements and pills really helped clear that up, not only is it good for the bladder but its also great for the kidneys, they also help to prevent gingivitis gum disease, plaque buildup, and cavities,and they strengthen the immune system which is perfect for the cold and flu season.

Every year Mais makes the best sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving.  They are made with the most delicious Molokai sweet potatoes which are purple.  They grow over here in Hawaii so come on over and try some :)
  

You don't have to use the purple potatoes for this recipe its  just as good with the yams.

Mais' Molokai Sweet Potato Heaven

Ingredients:

5 Sweet potatoes 

Cube of butter

a can of coconut milk

a bag of chopped mac nuts

Honey to taste

Marshmallows

Topping:

cup of flour

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 cube of butter in slices chilled

whisk the ingredients together add butter and mash together

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Boil the sweet potatoes until soft.  Mix in the butter and coconut milk and mash the potatoes.  Put them in a blender and blend after mashing until silky smooth.  In a seperate bowl mix the flour and brown sugar, add the butter and mash with hands.  Put the silky smooth sweet potato mash in a baking dish top with the crumb topping.  Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.  Top with marshmallows and broil for 3 minutes or until marshmallows are golden brown.

Lex's Cranberry Salad with a creamy lemon vinagrette

Ingredients:

Mixed Greens

A hand full of cranberries

2 Apples

1/4 Cup of Goat cheese

Dressing:

2/3 Cup of olive oil

1/4 Cup of heavy cream

one lemon juiced

Mix together the salad, cranberries, apples. and goat cheese.  Whisk the olive oil the cream and lemon juice.  Mix the dressing and the salad together and enjoy.

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Today on our Walk About

Today On Our Walk About

We like to take walk about's in nature. We walk on our road, on other people's roads, pretty much wherever we feel like walking about.  We stop to explore the different things that cross our paths.  We thought we'd share some of those things with you.  Enjoy :)

Every time we walk by this yard we are always impressed with how very well maintained it is.  High five neighbor

Well hello to you meow meow

It's a mushroom

A great place to sit and rest

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Music Selection From Baby It's Cold Outside

Music

Phantogram- When I'm Small

The Submarines- 1940



BlackMill- The Drift



Azealia Banks- 212



KRS ONE- Step Into My World



The XX- The Islands



Rage Against the Machine- Mic Check



Windshield Smasher- Black Moth Super Rainbow

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