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Parmesan Smashed Cauliflower recipe

If you love mashed potatoes, but don't want all the calories, then you should try this mashed cauliflower recipe. They are creamy, cheesy and pretty darn awesome.  The version I make is about half the calories of mashed potatoes and just as tasty. Serve them alongside a nice grilled steak and you have a delicious dinner which will rival any steakhouse. Parmesan Smashed Cauliflower serves 4-6 1 large head of cauliflower 1/4 cup + 2 T Parmesan cheese 1 oz cream cheese 1/4 t. chicken base ( Better Than Bouillon ) 1 garlic clove minced salt and pepper to taste Set a pot of water to boil over high heat with a steamer basket in the pot.  Clean and cut cauliflower into small pieces. Cook in boiling water for about 15 minutes, or until well done. Drain well. Leave cauliflower in hot pan and with the heat off stir it around in the pan. You want the cauliflower to be as dry as possible. Use your immersion blender, or in a food processor, puree ...

Casa Chicken Recipe

From the Mulkey family recipe archives.... Do you love chicken and curry? Then you are going to love Casa Chicken. This recipe is super easy to make and is ready in less than 30 minutes. Every family has their favorite recipes - those craveable flavors you can taste and smell in your mind. This recipe for Casa Chicken is a Mulkey family recipe that Don's mom used to make all the time. It has a great curry flavor, super moist chicken and tons of sauce to smother over rice. And the best part is all the ingredients for the sauce are pantry staples. So on those nights when you don't know what to make you know you can always whip together Casa Chicken in less than 30 minutes. Casa Chicken Serves 4-6 Ingredients: 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, each cut into 3 or 4 pieces 3/4 t. onion salt 3/4 t. black pepper 1/2 cup ketchup 1/4 cup soy sauce 2 T prepared mustard 1/2 t. curry powder 2 1/4 cups water 2 bay leaves 2 T cornstarch 2 T water 3 T ...

Getting Back in Shape

TRX at In-Shape Health Clubs If I could give just one piece of advice to people in their 30's and 40's it would be to stay active, work out weekly and keep building muscle. Because as you get older it's really important to have muscle mass and getting back in shape is really hard. It hurts. A lot. My muscles hurt for days sometimes because the muscles are nonexistent. Had I been working out all this time this wouldn't be happening. But I didn't. So here I am. I have also learned that all that hiking and walking I was doing is great. But it did nothing to build my core strength and upper body. It would have been much easier to have been doing some sort of strength training all along. The good news is it's not too late to start. You can get back in shape at any age and it doesn't take that long with a little bit of focus. Here are the things I'm doing to get back in shape. Working out at the gym/club Lucky for me I work for a chain of health c...

Making wishes (on hay)

When I was a kid, there was one thing I believed without question: If you saw a truck full of hay… you made a wish. Not casually. Not just “oh hey, I wish for something.” There were rules. Very specific rules. First, you had to lick the end of your thumb, hold it up, and let it dry while you made your wish. Second, you had to make the wish and not look back until you were absolutely sure the truck was out of sight. I grew up thinking this was completely normal. Like carrying a rabbit’s foot. Or throwing a penny in a fountain. Just… something everyone did. Apparently, that is not the case. Fast forward to this week. We’re driving through Napa, and two massive semis full of hay roll past us. And I mean massive. The kind of opportunity you don’t ignore. So obviously… I made a wish. And I can tell you what I wished for, because it already came true. I wished that someone would call me about a job. One hour later, I got a call from a headhunter. A few hours after that, a Human Resources man...