This week's feature is a new take on a very basic side dish - roasted asparagus WITH crisped prosciutto and soft-boiled eggs!
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We will be working on our Side Game! The first side I want to share with y'all is a cinnamon sweet potato hash.
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If you couldn't tell by now, I shamelessly use everything bagel spice on lots of different meals :) it is so easy and tastes great.
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This is a great & easy weeknight meal when I'm cooking for the family and want to keep it simple. Especially if I'm extra tired or symptomatic.
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Healthy and delicious meals to make at home! As we move slowly back to the restaurant world, I hope we don't lose the built-in family and friends time we have found to cook meals together - and I want to share some of the highlight meals that brightened up our quarantine Thursdays. ️
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Our second snack of the month is a feature on rice cakes & the many, many ways we can enjoy them.
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This week features a brain-friendly breakfast hash that I love to throw together with some fried eggs and sliced avocado on top!
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Today's feature for Lunches in Lockdown is one of my FAVORITES - a peanut butter, banana, & homemade blackberry chia jam sandwich.
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As a kid growing up in the 1960's, a combination of being a bit of a daredevil, and also being in the wrong place at the wrong time, led to many bumps on the head, and even stitches. Back in those days, a lot of the time, my head was my helmet. I figured things like seeing stars and having ringing ears was just a part of life, like a scraped knee or something.
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While my concussion didn’t seem so bad compared to sports injuries and auto accidents, as the weeks passed we realized just how much I’d been affected. In the long list of possible symptoms I struggled with everything except for seizures, nausea, and light sensitivity. It was difficult to do the simplest of tasks, cooking was a nightmare, I was bruised from bumping into walls and furniture, and reading a simple sentence made my eyes ache. My head felt like it had been used for batting practice.
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I have suffered from concussions for quite a few years now. My first when I was 10 and have suffered 4 others since then. In November of 2016 I suffered a concussion that was not diagnosed properly. Months later I was diagnosed with Post Concussion Syndrome and convergence insufficiency. In November of 2017 I suffered another concussion and was then diagnosed with POTS. After trying several treatments with no success I recently went to Connecticut for a week of “brain camp” and now I am finally starting to feel like myself again.
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I have had at least 3 concussions in my upbringing as an ice hockey goaltender. Only one was documented and a part of my role would be to create more awareness from stepping away if you think you have suffered a brain injury. I was raised in the old era to stay in the game and athletes need to be more intune with their bodies. That is why I went to the lengths that I did to heal myself (yoga/spirituality/Cannabis diet). It affected my life because I was institutionalized.
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