Ceasar Salad Recipe

Try this Fast & Easy Ceasar Salad Recipe for Dinner

What I love about this Ceasar Salad Recipe is how fast and easy it is to make and my lil’s will actually eat it!  While Ceasar salad it’s not the healthiest of all salad options – it’s a yummy alternative to have on occasion.   It’s also important to break up the dinner routine – which in our house is spinach with red peppers – or else everyone’s taste buds just get bored.

This Ceasar Salad Recipe cheats a little – using mayonnaise instead of raw egg (which always make me nervous) and skipping the anchovies.  So while this recipe may not be for Ceasar Salad purists… it is fast, easy, and child friendly – using ingredients you already have in your pantry and refrigerator.

Ingredients for our Fast & Easy Ceasar Salad Recipe

• 1 head of Organic Romaine Leaf Lettuce
• 2 Tablespoons of  Organic Mayonnaise
• 2 Tablespoons of Yogurt
• 1 Teaspoon of Worcestershire Sauce
• 2 Tablespoons of Lemon Juice
• 1/2 – 1 Teaspoon of Garlic Powder or 1 Clove of Crushed Fresh Garlic
• 1/4 cup of Parmesan Cheese
• Pepper to taste
• Parmesan Crisps

Ceasar Salad Recipe Instructions

1. Wash and dry your lettuce, then tear your romaine into the size and shape you prefer for your salad.  I like to break it across the core or cut it with a lettuce knife – which  prevent the edges from browning.
2. Combine the mayo, yogurt, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice & garlic powder in a small dish or measuring cup and blend well.
3. Toss the dressing with the lettuce.
4. Toss with the Parmesan Cheese and season with a dash or two of pepper.
5. Garnish with a few Parmesan Crisps or Croutons.

Make this Ceasar Salad Recipe a full meal by topping your salad with leftover rotisserie chicken, grilled steak or Salmon.

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Homemade Furniture Polish

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Homemade Furniture Polish

This homemade furniture polish recipe is so simple you’ll wonder why you haven’t always been caring for your wood this way!
It is made with two simple ingredients I am willing to bet you already have on hand. Olive Oil & Lemon Juice.

Traditional wood polishes have a lemon scent, but one look at the ingredients and you may reconsider spraying it in your home. Household cleaners are a leading cause of Indoor Air Pollution.

This homemade furniture polish recipe will leave you with nothing but a natural lemon fresh scent and well conditioned wood.

Homemade Furniture Polish Recipe

3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice – or about the juice from one lemon

If using fresh lemons – remove the seeds and squeeze into the olive oil
Combine both ingredients in a small dish.
Use a clean rag to disperse the polish evenly around your wood.

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A Simple Way to Care For Your Wood

It’s worth noting this homemade furniture polish works best on wood that needs to be conditioned. If you have furniture that is finished with a shellac – dust with a damp cloth… no polish required.

Done. It’s that simple to make your own homemade furniture polish.

If You Could Choose A Celebrity Friend, Who Would You Pick? #VlogMom

Who Would You Choose to Be Your Celebrity Friend?  

This was an easy question for me!  But you’ll have to watch to find out my response.

 

Check in to find out next weeks topic.

 Don’t forget to share your soon to be celebrity BFF!

Thursday March 12

Homemade Facial Mask for Dry Skin

Simple Homemade Facial Mask For Dry Skin

My skin has been SO dry this winter.  I think the combination of new vitamins and wintery travel have left my skin need of a little extra TLC this winter.  This simple homemade facial mask uses 4 Basic ingredients you probably have in your pantry right now, Oat Bran (or Oatmeal), Yogurt, Olive Oil and Honey.

We added Royal Jelly to  really feed our skin – it helps promote collagen production in the skin.

 

 

Homemade Facial Mask Recipe

1 Tablespoon of Oat Bran (you can use oatmeal, but the flakes look much goofier.)

1 Tablespoon of Yogurt

1 Tablespoon of Honey

1 Teaspoon of Olive Oil

1/8 Teaspoon of Bee Pollen (optional)

1. Combine all ingredients in a small dish.
2. Apply to you skin and leave it for 10 minutes or until it is dry.
3.  Rinse.
4. Moisturize with a good serum or argon oil.

Store any leftover homemade facial mask in the fridge in a sealed container.  It should stay fresh for about one week.

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Bee Pollen, Honey, Olive Oil & Oat Bran

 

While this homemade facial mask will serve you well… if you are looking for additional natural and organic options for quenching your dry skin, then check out this PND video full our favorite dry skin solutions.

Do you have a favorite Homemade Facial Mask You love… Don’t forget to share!

Snow Tubing at Gorgoza Park for #Vlogmoms

A Recent Day of Snow Tubing at Gorgoza Park

This week for #vlogmoms we were asked to share something that makes us smile or laugh… and I instantly thought of a recent ride we took down lane 4 at Gorgoza Park in Park City, UT.  I have laughed over and over watching the look on Lil Dude’s face as he takes his first ride on the tubes! I hope sharing this doesn’t make me a bad person!

 

Stay tuned to find out what we share next week!

Share your laughs with us!

Winter Skin Care Essentials

Natural Winter Skin Care Essentials

Winter conditions can wreck havoc on our skin.  This video outlines the best natural products we’ve found to help keep skin hydrated and looking it’s best.

The products not only take care of your skin, but your body too, many of the products are certified organic, and they contain the safest ingredients possible.

Elevation Tip: Drinking water is important no matter where you are, but when you are in higher elevations it’s especially important to stay hydrated and drink extra water.

Winter Skin Care:  Products Guide

Winter Skin Care Products for Body Moisturizing

• Organic Coconut Oil
  

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• Seed Body Butter
• Marisol Farms Sweet Orange Lotion

Winter Skin Care Products for Protecting Skin

Sunscreen

• Episencial Sunny Sunscreen SPF 35 4.854.4
  

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• Badger Sunscreen
  

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Barrier Protection

• Episencial Face Balm
  

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• Alba Un Petroleum Multi Purpose Jelly
  

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Winter Skin Care Products for the face

• Organic Argan Oil – Josie Maran
  

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• Evening Rich Nutritional Moisturizer
  

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• Badger Lip Balm
  

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Winter Skin Care Products for Beauty

• Cream Blush from YoungBlood
• Youngblood Lipgloss
  

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• 100% Pure Lip Gloss
  

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• Burt’s Bees Lip Shimmer
  

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Need more packing tips for your next ski vacation?  Check out Snowmamas!

What are Your Best Winter Skin Care Tips?

Life Changing Moments for #vlogmoms

We all have pivotal moments – life changing moments that shape us

I have two life changing moments that often come to mind… one involves Oprah… but that one felt almost too cliche to share, I mean can you really have a life changing moment watching Oprah when you are 17 years old?  So… that’s not the story I tell today… instead we went back in time… all the way to first grade.

 

Next weeks topic – Who or what makes you giggle?

Share your life changing moment with us!

PND Sharing the BEST Parenting Advice She Ever Received for #vlogmoms

Parenting Advice

The minute we announce the baby is coming, the parenting advice starts to flow.   Thanks to my newly shrunken brain – it’s a fact your brain shrinks when you are pregnant, on average 5%!  They say it comes back… based on results… I’m not convinced.

I digress … We were talking about parenting advice and thanks to my now more compact and efficient brain – I can’t seem to recall any really terrible advice… so for this weeks #vlogmoms topic I focused on the good.

 

This advice may seem simple when you first hear it, it’s easier said then done! Especially when you have two toddlers attempting to take one another out.. But with patience, the dividends are AMAZING.  After a few years of following this advice I attribute the closeness of my lil’s largely to the team philosophy it fosters.

Next weeks topic – It’s a mystery to me too!  You’ll have to check back to find out!

Share Your Best and/or Worst Parenting Advice with Us?

Simple Steps to a Green Valentines

Make this Year a Green Valentines 

Valentine’s Day is the  time we celebrate the love in our life

PND sat down with Janice Croze from 5 Minutes for Mom to share some great greens valentines finds.  Hopefully this video will inspire you to find greener ways to celebrate your special someone.

This video was filmed using the Sony Handycam HDR PJ10,provided by Sony 

Products Featured in the PND Green Valentines Video

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With Janice Croze from 5 Minutes for Mom

Organic Candle Company  $14 – 29

Coco Zen Truffles $8 – $15.50

Chocoholikcs Lip Palette from Jane Iredale $35

Monica Hall Spa Vanilla Night Nectar $95

Five Bamboo Boyshort $12, Shelf Cami $14 & Bamboxers $17

 

A green valentines day – it’s simpler than you think!

Share your Green Valentines Ideas

Sharing My First Job for #vlogmoms

Remember Your First Job?

I Share My First Job for #vlogmoms

This week on #vlogmoms I share my unique first job, along with a little insight into my upbringing.  The video froze while I while was talking a little bit about the job… and what it was like training my replacement… who was a 30 year old man.   I was 13, needless to say that interesting.  Can you imagine having a teenager train you to do your job?

 

Next weeks topic – What was the best piece of advice you recieved as a Mom? What was the worst?

Share Your First Job With Us?

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