Spook-tacular Halloween Drinks
Tis’ the season for ghosts, goblins and Halloween parties! For those of you who don’t know, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. The crisp air, the colors and onset of the holidays season, Halloween is nothing but a big ol’ treat for me!
Check out the drink recipes below. They are always a favorite at my Halloween parties:
Spooky Juice Read more
Healthy Halloween Recipes for Every Ghoul and Goblin
If you’re throwing a Halloween party this year, the food you serve is a good way to show off your (wicked) spirit for the season. While Halloween conjures images of chocolate bars and candy corn, you can create healthy and delicious food that everyone will love.
Also, don’t forget the drinks!
Check out these fun recipes for your (or someone else’s) Halloween gala.
Cranial Cream Cheese Dip
What You’ll Need:
Plastic wrap
1 small party favor plastic skull candy container
1 package vegan cream cheese
1 jar chunky salsa (or fresh homemade salsa)
Crackers or chips for spreading/dipping
Set the cream cheese out to warm to room temperature. Line the inside of the plastic skull dish with plastic wrap leaving enough edges to wrap around later. Spoon the softened cream cheese into the plastic-lined skull dish, mashing in as much cream cheese as possible to pick up the most detail in the mold. Scrape any extra cream cheese off the top so it is flat. Close the plastic wrap over the flat cream cheese top and place in the freezer to set. Once set, remove the plastic wrap from the skull dish, and serve. Place the skull in a shallow dish, garnish with the bloody salsa, including inside the eye sockets, and stab with your favorite spreader. You can extend the time before needing to refill by placing the skull on half a block of cream cheese, but cover the plain cream cheese with enough sauce so you can only see the skull above the “blood.”
What You’ll Need:
2 1/2 lbs. butternut squash
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
2/3 cup vegan whipping cream
1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Cut a butternut squash into quarters and scoop out the seeds. Boil or bake the squash until soft. Let the squash cool a bit before scooping its flesh into a medium-size bowl. Add pure maple syrup, vegan cream, and pumpkin pie spice to the bowl. Use a potato masher
to mush the squash and blend all of the ingredients. Spoon the mixture into ice pop molds, add sticks, and freeze for at least 6 hours before serving.
Healthy & Haunted Graveyard
What You’ll Need:
1/2 cup fresh spinach
10 ounces garlic hummus
Broccoli and Celery (for trees)
Pretzels (shirt, thin sticks & mini twisties for the fence)
Tofu (marinated in clear or white marinade like Italian dressingcut into ghost shapes)
Crackers (square for tombstones)
Black olives
Paint brush and black food coloring
In a food processor, puree the spinach and hummus.
To make the tofu ghosts, cut slits and insert black-olive facial features. Use the small paint brush and food coloring to turn crackers into tombstones.
Mound the dip on a tray and top it with veggie trees, a pretzel fence, tofu ghosts, and cracker tombstones to create your graveyard!
Dead Gingerbread Men
What You’ll Need:
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup vegan shortening
1 egg replacer
1 cup molasses
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons warm water
1/4 cup raisins for decorating
In large bowl, cream vegan shortening, sugar, egg replacer and warm molasses. Dissolve baking soda in warm water and add to egg replacer mixture. Beat until smooth. Slowly add flour, spices and salt. Mix until well blended. Cover and chill for 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets. Roll out dough to a thickness of 1/4 inch on a floured surface. Cut out gingerbread men using cookie cutters and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on wire racks.
Use black icing to make an “X” where the eyes should be, you can also make a frown for a mouth using the icing. Break off some of the heads and use red icing for blood around the neck on the heads and bodies.
By Carolyn “The Healthy Voyager” Scott
For more information, visit Healthy Voyager
Gordon Brothers - Yoga Planet
With the many meditation and World music albums they’ve released over the years, David and Steve Gordon have proven that they know how to craft a graceful album of ambient and World music. Their work on the various albums on the Sequoia Groove label (”Buddha-Lounge,” “Caf De Luna”) has shown that they have a good grasp of groove as well. Both of those proficiencies are brought together in a celebration of yoga practice on YOGA PLANET. The music here was designed by the brothers specifically to enhance a daily set of asanas, featuring lush, earthy beats coupled with multi-cultural instrumentation, flute, piano and lounge-oriented synth atmosphere. Read more
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Green Maps
Imagine a world atlas charting health food stores, recycling centers, farmers’ markets, museums, wilderness, holistic medical clinics, schools, parks, wheelchair accessible sites, etc. This global guide to green and enlightened living is just a mouse click away thanks to the non-profit global Green Map System www.greenmap.org.
The power of a good map is that it can alter our perception of the world, and in just ten years, an international band of mapmakers collaborating on the Green Map System have charted nearly 300 of the world’s cities, towns, villages and bioregions in more than 40 countries. Read more
Robert Kennedy Jr.
We are the M TEAM. Our mission is to expose the truth about one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of America, one that is bigger than the tobacco industry and more toxic than lead. Our journey has united some of the most influential players in the fight to contain, rather than recycle, one of nature’s most toxic elements, mercury.
When I was first asked to be on Air America with Bobby Kennedy, Jr., I thought, “Oh, no…I can’t.” Even though my deceased Irish Catholic parents would be ecstatic, I’m not political and I don’t want to be identified as a Democrat or a Republican because I’m neither. Read more
Wade Imre Morrissette - NEW!
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T. Krishnamacharya, the father of Desikachar, taught Pattabhi Jois and B. K. S. Iyenger. They were young boys and their teacher devised yoga practices to suit their individual body types and energies. T.K.V. Desikachar, a former-engineer-turned-yogi carries on his father’s values that were brought down from the Tibetan mountains–that the individual comes first and that there is only one yoga. His son, Kausthub, agrees. Read more
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