How to Make Bone Broth
Bone broth and stock have always been made from the parts of the animal that could not be used for other purposes, like the chicken carcass from a roast chicken or beef marrow bones, not to mention chicken feet or beef knuckles. Not only do these overlooked bits impart deep, rich flavor to a broth, they also lend amazing health benefits. From The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil.
Makes 4 quarts
You can enjoy bone broth as a base for soups and stews, a flavorful cooking liquid for rice and other grains, or a simple mug of something warm.
Think of the broth as a blank canvas for whatever ingredients and flavors you love most—a couple of thumb-size pieces of fresh ginger root (the peel can stay on if it’s organic); a few sticks of dried astragalus root; a handful of medicinal mushrooms such as reishi, maitake, or shiitake; a thumb-size piece of turmeric root or one to two teaspoons of ground turmeric; veggies like squash, celery, onions, and carrots; and other flavoring agents like garlic or fresh herbs such as parsley, thyme, or cilantro. Don’t forget that making broth is a perfect opportunity to use vegetable scraps. You can easily scale this recipe up or down—the basic rule of thumb is roughly one pound of bones per gallon of water, but soon you’ll be able to just eyeball it.
3–4 pounds bones of any type—beef, bison or buffalo, marrow
bones, lamb, venison, chicken, duck, goose, turkey, goat, or pork,
roasted at 400°F for 50 minutes. Add chicken feet or beef knuckles
for more nutrition and flavor. Don’t knock it till you try it!
1 gallon filtered water
3–5 cups assorted vegetables, roots, and fresh or dry herbs
10 cloves garlic, peeled
1. In a large stockpot or Crock-Pot, submerge the bones in the filtered water (adding more if necessary). Bring to a low simmer and allow to cook covered for 6 to 12 hours if using chicken bones, 12 to 24 hours (up to 48, if desired) when using larger bones like beef. During the first few hours, skim away any gray foam that rises to the top. This is the time to add mushrooms like maitake or shiitake, as well as astragalus root or ginger.
2. During the last hour of cooking, you can add vegetables—except for garlic and fresh herbs, which you can add toward the end. A good indication that the broth is done is the bones become crumbly—a sign that the minerals are dissolving into the broth. (Make sure to eat the marrow—in pastured animals the marrow is dense with healthy fats that support immunity.)
3. Strain the broth through a colander or sieve and store in the fridge for up to a week or freeze it into cubes to have handy for future meals. The bits of ginger, reishi, and astragalus have already infused the soup and can be composted.
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Why Accepting Responsibility Is Key for Sobriety
The truth is that you, and only you, are responsible for the quality of your life. This is the core idea on which our book is built. From the The 30-Day Sobriety Solution.
Many years ago, Dr. Robert Resnick, a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, taught us a very simple but very important formula that has had a profound effect on our lives and work. It is a core principle we have taught to hundreds of thousands of people around the world that clarifies what 100% responsibility really means:
E (Event) + R (Response) = O (Outcome)
Every outcome you experience in life—sobriety or alcoholism, excessive drinking or “normal” drinking, financial success or poverty, health or sickness, happiness or dissatisfaction—is the result of how you have responded to an earlier event or events in your life. The formula states that if you don’t like the outcomes you are experiencing in your life today, you have two options:
1. You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O). In other words, you can blame anything and everything else: the presence of a liquor store and bar on every corner, your lack of education, racism, not having enough money, your friends, your family’s drinking history, your past failed attempts at quitting drinking, the death of a loved one, losing your job, and so on. Without a doubt, these factors exist. But if any one of them was so absolute in deciding how your life would unfold, nobody would ever succeed. Actor Robert Downey Jr. would never have finally gotten sober to star in the Iron Man movies, Jackie Robinson would never have become the first African American to play major league baseball, and Samuel L. Jackson would not have become one of the top-ten-grossing actors of all time after the age of forty (after he went to rehab and got sober).
For every difficult circumstance in which someone ended up failing, thousands of other people faced the same circumstance and succeeded. The external conditions and circumstances are not stopping you—you are stopping yourself!
2. Or you can change your responses (R) to the events (E)—the way things are—until you get the outcomes (O) you want. You can’t change the past, but you can change how you respond to the past. To do this, you must regain control of your thoughts, your beliefs, your desires, and, ultimately, your actions. You need to stop responding to events by drinking, whether it is drinking to celebrate, drinking to forget, or drinking to socialize, and respond with thoughts and actions that are aligned with your values, goals, and purpose. Don’t worry. We know this is easier said than done. We will give you the tools and techniques you need to regain control of your thoughts and choose more effective actions.
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JJ Smith Recipe: Apple Berry Green Smoothie
Ready to feel lighter? Try this healthy morning smoothie. From Lose Weight Without Dieting or Working Out.
1 handful spring mix greens
2 handfuls spinach
2 cups water
1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries
1 banana, peeled
1 apple, cored and quartered
1 packet stevia
2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds
OPTIONAL: 1 scoop of protein powder
Place leafy greens and water into blender and blend until mixture is a green juice-like consistency. Stop blender and add remaining ingredients. Blend until creamy.
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Challenge: Don’t Die with Your Music Still in You
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer encouraged us, “Don’t die with your music still in you.”
Before I was burned, I had loved to play the piano. I wasn’t any good but I loved it. That love was robbed from me when my fingers were amputated after the fire when I was nine years old.
But my parents challenged me to play; to not die with music still in me. At first it was painful and I could only play one key at a time. But I played. I practiced. And I believed.
Today I play a song on the piano for you because I have a song to share! Listen and then accept my challenge: Don’t die with your music still in you.
My friends, you have music to share. This is your day. Live inspired!
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Spiralize Now Recipe: Zucchini, Feta, and Mint Fritters
These spiralized veggie fritters are a crowd-pleasing appetizer. From SPIRALIZE Now!
Serves 4
Prepare in 10 minutes
Cook in 15 minutes
3 zucchini, ends trimmed and cut in half crosswise
4 green onions, chopped
4 tablespoons chopped mint
4 oz. self-rising flour
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 oz. feta cheese, crumbled
1 tablespoon olive oil, for frying
Prepared tomato salsa, for serving
Using a spiralizer fitted with a 1/8 inch spaghetti blade, spiralize the zucchini.
In a large bowl, mix together the spiralized zucchini, green onions, mint, flour and cumin. Stir in the eggs, mix well and season with salt and pepper. Gently fold in the feta.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cooking 4 fritters at a time, add heaped tablespoons of the batter to the pan, flatten slightly and cook for 3 minutes on each side, until golden. Repeat until all the batter is used up. Serve the fritters with the tomato salsa.
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How to Coax Your Relationship to the Next Level
Women usually want to see their relationship evolve, whereas many men are perfectly happy to let things stay exactly as they are for years on end. What that means is, if you want things to move forward, you have to be the one moving them forward. From I Suck at Relationships So You Don’t Have To.
The first step is to assess whether they are moving at all. Are you seeing each other as often as you want or think is necessary to maintain the relationship? Are you seeing each other with an appropriate amount of intensity? If you’ve been dating for six months and you still only see each other once a week, or you mostly just hang out and watch TV, that’s not evolving if that’s not what you want to be doing. (If you have kids, that may be all you can manage, however. All rules have exceptions.) If it’s incredibly intense every time you see each other, that’s not sustainable. You have the power to speed things up or slow things down. Suggest doing something different, or make plans to shake things up.
When working to evolve a relationship, sometimes you have to be a little bit stealthy about it, so you don’t scare away a commitment-phobic boyfriend with good potential, and methodical, so it is clear to everyone that you are not going to waste the next five years doing exactly what you are doing now (dating on weekends only, never going away together for the weekend, not meeting each other’s families, not moving in together, etc.) Don’t be whiny or emotional about how things aren’t going the way you want. Instead, be straight-up and frank about what you would like to see happening next. Keep the pressure off, but be clear. Think of it as negotiating a sensitive business deal. Not that relationships are a business (although if you ever get divorced, you will know that in many ways, they are), but you should both feel like you are getting most of the things you want, you should both feel just slightly out of your comfort zone, and you should both feel happy with the way the deal is going. Something has to happen for something to happen. Shake it up to get a different result.
As you work to help your relationship evolve, be careful. Sometimes when you want something badly, you might get too eager or emotional and put the pressure on. This can scare someone who is nervous about commitment. Handle with care, pay attention to reactions, and don’t be emotional. Be straight-up, and if you detect the other person getting nervous or withdrawing, back off and reassess your approach. Think of the commitment-phobic guy as a wild animal. You can’t rush in with your hands out or he’ll run away (or bite). Enact your strategy gently, sweetly, with reassurances and support. Here’s what you could try:
• Making day plans, if you only see each other at night.
• Discussing having standing weekend plans—you assume you will do something unless one of you informs the other he or she is busy. Propose this casually, not with pressure.
• Revealing something personal about yourself in a quiet private moment together, if you have been guarded about doing this.
• Pulling back just a little to encourage your partner to move forward just a little. If this doesn’t work, try the opposite—be just a little more available and affectionate, to remind him you are there for him.
• Changing it up. If you always stay home, suggest getting dressed up and going out. If you always go out, suggest staying home and cooking together.
• Planning a weekend getaway (if you both feel ready for it—don’t do it as a surprise, or before six weeks together).
• Proposing getting your families together for a low-key social activity.
• If it’s time, maybe planting the seeds of moving in together without necessarily bringing it up directly. Point out cool apartments or areas of town to live in. Talk about your future together casually, like, “Wouldn’t it be cool to live in this neighborhood?” You can also be fanciful. “I could totally see us in a cool apartment in Paris someday.” This can get him thinking in that direction if he isn’t, but if he gets scared, back off and reassess your approach.
In a good and evolving relationship, both parties have to be willing to step slightly outside their comfort zones for something that matters to the other person. If progressing matters to you, then the person you are with should be willing to go there with you. If not, maybe it’s not the right relationship for you.
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How to Look More Attractive to a New Partner
The next time you go out in hopes of meeting someone, take a slightly less attractive friend and use the “decoy effect” to your advantage, as explained in The Mathematics of Love. It’s a simple (and yes, somewhat callous) trick to seeming more appealing and attractive.
When someone decides to approach you in a bar, or to accept your advances at a party, they’re not judging your beauty against every other face in the world. Nobody minds that you don’t look like George Clooney or Heidi Klum. They’re making a decision based on the options available to them at the time, and this is perhaps where there’s room to use a mathematical idea to your advantage.
By defining these options in equations, we can create a language to explain why we all make the choices we do, in what has become known as “discrete choice theory.”
Despite our illusions of free will, there are some simple rules that people will often follow when coming to a decision. These rules mean that people’s choices are surprisingly easy to manipulate. As the economist Dan Ariely puts it, we’re all just a little bit “predictably irrational.”
Imagine that you’re in a movie theater and choosing which snacks to buy. Perhaps a small popcorn costs $5.00, while the large popcorn is an eye-watering $8.50. The large option seems terribly expensive, until the cashier points out that the large popcorn is only $.50 more than the medium. No sensible person would ever choose to buy the medium popcorn when you could have the large for only a few cents more, but the fact that the medium popcorn is on the menu has a big impact on your decisions: it serves to make the large popcorn look like a much better deal.
This is known in economics as the “decoy effect.” What it demonstrates is that the presence of an irrelevant alternative can change how you view your choices. It has been exploited by marketing experts for decades. But it also has the potential to help make you seem more attractive.
In his 2008 book, Dan Ariely explains the impact of the decoy effect on perceptions of human beauty.
By surveying his students regarding the attractiveness of a range of male faces, Ariely found two that were considered equally attractive; we’ll call these two men Adam and Ben. Using Photoshop, Ariely created uglified versions of both Adam and Ben and then made two sheets of faces to test his theory.
The first sheet depicted Adam and Ben as normal, but included the uglified version of Adam, as in the first row of the image above. The second sheet also contained the original pictures of Adam and Ben’s faces, but instead included the ugly version of Ben, as in the second row.
He handed out these sheets to six hundred of his students, with 50 percent of them viewing the first sheet and 50 percent viewing the second, and asked each participant to say which face they considered most attractive.
No one chose the uglified images, but their presence on the sheets had a dramatic impact.
Where ugly Adam appeared, 75 percent of participants said they found the original Adam the most attractive. Where ugly Ben appeared, the exact opposite happened: 75 percent of people thought that the original image of Ben was the best-looking.
On both sheets, the uglified versions of Adam and Ben served to make the original images more appealing, just as the decoy effect would predict.
The message for making yourself appear more attractive is clear. When going to a party to talk to potential partners, choose a friend to go with you who is as similar-looking to you as possible, except slightly less attractive. Having them there will make you seem like a better option.
If this seems callous, remember that making these judgments is something we all do instinctively. Math is the language of nature, and by listening to what the mathematics tells us, we can all gain a better understanding of how and why we do the things we do.
After all, as George Bernard Shaw put it, “Love consists of overestimating the difference between one woman and another.” So don’t be shy to use the decoy effect to your advantage.
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According to an online US survey, 1 in 4 football fans claim to have gained an average of 10 pounds during football season. The survey, conducted on behalf of Nutrisystem by Harris Interactive, found that out of 1,283 American football fans polled in early January 2013, 25 percent reported that they gained weight during the […]