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Hi Gina –
I’m writing from Sigona’s Farmers Market in Palo Alto and Redwood City, CA. I came across your site looking for recipes for eggs and greens as we’re featuring a new pastured egg in our store from Wattle & Comb, a local vendor.
May we post your kale, egg & feta bake recipe and photo on our blog this week? We’d include a link from our e-news to our blog (e-news issues on Wednesday), post it on our blog and also print and post it in the store for a week on recipe-sized cards for customers to take as they wish. We’d, of course, give you credit and link back to your site.
Please let me know if this is ok with you
Best,
Christine Thompson
marketing manager
Sigona’s Farmers Market
Just emailed you
Hey Gina! I just wanted to drop a line to share that Running to the Kitchen is my new favorite blog. Your recipes are awesome and you’re hilarious! I look forward to each of your posts!
-Andrea
Thanks Andrea! This made my day
Hey, Gina:
Just came across your blog looking for a recipe for a Israeli cous cous salad. I love yours and it will be at our Mother’s Day celebration next week. Question: I love salads, but need to stay away from carbs, but also from dark greens, lettuce and cranberries, which I adore but because of a medication that I take, I cannot eat. Any suggestions?
quinoa is always a great sub for “carby” grains since it’s not a grain but still has a similar texture. As for the veggies, I would just do whatever you can eat and like. I like pretty much every vegetable so it’s hard to just pick a few to recommend!
Good Morning, Gina…you have started this day off for me with a smile on my face…was looking for a recipe for bok choy (a couple of bunches gifted to me) and found YOU. I love your attitude and your sharing of both your recipes and your life.
so…bok choy! BUT! a large hunk of feta and some roasted red peppers…yum…used some of the feta on a fresh beet/walnut salad but lots left over…thot i’d make a spanakopita with the rest but your “dip” won out.
You are my new FFF (food friend forever). XXX
Hanover Grille in Carlisle PA?! Best wings ever! I can’t believe you went to Dickinson. I did too – class of 2010. Small world. I love your blog. Great recipes and always a fun read. Thanks!
Your recipes look amazing. I cannot wait to try them. Can you tell me what recipe is in the picture on the top of the page all the way to the right? The round orange things on the white plate. Thanks!
Hi Dana- it’s the sweet potato goat cheese puffs. You can find the recipe on my recipage tab up top.
Just found your blog whilst searching for chicken and leeks….thankful to have found you!! I am also a runner and have been looking for a way to lose that last 10 lbs…I’m still looking, but hoping to have found the start here!!! I’ve recently started using quinoa in place of rice….so far, so good…and I’m soooo lucky to have a husband who will also eat whatever I put in front of him! Thanks for a great blog!
WOW! Found your site while searching for a baby eggplant recipe. I’ve already printed out a couple recipes (Quinoa Crack Balls, Veg. Barley Chili).
I’m a vegetarian who is a nurse case manager for the Dr. Dean Ornish Program (cardiac disease reversal program) always looking for healthy recipes.
Will be back for sure! GREAT blog, and I love your writing style
Thanks, Jeni! Glad you found me
gina
i was sent your Chocolate Chip cookie recipe from a paleo friend of mine. I noticed you suggested using Ghirardelli Intense Dark Sea Salt Soiree chocolate. Please note that this is NOT a paleo acceptable chocolate. Most paleo resources such as Robb Wolf suggest only using chocolate that has a cocoa content of 70% or above. Sea Salt Soiree, as per repeated calls with Ghirardelli Consumer Affairs, revealed that it contains approximately 35% cocoa…so likely it’s even less….it’s similar to milk chocolate. To call it “intense dark” is misleading marketing in my opinion…and no where on their website of product packaging is this info…for obvious reasons.
i just thought you and your readers would like to know…
Hi!
I am loving your recipes! One issue I have is with coconut. Is there a substitute for coconut oil?
Thanks!
Georgi
Hi Georgi, depends what recipe you’re referring to but you can usually sub out coconut oil for any other oil. I use extra virgin a lot for cooking. If it’s for baking, I’d go with canola usually.
Hi there! I just read your review for phase 1 of live fit trainer. I am seriously considering starting it. Like you were, I am already in great shape I’m not so much as doing it to lose weight but to jump start gains. I’m underweight and have been trying to gain muscle. This is the first reason I thought the program would be good I think my body could use a 4 week break from cardio. (I love cardio and do it too much)… But anyways I was looking over the nutrition plan and thought that the calories seemed a little low for gaining muscle. I was hoping to get your opinion on this and whether you think I could make it work. Thank you!!!!
Hi Kyra- I didn’t follow the nutrition plan while doing Livefit and that was one of the reasons. I eat pretty well as is and I’m not a fan of the incredibly low cal, protein powder filled stuff Jamie Eason has on the bodybuilding site. From what I read and saw online, it seems like the one area the nutrition plan seems to be key is in the carb cycling later on when you’re trying to lean out from all the building you did in phase 1 & 2. Honestly, I would’ve never survived carb cycling so I’m glad I never got to that point (I stopped Livefit around week 8 b/c it just got way too long and boring for me). If you’re already in great shape and not trying to lose weight, I personally wouldn’t follow that plan. But that’s just my opinion.
good luck!
You have posted before turkey burger for lunch. I assume you have a recipe on here somewhere, but I don’t see it on the recipage. I love your recipes, so please share. Thanks.
If you mean the turkey burger I recently posted as part of the paleo challenge I’m doing, there is no recipe for it on here. I’m just posting my food daily for the month of January while I do this paleo challenge so not everything I’m eating has a recipe on the blog. I just made that turkey burger up on the fly. It had sauteed apples and onions in it with some fresh thyme and other seasonings.
Hi Gina, I saw the picture of your Thai Chicken Zucchini Noodles on my Zite app from the popsugar blog. I belong to a closed Facebook group called the Dash Diet Group run by Maria Heller, author of The DASH Diet for Weight Loss book. Your recipe looks very DASH friendly and I was wondering if you would allow me to repost it on our site. We are a very active and supportive community and often share recipes. Just found your blog today and love it!
Thank You!
Hi Wanda- thanks for reaching out! I’d be happy for you to share the recipe with the facebook group. If you could do so by linking to the recipe/site I’d appreciate it rather than copying and pasting the full ingredient list with directions.
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