Camponata

When we think camponata we think Sicily. After returning from Sicily I decide to entertain my friends with an antipasto and wine afternoon featuring camponata. Here is the secret to a good camponata...the main ingredient is eggplant. You need to fry them lightly so to make sure the oil is hot enough. One lonely eggplant slice is dropped into the pan and you wait for it to begin to sizzle before you add the main stock to be lightly fried. Give up one slice for the pot! You don't want any one ingredient to get lost nor do you want anyone ingredient to over power the rest. There needs to be the right balance and the right blend and that is the secret to a great camponata. Just like life - the right balance and the right blend and you have greatness!
Doctor Lynn

ASuccessful Life

A Successful Life – To Appreciate Beauty – and so it has been said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or as Yogis put it – you and you alone bring the beauty to the sunrise and the sunset.  I live in Los Angles where beauty is seen as a trademark of success. But the superficial, stereotypical beauty is not what I see around me every day.  When I teach my yoga classes I meet and share time with some of the most beautiful people in the world.  Their smiles, eyes, complexions, hair, movements and laughter are the most beautiful parts of my day. I live in the city where the beauty of nature can be hard to find but, the same sun rises and the same sun sets every day and every day I marvel at the beauty of the world to wake up and go to sleep with such precision while coloring the sky with a blaze of orange, pink and yellow. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and can be found anywhere and anytime.  It does not have a fixed definition. It is up to you to define it. What do you see as beauty today?

Local organic yogurt

Native to bellargio Italy taste more like sweet milk. Pure and natural.

Bellagio lake como

Not as lovely as maggiore but still nice. I have been eating well and lost a pound. I think it is because the food is so healthy.

Lake maggiore

Leaving tomorrow beautiful visited orta today home of Casanova - off to lake Como tomorrow

Pizza

Best pizza I have ever had. Fresh and light. Food is so much better in Italy than the states.

The old world

Here is the temple site in Agrigento Sicily. Ancient Greek ruins in Italy. Seems everybody has owned Sicily. Temple view from my window

Hills of Sicily

There is very poor if any Internet connection here in Ragusa. The village is very old and very quiet. It is like stepping back in time. The manager of our hotel wants mr to get him job in America so his son can be born in America. As bad as it may seem everybody still wants to go to America.
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Villa dulce

This place is charming and the owner and staff are wonderful. It is like being a guest in a private small Italian villa and the food and local wine is great!

Sicily teramion

Beautiful view of mt etna and from my terrace

Shoes

My merrell's arrived just in time to vacate for Italy. What a company! Let the packing conclude.
Doctor lynn

Shoes

It is Wednesday. We leave on Saturday and the shoes I ordered for the trip arrived and are too small. Ran to norstroms and only have them on line. Takes 5 days to get them. Went home and went to zappo who made me a VIP and will ship them and have them to me by Friday. Wow! I am now a zappo fan.
Doctor Lynn

Italy Count Down

Only four days until we leave for Italy. I am packed, organized and with most of my work done.  There is always things that won't get done and snafus that happen.  Like my husband contracted a flesh eating bacteria and is now on antibiotics to clear it up so we can travel. Surprisingly this is a common event but, still very serious. So four days to go we are watching our health and ready to embark upon another adventure. A couple of quick lunches with friends, last minute shopping for a good pair of walking shoes, last minute work details and off we go.  

Italy

Four days until we leave. Must pack for 18 days and for any type of weather. Growing up in Maine I learned to layer. That is the secret to packing efficiently.

Want a healthy sexy dessert for Valentine’s Day?

Baked Apples

Apples are known as a great digestive aid as well as for their healthy nutrient content. Apples contain more vitamin G (the “appetite vitamin” promotes digestion and growth) than almost any other fruit.

Cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla are known for their aphrodisiac qualities; mostly due to the warming of the circulation system. It takes good digestion of good nutrients and proper circulation to keep the sex juices flowing and the body-mind healthy. So if you want to be healthy and sexy this Valentine ’s Day try baking apples for dessert.

Ingredients: for 2

½ teaspoon of cinnamon

¼ teaspoon of nutmeg

¼ cup of raw sugar (use Stevia if you want to reduce calories)

1 tablespoon of cold butter cut in pieces

½ cup apple juice

2 medium size apples

1 vanilla bean cut into two pieces

Preheat over to 325

Combine cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar in small bowl and set aside. Core the two apples and remove the skin from around ½ inched at the opening of the cored apples. Fill each cavity with the sugar and spice mixture. Top with ½ of the vanilla bean. Top each apple with half the tablespoon of butter. Place the apples in a baking dish and pour the apple juice around then. Cover the pan with aluminum foil and bake for approximately 45 minutes. Remove from the pan and serve warm with a side of vanilla ice cream.

Sexy and healthy!

Doctor Lynn
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Honey Cake

Chocolates, wine and roses are easy but did you know:

 You can catch more love with honey than chocolate this Valentine’s day?

Bake your Honey a Honey Cake

Did you know that honey is an aphrodisiac? Honey is a complete food used throughout history for its ability to supply energy and nutrients. When tested against other foods it ranked number one for sustaining performance and quick recovery. Sounds like an aphrodisiac to me!  So how about a honey cake for your honey sprinkled with aphrodisiacs spices and erotic wine for Valentine’s Day?

Original recipe By Doctor Lynn from Sex Matters… so get Sexually Healthy the Natural Way

Honey Cake

Serving honey is an ancient way of honoring guests.

1/2 cup of honey

1/2 cup of Strega wine (or any sweet white wine, but Strega is best)                 

5 egg yolks

7 egg whites

1½ teaspoons of salt

1 tablespoon of grated orange peel

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves,

      and nutmeg

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Line the bottom of an 8-inch spring-form pan with oiled parchment or a brown paper bag cut to size. Oil the pan and paper well.

 Whisk egg yolks with honey for five minutes. Add orange peel. Sift flour with salt and spices. Gradually stir into egg yolks and honey mixture. Add wine and olive oil, stirring constantly as you add small amounts. Beat the egg whites until stiff and then fold into batter. Pour batter into pan and bake for 20 minutes. Turn oven off and let cake sit for 10 minutes. Remove cake from oven. Turnover and detach from spring pan carefully.

Sprinkle top with a mixture of cinnamon and ground dark chocolate. Serve with a side of orange sorbet.

From Sex Matters so…Get Sexually Healthy the Natural Way

 By: Lynn A. Anderson Ph.D., N.D.

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Today's Proverb

Is there not one person who has made one error and half a mistrake?
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Today’s yoga lesson Practice Nonviolence

Before performing any physical or mental action you should reflect upon the consequences. First learn to remove physical violence and then calm the mind. The physical practice of yoga brings the body-mind into the moment where it can release and surrender to the quietude of serenity.

Doctor Lynn
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Aero*boga Lesson 1

Bhakti yoga is about the spiritual development of sacred love. Our first lesson is the realization that love means to participate. It is the most profound participation of which we are capable. When we love we touch the very essence of others.  It is this essence and not the attributes of looks, status, beauty or charm that connects us to others. It is the spiritual essence of the love that connects us. This fundamental essence is a part of all of us. Authentic love is what unifies us. Love means to merge with another. At the highest level of being we are all united.

First we must open, then energize and finally connect the energy center of giving and receiving (the sacral) with the energy center of love (the heart) Aero*boga the way of the heart

Doctor Lynn
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