Does your gut really have instinct? I have no idea. Your gut does have its own ecosystem, though. Oh it’s true, and this is no simple system -think complex biome or rainforest. It’s uber important to your overall health, since it affects your immunity, ability to fight cancer, and even alcohol’s war on your liver. When the emergent layer, canopy, understory and forest floor are all getting along and functioning optimally, the rainforest is thriving. When trees are killed, the ecosystem loses its, well, system. The rainforest-gut connection is coming full circle, isn’t it? The trees are to the rainforest as your gut trees are to your gut? Gut trees, a solid name for good bacteria, don’t you think?
Entertain one more analogy for me. When a tree in the rainforest gets cut down, is the tree the only thing that dies? Of course not. The tree is host and home to a number of species. It’s a habitat. Remove the habitat, remove the amazing life that dwelled there. When a person takes an antibiotic, more
My kitchen has never been subjected to a maple syrup detox diet. On that note, it’s never undergone the raw food diet, herbal detox, Hallelujah diet or the fruit flush either. I’m considering putting it on the Martha’s Vineyard Detox Diet, but pretty much because its name lends some virtual travel benefits and just sounds nice. 
I’m talking about fake baking in the kitchen – the kind that happens in your oven, not so much under ultraviolet lights. I don’t know much about fake baking in a tanning bed, in fact, other than you should not engage. Alright, besides some past instances, we’ll call them *momentary lapses in judgment* – in which I actually did partake in fake baking my skin – I am not in the know on the subject. All I can say is I wish I could take back each lapse. Those errors in judgment will haunt me forevermore. Fake baking in a tanning bed is BAD, ok? Ahh, youth, wedding parties, tan bandwagons, and the unknown. The rest is history. And filled with regret. ‘Nough said.
My lastest quest is a birthday cake. My daughter turns one year old very soon and we need a cake to ring in her very first year. I’ve enjoyed many a cake, many, many a cake. It’s hard to find one that I don’t like, in fact. So I don’t mind this mission. My quest is to find a delicious cake: one that is fresh, decently moist and not excessively sweet. Oh, and maybe contains a little chocolate. It would be cute to have an edible photo topping said cake, but we don’t, er my daughter doesn’t, do well with food dye. I’ll forego a cake before feeding her artificial food coloring. I prefer to have my baby not completely agitated and sleepless for a day. Especially on her birthday.
What would a cream cheese wonton be without its sweet ‘n sour counterpart? We’ve made a special grocery run just to have sweet ‘n sour sauce to dip our wontons in. We assemble our wontons with tasty ingredients (for us: cream cheese, green onions, garlic, paprika sealed inside of wonton wrappers), deep fry them in olive oil, and then dunk them in sweet and sour sauce, which may not always be from a natural foods store. Maybe it’s like balancing the equilibrium. Then there’s my love for fries with my ketchup. 
