This kale salad is an easy, beautiful salad recipe that is perfect for the holidays but simple enough for a weeknight meal. Loaded with thinly sliced kale ribbons, pomegranate seeds, roasted pecans, and sunflower seeds.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:33 Preparing the kale
0:58 Stemming the kale
1:37 Washing the kale
1:51 Preparing the dressing
3:12 Dressing the salad
3:25 Seeding a pomegranate
4:27 Layering the salad ingredients
5:07 Serving your salad
KALE SALAD RECIPE
8 cups of kale washed, stemmed, and cut into thin ribbons
1/2 cup roasted pecans chopped
1 cup pomegranate seeds 1 medium pomegranate
1/4 cup sunflower seeds roasted and salted
2 ounces of feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 small red onion, diced
1 cove crushed garlic optional
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
Salt and pepper to taste
In a large bowl combine the kale, pecans, pomegranate seeds, sunflower seeds, and feta cheese. Set aside while you make the dressing.
In a small spouted cup or bowl combine onion, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, honey, salt, and pepper. Mix well and adjust the seasonings.
Drizzle dressing over the salad and gently toss it together. Serve and enjoy!
NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS
Calories: 244kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 125mg | Potassium: 262mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 2845IU | Vitamin C: 30mg | Calcium: 135mg | Iron: 1mg
Everyday Beauty Tips For Busy Women
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Have Vitamin E on hand. It’s useful for many things. Vitamin E can help keep skin healthy and soft. When used on your nails, it helps cuticles look good and keeps them from becoming rough.
Emphasize the sharpness of your cheekbones by applying a shade of powder blush that is one shade deeper than your normal cheek color product. Using a blush brush, dab on a spot of the powder in the hollows of your cheeks just under the cheekbones. Remove excess powder, then blend in a circular motion.
Sharpen your lip liner and eyeliner pencils after each application. Sharpening will also make them clean, and they will produce a clean line. To easily sharpen makeup pencils, put them in your freezer for around 10 minutes and then sharpen them.
Do you want clear, clean, healthy skin? Exfoliation is essential! Exfoliate your skin regularly to remove all the junk, chemicals, and dirt you expose yourself to every day. The internet has lots of great recipes for exfoliaters that clean your skin naturally and without costing you an arm and a leg, check it out!
If you continually get acne only on one side of your face, it could be caused by your cell phone. Make sure you clean your cell phone regularly to remove dirt and oil. You may also want to try switching sides each time you talk on the phone to give the acne-prone side of your face a break.
It does not matter how tired or pressed for time you may be, you should never skip your cleansing rituals. Drier skin benefits from thick, creamy cleansers, whereas oily skin benefits most from cleansing balms, washes, or bars. All skin types can be dulled by buildup of makeup, sweat, and dead skin cells.
To heal facial blemishes overnight, wash your face well and dab on a little pure tea tree oil before bed. You can also use tea tree oil full strength during the day or mix it with aloe vera gel for a light, natural, healing daytime moisturizer that tones and firms your skin.
Keep to a schedule for maximum beauty benefit. You do not have to schedule everything, but you do need to schedule your meals. Studies have shown that people who are consistent with their routines concerning food and drink, look years younger, and live longer, than people who are sporadic with their eating times.
Your make-up removal wipes should be kept in the location that you store your make-up. Having wipes close at hand is how real experts do fast damage control when the application process starts to get messed up. This ensures you get the look you’re after. Always keep around some beauty wipes.
A little beauty advice from leading makeup artists to look rested even when you aren’t is to avoid piling on the foundation. Try using a tinted moisturizer instead and then apply a beige eye pencil, this will counteract the redness around the eyes and leave you looking refreshed and ready for the day.
A great way to accentuate the upper lash line and not create an overly spidery fringe is to apply a strip of the false lashes that are used for your lower lashes. Apply from corner to corner and because they are shorter than usual falsies, they will thicken the lash line and not cause excessive elongation.
Try using liquid eyeliner if you desire a more dramatic look. Liquid eyeliner allow you to be more creative, and gives your eyes some dazzle. When you choose a brush, use one with angled bristles, small enough for clean lines and good results.
If you’re concerned that your freshly painted nails will smear, you can protect them with a thin film of some type of oil. Either put a drop of olive oil on your palm and rub it over the nails, or even easier, use a can of olive oil cooking spray and give each finger just the quickest touch of cooking spray. The oil will form a protective barrier that will keep the polish from smearing.
Lip liner is frequently used by women to give shape and definition to their lips. Please, please don’t make the mistake of using lip liner to “draw” your lips on, completely independent of your actual lip shape. You are far better off using lip liner to define your lip’s natural shape, filling in with lipstick. An artificial lip line is clownish, unsubtle, and unflattering. If your lips are thin, stick with a fresh color that’s not too bright – a berry tone, for example.
A great way to make small eyes appear to look much bigger is to steer clear of dark shades of eye shadow. Begin by using a nude base as a foundation, and then use a shadow that is one or two shades darker than the foundation in the crease. After blend the color up towards the brow by using your finger.
Used coffee grounds are a great way to exfoliate for your hands. Once cooled, put the coffee grounds in a plastic bag, and keep them in the refrigerator. Rub about a teaspoon of grounds a couple of times a week, then rinse, and apply hand cream as usual. Coffee grounds work in much the same way as when you exfoliate with sand-based products, and your hands will feel silky smooth.
Regardless of who you are or what you believe, there is a good chance that you and many others can appreciate the advice in this article. Whether you are looking for a small way to enhance your natural beauty or hope to bring about major changes, the information you have just read is sure to provide a great starting point.
