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Your Monday #28: Better Thighs

A 2-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. This one'll strengthen and tone your outer thighs, too. Your abductor muscles. Mission-critical muscles for slippery winter weather and this summer's beach look.
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Summer Salad Pizza

A big salad posing as a pizza. A huge mound of exceptionally fresh, colorful, flash-baked radicchio, leek, sweet pepper and cucumber on a hot, fresh pizza crust. Another example of pizza crust as the perfect platform for almost everything fresh and tasty. Dinner for two for $2.
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Return Trip: Moraine Lake, Banff, Canada

First time I hiked up above Moraine Lake I was a college kid. It was the summer of 1969 or '70. My first mountain hiking. My first glacier viewing. Cool. No training or preparation. Just hit the trail. Now I wondered how the old bones would feel on the same old trail to a a very cool and profoundly beautiful place.
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Grilled Cheese & Salad Sandwich

Less than $2 for a meal-in-a-sandwich. Deeply rich, slightly salty aged cheese. Zippy bright lemon. Slightly bitter and crunchy arugula. All pressed between rich, buttery toast. Walk it off in an hour. With a great taste in your mouth.
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Let Them Eat Mousse. Chocolate.

Celebrating Bastille Day today? Get out your egg beater and make this luscious, transporting dessert in 15 minutes. Rich flavor. Light texture. Like injecting fudge sauce with air bubbles. And cream. Unusually low calorie count.
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Lamb. Mint. Pesto, not jelly.

A bright, lively, wildly aromatic herb sauce to lighten the richness of lamb. Probably just as refreshing with anything hot off the grill, say, eggplant. A glycemic Load of zero. Puts mint jelly - with more sugar than Coca-Cola - to shame.
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Your Monday #27: Better Calves

Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your calves. Make them feel and function better.
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Slower Sunday: No texting while walking

This is a beautifully strange walk. Starts normal. You walk from the parking lot to the trailhead. You head toward the canyon. You enter the canyon. It gets narrower. And narrower. Press Play.
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Strawberry Lemon Tart

A fresh, juicy, sweet-and-tart tart in a light, buttery crust. Summer's here! And it's Better and Cheaper. Remain calm. Eat Slower. You can have another slice.
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