what the sodium?

The other day I forgot to make my lunch and therefore had to eat out.  I decided to be healthy and chose to get a salad.  It was decent and filled me up but literally an hour later I started to get a really bad headache.  I couldn't figure out why because the salad was a nice combination of veggies and protein.  Anyway, I decided to look up the nutritional information and realized that the salad had over 1000mg of sodium.  Clearly it was the meat and the salad dressing that contributed to such an obscene amount of sodium but I found it to be so interesting that my body was reacting the way that it did.  Our bodies want healthy, unprocessed foods.  We just need to feed it to them.  

Because I still believe salads to be a great source of raw veggies, I wanted to share my most favorite salad dressing recipe of the moment.  Once you start making your own salad dressings, you will never go back.  Promise.  I snagged it from one of my heroes (Jamie Oliver) and it has become a staple in my home.  Obviously, you can tweak it to suit your tastes or the type of salad that you are going to be serving, but it's a winner.  The trick is to LIGHTLY dress your salad .  I often add a little honey or raw agave nectar to sweeten it up.  Enjoy!

Creamy French Dressing

Great with green salads and bitter leaves like endive or radicchio.

5 T white wine vinegar

4 T walnut oil

½ cup crème fraiche (I prefer just a spoonful or two)

1 tsp. Dijon mustard

sea salt & freshly ground black pepper

a handful of chopped parsley leaves

8 T Extra Virgin Olive Oil

whip my hair

While this song is totally catchy and Willow Smith has got some serious talent, this video completely disturbs me.  Whatever happened to children being children?

Instead of the sweet innocence of youth, here we have a young girl and her entourage gyrating back and forth, literally crawling across the floor, and seductively moving across the screen--bedazzled and bejeweled from head to foot.

Not only does the video's content disturb me, but also the method behind the madness.  I'm not saying that young children shouldn't perform or that they shouldn't develop talent.  I'm not even saying that in some cases, with good, parental supervision and support, that they shouldn't be in the public eye.  What I am questioning is the reason behind her parents sanctioning such an early entrance to the world of this type of stardom.  She's 9 years old and she is being made up to look like she is 19.  When I was 9 I was still playing Barbies and having neighborhood water fights.  I don't get it and I don't like it.  Let her be a little girl--a talented little girl--but a little girl still the same.