The color of the beets add festiveness to your Valentine’s Day dinner! This recipe is simple but makes you look like a gourmet chef. Use this salad as a starter or side dish to your home cooked date night. Pair … Read more
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Figo: Episode 2!
In FigoFit, Peanut is showing you an original move called the downdog to push-up pyramid. A fantastic exercise for tightening the arms and toning the shoulders. We also get the yoga benefits from the downward dog, especially in those often-tight … Read more
Crunching Numbers for the New Year
Tis the season for an influx of new gym memberships, 15 minute waits for the elliptical, angry regulars, confused beginners, and busy trainers cashing out. Yes, tis the season for fitness new years resolutions! While I treasure this time of … Read more
12 Tips to a Happy & Healthy Holiday
1. Embrace your inner dasher
Tis the season for intervals! I’m adamant about getting my clients to change up their cardio workouts when the 1-hour elliptical jaunt has gotten all too comfortable. Not only are intervals efficient of your time, … Read more
Figo: Lunges and Rosemary Roasted Butternut Squash
This FigoFit & FigoFood episode has us gearing up for Thanksgiving Day!
For FigoFit, Peanut demonstrates a step back lunge and single arm press. This is a great move to tone the shoulders and tighten up the legs! Add this … Read more
A Chef’s Finals Week
It was my final week living in Italy. I had finished up my stage at Peck in Milano, made an impromptu trip to Sicily for the weekend, then arrived to the familiar village of Colorno. This small town hosts my … Read more
In Season Produce this Spring
Choose recipes that contain produce of the season! As the air becomes fragrant with warmth and vegetation in April, May, and early June, I like to think green. Some of my favorite choices include:
asparagus
spring peas
artichokes
zucchini
lettuce… Read more
“Come Back to Me” by Peanut & Pistacchio
We wrote this original with our coolest awesome-est kickass cousin Lanaye (Nay Nay) when we were little kids! Shout out to our brother Bird who wrote the 2nd verse.… Read more
chef peanut’s hand made pasta
Peanut is making Pasta while attempting to do her best at speaking Italian (it’s been a few months since Italy, but she’s still got it!) Hand made ravioli is on the menu today! Delizioso!
PEANUT’S EGG PASTA (3 lbs.)
Ingredients:… Read more
life lessons learned in italian culinary school
LA ESPERIENZA experience
If there was ever a time that I thought I was “the shit” in the kitchen at my school or while on my internship, it was often quickly repressed by a complete and absolute failure on my … Read more
