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Tuesday Tip- Rhubarb Love

Posted By: angela

I Lovvvvvvve Rhubarb! It’s tangy bite pairs so perfectly with strawberries- It tastes like summer:) My lovely niece, Jess gifted me a bag of fresh rhubarb from her garden this weekend, and I immediately got busy preparing a “boutique friendly” version of the classic.

Strawberry Rhubarb Tart

8 large stalks of rhubarb, diced
10 strawberries, diced
2 tablespoons raw honey
1 tablespoon coconut oil
pinch of sea salt
1 egg white, whisked

The Crust

2 cups almond meal (I used Bob’s Red Mill)
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 tbs raw honey
2 tbs coconut oil
1 egg white, whisked

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large glass baking dish toss the strawberries, rhubarb, oil, honey and salt until the pieces are well coated. Cover with foil and bake 25 minutes or until rhubarb is completely soft.

Prepare the crust by combining all ingredients in a food processor or by hand. Once you have a ball of dough, press into the bottom of a well greased tart or spring-form pan. If using a spring form, cover just the bottom and make a small lip up the edge, (just an inch or so). Bake the crust at 350 for 10 minutes.

Remove rhubarb mixture from the oven. Break up/ mash some of the larger pieces with a fork. Allow to cool. Mix in the egg white. Pour the mixture into the semi-cooked tart crust. Bake at 350 for an additional 25 minutes. Allow to cool and enjoy! This would work well in a muffin tin for mini-tarts.

Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Paleo Friendly:)

Although this recipe is technically a dessert, it’s prepared with such nutrient dense whole foods that I let my boys enjoy a slice for lunch yesterday. They loved it!!!

Interestingly, rhubarb is not a fruit. It is actually a vegetable (I guess it does look like red celery), and it’s loaded with nutrition. High in Vitamins C and K, potassium, calcium and fiber, rhubarb is a real powerhouse. Its red color also lends the powerful and protective antioxidant lycopene. For our bodies to best access it, cook rhubarb and pair it with a fat, such as the coconut oil in the recipe above.

Did You See The Sea?

Posted By: lara

The Mother’s Day Tiara 5k was a huge success. Despite a very rainy start to the morning we still had over 1,000 runners in attendance and our Boutique Fitness Team looked like a sea of black & pink. What I love the most about our wonderful team is that for many of these ladies it was their first 5k. They did it!

As a result of having over 40 people on our team, we won a prize for raising the most money:) Can you guess what that prize might be? An ice cream party at Oxford Creamery!! So here is what we are going to do: We all love ice cream, but it always tastes better when you’ve earned those calories. We will be hosting a group workout at Oxford Creamery for our entire team! After we break a sweat, we eat ice cream!

But wait, it gets better… everyone is welcome to join our workout for free! So if you want to break a sweat with the Boutique Fitness crew, enter your email under ‘tips & recipes’ (on the right) and you will get all the details you need to workout with us. This step is key since you will also get a very important waiver form to fill out so that our good friends at Oxford Creamery are covered. It will be super fun and sweaty!

Here are some photos from the race last Sunday. There are many more Boutique team members that I don’t have photos of:( So if you have any Boutique Fitness photos from the race, please share them with us. You can post them on our facebook page or email them to us at fitness@boutiquefitness.com.

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