Sharing a quick, easy and super delicious ceviche recipe where you actually cook the shrimp but preserve the perfect texture. This recipe is ideal for an spring or summer BBQs or dinner parties!

Hi friends! How are you? I hope your week is off to an amazing start. I’m still working on my Disney cruise recap post – should be up Wednesday! – but for today, I wanted to share a DELICIOUS healthy appetizer recipe: ceviche!!

Ceviche is a classic and especially good during the summer. It wasn’t something I make often at home, but my friend Kathryn brought it over last summer and we all devoured it. It was fresh, beautifully flavored, and so so delicious. When we had family dinner last night, I knew it would make a perfect appetizer.

Here’s the deal, though: “cooking” the shrimp in lime juice freaks me out. I know it’s the common method for making ceviche, but I know too much about parasites lol.

Yes, the acid from the limes can turn the color of the shrimp opaque so that they appear to be cooked. It kills a little bit of the bacteria, but not all of it. (You can download my free parasite cleansing guide here!) I don’t eat a ton of raw fish anymore, and while I definitely wanted ceviche, I wanted HEAT to kill the bacteria so I could stuff my face and not worry about any creepy crawlers.

So I did what any girl would do: called my brother the chef and asked him if I could saute the shrimp first.

He legit laughed at me and informed me that it would be a rubbery disaster.

“Blanch it. Just for like a minute and then put it in an ice bath.”

“Ok, so just put it in boiling water for a minute?”

“Yes but add stuff to it so it actually tastes good. Make a blanching liquid with peppercorns, lots of salt, flavor it up.”

So that’s what I did! It turned out AMAZING and I’m pumped to share the recipe with you!!

The best ceviche recipe (with cooked shrimp!)

Ingredients:

Blanching liquid: water, salt, peppercorns

Raw deveined shrimp (I get ours from ButcherBox)

3 large avocadoes

The juice of 6-8 limes (about 1 cup of lime juice)

1 1/2 large English cucumbers, peeled, seeded, and diced

1 red onion, diced

3 large tomatoes, seeded and diced

2 jalapeño, seeded and diced

1 buch of cilantro, diced

Garlic powder, salt, pepper, sriracha, and Worcestershire sauce (the secret ingredient!!!)

Worth mentioning here that I chopped almost everything with this contraption and also cut the heck out of two of my fingers. It says, “don’t touch the blades” and this means even while you’re washing it, even if they don’t *seem* sharp. Don’t do it.

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Hi friends! Happy Friday! How was the week? Ours was a good one. We came back from the cruise and both kids had stomach bugs (the worst! Also this is the first time this has happened following a cruise), so a pretty low-key start to the week. I’m working on my cruise recap now and will post it early next week!

Take me baaaaack to the land of no chores, beach time, nightly shows, and gluten-free Mickey waffles.

What are you up to this weekend? P has a basketball tournament, we have a couple of NCL events, and the family is coming over for dinner. I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead!

3.6 Friday Faves

Fashion, beauty, random:

Loving this lip pencil. It gives the perfect little pop of color and is hydrating instead of drying. I’ve been wearing the Kiln shade.

This Farm Rio dress! The kids said I looked like the abuela from Encanto which I took as a huge compliment.

Latest Vivrelle! Obsessed with this Chanel bag. Everything they send is in perfect condition. If you want to try it out, you can use GINAHARNEY here for your first month free. You have to apply – it takes like 30 seconds – and then when you’re approved, you get access to their huge closet of luxury handbags and jewelry. It’s so much fun to try something new each month.

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Sharing a lil recap of what we’ve been up to lately.

Hi friends! How are you? I hope that you’re having an amazing week so far! We’re back from Disney cruise #7 – I’ll share a recap this week – and getting back into the routine. We came back and it feels like summer – it was 91 degrees yesterday! Ready for POOL TIME and for school to be over lol.

For today’s post, I wanted to share some of the adventures and faves from lately! It’s been a packed few weeks around here.

Our friends the Kleigers came into town for Beefsteak, which is one of our favorite events of the year. The Pilot is part of the organization that produces the event, and it’s an epic party with amazing food, auctions, raffles, cocktails, dancing, this year they had a full casino, and the proceeds support veterans and military families.

I was lucky to have an entire morning with Betsy before the event:

we hiked Tumamoc hill,

(I hadn’t done this one in so long and remembered how much I love it. The views are incredible)

grabbed coffees at the Mercado,

then headed to La Encantada for blowouts at Drybar.

Our babysitter met us at a nearby hotel and stayed with the girls and one of P’s besties. They swam, ate dinner, and watched movies while we were at the event.

Some pics from the fun:

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Hi friends! I have a brand new podcast episode live, and today is a very special one — episode 200

This is a short solo episode where I’m reflecting on my own healing journey and sharing the biggest mistakes I made along the way, especially during the height of my autoimmune symptoms. This episode is less about regret and more about perspective, compassion, and helping you avoid some of the same pitfalls if you’re in a season of healing right now.

In this episode, I open up about what was happening behind the scenes when my lupus markers were positive, my nervous system was completely fried, and my body was very clearly asking for safety — even though I didn’t fully understand that at the time.

This episode is especially for you if you feel like you’ve “tried everything,” are overwhelmed by information online, or feel stuck in a loop of doing more but not actually feeling better.

200: Autoimmune Healing, Nervous System Safety & the Biggest Mistakes I Made on My Health Journey

Here’s what we chat about:

• Why chasing body composition while your body is screaming for help can actually slow healing

• The truth about exercise intolerance and why pushing harder isn’t always the answer

• The mistake of taking supplements without testing (and why more isn’t better)

• How probiotics and popular wellness products can backfire if your gut isn’t ready

• Why lab testing was a turning point in my healing (and why I wish I had done it sooner)

• Why cold plunging, fasting, caffeine, and red light therapy weren’t what my nervous system needed at the time

• How staying up all night G

Hi friends! Happy Friday! How are you? What do you have going on this weekend? The Kleigers are coming to Tucson – I can’t wait!!! – for a big event and P also has her basketball tournament championship. I’m definitely looking forward to a super fun weekend.

I feel like this week went by in the fastest blur ever. I was stacked with client appointments, hosted a call for Revenue Rx members about affiliate income, worked on my IHP Centurion modules, taught barre, introduced Liv to Pilates (she loves it!) and met up with a friend for a hike and chat.

I hope you have a lovely weekend ahead!

May you be as content as Lola with a crunchy tree branch she brought inside to eat on the couch.

(Usually I can snatch whatever she has on her way in, but I missed this one and had to snap a pic before cleaning up her giant mess)

2.20 Friday Faves

Fashion, beauty, random:

We had our symphony show last weekend, celebrating America’s 250th birthday. It was a mix of patriotic songs and pieces from American composers. I was thrilled to be a tiny part of it and enjoyed every minute. The Overture of 1812 with electric canon was the cherry on top.

With the fam (minus Liv because she asked to be cropped out)

The Pilot and I had a date night at Tinajas, which is a super cute wine bar. You can customize your cheese boards and the have an amazing selection of wine and cocktails.

It was the perfect parent date night, capped off by a slightly unhinged trip to Target

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