Simple Whole Wheat Bread-Karen

This is the recipe I use every week to make bread, it is very good! I usually bake one loaf and then freeze the other batch (or three if I do the double batch) of dough before the last rise. I just place the dough in a plastic wrap lined loaf pan and wrap it […]

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Gallo Pinto (beans and rice)-Costa Rica

When I lived in Costa Rica this was a staple that we ate about three times a day! Very tasty and good for you! I use brown rice and cook a little longer, it tastes great that way. Now we enjoy this meal at least once a week for dinner and a couple times a […]

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Lentil-Curry Soup

I made this the other day and it turned out lovely! Makes great left overs for lunch or dinner!
Ingredients:
Same vegetables as Hearty Vegetable Stew
1 1/2 cups black, brown, red, or green lentils
3 teaspoons curry powder(or more to taste)
1 bunch cilanrtro, chopped (optional) or 4 whole bay leaves chopped (optional)
Boil the vegetables, lentils, and curry […]

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Hearty Vegetable Stew

8 large carrots, chopped
5 stalks celery, chopped
1 leek, chopped
1 head broccoli, chopped
1 zucchini, chopped
1 cup chopped mushrooms
1 cup okar
1/2 medium onion
Equal parts water and Pacific vegetable brothe to cover vegetables (about 6 cups)
1/2 serrano chili (optional)
Spike to taste
Curry powder to taste
Celtic sea salt to taste
Place the carrots, celery, leek, broccoli, zucchini, mushrooms, okra, onion (and […]

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Liquid Gold Elixir

This is a great and refreshing dressing. Next time I make it though I am going to cut the recipe to 1/3 of all the ingredients as I will not be able to make it through this amount of dressing even using it twice a day for two weeks!
2 cups fresh lemon juice
3 whole […]

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No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies-Vegan

This is a variation of a recipe I found on Allrecipes.com, I made these tonight with the boys, they helped with a few of the ingredients and then mostly helped by scooping the contents onto the foil. These turned out really well and I was surprised at how much they tasted like the “real” ones! […]

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Smooth Mama Shake

Since I started the Raw Food Detox Diet I’ve been drinking one of these shakes every morning. I was quite surprised at how well it tastes! She suggested this shake especially for women who are pregnant and starting the diet. I was also surprised to find out how much it filled me up, and I’m […]

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A new adventure…

Our family has been on a journey of learning how to eat more healthy for the past 5 years, ever since we got married Chris and I have been trying to figure out how to eat right. We’ve made some great progress, we feel, in that journey already. We mostly eat whole grain foods, make […]

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Juicing recipes

I’ve been wanting some good juicing recipes, my friends Rana and Nicole shared these ones with me that they like. I plan to start juicing a lot more.
1. My favorite:
2 apples
2 oranges
6 medium carrots
1-inch chunk ginger
2. Waldorf Salad:
2-3 celery stalks
2 Granny Smith apples
3. Cleaning out the fridge:
Carrots
Beets, with greens
A little broccoli
Celery
Kale or collards or […]

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Buckwheatie Bars

We like to have healthy, preferably raw snacks around the house for those moments when one of us is thinking about being naughty sometime before the next meal! This is another recipe my friends Rana and Jana shared with me from Serene Allison’s raw cookbook “Rejuvenate Your Life.” A cookbook that I need to get […]

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