Did you say we are having Tacos?

Healthiest Black Bean Taco,   Ever!

What a wonderful recipe to serve to a gang. House parties are the call of the season and this is a great crowd pleaser.  I've served this to lots of my vegan and meat eating friends, with no complaints. Only rave reviews!

Ground Meat Mix        Serves: 6 to 8 portions

Ingredients

1 cup raw walnuts

1 cup black beans (cooked and crushed)

 6 sun sun dried tomatoes, rehydrated
1 Tbsp of Tahini
1 tsp Braggs
1 Tbsp Chili powder
1 tsp ground cumin
3/4 tsp ground coriander
pinch cayenne

Directions

In the food processor, process walnuts and sun dried tomatoes until they reach the consistency of ground beef. Add the rest of your ingredients and pulse until thoroughly combined.

Cream Sauce

Ingredients

1/2 cup soaked cashews

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

2 tsp Braggs seasoning

Directions

Put all of the ingredients above in to a blender. Blend till creamy. Taste and balance the flavors

Package of organic Taco shells
Serve in an organic corn taco shells, soft corn wraps, sprouted Ezekiel wraps, rice wraps or spelt wraps.

Fill the shell/wrap with taco meat, fresh shredded organic greens, and diced tomatoes topped with cream sauce

 Enjoy the flavors of Mexico with a healthy twist!

Note: the meat mix can be also used as a great veggie burger

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Digestive rescue for Holiday Eating!

Digestive Kichadis

Right from the Ayurvedic medical knowledge on digestive healing we have a great remedy to heal your digestive tract from all your Holiday eating.  If you feel off track this is a wonderful remedy to get you back in the game.  I know this works wonders for me. I'll make this recipe and eat it for the whole day. Your digestive system will send signals of thanks.

If you want to know more about your Ayurvedic typing find out more here.  

Dosha test link

Serves: 3-4

Ingredients
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds

2 tablespoons ghee or sunflower oil

3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
1teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon oregano, dry
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 stick kombu (seaweed: available in a Asian store or health food store)
1 teaspoon fresh ginger root, grated

1/2 cup brown basmati rice
1/4 cup split mung dal (translation: split mung beans available in a Asian grocery store)
3 cups fresh vegetables, such as carrots, zucchini, or summer squash, diced

4 to 6 cups of distilled water

Directions

Wash the rice and beans until rinse water is clear.
Warm the ghee or sunflower oil in a medium saucepan. Add the cumin seeds, bay leaf, coriander and oregano. Brown slightly, until aromatic (you can smell them). Stir in turmeric, rice and dal. Add water, salt, kombu, and ginger. Simmer covered over medium heat until beans and 15 to 20 minutes more.

*Note: Pitta can garnish generously with fresh chopped coriander leaves to neutralize this effect. lf Kapha is making this for themselves alone, the ghee or oil can be cut
to 1 teaspoonful, Additional ghee can be added after cooking if other doshas, especially
Vata, are to be sharing in the eating.

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Slick Christmas Morning Breakfast!

The Easiest Breakfast ever!!

Well picture this a house full of guests and it's Christmas morning. You have already had a big dinner Christmas Eve and need to make something to take to Christmas dinner. Panic right! Not with this recipe. You've made breakfast yesterday or maybe the day before that. Now all you have to serve is organic free trade coffee and tea. Pretty slick eh!

4 servings

lasts 4 days when kept refrigerated

Ingredients:

1 cups Organic Rolled Oats

10 walnuts (or any nut you want)

¼ cup frozen or fresh blueberries (any berries are good)

20 goji berries 

¼  cup organic Thompson raisins

4  diced and pitted dates

1 tlb of raw unpasteurized honey or maple syrup 

option: stevia (read package for equivalent amounts)

1 cup almond milk unsweetened (or any alternative grain or nut milk)

1 cup filtered clean water

pinch of sea salt

sprinkle top with cinnamon

Directions:

In the evening put all the ingredients into a bowl add the liquid and mix.  Then move to a serving dish, spread out and sprinkle with cinnamon. Cover with a snap lid or kitchen wrap.

Put in the refrigerator and sleep well as you are going to have a great breakfast in the morning.

Serving:

Dish out and eat as is or add some almond/rice/hemp milk.

Tip: Great travel food whether you are on holidays or just out for the day. 

Orange Creamsicle! Where is the Icecream Truck?

Orange Creamsicle     

Creamsicles are one of my all time favorites. I haven't had one since I was a kid as I am dairy intolerant:( 

This recipe not only tastes like the real thing, it’s packed with vitamins and phyto-nutrients and minerals. This is one of the best drinks to, because of its high enzyme concentration.  

Ingredients

1 fresh young coconut, use the milk and the meat. (real coconuts are available in a Asian market (also available in the health food store in tetra pack or can, no sugar or preservatives added … Blue Monkey is a good brand)

2 frozen medium size organic bananas (fresh is good too)

4 Medjool dates (take pits out)

1 cup of fresh squeezed orange juice (use a lemon squeezer)

1/4 cup of almond milk unsweetened

2 tablespoons of unpasteurized honey (bee pollen or royal jelly can be added)

1 tablespoon of real vanilla or whole vanilla bean   

1 cup of ice
 

Directions
Place all ingredients, (except for the ice), in the blender, blend till smooth! Add ice cubes gradually until it's as thick and rich as you dreamed it would be.

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Smoothies! The greatest travel foods

Chocolate Berry Smoothie

Chocolate and Berries how can you go wrong! This is also a great take with you nutrition powerhouse. No reason to skip breakfast again.

Ingredients
3 tbsp Cacao powder
½ cup Goji Berries (soaked in water)
2 tbs Acai powder
4 tbsp Hemp seeds
¼ cup dried Mulberries (soaked in water)
2 tbs unpasturized honey
option Stevia (look on the package for equivalents)
1 cup frozen berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)
1 cup Hemp milk unsweetened or any non-dairy nut milk
1 cup distilled water (more water to think if needed)
optional: add handful of ice

Directions                                                                                                    Put everything listed above in a blender. Blend away!
This makes a BIG smoothie, but is so extraordinary.  Great to share with friends.                                           

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Garlic! Who doesn't like Garlic!

Garlic Broth

Garlic is an herb with remarkable medicinal properties, and it tastes great too. Garlic is a cardiovascular tonic, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels and inhibiting blood clotting. It's also a powerful germicide and may protect against some carcinogens. The smell of garlic cooking has a comforting and homey aroma. If you eat garlic regularly, you won't smell of it. It's better for you in its natural state, raw or lightly cooked rather than dried.

 Enjoy the smell, taste and healthful effects of the whole, fresh herb.

Ingredients:                                                            4 Servings
6 cups vegetable stock (best is from steamed vegetables or organic veggie broth from the store)
1 1/2 tablespoons quality organic extra-virgin olive oil
1 head organic (Canadian) garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 Turkish bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon dried or fresh thyme

½ teaspoon parsley
Pinch dried or fresh sage
Salt to taste

Instructions:
1. In a stock pot add the vegetable stock, add the olive oil, bay leaf, garlic, thyme and sage.

2. Bring to just under boil (bubbles on the side of the pot), reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Add salt to taste.

3. Strain or not you choice.

Drink as is as a tonic, use as a broth during your cleanse                                 or any time. You can use this as a base for soups.

Hint: Freeze in serving sizes for fast use.

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Calcium from Milk is hard to digest

Calcium Soup (Greens and Grain) 

A traditional European recipe for calcium replenishment is the green and grain soup of barley sprouts and kale.  The barley must be whole, not pearled, in order to sprout.  Vitamins A and C (the tow calcium co-factors that are low in unsprouted seeds) are greatly increased in the sprouting process.  This soup is also suitable for those who are convalescing as a result of chronic health problems.

Ingredients

1 onion, diced

1 cup sprouted whole grain barley (soak barley in water over night)

2 cups of diced kale or a green leafy vegetable of choice

½ fresh lemon, squeezed into juice

sea salt to taste

4 cups of distilled water

Directions

In a stock pot add the onion and sauté in olive oil till the colour is clear. Add the barley and kale and simmer soup for 10 minutes.  Add the lemon and a pinch of sea salt.  Taste and add more sea salt if to lemony and add lemon is the soup is to salty. 

Balance the taste and serve.

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Pear up your Apple Sauce

Rocking Great Apple Sauce

If you want a great fresh taste, this is it. You will never eat cooked applesauce ever again. That’s all I have to say about that, just try this.

Ingredients                                                   servings 4 to 8
2 apples
1 pear
1 tsp dried coconut
1 tsp unpasteurized honey or stevia to taste (caution very sweet so start small and add a little at a time)
1 tsp fresh lemon juice (add more to taste)
¼ tbsp cinnamon

Directions
Cut up the apple and pear into medium size pieces. Add all the ingredients into the food processor and blend till smooth.

Scoop into a bowl and enjoy immediately … try apple sauce over sprouted granola or buckwheat pancakes.

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Freshen up your Breakfast with Pomegranate

Pomegranate Morning Splash

The word splash is how I feel when I have this great morning treat.  The coconut yogurt and the pomegranate really is a fresh taste, that is so welcome as we enter into the winter months. 

I really encourage you add this to your morning routine!

Ingredients

¼ cup pomegranate seeds* (peel the seeds out of the natural skin ahead of time and keep them in the fridge in a container)

1/4 cup coconut yogurt (available in any health food store)

1/3 cup super food berries and raw nuts (example: golden berries, mulberry, goji, walnuts, pecans, almonds)

sprinkle of dehydrated granola (recipe in the “Breaking your Fast” section. You also can get this product in your local health food store now)

Directions

Place all of the ingredients above into a small bowl and enjoy.

Note: Take to work with you in a thermos container. Leave the yogurt separate if not eating right away.

*Option: if pomegranate is out of season you could also add in its place frozen/fresh blue berries

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Get prepared for Winter with this Healthy version of Baked Beans

Suzanne’s Baked Beans

Sort of like Grandma

Enjoy this comfort food without the bad fat and all the taste!!!

Ingredients:                              Serves 10 servings  

2 tsp olive oil

1 med onion (diced)

3 to 4 cloves garlic (chopped)

3 tsp molasses

1 can whole organic tomatoes (diced)

11/2 tsp Dijon prepared mustard

1 tsp carob powder

1 package northern beans (or navy beans)

3 cups of fresh filtered water

Directions:

Soak the beans over night or during the day while you are at work.  Drain the beans and put into a large stock pot.  Add fresh water and bring to a boil.  When at a full boil put lid on the pot and turn off the heat.  Go to bed or to work depending on the time of day you are doing this.  Beans will be done when you wake up or return from work.

 

Get out a deep baking dish with a lid.  Rinse the cooked beans and put them into the baking dish.  Add all the above ingredients and then bake at 350 deg. Bake for 4 to 5 hours.

Note:Check the beans during that baking to make sure they don’t dry out.  If so add water.

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Green Juice get preped for the Holidays

Green Juice

       

Obtain three of the following kinds of leaves and green vegetables. The variety shown below gives you a chance to change up your juice.

Your vegetables must be organic; the best is fresh right out of your garden.       

Now that is green juice in its boldest form. Why would I like to drink this? The phytochemicals in live plants give our body a natural boost towards preventing or fighting off potential deadly diseases, such as many forms of cancer. Different fruits and vegetables have different phytochemicals, but so many of them have cancer-fighting, cancer-preventing and maybe even cancer-curing properties!

Green drinks are very cleansing 

“When your Green inside your Clean inside”

Green Ingredient list:

Romaine Lettuce - Fennel bulb - Swiss chard - Spinach -  

Beet tops (young inner leaves) - Watercress - Sunflower sprouts - Pea sprouts and sprouts of all types - Cabbage  - Kale – Cucumber - Swiss Chard - Zucchini - Celery - Endive - Escarole - Wheatgrass

Juice 1 medium apple when along with your green leaves and vegetables. 

When your juice is completed add hand squeezed lemon juice. Add a tablespoon at a time and taste your juice till you like the taste.

Note: This juice is sometime best to be diluted with 1/4 cup of distilled water. 

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A Great recipe to learn about Okra! I'ts really Good!

Suzanne’s Okra Masala

This is my version of Okra Masala it is a lighter version of the Indian classic Masalas.  I find, that I can make this dish at home quickly and have it on the table with ease.  I even can do other tasks that need doing before we eat.

Again a make lots kind of dish, this freezes well.

Ingredients

2 lbs fresh or frozen okra (diced into med size chunks)

1 medium onion diced

3 cloves garlic diced

1 tsp chili oil

1 tsp gram masala

½ tsp turmeric

1 tsp cumin

1tsp agave nectar

4 tlbs olive oil

½ cup sun dried tomatoes ( soaked and diced )

1 can whole tomatoes ( diced )

Optional raw green mango (diced fine)

Directions

Wash okra, cut up into bite size chunks

Heat oil in a large fry pan.  Sauté onion and garlic till starting to brown, add the dry spices and let saute for a minute.  Add the diced Okra and stir to combine favours.

Continue to sauté till starting to cook down a little. Cover and cook for 10 to 20 minutes.

Serve with rice or a salad

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