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Blackberry Banana Cobbler
Oh summer, how I love you so! Warm, sunny days. Fresh fruit and vegetables in abundance. And blackberries…ahhh blackberries. I never knew how much I liked blackberries until I moved to North Carolina. North Carolina’s state fruit is the Scuppernong grape ( I have a post about this indigenous grape linked here). And it’s reported the state’s red fruit is strawberry and the state’s blue fruit is blueberry. However in my opinion the state’s blue fruit should definitely be the blackberry.…
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Radish Tart
This recipe is a take off an Asian classic dim sum….turnip cake. The traditional way to make turnip cake is with a rice flour batter, dried shrimp, some type of meat and mushrooms. I decided to reconstruct this Asian classic, use all veggies and make a quiche like tart. I also made it a one bowl kind of deal instead of the traditional way of boiling the radish and mixing the water with the rice flour. This dish…
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21 Amazing Health Benefits of Lovely Lemon Balm
Lemon Balm is such a lovely sounding name for an herb. But don’t let the lovely sounding name fool you. This herb is POWERFUL! I thought it only fitting since we’re in the beginning of summer and in the season of the astrological sign Cancer to talk about lemon balm. Seventeenth century herbalist and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper proclaimed lemon balm being of the sign of Cancer as well as an “Herb of Jupiter”. He said the herb strengthens…
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The BEST Gluten-Free Protein Carob Brownies Ever!
If you’re like me and shouldn’t consume chocolate you’re going to be so happy with this recipe. Chocolate use to be my saving grace, a piece of chocolate to help survive a hectic work day, or a brownie when I was feeling down. But those days are long gone. Like a lot of people chocolate has now become my nemesis, it’s too inflammatory for my body. So carob has taken chocolate’s place. Out of every chocolate dessert including chocolate cake,…
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Fried Yellow Oyster Mushrooms (Gluten-Free)
Saturday is my favorite day of the week. Not because it’s the weekend but because it’s the best farmers market day. On Saturday, organic farmers, growers and owners of fabulous small business who aren’t normally there during the week come on Saturday to showcase their goods. And it was on a Saturday I met a couple of guys selling the most beautiful yellow oyster mushrooms I’ve ever seen. When I saw them I had to buy them and use them…
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Celery Juice, Friend or Foe
It seems like the media consistently comes up with some new “in” superfood or supplement to grab our attention as the new cure all. And since most of us want to be as healthy as possible we gravitate to the latest superfood hoping it does what it’s claiming to do. Well the new health craze for the moment and has been for a while is celery juice. Being one to always be late to jump on the bandwagon of…
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Easy Breezy Gut Friendly Green Soup
Soup as a meal can be a food easily overlooked at as being easy to make and filling. One might think you have to slave in the kitchen doing lots of prep work, cut tons of veggies, create a broth from scratch and simmer the soup for hours to make a good soup. But my friends if you’ve ever made a smoothie, you’ve actually made a fruit soup. Making a quick filling soup is just like making a smoothie, without…
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The #1 Health Saving, Money Saving Herb!
What would you say if I told you there was an herb that could give you all if not more of the nutrients that eating your favorite green vegetables can give. And it costs a fraction of what organic greens cost. Even in it’s dried form when consumed as a tea it can provide you with minerals and vitamins not readily available in other herbs. Well if you’re like me and you’re interested in most things nutritional and natural…
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Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Waffle Sandwiches
When you think of Spring what dessert comes to mind? For me it’s definitely carrot cake. Maybe it’s because of Spring and Easter is in Spring, bunnies are associated with Easter and bunnies eat carrots. I don’t know but either way who doesn’t love a good carrot cake. Carrot cake was my specialty when I had my dessert business years ago but the way I made carrot cake back then is not how I eat now. For a while I’ve…
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Refined Sugar Free Banana Carob Granola
I don’t know about you but I used to think granola was so healthy. Little did I know that each time I was eating a bowl of granola for breakfast or grabbing some as a snack I was eating loads of sugar. For example my favorite brand of granola I used to eat contained lots of sugar and in different forms, like molasses, cane sugar and oat syrup solids. All these types of sugars were in one small package of…
