The sun is shining, birds are chirping, and the trees are blooming. The buzzing of the bees has begun, and Spring is here. I love Spring for so many reasons. A top reason is the abundant availability of local raw honey. We enjoy it immensely in our home. My boys eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches, we sweeten our yogurt with it, put it on oatmeal, and use it as a sweetener in desserts instead of white, bleached, processed sugar.
For high quality, and optimal health the words local and raw are imperative. Our bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made are created to adapt to our environments so that we can deal with the environment that we live in everyday. That is why it is so beneficial to eat foods that are grown and made locally. Today we'll stick the importance of honey.
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, a preventative treatment that I would advise adopting into your regimen is taking 1-2 teaspoons of raw honey each day. The reason for this is that raw local honey contains the pollen that is causing all of those sniffy, sneezing noses, watery eyes, and itchy skin. When we ingest some of that pollen studies show that it allows our bodies to get used to the pollen present in the area that is bothering us. So think if this as a noninvasive, inexpensive, pleasant vaccination without any negative side effects.
Raw honey is wonderful if you are experiencing a sore throat. Taking a teaspoon of raw honey mixed with propolis, a few times a day will help coat the throat and kill any oncoming infection. Propolis is a dark, sticky resin that seeps from the buds of some trees and bark. Propolis contains many minerals, including magnesium, calcium, phosphorus and potassium, as well as beta carotene, bioflavonoids, vitamins B1 and B2. It acts like nature's own antibiotic. Bees actually mix it with wax flakes from the glands on their tummies in order to keep intruders out of the hive.
Raw foods are loaded with much needed enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and healthy bacteria. Honey allows our bodies to digest many foods that are sometimes more difficult to break down like certain whole grains. Once we heat our foods over 120 degrees many of these things decrease or die off altogether. This is the case with honey. Raw honey can be recognized by it's solid state, it's more white in color, and it should state raw or unheated and unfiltered on the jar.
*As a precaution it has been said that children under the age of one should not consume honey. It contains a healthy bacteria, Clostridium botulinum, that babies digestive systems are not able to handle yet. It could cause botulism.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Kale, I Could Kiss You!
Bar none, hands down, my favorite leafy green is kale. I laugh sometimes because people will come over to my plate and look, and say, "What is that? Is that kale? I only thought kale was a garnish." Then that opens a beautiful door for me to talk about a great superfood in my opinion.
Kale is a dark leafy green vegetable in the cruciferous family. It's a great source of calcium for strong bones, antioxidant cancer fighting and immune boosting Vitamin C, Vitamin A, folic acid (B-6) that reduces osteoporosis, helps healthy unborn babies stay strong, and reduces heart disease, potassium that regulates of our acid pH, and is a vital component in the building of our muscles, magnesium that assists enzymes in our bodies, reduces muscle cramping, and helps with protein assimilation, and carotenoids a precursor to Vitamin A that radically fights cancer.
Whenever possible you want to eat organic kale. Like all leafy greens organic is best because they are heavily sprayed with toxic cancer causing chemicals. It is easy to grow in the garden and you can grow it in spring or fall. There are several different varieties of kale.
Kale is lovely eaten raw in a salad or cooked in a saute or soup. I thoroughly enjoy it both ways. I also put kale in my green smoothies. Eaten raw its an excellent source of enzymes which greatly assist in the breakdown of our food. If you'd like a free kale salad recipe go on Facebook,like my page, and I will email you a recipe.
Kale is a dark leafy green vegetable in the cruciferous family. It's a great source of calcium for strong bones, antioxidant cancer fighting and immune boosting Vitamin C, Vitamin A, folic acid (B-6) that reduces osteoporosis, helps healthy unborn babies stay strong, and reduces heart disease, potassium that regulates of our acid pH, and is a vital component in the building of our muscles, magnesium that assists enzymes in our bodies, reduces muscle cramping, and helps with protein assimilation, and carotenoids a precursor to Vitamin A that radically fights cancer.
Whenever possible you want to eat organic kale. Like all leafy greens organic is best because they are heavily sprayed with toxic cancer causing chemicals. It is easy to grow in the garden and you can grow it in spring or fall. There are several different varieties of kale.
Kale is lovely eaten raw in a salad or cooked in a saute or soup. I thoroughly enjoy it both ways. I also put kale in my green smoothies. Eaten raw its an excellent source of enzymes which greatly assist in the breakdown of our food. If you'd like a free kale salad recipe go on Facebook,like my page, and I will email you a recipe.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Making Soup Like Crazy
Being in this chilly weather makes me want to eat one thing everyday, hot, healthy, yummy soup. Soup is a very warming and healing food to the body. Soups are wonderful because you can encompass so much nutrition into one meal. They are very convenient too because you can make them on the stove or in the crock pot. You can make a big batch choose to freeze it or eat it all week if you like. That's usually what we do around my house. Soup doesn't last long here.
The soup featured in this picture is white bean and kale. I've also made vegan broccoli cheese, and red lentil tomato lately. All of these are very hearty, and satisfying. Some chicken for you meat eaters would be great in the white bean and kale, and some mini turkey or hormone free grass-fed beef meatballs would be a hit in the tomato lentil. Like I said though they are filling all on their own.
These recipes are available if you like my new facebook page for Kingdom Health.
The soup featured in this picture is white bean and kale. I've also made vegan broccoli cheese, and red lentil tomato lately. All of these are very hearty, and satisfying. Some chicken for you meat eaters would be great in the white bean and kale, and some mini turkey or hormone free grass-fed beef meatballs would be a hit in the tomato lentil. Like I said though they are filling all on their own.
These recipes are available if you like my new facebook page for Kingdom Health.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Homemade Facial Mask for Acne Sufferers
Homemade Tomato Mask
*Placing the 1/4 a cup of freshly squeezed tomato juice with pulp
*1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lime juice
*1 cup of mashed avocado into a small bowl and combining them together to form a thick creamy green mask
You may also add 1 teaspoon each of dried parsley and basil to the mask to help thicken it up and to help draw even more toxins and impurities out of your skin. If you find the tomato mask is to runny for you add a teaspoon of arrowroot (did say cornstarch here but I changed it) to the mask and that should help thicken it right up.
Wash your face and apply a nice layer of the creamy green tomato mask to your skin and face. The mask will feel cool and may sting a little bit at first, but this is because it is stripping the dead layers of skin from your face and removing impurities. Once the mask is on leave it on for 45 minutes to an hour to help really brighten, nourish, and purify your skin right up.
After you are done with the mask rinse it off with warm water and splash your face with cold water after to help shrink your pores back up. Can be done 3-4 times a week.
I haven't tried this yet, and can't take credit for it, but I really believe it will work. I love that I could eat my facial mask. It makes me feel safer. I'll be trying this mask this weekend, and implementing into my regime. I'll be the guinea pig :) The mask didn't specify it was for acne sufferers, but I labeled it as such because tomatoes are naturally acidic. Our skin is also naturally acidic. To regain our skin' s natural pH balance we have to put the acidity back in. A major component to acne sufferers is that the skin's pH balance has been disturbed causing the skin to get agitated because the skin has become too alkaline. Many times correcting the skin's pH balance will cure or alleviate the acne issue.
*Placing the 1/4 a cup of freshly squeezed tomato juice with pulp
*1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lime juice
*1 cup of mashed avocado into a small bowl and combining them together to form a thick creamy green mask
You may also add 1 teaspoon each of dried parsley and basil to the mask to help thicken it up and to help draw even more toxins and impurities out of your skin. If you find the tomato mask is to runny for you add a teaspoon of arrowroot (did say cornstarch here but I changed it) to the mask and that should help thicken it right up.
Wash your face and apply a nice layer of the creamy green tomato mask to your skin and face. The mask will feel cool and may sting a little bit at first, but this is because it is stripping the dead layers of skin from your face and removing impurities. Once the mask is on leave it on for 45 minutes to an hour to help really brighten, nourish, and purify your skin right up.
After you are done with the mask rinse it off with warm water and splash your face with cold water after to help shrink your pores back up. Can be done 3-4 times a week.
I haven't tried this yet, and can't take credit for it, but I really believe it will work. I love that I could eat my facial mask. It makes me feel safer. I'll be trying this mask this weekend, and implementing into my regime. I'll be the guinea pig :) The mask didn't specify it was for acne sufferers, but I labeled it as such because tomatoes are naturally acidic. Our skin is also naturally acidic. To regain our skin' s natural pH balance we have to put the acidity back in. A major component to acne sufferers is that the skin's pH balance has been disturbed causing the skin to get agitated because the skin has become too alkaline. Many times correcting the skin's pH balance will cure or alleviate the acne issue.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Vaccinations: Are They More Harm than Help?
*Warning, very strong views below*
Vaccinations are always, always a hot topic. So close friends of mine and I were having a discussion about these interesting little viles of poison recently at their home, and I figured why not pop the ideas on here. So for the longest time in the land of the oblivious where one simply does what they are told without checking facts as long as the person wearing the white coat wasn't one with straps was giving me the information is where I lived.
This was before I ever equivocated that the way I eat, drink, and put things into mouth or blood stream ever had anything to do with my well being. Well, um, scratch that for a while I knew it made a difference, and thought I was healthy, but not to the degree that I do now. I simply believed what I was told by doctors, dentists, and the media. This too went for vaccinations.
I find myself now having to thank my sweet King Jesus for allowing me to walk through years of anorexia, 9 years of being on anti-depressants, 18 years of chronic migraines, nausea, a bout of vertigo, tension headaches, and a breast cancer scare to bring me to where I am today. Jesus you are truly healer! My prayer now is that the Lord would allow me to have the privilege of helping others in the body of Christ and their families to become good stewards of their health while here on Earth.
Back to vaccinations, so of course as a child, like most mainstream Americans I was taken to the pediatrician, my Mom handed over the little shot card, the nurse asked for an arm and boom it was over. My dose of mercury for the day taken care of...super! We're not even supposed to use thermometers with mercury, why are we pumping it into our veins?
I find it earth shatteringly scary that without questions asked simply because doctor so and so said it's the healthy thing to do that we willingly put huge doses of these toxic elements into our bodies and our children's without a second thought. Yet, yet, when my pastor stands at the pulpit and speaks truth from the Word of God, we question, we doubt, and we think oh no, it must not be true.
Truth be told for the longest time I was kind of on the fence about vaccinations. I didn't care either way. Now yes, both of my children, much to my regret have been fully vaccinated due to the insistence of their Dad. I just didn't know, and didn't take the time to educate myself. I never considered the radical hand shaking and manipulative money exchanging that goes on behind closed doors with doctors and pharmacists, dentists and toothpaste manufacturers, etc. I was just brought up to think if that if a person has letters after their name they must be correct.
In 2009 a close girlfriend began to talk to me at her house one night. She began to share about her son and how he had a reaction to the vaccinations as a newborn. He wound up with the flu then turned into pneumonia right after the vaccinations. When she called the nurse to say she was bringing him in, the nurse actually argued with her, told her it was impossible for a newborn baby to have the flu much less to have pneumonia with all of the mothers antibodies still in him. Well, guess what? She brought him in and sure enough her sweet little angel had pneumonia.
That really made me contemplate getting off of the fence. My wheels started turning here too because then I thought what if a mom's antibodies had been compromised due to her vaccinations as well? So she then maybe didn't have the healthiest things going on in her body. So even breastfeeding mothers defenses could be down, and they may not be passing the healthiest properties in the breast milk as mothers in the past. It only makes sense right, what goes in has to come out. I can't imagine that even breast milk is best if it is contaminated.
I then remembered my cousin who was perfectly fine when he was born. He was a little over a year old, and it was only after vaccinations he showed signs of mental retardation. So after a lot of thought, consideration, and prayer I'm off the fence. I've been on pro-vaccination websites, and websites against them as well. I'm currently reading Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? by Neil Miller. The numbers are astounding of the people harmed though vaccines. What is more inconceivable are the lies told.
So I started thinking about food allergies. They are on an all time high. Specifically I want to talk about egg allergies. Did you know that pediatricians say for babies not consume any eggs until at least 8 months of age to prevent food allergies, yet there is egg in our vaccines. Does that make sense? Aren't we setting them up for failure? Newborns get pumped with more vaccines than ever. First in the womb they get vaccinated through their moms. Then after they are born we load 'em up with some more shots. Their new little bodies have enough to adjust to just being born outside into this polluted world.
So we give them animal blood from monkeys, pigs, cows, guinea pigs, and rabbits in these vaccines. What I ask you could be the ramifications for this? In the book of Genesis 9:4-5 it says, "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood." We are commanded not to consume the blood of animals, yet it's in our vaccines. As if that wasn't enough there are human cells, including aborted fetal cells in at least 6-7 of the vaccines. Are you not disturbed yet?
Today our children are getting 49 doses of 14 different vaccines before they are age 6. I have never seen more incidences of ADD, ADHD, Autism, and Aspergers. We have more disease and cancers now than ever before. However, we have more foundations and societies trying to "find a cure" than ever as well. Surely you'd think someone somewhere with all of this technology would have found a cure by now. At least all of the walking is good exercise. We have that going for us. Hmmm, could that be more money being exchanged...okay, okay, we'll stick to vaccines.
I'm confident that we are not starting off on the right foot. There are just too many toxins going around between vaccines, genetically modified foods, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals in our foods, water, soil, and air. Sin has taken its toll for sure. In Psalm 139:14 the Psalmist, David states that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I believe that to be true. I also believe we reap what we sow.
People put more hope in modern medicine than they do in God. Funny, we're more apt to trust what is ever-changing and making mistakes, rather than the one who is the omnipresent alpha and omega...stunning. In Health According to the Scriptures, author Paul Nison says, "If we talk to Yahweh on a consistent basis and stay focused on His Word and our promise, along with having faith in Him always, we will overcome all evil, sickness, and disease! We should no longer continue to adapt to the world and instead put all of our focus into adapting to the Word!"
Christian keep in mind the enemy's ploy to pillage and destroy God's people, us. He hates us. He will use anything and anyone to get us in his clutches and plant seeds of fear. That includes the FDA, ADA, and every other governmental agency. Sound like a flu epidemic maybe? Talk about planting fear.
Our days are numbered, this I know. I also know that we can die before our time. I know the Lord has intentions for all of us, and if we go outside His will, then we have consequences. If we begin to lack faith and not trust, we start that walk outside of His will. He made us from the beginning to be intelligent beings. After all we were made in His image.
I don't do this research or try to stay healthy to lengthen my days. I do this because my Savior died at too great a price for me to not take care of what he allows me to possess. Certainly Jesus can use anyone, even from a hospital bed to proclaim the Great Commission. Yet how much greater if you can use your hands and feet to go out and share His love with others. People are hurting and they need to know Him.
Please know that I am only touching the surface with this information. I encourage you to be a Berean with the scriptures and to be an industrious investigator when it comes to your health. The Bible is the greatest health book around. If you are not a Christian, do search the Bible. If you think it's ludicrous, and this whole 6 days of Creation, and Jesus thing is a hoax, then be sure and do your research. I suggest opening up a bible, and the following websites may be helpful: www.blueletterbible.org and www.answersingenesis.org.
Health is a gift from God, preserve it, not worship it or your temple, but preserve it. In the book of Hosea 4:6 the Lord says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." Let us not be destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Here are a few websites to get you started, don't skip the starred ones:
* http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/Mini-Guide-to-Flu-&-Flu-Vaccines.pdf
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/06/why-you-should-not-vaccinate-your-children-against-the-flu-this-season.aspx
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060215vaccinesmercurydangers
* http://www.wariscrime.com/2009/08/31/news/historical-facts-about-the-dangers-of-vaccines/
http://www.rense.com/general86/dngers.htm
http://www.relfe.com/vaccine.html
* http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/vaccinations-the-hour-of-the-time.html
* http://www.vaccine-tlc.org/
http://www.vaccines.net/newpage114.htm
Vaccinations are always, always a hot topic. So close friends of mine and I were having a discussion about these interesting little viles of poison recently at their home, and I figured why not pop the ideas on here. So for the longest time in the land of the oblivious where one simply does what they are told without checking facts as long as the person wearing the white coat wasn't one with straps was giving me the information is where I lived.
This was before I ever equivocated that the way I eat, drink, and put things into mouth or blood stream ever had anything to do with my well being. Well, um, scratch that for a while I knew it made a difference, and thought I was healthy, but not to the degree that I do now. I simply believed what I was told by doctors, dentists, and the media. This too went for vaccinations.
I find myself now having to thank my sweet King Jesus for allowing me to walk through years of anorexia, 9 years of being on anti-depressants, 18 years of chronic migraines, nausea, a bout of vertigo, tension headaches, and a breast cancer scare to bring me to where I am today. Jesus you are truly healer! My prayer now is that the Lord would allow me to have the privilege of helping others in the body of Christ and their families to become good stewards of their health while here on Earth.
Back to vaccinations, so of course as a child, like most mainstream Americans I was taken to the pediatrician, my Mom handed over the little shot card, the nurse asked for an arm and boom it was over. My dose of mercury for the day taken care of...super! We're not even supposed to use thermometers with mercury, why are we pumping it into our veins?
I find it earth shatteringly scary that without questions asked simply because doctor so and so said it's the healthy thing to do that we willingly put huge doses of these toxic elements into our bodies and our children's without a second thought. Yet, yet, when my pastor stands at the pulpit and speaks truth from the Word of God, we question, we doubt, and we think oh no, it must not be true.
Truth be told for the longest time I was kind of on the fence about vaccinations. I didn't care either way. Now yes, both of my children, much to my regret have been fully vaccinated due to the insistence of their Dad. I just didn't know, and didn't take the time to educate myself. I never considered the radical hand shaking and manipulative money exchanging that goes on behind closed doors with doctors and pharmacists, dentists and toothpaste manufacturers, etc. I was just brought up to think if that if a person has letters after their name they must be correct.
In 2009 a close girlfriend began to talk to me at her house one night. She began to share about her son and how he had a reaction to the vaccinations as a newborn. He wound up with the flu then turned into pneumonia right after the vaccinations. When she called the nurse to say she was bringing him in, the nurse actually argued with her, told her it was impossible for a newborn baby to have the flu much less to have pneumonia with all of the mothers antibodies still in him. Well, guess what? She brought him in and sure enough her sweet little angel had pneumonia.
That really made me contemplate getting off of the fence. My wheels started turning here too because then I thought what if a mom's antibodies had been compromised due to her vaccinations as well? So she then maybe didn't have the healthiest things going on in her body. So even breastfeeding mothers defenses could be down, and they may not be passing the healthiest properties in the breast milk as mothers in the past. It only makes sense right, what goes in has to come out. I can't imagine that even breast milk is best if it is contaminated.
I then remembered my cousin who was perfectly fine when he was born. He was a little over a year old, and it was only after vaccinations he showed signs of mental retardation. So after a lot of thought, consideration, and prayer I'm off the fence. I've been on pro-vaccination websites, and websites against them as well. I'm currently reading Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? by Neil Miller. The numbers are astounding of the people harmed though vaccines. What is more inconceivable are the lies told.
So I started thinking about food allergies. They are on an all time high. Specifically I want to talk about egg allergies. Did you know that pediatricians say for babies not consume any eggs until at least 8 months of age to prevent food allergies, yet there is egg in our vaccines. Does that make sense? Aren't we setting them up for failure? Newborns get pumped with more vaccines than ever. First in the womb they get vaccinated through their moms. Then after they are born we load 'em up with some more shots. Their new little bodies have enough to adjust to just being born outside into this polluted world.
So we give them animal blood from monkeys, pigs, cows, guinea pigs, and rabbits in these vaccines. What I ask you could be the ramifications for this? In the book of Genesis 9:4-5 it says, "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood." We are commanded not to consume the blood of animals, yet it's in our vaccines. As if that wasn't enough there are human cells, including aborted fetal cells in at least 6-7 of the vaccines. Are you not disturbed yet?
Today our children are getting 49 doses of 14 different vaccines before they are age 6. I have never seen more incidences of ADD, ADHD, Autism, and Aspergers. We have more disease and cancers now than ever before. However, we have more foundations and societies trying to "find a cure" than ever as well. Surely you'd think someone somewhere with all of this technology would have found a cure by now. At least all of the walking is good exercise. We have that going for us. Hmmm, could that be more money being exchanged...okay, okay, we'll stick to vaccines.
I'm confident that we are not starting off on the right foot. There are just too many toxins going around between vaccines, genetically modified foods, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals in our foods, water, soil, and air. Sin has taken its toll for sure. In Psalm 139:14 the Psalmist, David states that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I believe that to be true. I also believe we reap what we sow.
People put more hope in modern medicine than they do in God. Funny, we're more apt to trust what is ever-changing and making mistakes, rather than the one who is the omnipresent alpha and omega...stunning. In Health According to the Scriptures, author Paul Nison says, "If we talk to Yahweh on a consistent basis and stay focused on His Word and our promise, along with having faith in Him always, we will overcome all evil, sickness, and disease! We should no longer continue to adapt to the world and instead put all of our focus into adapting to the Word!"
Christian keep in mind the enemy's ploy to pillage and destroy God's people, us. He hates us. He will use anything and anyone to get us in his clutches and plant seeds of fear. That includes the FDA, ADA, and every other governmental agency. Sound like a flu epidemic maybe? Talk about planting fear.
Our days are numbered, this I know. I also know that we can die before our time. I know the Lord has intentions for all of us, and if we go outside His will, then we have consequences. If we begin to lack faith and not trust, we start that walk outside of His will. He made us from the beginning to be intelligent beings. After all we were made in His image.
I don't do this research or try to stay healthy to lengthen my days. I do this because my Savior died at too great a price for me to not take care of what he allows me to possess. Certainly Jesus can use anyone, even from a hospital bed to proclaim the Great Commission. Yet how much greater if you can use your hands and feet to go out and share His love with others. People are hurting and they need to know Him.
Please know that I am only touching the surface with this information. I encourage you to be a Berean with the scriptures and to be an industrious investigator when it comes to your health. The Bible is the greatest health book around. If you are not a Christian, do search the Bible. If you think it's ludicrous, and this whole 6 days of Creation, and Jesus thing is a hoax, then be sure and do your research. I suggest opening up a bible, and the following websites may be helpful: www.blueletterbible.org and www.answersingenesis.org.
Health is a gift from God, preserve it, not worship it or your temple, but preserve it. In the book of Hosea 4:6 the Lord says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." Let us not be destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Here are a few websites to get you started, don't skip the starred ones:
* http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/Mini-Guide-to-Flu-&-Flu-Vaccines.pdf
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/06/why-you-should-not-vaccinate-your-children-against-the-flu-this-season.aspx
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060215vaccinesmercurydangers
* http://www.wariscrime.com/2009/08/31/news/historical-facts-about-the-dangers-of-vaccines/
http://www.rense.com/general86/dngers.htm
http://www.relfe.com/vaccine.html
* http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/vaccinations-the-hour-of-the-time.html
* http://www.vaccine-tlc.org/
http://www.vaccines.net/newpage114.htm
Monday, October 3, 2011
New Recipes, and More
Wow, so the excitement of fall is certainly buzzing around here. The leaves are starting to turn colors, and the wonderful fall veggies are at the farmers market. Today I picked up butternut squash to make some vegetarian tacos, turnips to make mashed turnips and parsnips (will let you know how they turn out this week), one white and one dark purple eggplant for something wonderful, oh and my favorite 3 pie pumpkins. I enjoy making my own pumpkin puree for pies, cookies, muffins, breads, and pancakes.
Tonight was a night for new recipes. I featured my not completely new, but new enough kale salad (new because of the dressing), Eggs Pomodoro (really delish and featured in the picture), and gluten free donuts (still working on these, tasted good, but needs work). I will definitely feature the Eggs Pomodoro in one of my cooking classes. Stay tuned for those details, classes start soon.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Washing Your Produce
So as I was coasting through my online forum for school I noticed someone's question about washing their fruits and veggies. She asked how to wash them, and if she needed to wash the organic ones. I thought I'd put below what I do for anyone reading this blog that has the same questions.
I wash both my conventional and organic fruits/veggies. Animals still pee and poop on the organics, and people still touch them. I make my own fruit/veggie wash. I do it two ways. I have a spray bottle that I purchased from Walmart. When I find a BPA free spray bottle I'll switch to that as well. I do one part filtered water, one part white vinegar, a tsp of baking soda, and a tsp of fresh lemon juice.
Mix this in a large bowl in the sink so that it doesn't spill over and make a mess. Then using a funnel pour into the spray bottle. That's great for individual pieces of fruit. For several pieces I use the solution in a larger amount in one of those dish buckets for the sink. Really I just eyeball it. Then I place all of the fruit in there, let it soak for 10-15 minutes, and then dry them off to put them in my fridge or fruit bowl.
Fruit and veggies don't last long around here, so I do wash it right away. Some people say not to wash until you're ready to use it, but we're always ready ;) I have two hungry boys.
I wash both my conventional and organic fruits/veggies. Animals still pee and poop on the organics, and people still touch them. I make my own fruit/veggie wash. I do it two ways. I have a spray bottle that I purchased from Walmart. When I find a BPA free spray bottle I'll switch to that as well. I do one part filtered water, one part white vinegar, a tsp of baking soda, and a tsp of fresh lemon juice.
Mix this in a large bowl in the sink so that it doesn't spill over and make a mess. Then using a funnel pour into the spray bottle. That's great for individual pieces of fruit. For several pieces I use the solution in a larger amount in one of those dish buckets for the sink. Really I just eyeball it. Then I place all of the fruit in there, let it soak for 10-15 minutes, and then dry them off to put them in my fridge or fruit bowl.
Fruit and veggies don't last long around here, so I do wash it right away. Some people say not to wash until you're ready to use it, but we're always ready ;) I have two hungry boys.
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