Posted in Health, Raw, Recipe, Smart Choices, Snack on May 18th, 2010
Kale chips for healthy skin? Hey-ha-ha-hey now? That’s right my sista and brotha-friends. It’s all fine and nice to bathe in organ cleansing detox herbs, to soak in the goodness of coconut oil through the pours and bounce on a trampoline to shake and shimmy out the toxins. Let me tell you that no amount of bouncing, soaking or moisturizing is going to clean up your complexion if you’re still eating crappola.
Now, obviously in the tutorial coming out tomorrow, (Wahoozles once again!) I go into much more deets about the hair and skin feeding nutrients and foods we need but here is a little preview to tantalize your tastebuds and organs of elimination/detox pathways.
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Posted in Raw, Recipe, Side Dish, Snack on May 7th, 2010
And now for way three I wanted to combine a few of my favourite snack foods. I love Nori, I love a warm cup of miso soup. I think anything with sesame seeds tastes great and tamari can give almost anything a little flair. Oh, and I love kale chips.
That is how I came up with Way Three of my Kale Chips Adventure. I like to call these Macro-Japan Kale Chips. Sea veggies, miso, sesame oil, tamari, sesame seeds- if those are macrobiotic friendly and traditional Japanese foods than… Than nothing, because they are and either way- I make up the rules here.
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Posted in Dips, Raw, Recipe, Sauces, Snack, Wellbeing on Apr 30th, 2010
I have been totally obsessed with kale chips. It started up again after that event I went to a few weeks back and sampled some of the best Kale chips of my life. I have since been trying all kinds of different, delicious toppings and every single one has been a delicious hit. I have realized that you can pretty much put any thing on these awesome, dry them out and voila- you have the perfect crunchy delicious and oh so healthy substitute for chips.
So consider this Way Two of Kale Chips 5 Ways. You can find Way One here and the rest will be following over the coming weeks. To tantalize your taste buds- we’ve got an Asian Macrobiotic Sesame chip, A Sour Cream and Onion (with neither sour cream, nor onion) and a Spicey Nacho Cheese (again- no nachos or cheese). And wow are they all fantastic and if you are free this Sunday, you can sample one of the many awesome varieties I have been coming up.
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Posted in Bread/Cracker, Health, Raw, Recipe, Snack on Mar 31st, 2010
Yes, flaxseeds made the cut to fall into the Everyday Superfoods category in the brand shiny new tutorial coming out tomorrow. Why did they make the cut? Because they are awesome-town worthy.
Not only are flaxseeds incredibly rich in omega 3 essential fatty acids, the oil has a phytoestrogen effect that can help us balance out the old cycle, they are very rich in fibre, plus they have that boogery mucilage component to them. As with okra and aloe, that slime factor is incredibly nourishing to the cells that line our intestinal tract. They feed these cells and the better nourished these cells are, the better they are able to absorb the nutrients from our food, thus the better nourished we are as a whole. The mucilage in flaxseeds is also delightfully healing to any gut irritation or inflammation. It therefore makes for a very gentle fibre as the combo of the soluble and insoluble fibre plus the snot-like mucilage helps it all slip right on out efficiently and regularly.
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Posted in Recipe, Snack on Jan 26th, 2010
Now I bring you one of my newest and favourite ‘why-didn’t-I-think-of-that?’ recipes: Coconut chips. I can tell you right now why I didn’t think of this. It’s because coconuts don’t grow on trees where I come from and so we don’t use this super-powered food as filler in everything as they do down in the [...]
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Posted in Recipe, Sauces, Snack, Wellbeing on Nov 6th, 2009
Nothing says apple quite like autumn. Wait! Did I get that backwards. Nope. No I sure didn’t. It’s true. In Canada, autumn and apples go hand-in-hand. Hand-in hand like ginger and hazelnuts, like sesame seeds and pomegranates, like flaxseed and blueberries, like cranberries and almonds, like pumpkin seeds and raisins and like apples and oats. [...]
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When I posted photos of my shiny happy completed kitchen, I received a comment asking if my fridge is always so organized. A week later, I would have to say yes. Yes it is. I like going to the market, I like buying pretty vegetables and I like getting them all ready to eat and [...]
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What I hold here, my minty fresh friends, is a great big bundle of freshly harvested mint and wow did it smell amazing. This past weekend I was with my friend Josh at his cottage on Lake Simcoe when he proudly boasted that he knew of a mint patch that was ready to be harvested. [...]
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Probiotics are the good guys; the good bacteria we need in our gut that help to keep us healthy. They support healthy digestion and healthy immunity. They live in the intestines and all too often are outta wack. Use of antibiotics, and diets high in processed sugary foods and low fibre are the ultimate hot [...]
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In honour of one of Toronto most vibrant festivals of the year, Scotiabank Caribana Festival, this week is dedicated to the flavours and spirit of the part of the world I love best, the Caribbean. This is guava fruit growing on a tree in St. Lucia, actually, on the very grounds where my retreat will [...]
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