Kale/Mango salad

Kale/Mango salad

1 bunch kale (black kale is especially good!) stalks removed, leaves thinly sliced
juice of 1 lemon
1/4 c. extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
kosher salt
2 t. honey
freshly ground black pepper
1 mango, dices small
small handful toasted pepitas

In a large serving bowl, add the kale, half the lemon juice, drizzle of oil and a little kosher slat. Massage until the kale starts to soften and wilt, 2-3 minutes. Set aside while you make the dressing.

In a small bowl, whisk the remaining lemon juice with the honey and lots of freshly ground black pepper. stream in the 1/4 c. of oil while whisking until a dressing forms, and you like how it tastes.

Pour the dressing over the kale and add the mango and pepitas. Toss & serve.

Try it soon – you’ll LOVE it! my kids both can’t get enough of it, and there’s no other way in the world either of them would eat kale!

Credit to our OMazing webmaster for www.oyusadallasfest.com
And
Aarti Sequeira of Food Network!

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Uncle Randy’s Salsa

What do I do with all these tomatoes and peppers from my garden?
Take:

6 large tomatoes
1 jalapeno; small pepper no seeds (or a banana pepper if you don’t want it too spicy, use one hotter pepper to increase heat)
A small onion; quartered
1/4 cup of fresh cilantro chopped well
1 tsp Uncle Randy’s Not too spicy
1/8 tsp Uncle Randy’s Spicy Spicy
(or use season salt and garlic powder)
1/8 tsp Cumin

Using a food processor pulse tomatoes and onion until chunky. Add in your peppers. Pulse until smoother but not soupy. add cilantro and spices. Pulse briefly to combine.

Refrigerate for an hour. Serve with flat Pretzel Crisps.

Delicious!

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How to cut a pineapple 101

Choosing your fruit:
Select a pineapple that is darker in color; it gets dark due to the higher sugar content.
Smell the bottom and look for a fruit with a delicious aroma.
If its not apparent sit the fruit in your counter a fee days. A good sign of a ripe fruit us fruit flies hanging around it.

To cut:
Use a bread knife.
Cut the top off close to the spiny leaves.

how to cut a pineapple

How to cut a pineapple

Set on the bottom and slice 3″ sections off the sides, rotating as you go.
Go back and slice thin pieces off where a lot if the brown husk remains.
You don’t have to remove all of the brown or you’ll waste too much fruit.
Turn on the side.
Slice The bottom off.
Compost all the waste.
Slice into 1″ rings.

Pineapple, peaches and banana kale for a great smoothie recipe!

Cut rings in half.
Get a pairing knife and cut a half circle out of each slice.
You may cut into small wedges or leave in half slices.
Enjoy!

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Parsley, Kale, and Berry Smoothie

Parsley, Kale, and Berry Smoothie (2 servings)
Submitted by Yogini Cathy N.

Puree 1/2 cup (packed) flat-leaf parsley (leaves and stems), 4 kale leaves (center ribs removed), 1 cup frozen organic berries (such as strawberries, raspberries, mango, peaches, pineapple), 1 banana, 1 teaspoon ground flaxseed (optional), and 1 cup juice (such as pineapple). Blend until smooth.
The parsley provides anti-inflammatory properties (helpful for arthritis!), boosts your immune system, and may help protect against everything from colds to cancer.

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Easter Bunny Salads from my Nana Banana

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This recipe was always a family favorite because the little bunny salads make the Easter table so cute and festive!
We always had a formal down dinner with full China, where we still had our church clothes on. My nana would meticulously create these for each guest on a China salad plate. I really love the formality mixed with the fun.
Now as my family and in laws grow we don’t have formal Easter meals but all still get together to eat, visit and laugh together.

For this recipe you will need;
4 cans of pear halves
Carrots, julienne sliced, about 1″ long
Mini marshmallows
Almonds, raw
Cloves, whole
Jello, large box lime green
Unsweetened coconut shavings (optional)

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Make the jello using package quick set directions. Pour into a nonstick
Large baking sheet and refrigerate 30 minutes.
Dry pear halves with a paper towel an all pear halves Facing the same way in rows on the green Jello; wide side is the tail.
( if doing individual servings then serve jello first into each salad plate, otherwise leave on pan)

Assemble your bunnies:
Jello for the grass
Almonds for ears, point up, close together or they look like mice
Cloves for eyes- don’t eat!
Carrot noses
Mini marshmallow tails.
You can use red hots for the noses too.
We sprinkled coconut on some.

Present to your table. Enjoy!!

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Super Tangy Kiwi Cherry Green Smoothie

Happy Spring!
To start this day off right I created this Über yummy green meal.

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Start with:
1 mango (or frozen mango cubes)
3 kiwi, peeled
Cherries, dark, sweet; 1 large handful frozen or fresh pitted
2 kale leaves
3/4 C Greek yogurt, plain (optional) if vegan use 1-2 C almond milk and reduce juice
2 1/2 C Organic unfiltered apple juice

Then add:
1 scoop Juice Plus Complete Powder (or vegan protein) plus
4 capsules each, Juice Plus whole food Orchard, Garden and Vineyard blend- contents only, no caps

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May add a cup of ice cubes. Blend in a high horsepower blender. (I use Living Well by Montel. )
Enjoy!

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Green Tea Raspberry Irish Green Smoothie

Happy St Patty’s Day! Here’s my newest super green recipe! Enjoy!

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Add to high powered blender:
(all organic if possible, as I always recommend)
1 banana, fresh or frozen
1 3/4 C frozen raspberries, or 2 C fresh
3 C fresh spinach
2 T hemp seeds (hulled, you can buy it thus way)
1 C organic unfiltered apple juice
1 1/2 C Almond milk, unsweetened
Protein Powder, vegan, I chose Source of Life Mixed Berry for more flavor (
I regularly use Juice Plus Complete vanilla or Arbonne Vanilla)

Blend on 7 (out of 8 which gets very frothy) for 1 minute.

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Then add Organic Coconut Oil to increase your intake of good fats. This also makes you satisfied and full.

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Brew two cups of organic green tea, add ice to the cups to top off and add to blender.

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Enjoy your Green Tea Smoothie with a friend or your kids!

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