How to Guide: Easy healthy meals for the week...

Ever wondered how to buy everything you need for one week of delicious EASY nutritious meals? Tired of spending too much grocery shopping just to have rotting food in the fridge? Staring aimlessly at each aisle trying to piece together a meal plan? I’ve sooo been there, and I’ve finally developed a system! Relax, not one of the following meals even require an oven! I plan to do more of these, so make sure you...

Endive Quinoa Recipe...

The Endive/Quinoa Recipe Today, I decided to do something a little different with the endives. I lined my dish with them in a pretty circular pattern (they are so beautifully shaped too! And fun to peel away!) making my dish look like an open flower. I think decorating (with) your food is very important. It makes it taste 10 times better, let’s you work up an appetite, and those who think they don’t like eating...

Dr. Simm's Smoothie Recipes...

Dr. Simm is an Acupuncture Physician and my first health guru! You can learn a lot from her Q+A article on On Weight Maintenance and Aging. Her two favorite smoothie recipes packed with healing superpower are: 7 Magical herb veggie blend: Any veggie based juice (Carrot, Celery, Red Peppers, Beet, etc. -your take!) with the following magical herbs: parsley cilantro garlic ginger basil rosemary mint (understand that...

The Magic Un-Grain...

I often get traffic from the phrase “What Goes Good with Quinoa.” Never mind that this is grammatically incorrect; I write a lot about quinoa and it is a large part of my diet. I wanted to give the searching people even more about ‘what goes good with quinoa.’ I have many recipes for quinoa that are totally delicious! Here are All my posts about Quinoa: Endive Madness (aka Quinoa Recipe) Nutritional Info...

Dive into Endives...

I don’t know what has gotten in to me lately, but for the past few months I absolutely have to eat Belgium Endives at least once a week! Every time I go grocery shopping they look at me and say, “You know you can’t leave me here!” (Those endives, they’re very fresh…) They’re bitter and I seem to crave that bitter taste. I combine it with agave nectar or honey, balsamic vinaigrette, green apples or...

Nutritional Info on Quinoa and How to Prepare it...

photo by mellowfood By now, you’ve all heard of quinoa (pronounced kin-wa.) The Incans referred to quinoa as “the mother of all grains,” even though it’s actually not exactly a grain but a member of the beet family. In ancient times, quinoa was THE number one nutritional food staple that gave warriors stamina. Quinoa has a light, fluffy texture when cooked, and its mild, slightly nutty flavor makes it...