5 Juicing Recipes for Health
New year, new you? No? Me either! Actually, I don’t do new year’s resolutions because they are temporary, and unless they are aligned to my greater goals, what’s the point? I do goal planning annually, and review the actions I need to take regularly to achieve them. One of the things I set my sites on long ago was to improve my health. Not the fitness kind of health (although, that’s part of a it), but the nutritional side.
If you know my story, I had a lot of healing to do. To boost my nutritional intake to give my body what it needed so that it could perform its healing magic, I started juicing. I bought my first juicer, and started experimenting. I was fortunate to have my family members willing to try out my juicing concoctions, too, and we’d rate how we did or did not like each recipe, and then adjust it accordingly.
In fact, our favorite is this green juice (surprised?)! Never, ever, did I think this would be “a thing” for me,...
Black Bean Chili Recipe for Warm Comfort
Do you ever just get tired, and not feel like cooking for dinner? Busy momma's, I know you're out there! I love making big batches of soup so that I can have leftovers for those days I just don't feel like cooking after a long day of work! Enter.... Black Bean Chili recipe! It's the dinner recipe you didn't know you needed, but now you want, right? Let's assemble the ingredients, shall we?
- 1 Tbsp Avocado Oil
- 1 Yellow Onion
- 1 Jalepeno Pepper (optional: seeds removed and finely chopped)
- 4 Garlic cloves
- 3 Tbsp Taco Seasoning
- 2 Tsp cacao powder (or substitute cocoa powder)
- 2 Tbsp Tomato Paste
- 4 Cups Black Beans (cooked)
- 1 1/2 cups Fire Roasted Tomatoes
- 2 cups Vegetable broth
- Sea salt and black pepper, to taste
1. Heat the oil in a pot over medium heat. Add the onions and jalapeno and cook for about five minutes or until the onion begins to soften. Stir in the garlic, taco seasoning, and cocoa powder, and cook for another minute
2. Add the tomato paste and black beans and...