delightful "dates"

When you badly need a snack late at night, this is the one!.

Recipe

1 cup of vanilla soy milk.
4 or 5 chopped dates
1 banana sliced

Blend the ingredients for a couple of minutes and enjoy it. If you are trying to loose weight, this is not the one, sorry.

Late Night "Date" Congee

Late Night "Date" Congee:

• 1 cup of brown rice congee
• 1 third cup of chopped dates
• 3 tbsp of fresh ginger finely chopped

Combine ingredients and bake in a baking dish for 20 minutes.

                 

Delicious and very healthy

Multicolor Tortilla Wrap

Multicolor Tortilla Wrap: 

• 1 large carrot sliced
• 1 plantain sliced
• 1 cup of purple cabbage sliced
• 1 half Spanish onion chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
• 1 tbsp of grated fresh ginger
• 1 half cup  of soy beans cooked
• 1 sweet red pepper
• a pinch of sea salt
• 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
• 4 whole wheat tortillas

    

1. Steam carrots and plantain for 10 minutes
2. Saute onion, garlic and cabbage in oil, stirring constantly 
3. Add the rest of the ingredients, mix and cook for 5 minutes
4. Warm up the tortillas
5. Spoon the mix on tortillas and wrap
6. Serve immediately

congee

What is congee?

         Congee is a rice porridge used in China and other Eastern countries as a breakfast food. Basically use a handful of brown rice and cook it in six parts of water. Bring it to boil, cover it and cook it at the lowest flame or setting for 5 or 6 hours. The longest you cook it the more powerful it becomes.

         This simple food is easily digested and assimilated, tonifies the blood and is nourishing. Since rice strengthens the spleen-pancreas digestive center, by adding other foods to the congee, their nutritive value will be enhanced.

• Use  congee instead of rice with fish and vegetables.
• Add to vegetable burger's mix.
• Use it to make sushi.
• Mix congee with yogurt and honey as a late night snack. 

      Be creative.

soups

pumpkin and ginger magik

• 1/2 cup a mixed of split yellow peas, split green peas and split red lentils
• two cups of pumpkin, diced
• 1/4 cup of ginger, grated
• 1 cup of cabbage, chopped
• 1 leaf of kale, chopped
• about 1/3 cup of seaweed (arame and kelp)
• 6 to 8 cups of water
• parsley to garnish       

• place split peas mix in water, bring to boil, cover, lower the heat and cook for30 minutes'
• in the meantime soak seaweed in water for 15 minutes
• add vegetables including seaweed to the split peas and simmer for 25 minutes or until peas and vegetables are tender
• serve and garnish with chopped parsley.

some recipes

witch's potion

   1 cup of red cabbage, shredded                   
    1/3 cup of ginger,sliced
    3 medium size beets,sliced
    1 sweet potato
    6 baby carrots
    2 plantains, sliced
    4 garlic cloves
    seaweed (kelp and wakame)
    6 to 8 cups of water

• bring water to boil
• add ginger, beets, sweet potato and kelp
• cook for 10 minutes
• add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 25 minutes
• sprinkle with chopped cilantro

 personally I like to add seaweed to my soups, it replaces salt very nicely and as you'll find out in our next post, seaweed is rich in minerals and chlorophyll.