pink hummus quesadillas . . . yum!
My friend Cheryl was all excited the other day about this recipe she made up. I played with it some because it had no measurements, made the hummus sprouted/live, and my family loves it–enjoy! Pink Hummus Quesadillas If you fry these until barely crispy on both sides, the live, sprouted nutrition [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →sweet potato fries
So I wrote recently about the fabulous raw sweet potato spears you can get at Costo now! And even though I rolled my eyes at the lady on the way out of the store who told me to DEEP FRY THEM, it did give me an idea. I put ¼ cup of coconut [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →okay, okay! here’s the recipe!
To everyone emailing me wanting the recipe NOW, alright already! I was going to post it tonight, but I wouldn’t want to hold you back from beet heaven. Chocolate Beet Cake This cake is great for birthdays and parties. My kids beg for this decadent but [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →health benefits of flax
Today I start blogging, in several parts, on good fats. Hopefully Myth #3 of my Nutrition Manifesto has convinced you to get plenty of good fats in your diet every day? This week, I’ll post a new YouTube vid showing how to make Flax-Veggie crackers to address ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS, today’s and tomorrow’s [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →a day in the life . . .
Q: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, I’m trying to figure out what to feed my family, now that we’re committed to eating right, so I’m wondering what your family eats every day. Could you just give me like a “day in the life . . .”? A: Sure. It’s not that this is the ultimate [...]
13 Comments • Continue Reading →Nutrition activity for kids
Need a nutrition activity for kids? Have them watch my new three-minute green smoothie demo on YouTube. If you like it, give me five stars so I can bump out all those weird and totally inferior green smoothie demos. I wonder how fast YOU could do it if you weren’t talking the [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →It just keeps giving! On extending the life of the garden—
It’s going to freeze any night now, and I’m leaving town, so we undertook a family project today to bring in most of the remaining garden crops. Since I quit putting up sugar-added, processed food in jars years ago, I’ve learned new ideas to preserve nutritional value in my garden’s yield. Here’s how [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →The zucchini recipes my daughter Libby bragged about
My zucchini hater Libby (age 10) apparently said I would tell you my zucchini fritter and zucchini bread recipes, so here they are (I also have my two very favorite zucchini recipes, whole-wheat zucchini pitas and zucchini carpaccio, in my $7.95 collection): ZUCCHINI BREAD 3 eggs, beaten – 1 Tbsp. vanilla — 1 cup coconut [...]
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