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Thai Sweet Potato Noodle and Delicata Squash Soup
With the fall comes beautiful fall foliage, crisp cool air, football, apples and most of all winter squash. Squash is indigenous to North America and there are roughly 15 different types of winter squash. The most popular winter squash that most people already know is pumpkin. Name a food item and around this time of the year, nine times out of ten there’s a pumpkin flavor of it. Pumpkin is great but there’s so many other winter squash varieties that…
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Is Soy Healthy?
To soy or not to soy, this has been a question deliberating in my mind for quite some time and while waiting in line at a neighborhood bakery the answer became very clear. And that answer is a resounding NOT. Looking at the baked goods at this particular bakery I was taken aback their pictures showing soy as an ingredient in cupcakes, cakes, muffins even croissants. When did this switch from butter to soy happen everywhere? And why? Going into a…
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Plant Based Gluten-Free Matcha Mini Muffins
My love for matcha is pretty deep. Not only do I drink it every morning and afternoon, I find myself dreaming of different ways I can use this wonderful blessed, magical, spiritually uplifting, energizing yet calming green goddess of goodness. (Yes, I think of matcha as a female. 😊) So far I’ve written a couple of posts on matcha, how I make my lattes linked here, as well as the benefits of matcha linked here. Since not being able to drink coffee due…
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Plant Based Sweet Potato Cheesecake with Gingerbread Hemp Crust
It’s taken me a while to perfect this recipe but all in all I think it came out extremely well! It’s a nice fall dessert and definitely something that could be served during the holidays. The star of this cheesecake besides the sweet potatoes is cashews. Cashews provide a nice creamy substitute for dairy. They are also high in protein, copper, which helps red blood cell count and immune system activation and vitamin K which is great for bone and…
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Super Easy Delicious Hemp Seed Butter
Peanut butter and I were really good friends at one time. We use to meet up at least once a day for lunch, sometimes after dinner for dessert and then there were times we would occasionally just hook up for a snack. The relationship was fun while it lasted but there was a point in time we had to cut ties. I just couldn’t tolerate peanut butter any more. After we would get together I just didn’t feel good. Because…
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Let’s Talk About Hemp!
I don’t know why but for some reason the song “Let’s Talk About Sex” by Salt n Pepa kept playing in my head while preparing to write this post. When I think about it, it actually flows pretty well replacing the word “sex” with hemp. I could revamp the whole song and go on a national hemp tour with it. “Let’s talk about hemp, Baby. Let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things, all the…
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Plant Based French Toast
Being plant based means you don’t have to miss out on foods you use to enjoy. You can enjoy those foods and so much more and be healthy at the same time.. One of the foods I enjoyed all the time was french toast. Finding a way to eat french toast again without animal products was not as challenging as I thought thanks to chickpeas. By using chickpea flour I was able to recreate french toast and not only have…
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Clean Energy Drink- Yerba Mate
Rounding out the clean energy drinks series is none other than…..and it was mentioned briefly in the last post.….is….Yerba Mate!!! Yerba Mate is a drink I’ve been drinking for a little while now. I alternate it with matcha (even though lately I’ve been drinking more matcha than yerba mate). Like guayusa, yerba mate is from the species of the plant holly. So basically they’re like cousins. They both have a very similar taste however guayusa is sweeter. With yerba…
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Triple H Peach Smoothie
There’s nothing like making smoothies with fresh summer fruit. Peaches are summer fruit that takes me back to when I was a child growing up near farms. I always knew I was deep in the summer months when I saw peaches appearing in the markets and on farm stands. My memory of summer peaches is the inspiration for this delicious, nutritious and filling smoothie recipe. The Peach Peaches are native to China and was a fruit favorited by the…
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Clean Energy Drink- Guayusa
Continuing with our Clean Energy Drink series next up is a new plant I just recently became aware of, that being Guayusa (gwhy-u-sa). Trying new things in the plant, herb family is always exciting especially when they turn out to be delicious. During my travels I tried guayusa for my first time as a tea. I was doing a long distance drive and needed something to give me a pick me up. My normal drink is matcha but after talking…
