Cooking: Healthy!
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No-Bake Chocolate Quinoa Date Balls With Nuts, The Perfect Summer Treat!
After Passover I had quite a few dates and almonds that really needed to be used up, and I remembered the chocolate almond date balls recipe from years past. I made this as a dessert for husband and myself when there were no guests for shabbat, and he just loved the balls, as they can…
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Harvest Your Own Rose Hips And Benefit From Their Amazing Qualities!
I have large white rose standards (a rose bush grafted onto a trunk to give a certain formal look that roses don’t generally have) planted in a large built in container at the entrance to our home, and since I am generally very diligent about trimming off spent blooms, I almost never see rose hips…
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Hexagon Orange Juice Bites
This Passover we are enjoying the simplest yet oh so delicious treat, hexagon orange juice bites, frozen of course! What can I tell you? Passover is the time for eating fresh and basic food, and with many opting not to purchase processed food, or the bare minimum, squeezing your own juice and making some shaped…
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Chocolate Almond Date Balls Are No Bake And Healthy As Can Be!
Passover is sadly coming to an end, and we have one last shabbat (those outside of Isreal have 2 days of holiday) to enjoy matzo (we enjoy it!) with all the homemade Moroccan salads that taste especially amazing on Passover. I’m looking in my pantry and I discover that i bought tons of dates, in…
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How To Sprout Mung Beans And Use Them In A Colorful Salad!
We are all relieved to say goodbye to 2020, though the silver lining is that is gave many of us the chance to try some new things, and for me one of those things is sprouting! Now that I’ve got a bit of experience under my belt, I just had to share with you our…
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Homemade Almond Milk Tastes SO Much Better
Yes, indeed dear readers, there is no comparison between store bought almond milk and homemade almond milk, well at least not the various brands of almond milk i have tried. I have been making my own almond milk on and off for about five years, and lately for the last three or so months. You…
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Lacto-Fermented Pickled Vegetables Are Healthy And Delicious!
Fermented foods like pickled vegetables, sourdough bread, kombucha tea, kefir and yogurt, to name a few, are all great ways to eat healthy pro-biotic foods in order to colonize your gut with good things. One of the interesting and really important things that I learned towards the end of 2016 is what a major role…
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The Best Chicken Soup Recipe Ever With Lots Of Vegetables But No White Potatoes!
Photo courtesy of Bon Appetite, check out their chicken noodle soup recipe. Last Friday afternoon as I was preparing our meals for shabbat, (and taking note of the cold weather forecast) I decided to whip up a big pot of chicken soup as the main course, and the results were so delicious I just had…
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Sugar Free Biscotti With Dried Fruit And Nuts
I love biscotti, what can I say, but I don’t love the idea of eating a cookie packed with sugar and wheat, even if it is low-fat, as most biscotti are. So, I decided it was time to come up with a sugar free biscotti recipe, even though I’m not exactly an expert baker! Experimenting…
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Moroccan Matbucha Cooked Tomato Salad
Matbucha, said with a gutteral “ch” is a cooked tomato relish, that is cooked for many hours over a low flame, and whose recipe differs greatly depending on whom you ask! Here in Israel it is called a “salad” and is a universal dish eaten with challah at the shabbat table, together with an array…
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Cruciferous Vegetable Salad With Carrot Hearts
Have you heard the news about cruciferous vegetables and their wonderful health benefits? They have properties that enable one to greatly fight the preventive war against cancer, and so everyone should eat them daily. The good news is that the list is quite extensive and varied, and even for those like me that have to…
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Radish Roses And Carrot Hearts
Come to think of it, there is really nothing all that caring about giving your loved ones all kinds of food colored and sugar coated treats just to show your love on a commercial holiday, is there? Okay, I know, I know, the pressure in on to conform, and if a bunch of people are…