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Bulk Cooking – Spring Week 1: Crushing Garlic | Mincing Cilantro | Sustitutions
Share| Crushing Garlic You’ve probably noticed that I indicate to ‘crush’ garlic at the beginning of the recipes and bulk cooking sessions. This serves two purposes: Crushed garlic is SO much easier to peel – just gently press the BACK of a large knife down on the unpeeled clove, the peel will just ‘peel’ right off (pictured below) Crushing it and allowing it to sit 5-15 minutes maximizes the allium content in the garlic (the bioactive compound that reduces inflammation and boosts are immunity). These sulphur compounds are inactive before the cells of the garlic are ‘damaged’. This ‘damage’ that we induce...
Read MoreFresh Farmers Cheese: A Cultured Alternative to Cream Cheese | Heat & Probiotics Don’t Mix
Share|Fresh Farmers Cheese – Easier to Digest, A Source of Probiotics I include fresh farmers cheese in each seasonal meal planning kit, and it continually draws a lot of questions. Farmers cheese is a ‘fresh’ cheese and can be found near the cottage cheese or cream cheeses. There are hard varieties now available (looks very similar to white cheddar cheese), but I recommend the fresh, soft varieties. Fresh varieties can be easier to digest and contain probiotics (the good bacteria in our intestines that help strengthen our digestion and increase our immunity). Ask Your Store to Carry It Ask your local grocery store to order fresh farmers cheese...
Read MoreGetting Started – Customer Q’s: New Meal Plan Each Month or Repeat, Are All Seasons Available Now
Share| New With Questions – Getting Started with the Meal Plan * I’m assuming the Winter menu is repeated each month or do you provide a different monthly packet each month? I’m trying to figure out if we will be doing this same ritual next month or if there will be new stuff to figure out. Each seasonal kit includes a suggested 4 week meal plan. At week 5, you can either repeat and start the 4 week plan over; or, what is more probable, is that you will create your own weekly plan which includes the recipes that worked best for you. By week 5, my hope is that you will have gone through the 4 guided bulk cooking sessions and then graduate to learning...
Read MoreEveryday Greens Mix (Kale, Watercress, Spinach, Lettuce): 3 Easy Methods, No More Excuses
Share| The Secret to Easily Eat Greens Everyday: Always have greens cleaned and ready to grab Get in the habit of having a handful at each meal (even one a day is a respectable start) If you wait until after you walk in the door at 5:30 to clean and prep that kale you bought two days ago – you aren’t going to do it. If you think the only way to eat greens is by having a cold salad everyday – you aren’t going to do it. Greens like kale, collards, Swiss chard, and watercress are far from just for salad anymore. I shared a few ideas in an early post about how easy it can be to add something green to each meal. This is what I love about the...
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