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Roasted Beet Salad

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ROASTED BEETS SALAD

For the Beets

1 bunch medium beets (about 3)

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

For the Salad

10 ounces mixed greens (I like a blend of frisée, radicchio and mesclun)

3 ounces goat cheese

1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped

For the Vinaigrette

2 tablespoons honey

1-1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1-1/2 tablespoons minced shallots

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

6 tablespoons vegetable oil

Drizzle the beets with olive oil and wrap them up in aluminum foil. Roast them directly on the oven rack for about an hour. You’ll know they’re done when you can easily pierce them with a knife.

Let them cool, then peel the skin and cut into chunks.You can wear gloves if you want to prevent your hands from turning temporarily pink but I never bother.

The rest of the salad is a breeze. For the vinaigrette, combine the honey, Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, oil, shallots, salt and pepper in a jar and shake to...

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Quinoa Kale Avocado Meal

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Ingredients:

1 cup uncooked quinoa

2 cups water

Pinch of Himalayan salt

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

Zest from 1 medium lemon

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Fresh cracked black pepper,

3 cups chopped kale

1 large avocado

How to Make It:

Combine the quinoa, water in a medium saucepan. Bring the water to a boil, and after the water begins to boil, reduce the heat to low and cover the pan.

Gently simmer, covered, for 15 minutes (there may still be some water not yet absorbed). Remove from heat.

Keeping the pan covered, let it stand for 5 minutes, or until the remaining water is absorbed.

Remove the lid and gently fluff the quinoa. Set aside to cool.

In a bowl, whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lemon zest, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper. Set aside.

In a large bowl, toss together the cooked quinoa, kale and avocado. Toss with the dressing, and serve at room temperature or chilled.

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Potatoes Casserolette

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Ingredients

250gr. Organic pork belly

200gr mushrooms

2 potatoes or sweet potatoes

1 red onion

100gr parmegiano

100gr mozzarella

salt, pepper, olive oil

Containers, you can use a muffin pan or containers like the photos.

Directions

Sauté the pork belly in a pan without oil until the fat from the same belly almost disappears from the meat. At the mean time warm up the oven to 350 degrees.

In the same fat sauté the onion until golden, add the mushrooms and let it cook until the water from the mushrooms disappears.

When is all cooked, turn off the burner and let it cool down.

Cut the potatoes in thin slices.

Spread olive oil in the containers of your choice and spread the potato slices as a film until re-cover the container shape.

Drain the fat from the pan and set the cooked ingredients in a bowl mix a half of each cheeses.

Fill up the containers with the mix and top with potatoes again.

Add the rest of the cheeses and...

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Ginger Spice Veggies – Festival de Color

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Ingredients

1/2 Cabbage

200gr Asparagus

Ginger root, the size of the top of your thumb.

200gr Mushrooms

250gr sprouted broccoli

1 red onion

1 garlic clove

Raw sesame seeds

Salt

Pepper

Coconut oil

Directions

Chop the veggies in medium pieces. Set a big pan in the stove and warm up coconut, enough amount to cover the bottom of the pan.

Cut the ginger root in three pieces and put it in the pan, sauté for a little bit and add the onion until gets transparent, add the garlic crushed.

Add the other veggies and mix all together stir for a little bit but don’t let the asparagus get saggy. Very important in order to preserve the flavor and all the qualities keep the veggies firm.

Put salt and pepper of your choice and sesame seeds, is ready to eat!

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Inflammation Part 1

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We frequently hear the word “inflammation.” Do we really know what it means?

Often, we don’t.

We have an overall idea, but we can’t picture it inside our body because the type of inflammation we see it’s usually on our skin. Beyond that, we label it with another name or diagnosis.

Inflammation starts in an specific area of your body. It gets irritated, at first, due to external or internal agents causing swelling in that part, redness, irritability and in some cases mucus or bleeding, depending where the inflammation takes place.

Every imbalance, illness, or unusual sensation in our body belongs to an inflammatory response. Inflammation is the way our body is telling us, “I am getting sick, take care of me.”

We do not “listen” what our body has to say for different reasons, here are some:

We are busy.
We are disconnected from our nature
We assume being uncomfortable is normal.
We can even make pain into a way of living...

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Salmon in Papillot

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Ingredients:

4 pieces of Salmon
6 garlic cloves
2 carrots
1 bunch asparagus
1/2 onion
lemon
Thyme
Salt
Olive oil
Parchment paper

Turn the oven on at 325 degrees.
Finely chop all the veggies.
On a large piece or parchment paper, place one piece of salmon in the center and season with salt. Spread chopped veggies on top of the salmon. Add thyme and squeeze half of a lemon.
Wrap the paper as a present, make sure the ends are strongly wrapped.
Place packages on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and carefully open the packages, as the steam is hot!

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Your Intention Is As Important As Your Actions

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Have you ever stopped to observe the bite in your fork right before you put it in your mouth?

What are the colors, the convention of foods, the layers, the smell?
Then, the texture in your mouth, the flavors of all different foods.
How that will fill your body and soul? What are the nutrients that contented?

All these question may seem silly or boring but this exercise makes a total difference in the experience of eating.

When I first moved definitely here in California, I was amazed that people weren’t sitting to eat their meal. They ate in the car, on the way or even in the restaurant, it was eating and leaving, and it seemed really fast to me.

I wasn’t used to that, we sat in the table, all together, we ate and talk and share, laugh or had discussions. It was a slow fun tasteful experience 3 times a day! Can you believe that?

Now, I am Americanized.
Although I won’t eat in the car or on the go but meals are not the same, foremost because here I don’t...

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Push the Envelope in Order to Grow

mindset

We like being comfortable, when we are not, we tend to say that “life is difficult”.
There are so many levels of that sentence, everyone has a bar with his or her own level of difficulty in life, some people can take a lot, some people don’t have the strength or resilience.

I remember something that my grandma used to say, “I don’t want everything I can take, because I can take a lot!”.
Human beings are extraordinary! we can do all sort of things and every day we get better, smarter, stronger, faster, taller,….

We evolve constantly and we don’t even take the time to acknowledge ourselves when we do it or often, we don’t even notice it.

When we grow things get tricky and uncomfortable for a while. Often we think, that “everything comes at once”, “why everything seems so difficult?”.
Those are questions that often arise when we are making changes in life for the reason of getting ourselves in a better...

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Your Body is Designed to Function at Optimum Health On It’s Own

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We all have heard about inflammation but often we are not clear of, what it is or how that can be a problem for us our health?

Every health issue that we may have or had, started with an inflammatory process, except for the accidents.
Most of the time it starts in our gut and because we can’t feel it in the beginning, we keep doing or eating what it will become a problem in the future for us.

We all heard about sensitivities, we are not allergic to something but often when we eat that specific thing causes some symptoms in our body that makes us feel uncomfortable.
When you feel bloated after eating certain foods or stomach pain after eating others.
Our joints are sore, we have trouble focusing or we simply feel sick.

Inflammation is a subtle thing, is a silence beast that when you notice it is because it took over you and you are already having problems.

The most common foods that cause inflammation are:

*Wheat
*Dairy
*Sugar
*Corn
*Soy

There are more but is all about you and...

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Salmon Patties

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1 pound fresh salmon

1 egg

1/4 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup seasoned dry bread crumbs

1 tablespoon olive oil

Directions

Drain and reserve liquid from salmon. Mix egg, onion, bread crumbs and salmon together.

Form mixture into patties.

If mixture is too dry to form into patties, add reserved liquid from salmon.

In a frying pan, heat olive oil. Place patties in pan. Brown on each side, turning gently. Drain on paper towels and serve. A few green leaves of mesclun with some nice dressing as a side will complete a perfect meal.

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