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Ginger Lemon Honey Tea Total time: 10 minutes Steep Time: 5 minutes
A warming, moistening winter tonic for cold, dry air
Best for
- Minnesota winters (Dec–Jan), especially when temps are below 0°F
- Cold, dry air with scratchy throat or dry lungs
- Dry throat, dry cough or dry lungs
- Sluggish digestion from cold exposure
Qualities
Warming • Moistening • Gently activating (lung + digestion support)
Ingredients
- Fresh ginger: 1 thumb-sized piece, julienned
- Fresh lemon: 1/8–1/4 lemon, squeezed (add more juice if desired)
- Black Assam tea: 1 tea bag or 1 tsp loose leaf (optional)
- Honey: to taste (add once tea is cool enough to drink)
- Boiling water: if skipping tea
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Pear Tea Total Time: 40 mins Prep time: 10 minutes Steeping Time: 30 minutes
A warming, soothing way to enjoy pear—lighter than a full stew, deeply hydrating, and easy to digest.
This simple pear tea is an excellent alternative to stewed apples or pears when you want something warm and supportive without prolonged cooking. It produces both a lightly spiced tea and softly infused fruit to enjoy afterward.
Best Pear Choices
- Asian pear (best option): very juicy, mildly sweet
- Bosc pear (second best): aromatic and holds texture well
- Any ripe pear: fully ripe and juicy works best
Ingredients (1 serving)
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Honey Fried Walnuts w/Dark Chocolate and Cinnamon Total time: 60 minutes
- 3 cups walnuts
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon (increase as desired)
- 1 oz grated/finely chopped dark chocolate (I used Callebaut Dark very nice!)
* Estimated total calories from sugar – 200 for 3 cups of walnuts
If quality of life is our intention when we discuss healthy foods we should understand that healthy is as much about tasting good as it is being good for us. Too often we consider healthy food to be low in calories or fat or sugar and end up with horribly tasting food the leaves little mystery as to why "we can't eat healthy". Healthy foods give us useful and timely nutrition above all else but truly healthy food also tastes good and adds the experience of our lives. Let me repeat that, healthy foods give us the useful and timely nutrition and contribute to an experience of not only surviving but thriving.
Simply preventing us from consuming something “bad for us” can no longer be a strategy for healthy eating or healthy living. It is so important for us to use good ingredients in all of our cooking, baking or any other food prep because if the ingredients don’t have nutritional value then the end product - our daily lives - won’t have the value we seek either. We need to change the way we look at the opportunity food provides to truly change the way we benefit from our health.
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- 1 1/2 cups grated zucchini (~2 small zucchini)
- 3/4 cup grated carrot (~1 large carrot)
- 2 small over-ripe bananas
- 1 cup applesauce
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 Tbsp white vinegar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp salt
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Kitchari Recipe *
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon oil, vegetable oil or coconut oil preferred
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds, optional
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 inch ginger piece, grated (1 teaspoon of ginger paste)
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1½ cups mixed vegetables, I used beans, carrots, and peas
- ½ cup rice, see notes
- 1 cup moong dal, aka split mung beans
- 5 cups water, see notes for adjustment
- 1 teaspoon salt, adjust to taste
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro, for garnish
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