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3 Day Fresh: Spring Confetti
Celebrate with my 3-Day Fresh recipe that’s nourishing and versatile. Start with it as a salad or a salsa on its own. Maybe as a base for your favorite grilled fish or a decoration for a few shrimp. Then the next day add a squirt of lemon juice and make it a main course by serving over your favorite grains or greens. The third day, it’s soup. Sauté the balance in a saucepan. Add vege or chicken broth and lots of fresh vegetables from your fridge. Serve with a grate of your favorite cheese or a float of sliced almonds or pumpkin seeds. After 3 days it will still be safe to eat but the nutrient content fades, so I recommend EAT IT ALL WITHIN 3 DAYS. Hey – you could even stir fry a bit for your omelette or puree it and have it as a sandwich spread or dip. Oh and how about as a topping for spaghetti squash. HAVE FUN!
ORGANIC everything if you can — This is enough for 4 servings, so triple if you want to do 3-Day Fresh for four people and have a main course, a salad, a soup.
- 1/2 c frozen roasted corn thawed
- 12 fresh asparagus spears, reserve tips, cut spears into 1/4″ slices Steam the slices for 2 minutes then add tips and steam for 1 minute.
- 2 T minced purple onion12 kalamata olives, chopped
- 1/2 c diced red bell pepper
- 1/4 c minced celery
- 1 large clove of garlic mashed and minced very finely
- 1/2 c cooked baby lima beans
- 1/2 t Greek Seasoning (You can make your own or buy one but read the ingredients and make sure it’s wholesome.)
- 1/2 t dry oregano or 1 t fresh
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1/3 c EVO (extra virgin olive oil)
- 2 T red wine vinegar
Mix all ingredients. Serve at room temperature or warmed as a salad or salsa. Serve warmed a bit over baby spinach leaves or a pilaf as a main course. You might want to brighten it a bit with a touch of lemon juice. Be sure to add some crunch for the soup version. Enjoy!
Love, Belynda
Kiss Me, Coconut Breath
You’ll want to kiss and be kissed by an oil puller. Why? Because they are real caretakers of their kissers.
Oil pulling helps prevent gingivitis, plaque, and bad breath microorganisms. Maybe even helps whiten your teeth and keep them from decay. Most of the microbial culprits are one celled; the oil binds them and whisks them away.
Ayurveda, The Science of Life, holds that the tongue represents every organ in the body so oil pulling detoxes more than just your mouth.
Here’s my morning mouth ritual. I drink a cup of warm water upon rising. I dip out one tablespoon of !!!!ORGANIC!!!! Coconut Oil. (I like the taste of Trader Joe’s.) I smell it. Now I am in a tropical paradise. (Hate coconuts? Use olive, palm, sesame, sunflower. All these oils have bacteria-fighting benefits but coconut also has lauric acid loaded with anti-microbial agents.)
I swish it and pull it through my teeth for about five minutes. (I usually make the bed and feed the dog while I am swishing.) Then I spit it into the garbage can – never in the sink. Then I rinse my mouth with warm water, flushing out the residue. Then I do my regular brushing, flossing, mini-brushing, tongue scraping, rinsing again with warm water. (More on tongue scraping later – should be call sweeping not scraping by the way.)
Then I kiss myself. Because next I get to meditate with thousands of people around the world right from my cozy bedroom chair. Check out Insight Timer a great meditation app.
Your Spice of the Day
Inspired by Joanne…
Here’s your spice of the day…
“Laughter” It comes in five different colors but the flavor is relatively consistent.
Yellow, Daffodil, Tweetie (as in Bird), Big (as in Bird), and Pee (as in I just wet my pants because you made me laugh so much). Oh, and do NOT forget — Sunshine. So there must be more than six flavors. Oh, but then there’s Duckling. And Lemon. And Curry.
You can see where this is going.
Hope you’re smiling because you have a heart that lights up the room.
Must be honey, yes?
