Looking for a quick recipe to use that pound of cranberries you picked up on impulse with your Thanksgiving groceries? Try this! Ingredients: 1 pound fresh cranberries 1/2 cup gin 1 tsp salt 1 Tbl honey 5 fresh basil leaves torn or chopped Procedure: Throw all ingredients in a pot on high heat, cover. Turn…
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Simple Detox Plate
Detox meal planning can be tedious, there are just so many vegetables and fruits to plan for. It’s become just too easy for us to turn to a quick rice or pasta dish to fill the plate and thinking about making large servings of fresh whole foods for every single meal can easily turn one…
Cashew Dreamin’
Almonds + Cashews: These go-to nuts contain magnesium, a mineral which acts like a natural sedative which helps you sleep. Sleep is huge part of any detox….you know how important sleep is, I won’t go on and on about it here. When juicing, make the last juice of the night a nut milk smoothie, it…
Butternut Squash “Pasta” with Kale and Artichoke
Another detox dish! I forgot how wonderfully creative my cooking can get when I have to navigate a thin line of options. This dish takes all of 10 minutes to whip up. Serves 2 for a detox or 4 if you pair it with a salad and a crusty loaf of bread. Ingredients: Butternut squash cut in…
Cauliflower & Squash Sauté
I’m showcasing detox dishes this week. Tonight’s dish would comfortably serve 4 as a side dish but for the detox, this is only enough for 2. It’s all about loads of tasty fiber! I personally like the skin of acorn squash (and that’s extra fiber!) but you can take it off if you are not a fan….
Rosemary Pickles
In any good detox, you need some “snacks”. Now, you can just buy any old jar of pickles and I probably would have done that for this detox myself if I hadn’t randomly found “pickling cucumbers” at a roadside stand in Murphy, NC when I was exploring with my dog. Plus, typical pickling brine includes…
Detox Redux
I’ve been silent for a while….that’s because I moved across the country, started a new job, and bought a house. I’ve been busy settling in. The problem with having so many life changes at one time, it’s easy to slip into bad habits. Like eating ice cream and watching the latest season of The Walking…
Carrot Zucchini Soup
I don’t like zucchinis. Not even a little bit. But they are good for you and I get them from my CSA whether I want them or not. Thus, I must find ways to hide them in other things, like this carrot based soup! Ingredients: 1 white onion, chopped 4 garlic cloves 1 Tbl canola…
Cheddar Chive Crackers
I am in love with home made crackers! After last week’s test run of Cheddar Chia, I’m trying out Cheddar Chive…and you guessed it, topped with sour cream. I couldn’t stop eating my last batch of crackers and I already knew what flavor combo I wanted to try next. Sour cream and chives are a perfect match…
Wine-glazed Apricots
Stonefruits are in season and I received my first batch of fresh apricots in my CSA box this week. It was soooooo hard to not just eat them all right then and there. But I resisted…mainly because there were also nectarines in the box and those were already soft and juicy-ripe-get-in-your-mouth-right-now. The apricots had to…
Cheddar Chia Crackers
I was watching The Great British Baking Show recently and wondering why on earth do the American cooking competitions never have the “ordinary” items like they do on this show? It’s most fascinating to watch! The challenges are hard, but the items they have to produce are actually quite mundane. Such as crackers. Have you seen…
Black Bean Pasta with Summer Squash
Looking for something a little different for pasta night? There are so many brands of bean or lentil based pastas out there, a protein boost without the meat or faux-meat substitute! This recipe is vegan and the black bean pasta used was gluten-free. Ingredients: Black bean pasta 4 cloves garlic minced 1/2 lb of summer…
Anna Contrell 