Apple Breakfast Cereal

This recipe is so simple, but also so delicious.  The title says “breakfast  cereal” but I eat this quite often after dinner as a dessert.  It’s like eating apple pie filling, minus the sugar but with all the benefits of apples and spices. Apples are full of flavonoids, a type of phytochemical that may inhibit…

Miso Roasted Sweet Potato and Kale over Quinoa

It becomes such a challenge to eat well between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  By well, I don’t mean copiously; that seems to be no problem at all. I mean eating nutritionally.  The weather turns colder and our bodies ask for heavier food, and more of it. And the holidays provide it, in the form of fatty…

Turmeric Latte

A beautiful, golden morning latte with plenty of anti-inflammatory benefits.  This warming drink also gently wakes up your digestive system. This drink is so easy and you probably have most of the ingredients in your house right now! Cinnamon, turmeric, cardamom and ginger combine to boost digestion.  These spices are great for bloating, gas and…

Ginger Cake Smoothie

The title is the only way to describe this smoothie.  Yes, it’s green but the spinach flavor in it is undetectable.  Close your eyes and it is spicy, vanilla-scented ginger cake. The mulberries give it the vanilla, cake-like flavor.  It is totally worth sourcing these little gems.  I bought them in a 2 lb bag…