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Kate’s Wake-up Call

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Upon putting your feet to the floor, give thanks.
Proceed to oil-pulling. Follow all the directions to the end with the big glass of lemon water. (Look under Health and Wellness tips)
Grab that shot of NingXia Nitro, throw it back.
Find your Awaken and En-R-Gee essential oils. Put a drop of Awaken at your temples and En-R-Gee on the bottom of your feet.

BANANA BREAD

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bananabread

Ingredients

  • 3 organic bananas
  • 1/4 cup organic Nutiva butter flavored coconut oil
  • 3 organic eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups sifted organic almond flour
  • 1/2 cup organic tapioca flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 2 tsp. Simply Organic vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon organic cinnamon
  • 2 tbs. organic chia seeds
  • 2 tbs. organic coconut manna
  • 1 cup dried organic cranberries (I use Eden’s because they are apple juice sweetened)

Directions

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Spray oil in bread pan. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit on the bottom of the pan and spray that. Set aside.
In the vitamix or food processor combine the bananas, vegan butter, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla. Process until smooth and blended.
Add the sifted almond flour, tapioca flour, salt, baking soda, xanthan gum, chia seeds, and coconut manna. Pulse until blended. Mix in the cranberries.
Pour evenly into the bread pan. Put on a low rack in the oven and bake for 50-60
minutes or until a knife comes out clean. If it is browning up to quickly lay a piece of parchment paper on top of the bread pan.

WHITE BEAN CHILI

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chili

Ingredients

  • 1 chopped onion
  • 3 large cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 cup each chopped – carrots, celery, pepper (I used a red pepper)
  • 1 can each of great northern beans, black beans, and red beans
  • 1/2 teaspoon Simply Organic Cinnamon,
  • 1/8 teaspoon Simply Organic Clove
  • 1 teaspoon Simply Organic Basil
  • 1 teaspoon Simply Organic Oregano
  • 1/4 cup organic olive oil (Thrive Market Brand)
  • 2 cups organic vegetable broth
  • 1 tsp. each cumin, coriander, ancho chili powder.
  • 3 tbs. chili powder
  • Salt to taste

In a large pot add the olive oil and sauté the onion, garlic, carrots, celery, and pepper until barely cooked.

In a vitamix or blender add drained and rinsed 1 can of great northern beans, 2 cups vegetable broth, all the spices and purée it up.

Add the blender ingredients of the can of great northern beans to the large pot of chile ingredients. (This makes the “white sauce” for the chili). Then add the drained, rinsed black beans and red beans. Let this simmer for 1 hour on very low heat.

I garnished my bowl with micro-greens and cubed almond cheese.

TAPIOCA PUDDING

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tapioca

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup small organic pearl tapioca
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 2 1/4 cup Almond Milk
  • 3 organic eggs separated
  • 1/4 cup organic agave syrup
  • 3 tbs. Organic coconut manna
  • 1 teaspoon Simply Organic lemon flavor
  • Lemon Rind from 1 lemon

Almond Milk

  • 1 cup raw organic almonds
  • 8 cups purified water
  • 10 whole organic dates

Making the Almond Milk

Soak overnight 1 cup raw almonds in 4 cups purified water.
I use a vitamix to blend the milk.
Drain and rinse the almonds.
Put almonds in processor along with 4 cups purified water, 10 whole dates.
Blend thoroughly, until liquified.
Squeeze the milk through a nut bag (whole foods, amazon)

Making the Pudding

In a sauce pan add the 1/3 cup tapioca and the 3/4 cup water. Allow it to soak for 30 minutes.
Add to the soaked, undrained tapioca, 2 1/4 cups almond milk, 3 beaten egg yolks.
Bring to a boil then simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Keep stirring so it doesn’t stick.
After 10 minutes add Lemon flavor and the rind of 1 lemon, and
3 tbs. coconut manna. Stir well.
Now you will whip up the egg whites with the 1/4 cup agave syrup.
Beat it until peaks form. Fold  3/4 cups of tapioca pudding into the egg whites.
Folding the pudding and egg whites together. Fold in rest of the pudding into the egg whites.
Refrigerate. Serve when chilled.

VEGETABLE TORTE

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tort

Ingredients

Prepare the outside grill.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

The following grilled veggies:

  • 4 organic portobello mushrooms
  • 1 organic eggplant, thinly sliced, salted to sweat on a paper towel for 30 minutes
    before grilling.
  • 1 organic zucchini – cut long ways into 3rd’s. These can be put in a large bowl with a lid along with 4 tablespoons organic olive oil and sprinkled with Simply Organic oregano.
  • 8 organic multi colored little sweet peppers – put in the bowl with Zucchini.
  • organic asparagus – put in the bowl along with Zucchini and Peppers. Salt N Pepper.
    Toss them in bowl to make sure they are all coated with oil.
    Allow to marinade 30 minutes. Grill them up.
    Spray oil both sides of the Eggplant and Mushrooms. They are ready to grill.
    Eggplant thinly sliced grills real quick, watch it.
    Also needed:
  • 1/4 cup NUTRITIONAL YEAST
  • 1/8 cup ground WALNUTS
  • 3 WHOLE BULBS ROASTED GARLIC – In a roasting garlic baker, put the garlic in the bottom dish, cover with 1/4 cup of olive oil. Put the lid on over the garlic and bake in a 350 degree oven for about 40 minutes of until garlic is soft and the bulb is slightly brown.  Remove the garlic from skins when cooled. This can be done day or two ahead.
  • 1 organic onion- in the same oil from the marinating vegetables and add the onion that has been cut in circles. Cook onion on low heat until very soft and caramelized.

Directions

Line a 9 1/2″ torte pan with parchment paper. Have a big enough piece so it overlaps on top of the pan so it is easily removed from the pan. This will also eliminate any leakage.
Now you will layer all the grilled veggies.
1. Layer approximately 16 pieces of eggplant.
2. Sprinkle 1/8 cup of nutritional yeast all over the eggplant.
3. Layer in the strips of zucchini.
4. Evenly place all of the roasted garlic from the 3 heads of garlic on top of the zucchini.
5. Add the other 1/8 cup of nutritional yeast all over the top of that layer.
6. Cut the grilled mushrooms in strips and evenly layer them on.
7. Top this with 1/8 cup chopped raw walnuts
8. Spread out the caramelized onion on top along with all the oil.
9. Cut 6-8 colored mini peppers in strips and place them like the spokes of a wheel all around the top of the onions.
10. Cut the asparagus into 4″ pieces including the pretty tip in the measurement.
Place the asparagus on top of the peppers like spokes, also. Put the remainder in your salad.

In a pre-heated 350 degree oven bake the torte 40 minutes or until heated through.
When done sprinkle the top lightly with ground walnuts.

BAKED APPLES

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baked apples

Ingredients

  • 3 organic apples, cored and cut in half with the skin left on
  • 1 cup organic apple juice
  • 1/2 cup dried chopped organic cranberries, apricots and dates
  • 1 teaspoon Simply Organic Lemon
  • 1 teaspoon Simple Organic cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon Simply Organic Clove
  • 1/4 teaspoon Simply Organic Ginger
  • 1/2 cup finely ground organic walnuts (Terralsoul. Terrasoul.com or Amazon)
  • 1/2 cup finely ground organic roasted, salted pumpkin seeds (Go Raw. Thrive Market, Vitacost, IHerb, Amazon)

Directions

Pre-heat oven 350 degrees
In a saucepan add apple juice,lemon flavor, cinnamon, clove and ginger. Mix well. To that add all the chopped dried fruit. Bring to boil, turn down to low, cover and let cook about 30 minutes.
Add the ground walnuts and pumpkin seeds. Mix well.
In a baking dish, that has a lid, place the 6 halved apples, skin facing down. Place some of the fruit mixture on the white part of each apple.
Cover the baking dish and bake the apples for 30 minutes.
Be a beast, pick one up and eat it with your fingers.

ALMOND BUTTER COOKIE

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cookie

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup puréed dates and figs (about 6 dates, 6-8 figs-size matters)
  • 1/2 cup melted vegan butter (Nutiva. Thrive Market or Amazon)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Simply Organic orange flavor
  • 1 egg or 1 flax egg
  • 1 cup organic almond butter
  • 1/4 cup organic carob powder
  • 1 tsp. Simply Organic vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. Xanthan gum
  • 2 1/2 cups very fine organic almond flour

Directions

Pre-heat oven 325 degrees
Combine all dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
Purée dates and figs in a cuisinart.
In a large bowl, with a hand mixer add vegan butter and orange flavor and beat well together.
Add egg and mix.
Add the almond butter and use the mixer to blend until it is totally mixed with the butter and egg.
Next comes the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth.
I baked these on a cookie sheet with parchment paper. (Easy clean)
Make the cookie dough into balls all the same size. Pat them down on the parchment paper to resemble a cookie the size you would want to eat.
These bake a little longer that a traditional cookie, about 20-25 min.
Check that they are slightly brown on the bottom. They will be soft.

NINGXIA RED

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Made from the NingXia wolf berry, NingXia Red provides ample antioxidants to strengthen the immune system. The antioxidants in the juice help fight free radical attacks that occur thousands of times a day to each cell of the human body!
It is the ultimate organic superfood with age-defying antioxidants.
NingXia Red:
*Anti Cancerous-Inhibit Tumor Growth
*Alleviates Arthritis-Strengthen Bones
*Alleviates Allergies & Asthma
*Resilient Immune System
*Promotes Restful Sleep
*Increases Energy
*Increases Libido
*Improves Vision
Macular Degeneration
*Balances Blood Sugar
Deters Diabetes
*Balances Cholesterol
Restores Healthy Heart
*Increases Athletic Ability
Stamina and Endurance
*Maintains Healthy Weight by
Converting Food into Energy not Fat
Improves Brain Function; ADD
ADHD, Dementia, Depression,
Focus, Memory Loss
NingXia Red is a Super Whole Food for a
Super Whole Body!

Now with Orange, Yuzu, Lemon, and Tangerine essential oils
that are traditionally known for their emotion-supporting
properties. This oil blend is 93% d-limonene a well-studied
antioxidant.
Consuming 2-4 oz. daily delivers powerful polysaccharides
and phytonutrients.
Contains zeaxanthin, a well-studied carotenoid.

This information is not intended to take the place of medical advice.

APPLE CAKE

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applecake

Ingredients

2 cups cubed (small) organic apple pieces

1 teaspoon organic lemon juice
1 cup chopped organic dates
1/2 cup organic apple sauce
1/2 cup organic vegan butter (Nutiva. Thrive Market, Amazon)
1/2 cup organic coconut sugar
6 organic egg whites room temperature (I buy them in the carton)
Grated rind of 1 organic lemon
2 1/4 cups of sifted organic almond flour
1/2 cup organic tapioca flour
1 tsp baking soda

1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/4 tsp. salt
1 teaspoon Simply Organic lemon flavor
1 teaspoon Simply Organic cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon Simply Organic clove
Optional: raw almond butter and raw shredded coconut

Directions

Preheat oven 350 degrees
Prepare an oblong baking pan with spray oil and lining it with parchment paper. Spray parchment paper.
Cube the apples. Evenly sprinkle the lemon juice over the cubed apples.
In a bowl measure and combine the dry ingredients, set aside.
In a separate bowl beat the 6 egg whites until it forms soft peaks, set aside.
In a large mixing bowl combine the vegan butter, applesauce, rind of 1 lemon,
coconut sugar, the cinnamon and clove and beat until smooth with an electric mixer.
Add the dry ingredients and use electric mixer to blend thoroughly.
By hand fold in the egg whites.
Pour evenly into the oblong baking pan.
Bake 40-45 minutes or until firm.

Before serving spread almond butter on first AppleCake slice, then add another piece on top, spread another layer of almond butter then top with shredded coconut.

Black Bean Hummus with Young Living Lime and Lemon Essential Oils

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hummus

Ingredients

  • 15 oz. black beans drained.
  • 1/4 cup raw sesame seeds
  • 1/2 cup green olives
  • 1/4 cup chia seeds
  • 1 tsp. powdered cumin
  • 1/4 cup grape-seed oil
  • 1/8 cup almond milk
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1 chopped clove of garlic
  • 5 drops each YL Lemon and Lime essential oil
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Place all of the ingredients in your vita-mix and blend until smooth. If needed to make proper consistency add more almond milk.