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Nowadays, it's almost impossible to cram your healthy 3-5 servings of fruit if you are on the go. I trade in the soda for one of the Superfruit smoothies in the mall. Yet if I'm at home, I could easily make my own smoothie if you have all these ingredients readily available in your fridge. Ingredients: 1 medium banana, sliced 1/2 c Bryers all natural strawberrie yogurt 1/4 c frozen mangoes optional: handful of berries like blueberries or strawberries, 1 T of pineapple chunks 2T organic honey 1/2c water and ice chunks Directions: Blend all the ingredients in a Magic bullet or blender. Taste. Add some organic sugar if needed. For a boost, try adding 1 tsp of vitamin c powder.

Award winning recipe from the Lupus recovery diet book by Jill Harrington.. 3-4 apples, shredded (food processor) Filling: 4-6 fresh dates, pitted and soaked for 1-3 hours 2T fresh lemon juice 1/2 tsp cinammon or 1/2-1 tsp applie pie spice Crust: 2 c fresh dates, pitted and chopped 1/2 tsp cinnamon Blend the filling ingredients (dates,lemon, cinnamon) together to make a thick paste. Stir in with the shredded apples. Crust directions: Make crust by putting dates and cinnamon in a food processor. A round ball is formed within a minute. Press the ball of dates out into a pie pan, formin the crust. Refrigerate to let the crust harden. Put the filling on refrigerated pie crust, you may decorate with thinly sliced apples on top, and with some nuts.

Got this yummy recipe from my sister who calls this Stephenson's baked chicken with butter and cream. Pretty simple ingredients, with an added gravy which she recommends serve with mashed potatoes. I tried this recipe today, and it was smelling good in the kitchen. Can't wait to see what my husband's (my official taste tester) reaction would be.. The chicken turns out crunchy.. In making the chicken, I added a few drops of lemon juice on the chicken prior to dredging in the flour. Ingredients: 1/2 C Flour (unbleached organic flour) 1-1/2 tsp sea salt 1/2 tsp paprika 1/4 tsp pepper 1 cut-up chicken or pieces (organic free range)I recommend taking the skin off or else your gravy will be oily 1/4 c organic butter 1-1/2 c hot water 1/2 c nonfat dry milk powder ( ) The results are better than using regular milk Dip chicken in water; coat with mixture of flour and seasonings. Put skin side up in baking dish (deeper is better to keep gravy from dryi

Finished cake with icing and chocolate shavings (above) Unfrosted cakes (below) Happy New Year my blog readers! After the holidays, comes my birthday in the month of January. I thought for my actual birthday I would try make the traditional Filipino mocha cake recipe from my Nora Daza cookbook. It calls for special ingredients such as cake flour, which to my further research tells me that it makes the cake softer and lighter. Unlike other mocha cake recipes I found, it also calls for creme de cacao...which is a liquer I have to buy from the liquor store...which tastes like white chocolate and vanilla essence... Unfortunately, my experiment failed..the cake was more of a taizan or mamon cake...and my icing was too liquidy.. and not at all the one I was visualizing of my previous mocha cakes that I have tasted from NJ. So, after some internet search, I stumbled upon this mocha chiffon recipe with the proper ingredients and directions...I'm pretty much sure this will be close to the