Balanced Herbal Tea Blend

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Balance is the key, this herbal tea blend is gentle enough for my 2 year old, yet powerful enough to heal us of many ails. It’s just the right amount of sweet to remind us of summer and just enough spice to make us embrace the essence of fall. Balance is everything. I use a lot of these leafs, roots, …

Nutritious Fruit & Veggie Juice

Delicious & Highly Nutritious Fruit & Veggie Juice

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Green juice can be delicious and highly nutritious at the same time. Cucumber, celery, carrots, apples, young thai coconut and ginger; this is my winning fruit and veggie combination that is sure to delight even the pickiest of taste buds. What I love about his juice is that it makes you feel so alive, I get this euphoric feeling after …

Sweet Potato Lentil Dal - Sprouted & Slow Cooked

Sweet Potato Lentil Dal | Sprouted & Slow Cooked

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Incredibly flavorful slow cooked sweet potato lentil dal will have you coming back bowl after bowl. Loaded with healing spices and herbs, turmeric, ginger, garlic, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, bay leaves, garam masala, curry leaves and lemon.  All that flavor comes together harmoniously, leaving you begging for more! If you are looking for dinner recipes to boost your immunity, look no …

Sweet Potato Chana Masala

Sweet Potato Chana Masala | Vegan

Amanda Nicole SmithDinner, Sauce, Sprouted, Vegan 2 Comments

Creamy sweet potato tomato sauce, with tender sprouted and slow-cooked chickpeas; over a bed of rice and sprinkled with fresh herbs. The sauce is extremely flavorful and filled with spices such as ginger, coriander, cumin, fenugreek, garlic, onion, paprika, cayenne, and more! Chana masala is a classic chickpea dish in a creamy tomato sauce, and there are thousands of different …

Fresh Spring Rolls

Fresh Spring Rolls | Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce

Amanda Nicole SmithDetox, Dinner, Gluten Free, Lunch, Quick & Easy, Sauce, Vegan 2 Comments

Fresh spring rolls made from cabbage, carrots, celeriac, romaine lettuce, and brown rice paper, dunked in a peanut butter dipping sauce. So simple and so tasty! Maybe I should call these winter rolls, since I’m predominately using winter vegetables. 😉 In the summer I’ll use red bell pepper, cucumber, carrots, radish and/or sprouts. There are so many spring roll variations, …

Homemade digestive system tea

Digestive Support Tea | Herbal Tea Recipe

Amanda Nicole SmithDrinks, Herbal Tea, Hot Drinks 2 Comments

A homemade digestive herbal tea to keep things running smoothly, especially after engorging on holiday feasts. This tea is made predominately from roots such as marshmallow, licorice, ginger, dandelion, yellow dock and the lone senna leaf. If you ever feel like there is a log sitting in your stomach after feasting, drink some of this tea and that log will …

Fermented Sweet & Sour Cauliflower

Amanda Nicole SmithCultured | Fermented | Pickled, Dinner, Lunch, Raw Vegan, Vegan 8 Comments

A flavorful sweet and sour sauce made from vegetables and spices, poured over cauliflower and fermented for a few days. If you love fermented foods and sweet and sour sauce, you’ll love fermented sweet and sour sauce! This ferment, along with fermented veggie chili, are my new favorite ways to get more probiotics in my system. These ferments are so flavorful, you can barely taste that …

Halloween Pumpkin Dinner

Halloween Pumpkin Bowls with Maggots and Vomit

Amanda Nicole SmithDinner, Lunch, Vegan 1 Comment

A scary halloween dinner perfect for halloween dinner parties! Carved roasted sugar pumpkins stuffed with fall flavored kamut maggots paired with spirulina sweet potato vomit muahaha!! Here is a little less scary description 😉 Roasted sugar pumpkins stuffed with fall flavored kamut paired with spirulina sweet potato mash. Despite it’s scary appearance this vegan halloween dinner is extremely delicious and healthy. …

Relieve Cough and Congestion Herbal Tea

Herbal Tea Recipe | Relieve Cough & Congestion

Amanda Nicole SmithDrinks, Herbal Tea, Hot Drinks, Quick & Easy Leave a Comment

A sweet herbal tea blend of licorice, marshmallow, wild cherry, echinacea, fennel and ginger. It’s that time of year again, the cold is creeping! Thankfully herbal tea is a great way to boost your immune system. Roots, barks, seeds and leaves are known to have many healing and preventative properties.  If your body is starting to send distress signals, the big ones including …