Quick & Easy Chia Jam

 

This Chia Jam is not only delicious, quick, and easy. It's also healthy! Make it with the frozen fruit or fruit mixture of your choice. I love cherry everything, so I used frozen dark sweet cherries. I also think it would be good using strawberries, mixed berries, peaches, mangoes... Any fruit really! Sweeten it with the natural sweetener of your choice. I used honey but pure maple syrup would be amazing. Low glycemic impact, gut friendly, heart healthy... It's a nutritional powerhouse that feels like a treat! I like to spread this on toast, spoon it over yogurt or oatmeal. Stay tuned to my YouTube channel because I've got a video coming for you soon with an idea on how you can use this delicious jam!

Watch the YouTube video here:

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All the anti-inflammatory benefits of my "Booster Shots" but less concentrated. My Anti-inflammatory Spiced OJ is simply your regular morning orange juice with a few added spices to give you those inflammation fighting benefits. And honestly, you don't really taste the difference all that much, so why not add the extra health factor? I'll show you how you can quickly and easily make this for at home or on the go.

Watch this quick YouTube tutorial:

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Healthie Hacks ~ Reduce Sodium Without Giving Up Your Favorite Brands

 

Do you need to reduce your sodium intake but don't want to give up some of your higher sodium favorites? A low sodium diet doesn't have to be difficult. I've got a hack that's gonna help you. I've been using this trick for about a year now, since my cardiologist put me on a low sodium diet because of high blood pressure. Not only will it help you keep your favorite brands, but most of the products that I show you in this video are condiments, sauces, etc. which are difficult to even find a low sodium option for, no matter the brand. I didn't want to give up condiments and sauces all together. Nor did I want to let them blow my sodium limit for the day. So I came up with this "hack" to make them work in my diet. I hope it helps you too.

Watch the YouTube video here:

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Prep Ahead Hot Jarred Lunch ~ Quinoa & Veg

 

I've been taking this healthy lunch to work regularly.  It's easy to prep for the week using leftovers and frozen veg.  The warmer is what led me to this idea.  I've included a link to this aWeSoMe jar warmer, but even if you don't have one, you can still take this jarred lunch with a plastic lid if you have a microwave at work.  I'd venture to say this would even be great cold!  However you pack and prepare yours, this is an easy option to keep your work lunches healthy!

Check out the video here:   

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No More Anemia! ~ Blood Builder Salad with Creamy Orange Vinaigrette

 

I had this salad often while trying to build from severely anemic back up to healthy iron/hemoglobin levels.  Thanks mainly to chicken livers and beets, I reached a healthy level from food sources alone, without supplements. 

Watch the YouTube video here:   

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Beet & Berry Fro-Yo

 

My new fave!  Not everyone is thrilled about the idea of beets, but I encourage you to give this a try.  I worked on this recipe for a while and I think I finally have it perfected.  Beets can be a little bit overpowering but the other ingredients work well together and really keep it in balance.  The Greek yogurt offers gut healthy probiotics and calcium for strong bones.  The beets offer blood-building benefits, sweetened naturally with fruit and honey.  This cold, sweet Summer treat is a nutritional powerhouse and it's DELICIOUS!   

Watch my YouTube video for the recipe and full tutorial:   

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Quick Tip ~ Freeze Your Leftover Tortilla Wraps

 

Just a quick little tip for you on freezing those leftover tortilla wraps before they go out of date.  This will make them easier to use from the freezer, one by one.

Watch my YouTube Quick Tip video here:   

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Green Goddess Chicken Lunch Flip

 

Another version of the viral tortilla hack.  This time I'll show you a Green Goddess Chicken version for lunch or snack.  This flip uses simple ingredients and comes together in no time, since it's a cold sandwich wrap for Summer.  They're delicious and easy to take on the go.  Switch up the ingredients any way you like to make this YOUR favorite lunch!

Watch my YouTube tutorial here:   

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Find many of my favorite Healthie ingredients and kitchen tools in my HEALTHIE list in my Amazon store:

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Green Goddess Breakfast Flip

This is my egg & avocado breakfast version of the viral tortilla hack.  First of all, I used the Spinach and Herb Extreme Wellness tortillas.  They're so healthy and so low in calories.  This size is only 50 calories each.  I love making sandwich wraps with these because of the low calorie count, not to mention the wonderfully healthy ingredients in them.  They're made with 100% whole wheat, flax seed, olive oil... So much goodness!  They're one of my new faves for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack.  I filled my wrap with eggs, Baby Swiss, and more green goodness: spinach, avocado, and Greener Goddess dressing.  You can make these Flips with your own healthy favorites.  

Watch my YouTube video here:   

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Cashew Chicken for 2 with Secret Ingredient Lower Sodium Sauce

 

Don't deprive yourself of the dishes that you love.  Instead, replace the not-so-healthy ingredient with something better for you.  I've got a great ingredient substitute in my sauce for this Cashew Chicken for 2.  

In the stir fry part of the meal, I kept it very simple:  

chicken, bell peppers, broccoli,  green onions, pineapple, and cashews.  I used frozen broccoli, which is just as good as fresh in my opinion.  Whether homegrown or store-bought, veggies frozen at their peak freshness really do retain that fresh flavor along with all the great nutrients.  I also used canned pineapple..  This was because I wasn't able to get out to buy a fresh pineapple.  Fresh pineapple and canned pineapple are worlds apart in flavor.  You just can't beat a fresh pineapple! 😋🍍  But again, frozen retains flavor so well.. If you have frozen, that would be better than the canned here.  If you do use canned, be sure to get it packed in 100% juice, no added sugar.  We like natural sugars!  No matter if you're using fresh, frozen, or canned, always check your labels for added sugar and other additives.  If you choose your ingredients wisely, there's no reason you can't pull from your freezer and pantry.  I sautéed this all in healthy avocado oil.  

In the sauce is where we are making the smartest choices and substitutions.  I used fresh garlic and fresh ginger (which freezes beautifully too btw) (it's even easier to grate when it's frozen).  For my acid I chose RAW Apple Cider Vinegar (with the Mother).  This is always my Healthie vinegar of choice.  For my sweetener: RAW Honey.  Again, I like to use honey as the sweetener whenever possible.  Sooo many health benefits.  (You can find out more about the benefits of raw honey in my "Did You Know Honey" video.  And for my secret ingredient, I replaced the soy sauce with Coconut Aminos, my newest Healthie discovery.  This soy sauce replacement contains only: Organic Coconut Blossom Nectar & Himalayan Salt!  It has 45% less sodium than soy sauce.  I've fallen in love with this Better Body Foods brand and I can't wait to see what else they have to offer.

Serve this over a bed of healthy grain such as quinoa or brown rice and enjoy! (without guilt).

Watch my Cashew Chicken for 2 YouTube video here:

This Cashew Chicken is one of our favorites and I hope it becomes one of your favorites as well.  Use your own choice of veggies, healthy grain, etc.  Here's what I used:

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Healthie Tomato Ladybugs

Sharing from my Craftie channel.  Make these edible ladybugs for a cute decoration to add to salads, appetizers, OR add to an edible bouquet.  Great for a Springtime or Garden Party themed event.  Fun for kids!

Watch my Healthie YouTube video here:

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Quick Tip ~ How to Keep Avocado from Browning

I absolutely LOVE avocado!  But, they brown so fast..  I'm never able to eat a whole avocado at once and I need to store half until the next day.  I found myself not eating as much avocado as I'd like because I didn't want to see half go to waste every time.  

A Pinterest search concluded that I should drizzle the avocado with lemon juice or lime juice to prevent browning.  That may work fine if you intend to use it for quacamole or avocado mash to spread on toast.  Adding a liquid, especially an acidic liquid, just results in a mushy mess.  I prefer mine sliced fresh, so the mushy method is not my favorite.

Through a deeper search, I found that storing your avocado half in a container along with cut onion prevents browning as well.  Awesome!  I can have fresh avocado the next day without the mush!  It worked wonderfully...  until the day I needed to store a half and didn't have a fresh onion...  

Hmmm...  What to do??  I decided to check my spice cabinet for onion powder and give that a try.  At this point my avocado was already cut and I had nothing to lose.  It was a waste for sure if I didn't at least try.

Watch my YouTube video to see how it turned out:

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Fresh Summer Tomato Salad

A fresh, delicious, and healthy way to use your Summer harvest.  Try this quick and easy no-cooking recipe for a snack between meals or a side dish at suppertime.  This Salad is also a great dish to bring to Summer cookouts, potlucks, picnics, etc.

Today's video features a slight variation to my original recipe published in the Fresh From the Farmstand Gooseberry Patch cookbook.  Purchase the book (linked below) for the original recipe or watch the video for the variation.  OR make a few adjustments of your own to customize it to your specific taste.  Either way, I think you're gonna love it!

Watch the video here:

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Salmon & Veggies Sheetpan Supper

Sheetpan Suppers are one of my favorite new trends in cooking!  It makes cooking quick and easy with little to no cleanup while eliminating the temptation of unhealthy cooking methods like frying.  

Be sure to watch the video below for step-by-step instructions on how I made it:

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Turmeric & Ginger Booster "Shots" (no alcohol)

I took a Turmeric & Ginger Boost drink and concentrated it into a 2 oz. "shot" serving per day and also added a couple things to the recipe that will help your body absorb the most nutrition possible from the Turmeric.  This is a great anti-inflammatory addition to your Psoriasis-friendly diet, a great boost for your immune system.

Watch my YouTube video for the recipe:

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Orange Juice:
http://linksynergy.walmart.com/deeplink?id=IYK4XPy546U&mid=2149&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FOcean-Spray-100-Juice-Orange-Juice-60-Fl-Oz-1-Count%2F55556546
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How to Detoxify Poke Sallet

Poke Sallet (also called Poke "Salad" by us Hillbillies) is an old-time favorite dish in the Appalachian region.  In its plant form, before cooking, it is called Poke Weed.  Poke Weed grows wild in this area and we forage it in the very early Spring.  As always, when foraging, be 110% certain that you know exactly what you are looking for.  You wouldn't want to get ahold of the wrong thing, which brings me to my next point...

CAUTION: POKE WEED IS TOXIC!  Yes, that's right.  It is toxic from root to tip, but I will teach you how to boil out the toxins and use it as you would any other cooked greens.  You're probably thinking, "What's up with Hillbillies and their poisonous foods?".  Right?  Well, isn't even chicken toxic to eat if not cooked?  Also eggs, if not pasteurized, must be fully cooked to eliminate the possibility of Salmonella poisoning.  Many foods are this way.  It just seems odd because it isn't usually vegetation that carries this risk.  Here in Appalachia, we don't mind it any more than cooking our chicken and eggs to a safe temperature.  We are blessed with bountiful foraged foods and don't mind putting in a little work to take advantage of what is freely given.  It's a gift from God and we receive it with Thanksgiving.

Poke weed can grow to be as much a 10 ft. high.  But when foraging, be sure to harvest plants no more than 2 ft. high, as the plant becomes more toxic the larger it grows.  Harvest by cutting the stems and leaves, leaving the root in tact in the ground for next year's harvest.  The roots and berries are the most toxic part of the plant.  Never eat these!  Next are the stems, with the leaves being least toxic.  The toxins are denoted by the apparent purplish color on the stems.  

Clean by breaking the leaves away, peeling downward to remove the purple skin from the stem.  Cut or break away this skin from the leaf, keeping the leaves for cooking.  If you want, you can peel any remaining purple from the smaller parts of the stems and cut these up to use with your leaves as well.  Rinse thoroughly and drain in a colander or salad spinner.

Detoxify by boiling 3 times,10 minutes of boiling each time, changing the water out for clean water and rinsing the greens between each time.  After your 3 boilings are complete and the greens are rinsed and drained a final time, you may use the Poke Sallet as you would any other cooked greens.  

Most people around here like to then fry it up with onions and bacon in bacon grease.  It would be perfectly healthy to fry this up with onions and bacon, using a healthier oil such as avocado oil or coconut oil.  

Another favorite option, my husband's fave and a very healthy option at that, is to cook the greens in with scrambled eggs.  Poke Sallet is DeLiCiOuS with egg!  Just give them a quick fry in a healthy oil as described in the first option and then pour your beaten eggs in on top and stir as the eggs cook.  Similarly, you could also use these greens in omelets, frittatas, quiches, etc.  

Be sure to check out my full tutorial as I show you step-by-step how to detoxify this delicious Appalachian foraged favorite.  

Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Xmei_DIQ0

How to Dehydrate Hickory Chickens in the Oven

As promised in my last Hickory Chicken video, "Hickory Chickens Sautéed with Fresh Asparagus", I'm back to show you guys how you can dehydrate Hickory Chickens in your oven.  We were lucky enough to get a second batch of Hickory Chickens, so this was the perfect opportunity to do this video for you guys.

The process couldn't be simpler.  Just prepare your mushrooms as directed in the first video and place them on a rack in the center of your oven for the first hour, turn, and then back into the oven for another hour on that side and you're done.  Of course you can do the same in a dehydrator if you have one. But if you are blessed with a large batch of these, you definitely want to preserve them and have them to enjoy over a longer period of time.  Although we forage these for free in the woods, if you were to get these from a grocery store, they are a very expensive, highly coveted, gourmet delicacy.  These mushrooms, known as Hickory Chickens to foragers, known as Morel Mushrooms in the culinary world, sell for several hundred dollars per pound, dried.  Through Walmart online, they currently sell in options of $59.99 for 1 oz., $107.99 for 2 oz., or $299.99 for 8 oz.  In fact, here are the links for reference (and in case you want to purchase them 😉🍄):

8 oz. dried Morels:   
http://linksynergy.walmart.com/deeplink?id=IYK4XPy546U&mid=2149&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMorel-Mushrooms%2F191771043%3Fselected%3Dtrue

2 oz. dried Morels:
http://linksynergy.walmart.com/deeplink?id=IYK4XPy546U&mid=2149&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMorel-Mushrooms%2F168985160%3Fselected%3Dtrue

1 oz. dried Morels:
http://linksynergy.walmart.com/deeplink?id=IYK4XPy546U&mid=2149&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMorel-Mushrooms%2F138167468%3Fselected%3Dtrue


To have these growing wild on our property is quite a blessing and we are thrilled to find these each year.  However, as always, I must warn you:  Before foraging for Hickory Chickens or any other wild foraged food, always be 110% certain that you know exactly what you are looking for.  False Morels are also found in areas where true Morels are found.  False Morels are highly poisonous!

Watch my YouTube video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQYXaw8Pu0

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