Posts Tagged ‘cilantro’
Hello friends, I hope all is well in your world.
Today, I am not featuring a recipe for food, instead an easy and inexpensive recipe to cleanse our kidneys.
The kidneys filters the blood by removing salt, poison and any unwanted toxins that have entered our body. However, over time, the salt and toxins build up and we need a colon cleansing treatment.
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Cut a bunch of cilantro into smaller pieces.
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Boil the cilantro in a pot of water for 10 minutes.
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Let it cool down and then sieve/strain and discard the cilantro.
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Pour the filtered water into bottles or any container and keep in fridge.
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Drink one glass of this water daily and you will notice the changes to your urine. Parsley may also be used.
Check back next week for this Duncan Hines cupcake feature!
Stay Blessed ~ No Stress in 2014!
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Hello Friends and Happy Fri-Yay!
Summer is the perfect time to eat lighter and healthier salads so when hubby brought home a jicama, I decided to try it in a new salad recipe. A jicama is a crispy, sweet, edible tuber that looks like a turnip but has the crispness of a pear. When choosing one from the produce department, select a small to medium one as they are sweeter than the larger variety.
This vegetable is popular in Mexican cuisine and the jicama‘s unique flavor is great in salads, salsas, and vegetable platters. Hubby read that they also inhibits the growth and spread of colon cancer to other areas of the body so I knew it would become a part of our regular diet.
Today’s Friday Foodie Feature
Summer Salad with Jicama and Pineappple
Ingredients:
Juice of 1 lime or use bottled lime juice
1 medium jicama – julienned
1/3 cup of finely chopped cilantro or 1 crushed cube of Knorr’s cilantro
1 cup of fresh cubed pineapple
After washing and peeling the jicama, cut it julienne style and mix it together with the lime juice, chopped cilantro and the pineapple chunks in a large bowl. Refrigerate an hour then serve – quick, easy, and nutritious!
I also checked online and found some other great recipes so I am looking forward to trying jicama in different dishes each week.
have you tried any new foods lately?
Stay Blessed ~ No Stress in 2014!
BTW – don’t forget to come back at 6:00 p.m. for the Weekend Wind-Down Party!
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Hello Friends and Happy Fri-Yay!
We may have just turned the corner with the warmer temps on the horizon. Once the seasons change from winter to Spring and then to Summer, there are two things that are forefront in my mind – eating light and vacation.
Eating light while on vacation is great, but when that’s not possible, I try to make the best of it with foods that conjures up the places that I would rather be.
Today’s Friday Foodie Feature is Ceviche
There’s something about mixing lime juice, fish and cilantro that reminds me of either a Conch Salad from the Bahamas or Ceviche from Mexico. Conch is giant sea snail, which I can’t get in Middletown, but like ceviche it can also be made with scallops.
This cold appetizer is a great way for me to start a vacation even if it’s only a mental one, and if I add a cold beer…everything is right in the world!
Ingredients:
- 1 lb fresh bay scallops – diced into quarters
- 6 limes or bottled lime juice
- 1 jalapeno pepper – diced
- 1/2 green pepper – diced
- 1 Avocado – diced
- 1/2 cup onions – diced
- 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes – halved
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup cilantro – chopped
Dice the bay scallops into quarters, then place them into a bowl. Pour in enough lime juice to cover them all. Put plastic wrap around bowl, pressing down to ensure that all the scallops are covered and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
While the scallops are marinating or “cooking” in the lime juice prepare the other ingredients.
Remove scallops from refrigerator and bowl, do not rinse.
The scallops should be white and firm to the touch.
Drain scallops and add other ingredients, stirring to mix well
Ceviche can also be made with any other firm fleshed fish, ie, red snapper but use the freshest fish possible and make in the same day of purchase.
What foods reminds you of a Spring or Summer vacation? Come back at 6:00 p.m. and share it at the
Weekend Wind-Down Party!
Stay Blessed ~ No Stress in 2014!
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Hello Friends and Happy Sunday
I hope you had a good weekend with an opportunity to spend quality time with your family/friends and did something fun and enjoyable. Yesterday, I took my car in for an oil change and Malik was my chauffeur so I took full advantage by having him drive me all around town running errands – it was good being Mommy! I had him drive me to Dunkin Donuts, Dutch Country Farmers Market, Family Dollar, PNC Bank and then finally to Lowe’s it was fun for me, not so much for him.
We gave him Tayair’s old car, remember the 2002 Hyundai Elantra, well you would have thought it was a new Mercedes because when he realized the plants had to ride in the back seat he wasn’t happy! I purchased two hanging baskets, a Color Combo Patio plant, Sweet Basil, Heirloom Tomatoes, Curled Parsley and Cilantro and they rode shotgun in the back seat fully protected by a yard of plastic – it was hilarious!
Hanging baskets – Petunias, Calibrachoa and Lobelia
Curled Parsley – boil and drink like tea it’s great for the digestive system
Cilantro is a wonderful fragrant herb
Basil also keeps the bugs away from your garden
Fresh Garden Tomatoes – scents of summer
Hibiscus is a perfect patio plant
Color Combo Welcome Plant – Bidens, Licorice Plant and Trailing Petunia
Love the handles on these hanging baskets
Time to check out
Malik reluctantly loading the cart
The plants riding in the back seat (along with vacuum cleaner)
Today I cleaned in and around the pool and cleared out my little garden which was overrun with Mint from last year.
Before
After
Have a wonderful evening – Smooches!
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