All posts tagged: vegan

Teas

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Teas are essential to me. I have always loved drinking tea, aside from tea being absolutely delicious and relaxing, it is extremely beneficial to your health. Teas can help ease symptoms of health problems or any type of symptomatic dilemma you might be having. These are the type of teas I drink and I will add common problems that you might be having, and how tea can relieve some of those symptoms for you. My favorite tea: Green tea   Benefits Green tea is loaded with anti-oxidants that can reduce formation of free radicals in the body, antioxidants protect cells and molecules from damage. Free radicals are known to play a role in aging (who doesn’t want to slow down the aging process?) It improves brain function due to the caffeine. Look- I am all for caffeine in moderate usage. There are a lot of back and forth studies to caffeine wether it be good or bad. All I know is that I find it extremely beneficial to my health. Green tea is different from …

Mushroom Spaghetti Zoodle

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  I grew up eating a lot of pasta, I’m half Italian so we always celebrated this part of me even though I grew up with the Filipino side raising me most of my life, haha. Being 25 now my body does not like gluten or any type of heavy bread carb, I know this because I’ve tried every single diet out there. I don’t feel comfortable living a high carb diet, because my body just does not like it and I gain a lot of weight. Everyone is different! I don’t eat meat but I find clean carbs to eat, such as veggies and fruit. I stay away from simple carbs like bread,rice, and pasta ( very limited in my diet) and I’m totally ok with that. There are many cleaner alternatives like quinoa and lentils and cauliflower rice. So this Zoodle recipe is perfect for me if I’m craving an Italian spaghetti dish. I pretty much eyed all of my measurements because this was only for me. I also used all organic products. …

Favorite Natural Products

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I am all for natural products, there seems to be a stigma circulating that if you use naturally products you stink or it doesn’t fully give you that good hygiene feel compared to using toxin packed products. We’ve been conditioned by big corporations all of our lives that there are no alternatives. Let me tell you my story.   It was about the end of Senior year of high school when I discovered a painful lump in my underarm, it was about the size of a big grape. I googled my symptoms of course, since it was painful it was nothing to worry about its probably just a cyst. I went to the doctor just to make sure and they said , it’ll go away, it’s a cyst or a swollen lymph node give it a week and try not to irritate the area. I followed all orders and it eventually went away. For about two years I would have recurring lymph node flare ups, from my neck to my underarms. I thought to myself …

vegan basil pesto edamame pasta

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  Need a pasta fix? This edamame pasta has more than half the protein of the regular pastas you buy at the grocery. Half the carbs. Better tasting. No joke. What you’ll need for the vegan pesto: Hand full of basil 2/3 cup of olive oil 5-6 cloves of garlic Dry roasted macadamia nuts or pine nuts (i used Mac nuts) Put all in a blender or food processor until paste like. Add sea salt to taste and blend for a few seconds again. Edamame pasta This brand is called Explore Asian edamame spaghetti shape pasta, I bought it on amazon. You only boil for about 4 mins as it is much softer and delicate than pasta. Strain pasta put as much pesto as you want then you are done! Enjoy!

Simple PineNana Nice Cream

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Really obsessed with nice cream, theres no such thing as overdosing on bananas right?! LOL… adding simply pineapple to my nice cream is my fave, sometimes the simplest ones are the best ones!…. I swear my nice cream photo looked better, but I couldn’t wait to take a bite! What you’ll need: 4-5 frozen bananas, if you want a bigger serving than go ahead and put a couple more frozen bananas in there. **Please make sure your bananas are frozen, if they are not it’ll be smoothie like consistency which defeats the purpose** 1/3 of a cup of slice pineapple. Instructions: Place frozen banana in a quality blender. Blend until frozen bananas are a thick  consistency, you may have to put bananas in place back in the bottom, they have a tendency to stick to the side using my blender.   Add pineapple until blended well. Enjoy!!  

Mango & Sticky rice with coconut cream

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One of my favorite Thai dessert dishes. I don’t like buying mango and sticky rice because sometimes I like my rice a little more coconuty than what they sell in restaurants. I made a dipping/cream sauce with mine to add flavor to the rice…. And it is so amazing! What you’ll need: 1 cup of rice Mangos 1 or 2 depends on how much you’ll want. I also used alfalfa mangos which are my fave. All purpose  flour (I use tapioca because it is gluten free) Coconut milk Natural cane sugar Coconut manna (I’ve never seen anyone use this but it makes a world of difference in the flavoring) Instructions: First things first you must soak your one cup of rice overnight.. If needed to have dish by today I’ve seen people soak for 30 mins.  Once rice is soaked, put it in rice cooker/steamer. Work on your sauce while your rice is cooking There will be 2 sauces made one sauce to soak rice after it is cooked and my coconut cream. 1st sauce …