The true beauty of beneficial bacteria is they are tiny nutrients for the inner garden- your immune system! Taking probiotics in pill form as a supplement can be very helpful…what I prefer is to let food be my medicine…
I make batches of cultured veggies- saurkraut, beets and pickles- all lush with healthy bacteria. Life is all about the ying/yang balance of light and dark, and to keep our stores of ‘good bacteria’; up so they can keep ‘bad bacteria’ in check. We are 90% bacterial organisms ourselves, so let’s get cozy with our beneficial bacteria.
Long-lived cultures around the globe have one thing in common- fermented foods. Fermented food is the oldest form of food preservation. It is an efficient technology that has stood the test of time, improving digestibility of food and increased enzyme and nutrition making food medicinal. And it’s easy and fun!
Fermenting veggies like cabbage and beets and cauliflower and carrots helps us digest cooked foods.
In the summer, using garden fresh cucumbers and dill to make homemade pickles is a fun tradition- my boys don’t eat my other fermented veggies but they like pickles! And I love that they are aquiring a taste for sour foods.
The Dill Fairy visited me this year and I made a video for you to show you how easy it is to make your own homemade pickles HERE.
Soured, fermented foods help to rebalance our system and can even cut down on cravings. Cultured veggies can be ready in 4-5 days.
SEXY SLAW
1 cabbage, red or white, Nappa or mixture as the base- organic is best
1 head cauliflower
2 lbs carrots
1 head of garlic
2″ ginger peeled optional
Many veggies can be cultured with great success for more nutrition and digestibility. You can use beets which are great for the liver, sea veggies like wakame and arame, kale, collards etc.
Spices and dried herbs add something special: I like caraway seeds, chili flakes, garlic and ginger. Celery juice makes a great brine too. But to just get started, go basic and just try cabbage and water with salt so you get comfy with this first before experimenting.
1. Clean all vegetables well and then chop or use a food processor to shred everything.
2. Mix and mash vegetables in a bowl by hand releasing some of the juices.
3. Pack vegetable mix tightly into glass jar(s).
4. When the jars are full with about 1 -2 inches room at the top, use a wooden spoon to pound the mixture down and then add some more. Always leave 1-2 inches at the top of the jar so the fermented veggies have room to expand. I use 2 quart size jars.
5. Then add liquid or brine which is a mixture of good quality Celtic or Himalayan salt, about 2 T, and water. I also add a few leaves of cabbage that were from the outside of the head instead of disgarding them; they help take up the space at the top and keep the veggies below the brine.
6. Pour brine over the veggies, leaving breathing room for expansion.
7. Cap tightly and leave at room temp for 2-4 days. I ‘check in’ every day and release the cap to let the built up fermentation gases escape, and re-seal air-tight.
That’s it! When to taste, store in fridge.
Note: Donna Gates recommends using a ‘starter’ of probiotics- I do this when I have them in the house, but it turns out well without it.
These keep very well and are great to have on hand in the fridge. You can eat them alone as a condiment, or add them to salads, sprouted tortilla wraps, etc. I love them with a little olive oil, some turmeric and dulse sprinkled over top, with avocado. In-Joy!
Here are Donna Gates of the amazing Body Ecology Diet acreating a batch in this video series:
nourishing myself with juicy love from living foods on a high-raw lifestyle for over 12 years is a sensual paradise I want every woman to discover and enjoy for herself!
your raw beauty will shine through your eyes, your skin, your thinking, your entire being…your energy will glow!
just please don’t eat raw because you heard it’s the healthiest diet on the planet, brimming with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients & enzymes that you think you should to be slim and healthy…
eat high-raw because it makes you feel like a butterfly bursting out of a cacoon… and you’ll want to do yoga, or skinny dip or go hula hooping at midnight
raw food helps you hear your own voice again, and dance your dance, sing your song, and live your dreams…
eat high raw because you are a goddess, queen, empress, unicorn, mermaid- beautiful and regal, and you will see your beauty and own it like never before
eat raw food because it’s SEXY and the flavours are so alive and satisfying, pleasurable, and a paradise
high raw is a magical adventure where you walk a path no one else ever could
so eat raw food not because you ‘should’ but because you can, you get to!
with raw beauty,
ps
she wanted beauty and a magical life… so she made a list of everyone she loved… and she blew them kisses and wishes… and ate okra under a willow tree…
How many times have you been told to ‘make up your mind’ or ‘decide’ or ‘you can’t have this if you do that’ or you were ‘selfish’ for wanting what you want..?
I have a philosophy that I live by and that is this: “What I want, I need’.
Maria Montessori said that of children and it’s how I raised my boys, and how this Earth Empress is committed to seeing other women UPRISE in their life and claim what they want!
Recently I had a conversation with a client that surprised her- she didn’t even KNOW what she wanted…it took some time to uncover that- she didn’t feel she ‘deserved’ what she wanted because she wasn’t very ‘discliplined’ and couldn’t ‘control’ herself when it came to food.
I told her I was allergic to that word ‘deserve’! and that I actually didn’t give a fig about whether she deserved it, or even why she wanted it…I was fierce about undoing this twisted mindset that was holding her back from everything she ever dreamed of!
Ladies, you don’t have to DO anything to ‘deserve’ what it is you want!
What you want is what you need, and you must get serious about having it. And the sooner you do the happier, healthier and sexier you’ll be!
What do YOU want?
To lose 15 pounds? Have more energy to do what you love? Eat food that matches how you want to look and feel? Look hot in your clothes? Wear certain styles? Stop hiding out? Put yourself out there and enjoy being seen?
Whatever it is, it is good, it is right, it is NOT frivolous, it’s ESSENTIAL.
What you want is wanting you. It’s so close. Your desire will have it coming out of the woodwork for you if you allow it.
Of course there may be some method or skill required to facillitate it- the ‘how to’, but that’s the easy part. CLAIMING IT, dancing in your desire fully rooted in your wanting is the challenge for most women.
I love my wanting and the Universe loves it to…like the perfect lover attentive to my every whim, it gives me everything I want.
You can have exactly what you want!
Without having to ‘improve’ or ‘change’ who you are. Show up with the desire, I’ll show you the easiest, most graceful path right to it. Whether you ‘deserve’ it or not.
with sparks,
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I’m back from California and exciting things are happening, which I can’t wait to share with you!
But my youngest son recently broke his collarbone playing sports at school 🙁
When I arrived he looked very pale, and couldn’t move his shoulder without wincing.
An x-ray, which showed a clear break.
Other than recommending painkillers and a sling, doctors can’t do much.
Home we went where his healing journey began!
It’s been 9 days and Liam has even been ‘swimming’ for the past 3…he is healing beautifully :)))
Liam on Day 2- age 12 and 5’9″ tall
I’ll tell you my secret about speedy recovery…it’s a little contraversial especially where children are concered…I don’t use pain meds (unless absolutely necessary)! Why?
Pain is your friend.
Because pain keeps us still and quiet, which is Mother’s Nature’s command when we aren’t well, so the body can focus on healing. If you take pain medication, it’s tempting to become too active, too soon!
(Some high potency homeopathic arnica and rescue remedy right away would have been fine 😉
Of course, our high-raw diet works miracles, too 😉
‘hurry n’ heal horsetail helix’
We have also been adding in infusions of dried nettles and horsetail for extra silica bone mending love- into homemade iced teas, popsicles and broths.
Healing is so delicious!
And so was my other son’s grade 8 graduation celebration!
Liam and my husband at Landon’s grad ceremony
Landon received top honours in academia and sports- and looked so grown up in his tux!
before the graduation dinner with my sweet sons and mother-in-love
It was a proud moment for my son.
And then it was all over!
Landon at the end of the night
It made me realise once again how swiftly life moves…our destiny is unfolding every moment!
What are you most proud of this year so far?
And what is ‘up’ for you next?
Are you on the sidelines wishing- or are you in the game, loving yourself, filling yourself up, and going to your next level?
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We can all be the STARS in our own movie of healing, graduating or whatever we dream of!
with fireworks,
ps
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