Your Health and Joy

Patricia Joy Becker

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Food Combining – Did You Know?

Fruit and fruit juice digests very quickly and are best eaten 2 hours after a meal or 30 minutes before. The morning is an excellent time to eat your fruit. Enjoy eating a single whole fresh fruit or make a seasonal fresh salad. Choose a variety of colors and textures of what is fresh at the farmer’s markets and in your garden. Grains, grain products, bean dishes, and vegetables take longer to digest and provide longer sustaining energy and combine easily. As much as we like granola, Read more...

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The Secret Sauce Chart

Sauces and dressings add delicious splendor to a otherwise bland meal.

Tasty sauces can be made with anywhere from two ingredients or 20 ingredients.

When I was the head chef Harbin Hot Springs Restaurant. I would plan the menu ahead time, then my sous chefs and I would cook for hours putting the dinner together.

Often in the final minutes before serving the dinner I would quickly create an impromptu sauce or dressing to add to the meal.

It was a revelation how many diners would compliment Read more...

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sweeten all your cookie recipes with maple syrup! Here is my favorite cookie recipe that  you can adapted any time. Try using half oat flour, or chop up organic chocolate bars instead of the chips. Experiment and have fun, it is hard to go wrong.

Always use organic ingredients. Do it for yourself, for the organic farmers and for the planet.

Let me know if you come up with a another great idea!

Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of sea salt
1/2 cup coconut Read more...

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Got Gazpacho?

Nutritious and Delicious Summertime Soup
The Vitamin A, E and C help prevent colds. The antioxidant proprieties reduce the aging process. Use organic Farmers Market produce for the best flavor and maximum health benefits.

Easy Gazpacho Recipe2 large tomatos, quartered
1/2 cucumber, peeled and cut into 3 inch pieces
1/2 sweet red pepper or green1/ hot pepper, seeded
1 1/2 C tomato or vegetable juice
2 T red wine vinegar
2 T olive oil
dash Tabasco sauce
1/4 t sea salt
black pepper to taste

Blend Read more...