Food Babe's Recipe Rendezvous:

Melt In Your Mouth Kale Salad

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Sometimes I wish I had a magic wand, so I could wave it and make everyone love kale as much as I do. Lucky for me, I think I came up with a recipe to make a kale lover out of just about anyone! I originally got the idea for this salad during a magnificent dinner I had in Miami during Art Basel. Since then, I’ve been slowly recreating and perfecting this salad and today I got it just right.

Taking hearty lacinato (dinosaur) kale and making it melt in your mouth is normally quite the task! But it can be easy, all you need is a food processor, a few minutes to prepare some simple ingredients and voila! Every flavor profile is represented in this recipe – sweet, salty, sour, astringent, bitter, and pungent. In Ayurvedic medicine, they believe that having each taste in a meal acts as a beneficial digestive component leaving your body completely nourished and satisfied. So that’s why it’s no surprise that I feel great after eating this salad.

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Why You Should Avoid GMOs at Mexican Restaurants + Recipe

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Figuring out how to eat Mexican food and avoiding GMOs is one of the toughest dilemmas I have encountered since I started living an organic lifestyle. I love Mexican food and it is one of my favorite types of food (next to pizza, french fries and cake). The problem? If you go to any popular mexican restaurant you are destined to consume genetically engineered ingredients. Everything is either made or fried with vegetable oil (corn, soybean, or canola) or corn – and over 90% of corn, soy and canola are likely to come from genetically engineered crops. And let’s face it, going out to a Mexican restaurant and avoiding the chips, the tortillas, the enchiladas, etc. is NOT FUN.

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Does Your Cookie Need All That Sugar?

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I’ve made these cookies three times in the past 3 weeks. They are chewy, crispy, ridiculously delicious and SWEET. The best part, they have hardly any added sugar. I used only a 1/4 cup of organic coconut palm sugar because the almond flour I also used has a natural hint of sweetness. Did you know the famous Nestle Toll House cookie recipe has 1 and 1/2 cups of added sugar plus the sugar contained in 2 cups of chocolate chips?! That is close to 600 grams of added sugar per recipe, which is crazy! I still can’t believe I used to use make those cookies back in the day. Talk about a sugar hangover.
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Brown Rice Vegetable Spring Rolls

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Can you see the excitement on my face?  That’s what happens when I find a new food that I absolutely love.

Ever since visiting Thailand last spring, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of making something like this recipe below. Any combination of crunchy vegetables, herbs and flavors will work with these new brown rice spring roll wrappers I found recently. I hope you enjoy the combo I came up with that includes fresh mint leaves and a Thai inspired dipping sauce. Two of these wraps make the perfect make ahead lunch or you can make a bunch to serve as appetizers like I did…There is something incredibly refreshing about these – I know you will savor every bite!
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