EFTMUSE

Avocado Mango Salsa

1 Mango peeled, chopped
1 red pepper, diced
1 tomato, diced
2 avocados, peeled, chopped
1/4-1/2 red onion, diced
Sea salt
Don't have mango? I used chopped frozen peaches. Also added I fine diced jalapena and some lemon juice. Yummy! Good on meat, fish or chicken.
From: recipezaar.com
The Muse

Yummy stir fry

Sliced brown mushrooms
Red bell pepper
Sliced lotus root
Chopped green long bean
Small eggplant cut in chunks
Thumb size piece of fresh Ginger chopped fine
4 sliced green onions
Sprouts
parsley chopped
Cook all except eggplant-sprouts-parsley in grape seed oil, Stirring. When 1/2 done add rest of items.
Add broth,cover, cook 5-8 minutes at lower heat. Add 1/2 C. Broth, some Hoison sauce w/potato starch pour over veggies. Cover for 3 minutes. Stir well. Serve over rice w/Braggs or soy sauce.
Enjoy!

Your Mom was right

Eat your veggies! Are you one of the 26% of people eating 3 or more servings of veggies a day? HMMMM, think I'll go make that organic carrot-ginger soup on this drizzly fall day. Love my veggies!

Chia seeds

Did you know that 4 Tablespoons of Chia seeds:
Have the calcium of 3 C. Milk
Magnesium of 10 broccoli stalks
Iron of 1/2 C. Red kidney beans
30 % more Antioxidents than beans or blueberries
25 % More fiber than flax
Omega 3's the same as salmon
Isn't nature smart to put all that in a little tasty seed!

Have some laughs today!

Go to: www.myfoodlooksfunny.com

A spring treat

Rhubarb Cobbler
4 Cups chopped rhubarb
1 Cup flour
3/4 Cup oatmeal
1 tsp. Penzeys cinnamon
1 Cup brown sugar
1/2 Cup melted butter
1 Cup sugar
1 Cup water
3 T. Cornstarch
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350. Mix together flour, oatmeal, cinnamon, brown sugar and melted butter. Press 1/2 into bottom of 8x8 baking pan for crust.
In a saucepan combine sugar, water, cornstarch, and vanilla. Cook over med. Heat stirring until thick and transparent-about 5 min. Add Rhubarb, stir then spread over crust in pan. Sprinkle remaining oatmeal mixture on top. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Source: Cynthia Lynn in Penzys catalogue.
Enjoy!

Just say no

Don't like the idea of eating genetically modified foods (GMO)? Here's some resources to identify what is what, since there are no label requirements. There are shopping guides, videos and more and its free.

www.nongmoshoppingguide.com

www.healthiereating.org

Read your labels for this "new" sweetner

The label may say no calorie sweetener-Amino Sweet. It is a form of aspartame. So if you don't want to ingest aspartame be aware of this "new" name.

Summer joys

Isn't summer wonderful? Especially the first fresh tomatoes from the garden! Reminds you once again what they are supposed to taste like :)

More about those PLUs on your food

Ok,a recap. A PLU is that little number on a sticker on your food. If you know how to "read it" you can find out quite a lot. 4 numbers on that little sticker means it was raised conventually. 5 numbers starting with the number 9= organically grown.

But, 5 numbers beginning with the number 8 on your fruit means its genetically modified (GM) food. Hmmmm. Helps to identify what I will or won't eat easier. Thanks Dr. Mercola. (www.mercola.com)