La Belle Vie Holistic Living

This March, my housemate Jocelyn of Warriors of Wellness and I have decided to spring clean our health and commit ourselves to our wellness. We're sprouting, rebounding, hydrating, eating awesome food, and setting up a fermentation station. On our counter is kombucha, coconut yogurt, and sauerkraut all in the making. Our fridge is stocked with fresh, delicious foods, and we're cooking and eating up a storm of nutritious goodies. Yesterday I scored some organic kale fresh from my buddy Raul's garden and today I made it to the market bright and early to score some awesome veggies. With this amazing bounty, I ate wonderfully all day, including this unbelievable salad that was as tasty and easy to make as it was healthy. To make 3 leaves kales, chopped finely 1 medium carrot, peeled and julienned or grated 1/4 cup parsley, packed and finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, derooted and minced 1/2 avocado 1 lime, juiced 2 TBSP ground flax pinch salt chili pepper flakes to taste Combine ...

Welcome to my new bloggerific home, La Belle Vie. I moved over my posts so that you can access all of them from here. I've also just launched a website where you can find out all about my holistic nutrition services, such as personal consultations, healthy eating makeovers, private cooking lessons, and personal meal preparation. Thanks for all your support over the past years! I am so excited to keep sharing yummy food and healthy living tips with you, starting with this raw cauliflower tabbouleh I made the other day! I only really discovered my love for cauliflower a few short years ago. So I'm making up for lost time and trying to find as many ways to enjoy it as possible. At the Sunday market last week, among the 20 mangos we bought (yep. note that a week later, they're all gone), we also scored one awesomely huge cauliflower. One of the first things I made was a raw tabbouleh. Cauliflower "couscous" Using cauliflower as a grain replacement is super easy and a...

I've moved! Visit my new blog La Belle Vie for more recipes and healthy living tips. Don't forget to update your bookmarks. xo I've been meaning to do a detox for a while now. I've been feeling less than awesome - the state of limbo I'm in with waiting to travel and dragging my feet and the season change toward cold cold cold and wet have not been helping. I've been tired, unmotivated, anxious, and a bit down. Add to this a weekend of eating almost nothing but processed soy, and a switch flipped and I was suddenly ready.  I've been on the detox for about a week now and have felt great about the foods I've been eating. It's been about 95% raw, tons of veggies and fruits, with some seeds and nuts for protein and healthy fats. I've steered clear of concentrated sweeteners and anything processed or refined. I've had no cravings, which is great. I was experiencing detox symptoms, but they seem to be on their way out.  ...

I'm reading Victoria Boutenko's new book, Green for Life, right now (stay tuned for a review and some sneak peek recipe fun!) and am getting more and more excited about green smoothies. However, since I'm trying to stay away from sweet fruits, enjoying green smoothies has been a little harder than expected. I tried a grapefruit-orange-spinach combo...unless you like very bitter morning drinks, I do not recommend it. I gave up on the dream for now of enjoying sweet smoothies and have embraced the savoury smoothie. Here's a delicious veggie smoothie I came up with this morning: Happy Monday Green Smoothie 1 handful spinach 2 med tomatoes, quartered 3" long piece of cucumber pinch cayenne pepper blend until smooth. refreshing. spicy. delicious. a great way to wake up. I can't wait to experiment with adding some lemon, or coriander, or avocado!