Guacamole

Another tip? Add avocado to everything!!!

Ripe Haas avocados

Vine ripe tomato

Onion

Splash of heavy cream or whole milk

Lime

Kosher salt

Dash of black pepper

Optional: Cilantro

 Here's a killer guac recipe. You can add cilantro to this if you are a cilantro fan but I usually opt out. 

Ripe Haas avocados. Cube and add to bowl. Chop and add vine ripe tomato. Add chopped onion. Add a splash of heavy cream or whole milk. Liberally squeeze fresh lime. Add KOSHER salt and a dash of black pepper. Mix with spoon. Don't blend. Unless avocados are not ripe, then do blend. :). Enjoy on tortilla chips, pita chips, Burgers, etc. I add avocado to tuna fish and eggs as well. Must be kosher salt or recipe doesn't work! 

How to Cook Veggies

Very often I sautéed my veggies in the following:

EVOO

Kosher salt

Fresh ginger

Fresh Lemon juice

Rosemary

Fresh garlic

(great anti-inflammatory and digestive benefits). Add cayenne if you want a kick. 

Zucchini tastes great this way. 

Or combine Fresh tomato chunks with sliced mushrooms, fresh spinach and a T of goat cheese. Sautéed with ingredients listed above and eat as is or put on top of tilapia with breadcrumbs or roll inside a chicken filet and bake or throw mix inside an omelet. Great way to stretch a meal out. 

Sourdough Grilled Cheese

So simple it's scary. 

Fresh sourdough slices

Gruyere and muenster or marble jack cheese slices

Heirloom or vine ripe tomato

Butter/ olive oil

Kosher salt. 

Butter two slices of the sourdough. 

Layer inside (unbuttered sides) with each cheese and tomato slices. Sprinkle w kosher salt. Add a spray  of EVOO to grill and Grill butter sides down and flip. Press down with bacon press or use griddle. Enjoy!

For a twist, add a slice of turkey or ham to the mix. 

Chicken Soup in a Jiffy

My apologies but I'm not a cook who measures! 

Dark meat chicken pieces (drums, thighs, wings)

Filtered water

Four large carrots

Handful of baby carrots

Two or three large organic celery stalks

Small/medium onion

Hungarian paprika

1 T dill spice or more if fresh dill

Kosher salt

Optional: Dash of black pepper

Optional: Mirepoix

Optional: Noodles

Add dark meat chicken pieces (drums, thighs, wings) to a large pot or Dutch oven. Add filtered water. Add four or so large carrots or a few handfuls of baby carrots (I always wash my veggies in vinegar water to really clean them from harmful pesticides or herbicides). Add two to three large organic celery stalks (celery is one of those veggies most likely to retain pesticides so buy organic here if nowhere else). Chop one small/medium onion and add. Mirepoix also works very well. If using the Trader joes variety I use 1/2 package of the trio for my soup. Add a tsp or two of Hungarian paprika and about a T of dill spice. More if fresh dill. Add kosher salt to taste. Dash of black pepper optional. Boil for 20 mins. Then simmer for at least an hour in a covered pot. Somewhere in this hour remove chicken, tear up chicken pieces, remove bones and add meat back to soup. Also cut up carrots and celery. I use kitchen shears for this. Enjoy! Add noodles if desired at end. Tastes even better day two. Great for days with sniffly noses and cold weather. Serve with rye toast and earth best spread or the real thing- Presidente salted butter. (European style-vastly better than Land O Lakes!!) details matter! Yum. 

Baked Kale

Love this recipe because it's an easy way to incorporate those leafy greens into the diet. They taste like potato chips. Even the kids eat them!

One bag/ bunch of kale

Olive oil

Kosher salt

1 fresh lemon

Clean and cut off stems. Chop. Dry with paper towel. Put on baking sheet. Spray or drizzle olive oil and add kosher salt. Drizzle some fresh lemon over top. Mix. Bake on 350 about 15 minutes until crisp. Enjoy!!!!! They are positively addicting.