ZUPPA TOSCANA

ZUPPA TOSCANA

Zuppa Toscana, a traditional Tuscan soup to nourish you down to your cells. Filled with delightful flavors and ingredients, including hearty fingerling potatoes and hearty late season kale. 

Make it in the instant pot or a top of your stove. This is a hearty and warming soup will keep you cozy all winter long.

Traditionally this soup is made with dairy, but I love it with coconut milk and a two drops of oregano essential oil, if you have it.

When you make it in the instant pot, the flavors commingle to an incredible level. If you are making it on your stove top, you will just need to simmer everything a bit longer.

Enjoy!!

IMMUNE BOOSTING CHICKEN SOUP

Tis the season where our immune systems (via our microbiome, our circadian clocks, and our seasonal calendars) are preparing our bodies for strength and resiliency if we follow their lead.

This soup is a wonderful way to promote immunity, stay warm from the inside out, and ensure some of the top immune boosting ingredients make their way into your menu!

This soup is for sure a regular at this time of year around our house. It is full of immune boosting ingredients (cue: ginger, wild mushrooms, turmeric, bone broth) that will surely feed your body just what you need to be at your most resilient.

I have been making this for years, and it NEVER gets old.

Enjoy this recipe (and it’s nourishing benefits) at a time when our world needs it most!

WINTER CABIN GRASS-FED BEEF STEW WITH CRISPY KALE

WINTER CABIN GRASS-FED BEEF STEW WITH CRISPY KALE

If you like warming and hearty foods at this time of year, this delicious bowl of goodness may be just right for you this solstice week. It can be made stove top, instant pot or crock pot and the recipe has all three options.

We made this recently on a chilly night up at our cabin, with the warmth and ambiance of our pellet stove burning. it warmed us up just right.

And I just love the crunch of the kale chips on top. So much texture and flavor fun.

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BIELER'S BROTH

BIELER’S BROTH

Invented Dr. Henry Bieler, author of the famous book, Food Is Your Best Medicine, this plant-based is medicinal soup.  

Dr. Bieler felt that this specific combination of vegetables was ideal for restoring acid-alkaline and sodium-potassium balance to organs and glands, especially the sodium-loving adrenal glands which suffer under stress.   Bieler’s broth is a wonderful remedy for those under stress or wanting to strengthen their immune system.

GINGER TURMERIC COCONUT BONE BROTH

GINGER TURMERIC COCONUT BONE BROTH

Start with your free-range chicken bones, add in the medicinal flavors of ginger and turmeric (some of the best immune boosters), combine with creamy coconut milk, and I promise you could sip this for days. 

Feel free to make it into a soup by adding chicken and veggies.

This is my very favorite bone broth recipe and I am so glad to share it with you today.

Ginger: Ginger belongs to the same family as turmeric (Zingiberaceae) and has a similar root-like appearance but is lighter in color. Ginger also contains a high level of antioxidants, along with some notable antimicrobial and antibacterial properties that will keep you stay healthy.

Turmeric: Turmeric is the powerful ingredient that gives curry its bright yellow color and contains the healing compound curcumin. It also boasts an excellent ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value of 127,068—a measure of the antioxidant content of foods. The antioxidants in turmeric, including polyphenols, flavonoids, and vitamin C, are a wonderful boost for your immune system.