Hummus bit Tahini: Perfect Lenten Meal

       A traditional middle eastern dish. Hummus dipped in bread makes a great Lenten meal.
Beans with grain, in this example garbanzo beans with wheat pita bread, supply a complete protein.
       Traditional Catholics fast for the 40 days beginning with Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2013 through Easter Sunday. This tradition of fasting goes back to Oir Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. who fasted and prayed for 40 days  in the desert. 40 is an example of a sacred number, the Israelites journeyed for 40 years after leaving the bondage of Egypt, led by Moses and Aaron. The flood of Noah was a rain of forty days and nights. After Jesus rose from the dead, he remained with his disciples for 40 days before he ascended into heaven. So 40 is a sacred space, a sacred time we create by fasting and prayer. We are creating a sacred space in our lives. 
     This year 2013 is especially important time for we as Catholics to fast and pray. Our holy father, Pope Benedict has announced that effective the 28th day of February 2013 he will decline the office of Pope, and therefore there will be a conclave there will be an election of the new pontiff. So Pope Benedict in effect is resigning and We as Catholics must now pray for the next pope and of course pray for the Holy Spirit to enlighten the church and Mary are mother to guide the Cardinals who will elect the next pope.
          

The recipe:
3 cups cooked garbanzo beans/chick peas
1/2 cup mixed sesame seeds
1 cup water
3 tables spoons calamata olives
3-4 cloves garlic
Olive oil
Paprika
1 1/2 lemons
3/4 cup fresh minced parsley
couple pinches sea salt

Mix all ingredients in Vita mix blender .add chopped parsley. Sprinkle with paprika, drizzle with garlic. Serve with pita bread.

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Beet Juice,

Today's Beet juice Recipe for 1 8oz glass.
1 Yellow/golden beet with attached greens.
1 large Purple beet.
2 stalks celery .
small piece ginger
Wedge of lemon
2 carrots
1 Serrano pepper.
This is an amazing Re-Vitalizing deep
Purple red juice that is perfect as a preworkout boost. Take before and during your aerobics, running, resistance workout, yoga, or Qi Gong. You name it this juice Re-vitalizes with natural source of Nitrates. This compound in the body opens up the blood flow to muscles and encourages your maximum cardio output.
Beet juice works as well as those expensive pre-workout drinks without the fake artificial colors and bizarre chemicals present in "so called" sports drinks.
Take your beet juice pre-workout and feel the power in natural foods! An excellent source of electrolytes, vitamins and minerals.
blessings always!

Juicing with bitter Herbs

Juicing with bitter herbs: spring/winter tonic. Chicoria Catalogna, cilantro, lemon, peppers, apple and kale, ginger: Building a green juicePuntarelle or cicoria di catalogna, Italian Chicory is a nice green with a pleasant bitter edge that goes well in a green juice.

     The bitter greens are good sources of vitamin K, folate and Vitamin A. These herb power foods, open up the liver and gallbladder, they stimulate digestive enzymes. I also and galanga root and ginger to further actualize the stimulating warming properties. I am using the dark green poblano pepper, jalapeño and habanero papers. This juice is a good tonic for the blood and thins the mucus secretions.

Lemon Green Ginger Pulse; How to

 Lemon Ginger Green Pulse: dandelion, parsley, cilantro, cucumber, green apple, poblano, Serrano, habanero, lemon, ginger, galangal root. Dandelion opens the liver and gallbladder, good for digestion, Vitamin A and C, lots of enzymes, warmth from ginger and galangal. Giving thanks to God for green juice. A short talk on the Conversion of St Paul and Green Juice.

orange desert mallow

orange desert mallow, red dunes with verbena  sassafras, yucca stalks glow starlight, wallflower & sego lily, evening primrose, rice grass, salt bush and rabbit brush, a bouquet I picked I picked with josh for Eileen

BajaArizona

BajaArizona, salt river/Gila/Agua Fria bioregion, tracing water from white mountains black river, through the black Canyon white river, forming the Salt/Gila/Agua Fria watershed. Spirituality localized in place, spiritual geography. Spiritual place: ponderosa pine flowing into saguaro, standing people,
walking howling Arizona grey wolf walking persons, elk eating grass running people, riparian willow and flowering people, always the land, our earth singing us in this way. Drinking snow melt and lightning rain, hail and obsidian, creosote and prickly pear, cholla and mesquite standing, swaying in the wind people. Our country in the landscape, a geography of place, knowing earth, walking. Listening watching for a song

The Christian Life (cover) of Louvin Brothers