It’s nice to have a little drink from time to time. As with so many other things though,the store-bought variety tend to be loaded up with all sorts of artificial sweeteners and sugars and who knows what else. This fruity margarita is made from all natural and wholesome ingredients. Well, mostly wholesome ingredients. It wouldn’t be a margarita if it was completely wholesome!
Be sure to enjoy your alcohol in moderation, and never drink and drive! But you know that!
Sometimes a smoothie is a little too heavy, but plain old water is just… a little too plain. Well, water doesn’t have to be plain! With a little bit of a planning ahead, you can make your very own ultra-delicious infused water. Of course, you can use pretty much whatever ingredients you like. But here’s a recipe that’s been tried and tested.
Not only is this infused water lovely to drink, but it’s full of antoxidants from the apples and lemons, it has the anti-inflammatory benefits of ginger, as well as all sorts of wonderful nutrients. And with ginger and lemon, it’s a great morning or after-dinner drink to help with digestion.
Here’s something special: a wicked juice cocktail from the head chef of Southern Pressed Juicery. They’ve just opened up a new location in South Carolina. Check it out if you’re in the neighborhood and love organic, raw juices!
Southern Pressed Juicery in Greenville, South Carolina is promoting a new type of Southern comfort food – one that inspires and enables a healthy lifestyle in a fresh and easy way. Southern Pressed Juicery opened in May as Greenville’s first organic, plant-based cold-pressed juicery and restaurant.
Southern Pressed Juicery features organic cold pressed juices, superfood smoothies, and a menu of plant based foods as well as a children’s menu. They also offer 3-5 day cleanse options for beginners, intermediates and more advanced juicers. Southern Pressed Juicery uses sophisticated ingredients such as turmeric, e3 live, spirulina, alkaline water, coconut meat, chia seeds and chlorophyll to create everyday juices and medicinal-like tonics. Each 16 ounce bottle contains 5 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables.
Customers are encouraged to interact with the restaurant’s “Juiceologists,” knowledgeable store advisors who provide a welcoming experience with nutritional information about all products and ingredients as well as the health benefits of menu items.
Chef Xavier Bonnafous, an international plant based raw food chef, leads the culinary division of Southern Pressed Juicery, coming from Miami where he specialized in raw and vegan cuisine. All menu items are 100% organic and feature local products whenever possible. More information is available at www.southernpressedjuicery.com
Southern Pressed Juicery opened a satellite location in August at Furman University in the Trone Student Center.
Southern Pressed Juicery is part of the Table 301 restaurant group which also includes Soby’s New South Cuisine, The Lazy Goat, Nose Dive, Passerelle Bistro, Papi’s Tacos and Soby’s on the Side.
A simple rule of thumb to make sure you’re getting a broad range of healthy nutrients is to make sure you’re eating lots of fruits and veggies of different colors. Lots of the disease-fighting and health-promoting properties of plants are related to the different compounds that produce the different colors.
Often times, the deeper the color of fresh whole foods, the richer they are in nutrients. So we should all try to keep our lives full of color. And what better way than by drinking it all up!
This Rainbow Juice takes all that to heart, and while it may look green once it’s in the cup, it’s made from a real rainbow of delicious fruits and veggies. This juice is full of antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, and all sorts of vitamins and minerals.
And it’s super tasty. With the spiciness coming from the jalapeño, ginger and cilantro, the kiwi adds some sweetness, and of course the tomato brings the umami. Truly well-balanced, this Rainbow Juice makes a great snack any time of day.
Since ancient times, pomegranates have been used in Middle Eastern and Eastern European cuisine. These strange and wonderful fruit are now a global sensation, and this pomegranate punch smoothie is an awesome way to enjoy this ancient fruit.
The extra bit of effort it takes to get those delicious little seed pods out (and there are hundreds of them in there!) is worth it, and just makes this odd fruit even more rewarding.
So you’ve been making your own kombucha at home, and things are going awesome. Plain kombucha is great, but it only gets greater when you add some flavor. When you flavor your kombucha recipe, you’re also giving it a bit of extra carbonation. This extra boost of flavor and fizziness will knock your ‘bucha up…
Recipes are often a family tradition, handed down from one generation to the next. The one recipe that I’ve learned from my mother that I think will become a tradition is how to brew kombucha Kombucha is a fermented drink that has exploded in popularity in the past few years. While it’s enjoying a meteoric…
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Besides the abundant sunshine and warm weather that we get in the summer, I love the variety of fruits available. One of the fruits summer has to offer is blueberries….OH HOW I LOVE YOU SO!
As you all know, fruit is a very large part of my diet; so it is natural for me to make tasty recipes using fruit. Not only do I make fruit salads and smoothies with fruit, I also flavor water and tea with it too. Some of you might be thinking, “how do you make tea on a RAW diet?” It is actually quite simple, I cold brew my teas.
Cold brewing is a method that adheres to my raw lifestyle yet it is bursting with flavor like traditionally made tea. I just get my half-gallon glass jar, add my organic tea bags (6 tea bags for green tea or 4 bags for black tea), fill with 100 degree water and allow this to steep overnight. If I am making a fruit flavored tea, after it is cold brewed I add the flavoring to it. See, pretty simple. I even make different flavors at the same time so my family can have a variety of teas to choose from. This also prompts everyone to grab a glass of fresh tea instead of soda.
Sweet tea is has been a staple of summer beverages for generations and all across America, but why not take it a next step further and make it healthy? Traditional sweet tea is just brewed tea, tons of sugar and sometimes lemon juice; but I feel we can make a better choice here. I like to use fresh RIPE organic fruit with just a touch of raw agave syrup in my cold brewed organic tea.The fruit has natural sweetness and vitamins, the agave syrup adds a touch of more sweetness and smoothness to it, and the organic cold brewed tea has retained all of its antioxidant properties.
Although I have many combinations of sweet tea (and unsweetened tea), I want to give you my recipe for BLUEBERRY SWEET TEA. Just think, the flavor of fresh ripe blueberries with a touch of sweetness all in a refreshing drink that will cool you off and give you some extra health benefits this summer…. CHEERS to our HEALTH!!
