Homemade Apple Juice

Homemade Apple Juice

Ingredients:

• 1 cups, Water
• 400 g, Apples (not green apples; unless you really want to)

Tools:

• High-Speed Blender (I used my Vitamix)
• Nut Bag 
• Something to help you pour the apple juice into its storage container

Directions:

1. Put all the ingredients into your high speed blender. Blend for about 1 minute.
2. Using a nut bag, strain the apple juice into a bowl.
3. Pour the contents of the bowl into a storage container. That's it! :)

24 Hours to Vegan

24 Hours to VEGAN

Condensed Version

Do you want to learn how to transition to a vegan diet with ease and without sacrificing great flavor? Pick up a copy of the book, 24 Hours to Vegan (Condensed Version) by Daniella Cardoza for $8.99; published June 27, 2016 by Azure Publishing.

24 Hours to Vegan breaks down the difference between a vegan diet and the standard American diet and answers relevant questions/concerns in regards to switching to a vegan diet. Other subjects include:

• How to start a quick garden
• Quick and easy swaps to turn any non-vegan recipe into a vegan meal
• Over 35 recipes to get you started
• Lists to help you know what to buy and what to avoid
• And much more!

To follow the book on Facebook, visit 24 Hours to Vegan's fan page. To follow the author on Facebook, visit Daniella Cardoza's fan page. The full version of 24 Hours to Vegan will only be available as an eBook soon. 

Breakfast Smoothie 1

Vegan Breakfast Smoothie 1

Instead of eating a heavy meal before you exercise in the mornings, try drinking a delicious, healthy smoothie as a pre-workout. Or drink it because it's delicious and healthy. If you need more, double it.

Ingredients:

• Spinach leafs, 40 g
• Frozen Mangoes, 70 g
• Frozen Pineapples, 70 g
• Dried Goji Berries, 14 g
• Ground Flaxseed, 7 g
• Organic Protein (plant based), ~7 g (if you don't have this product then use cashew or almond nuts)
• Organic Coconut Water, 8 oz
• Optional: sprouting seeds, 1/2 or 1 tbsp

Tools:

• Nutribullet or Vitamix

Directions:

Put all your ingredients in your Nutribullet or your Vitamix.

Vitamix: If you have presets on your Vitamix, use the smoothie option. If you don't have presets, start on v. 1 and slowly move up High for about 45 seconds. Enjoy your smoothie!

Nutribullet: Blend your mixture in the Nutribullet until it completely coats the container you're blending it in. Blend it a little while longer and then turn it off. Enjoy your smoothie!

Comment below and let me know what you think! :)

High Porosity Hair

High Porosity Hair

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High porosity can be the result of damage from chemical processing, rough treatment or environmental damage. High porosity hair has gaps and holes in the cuticle, which let too much moisture into your hair and leave it prone to frizz and tangling in humid weather. Even simple acts such as bathing, swimming and shampooing can create more damage and breakage due to the sheer amount of moisture highly porous hair can absorb.

Be sure to use anti-humectants in climates with high heat and humidity. This will help seal your damaged cuticles and prevent them from absorbing excess moisture in the air.

Because highly porous hair can also lose moisture easily, it's important to use leave-in conditioners, moisturizers and sealers. Layering these products will help your hair hold on to the moisture you're giving it. You can even follow up with a heavy hair butter to help fill the gaps in your damaged cuticles and further protect your hair from losing too much moisture.

Source: NaturallyCurly.com
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"Highly porous hair absorbs more water when wet but loses even more as it dries. When it is fully dried, porous hair feels swollen, puffy and rough to the touch due to the lifted, damaged cuticle layers which have instigated an inherent moisture of deficiency."

--Audrey Davis-Sivasothy, The Science of Black Hair

Products Recommendations: Click here for product recommendations for high porosity hair.

Regimen: Always rinse your conditioner out with cold/cool water to shock the cuticles close. If not, then I highly recommend cold Aloe Vera Juice (whole leaf)--shiny closed hair strands. Use the LOC Method to moisturize high porosity hair daily or as needed. L-liquid or leave-ins, O-oil, and C-creams or butters. High porosity hair should use cool to cold water or liquids. When using leave-ins, use the creamy kind and not the liquid kind. Use heavy oils and butters like shea butter to hold the hair cuticles down.

Products:

Giovanni: Nutrafix Hair Reconstructor, 6.8 oz

Products Options:
Blue Magic Olive Oil 13.75oz Jar
 Blue Magic Argan Oil Mango and Lime Leave In Conditioner 390G
Blue Magic Tea Tree Leave In Styling Conditioner 13.75oz
Blue Magic Argan Oil and Vitamin-E Leave-In 13.75oz Jar
Blue Magic Carrot Oil Leave In Styling Conditioner 13.75z (Pack of 4)

WALNUT MILK

WALNUT MILK

Ingredients:

This is my first time making walnut milk and I'm very happy with my results. :)

• 4 cups, Water
• 1 cup, Walnuts
• Optional Sweetener (pick one or all)
• 1-2 tbsp, Organic Blue Agave (you can use more if you like)
• 1/2 tsp, Vanilla Powder
• 3 or more Dates (pitted)

Tools:

• High-Speed Blender (I used my Vitamix)
• Nut Bag 
• Large Spoon
• Something to help you pour your milk into its storage container

Directions:

Soak walnuts overnight with more than enough water to cover it. The next day, drain the container.

Put all the ingredients in order of the ingredients' list into your high speed blender.

Turn on the blender and slowly increase the speed from the lowest setting to the highest. Blend for at least one minute or more to get the consistency you want.

Let the mixture sit in the blender for a few minutes. Using a large spoon, scoop off the top layer of foam from your nut milk.

Put the nut bag into the large bowl and then pour the milk mixture into the nut bag. Pull the draw string and start squeezing your milk into the bowl until only the pulp is left in the nut bag. Put your walnut milk into your container of choice and store in the refrigerator for a week. Put the walnut pulp into a container to use for another recipe.

That's it!

Comment below and let me know if you like it! :)

Perfect Baked Potatoes

Perfect Baked Potatoes

Ingredients:

This recipe is simple. 

• 4+ medium to large Potatoes (the kind that's soft and started growing sprouts)
• Olive Oil
• Salt

Directions

Preheat the oven for 425 degrees (or toaster oven for 450 degrees). Put foil paper in the pan of your choice and set it aside.

Remove any sprouts. Clean each potato by rinsing and rubbing it with either your hands or with a brush. Pat dry and let it sit for a while.

Coat each potato with olive oil. Using a fork, poke holes in at least three spots on one side of each potato. (For example, take the fork and stab close to the top, middle, and bottom of one side of the potato. It's up to you if you want to do the other side.) Lightly sprinkle salt on each potato.

Place the potatoes in the pan with spaces between them and place the pan in the oven for 1 hour.

While in the oven, flip the potatoes every 20 minutes (flip twice: 40 minutes remaining and 20 minutes remaining).

Take the potatoes out, cut them in half or slice down the middle, add your vegan butter, and use a fork to fluff. You can add other garnishes if you like. That's it!

Comment below if you have any questions or to let me know if you like my recipe. :)

VEGAN PANCAKES

Vegan Pancakes

Ingredients:

I normally make what my kids call applesauce pancakes, which they love. Today, I decided to change up the recipe and it turned into another favorite. Lol, my daughter told me to put it up on my blog because it's great. Enjoy...

Serves: 4

• 1 1/4 cup, Unbleached Self-Rising Flour 
• 1 tbsp, Organic Unrefined Coconut Oil
• 1/2 tsp, Salt
• 1 cup, Unsweetened Cashew Milk (you can use water, instead)
• 1-3 tbsp, Organic Blue Agave (you can use sugar or 100% pure maple syrup)

Directions:

Mix flour, salt, and hard coconut oil. Then add cashew milk and blue agave.

Using the 1/4 cup, add batter to nonstick pan or griddle. Cook like normal pancake.

These pancakes can be eaten without toppings. My kids eat it with our vegan butter and maple syrup. That's it!

Comment below and let me know if you like it! :)