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Nothing tastes as good as fresh homemade butter on your garden veggies or just made whipped cream to dollop on your home grown strawberries. You can make your own butter from raw cream from your cow or a share in a cow from a local homesteader. You can also use cream from the store if raw cream is not available, just remember, it doesn’t have the same health benefits as raw cream. It can be a good place to start learning if you’ve never made your own butter before. Making your own ensures you avoid preservatives and additives that cause many health problems.

How to Make Homemade Whipping Cream

Pour the raw cream (any amount) into your KitchenAid mixer, blender or food processor. Add a few teaspoons of raw honey or cane sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla. Blend on high for about 2-3 minutes and stop when the cream has developed stiff peaks. If you go past this phase, you are on your way to butter, so don’t over mix.

How to Make Homemade Butter

You do not need salt to make butter, but if you like flavored butter you can add sea salt or kosher salt to taste. You can also add minced garlic, 1-2 cloves, for garlic butter. Add this in at the beginning.

Pour the cream (any amount) into the mixer or blender and blend on high for about 5-10 minutes. The process will go through 3 phases: first the whipping cream phase, then the crumble stage where it resembles feta cheese, and then you will see the liquid splash out of the ball of butter. At this stage, turn off the mixer and remove the butter into a dish. Pour the liquid into a separate jar to use as buttermilk in your favorite recipes.

Take the butter into your hands and squeeze and knead like you would clay or playdough to remove more liquid. Shape as desired into a ball or use pretty butter molds.

Store your homemade butter in a jar or a butter bell on your counter where it will stay soft and ready to use. If you keep it in the refrigerator, it will harden and you will have to set it out several hours before use. Butter will keep in the refrigerator for 6 months and the freezer for up to a year.

Fresh homemade raw butter is healthy and delicious to spread on steamed vegetables and homemade breads. When you make your own butter and whipped cream, you know they are made with wholesome ingredients and can avoid dangerous additives and preservatives.

©2011 Shanna Ohmes

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Raw foods can be thrilling when thoroughly explored. However, it can also be daunting to those first learning about them. Many recipes include the use of several kitchen appliances that are not the staple of every household including dehydrators, food processors, and Vitamix blenders. Such factors can deter many new raw foodies who simply looking to find raw food recipes for beginners that are quick and easy to manage.

Though these recipes may be intimidating at first glance, there are four easy tips that can help beginners navigate complicated recipes and create simple raw food recipes for beginners.

Tip #1: Recipes that require a dehydrator. Many recipes require the use of a dehydrator in order to achieve different textures and allow for the illusion of “warmth” without actually heating food above temperatures that denature a food’s enzymes. While a dehydrator could be an investment you may want to make in the future, many raw food recipes for beginners can be made by substituting a dehydrator for a conventional oven.

Though it will be more difficult to monitor the “exact” temperature of a conventional oven, one can achieve very similar results by setting the oven to its lowest setting and cracking leaving the oven door ajar by about one to two inches. One can use an oven thermometer if “exact” temperature measurements are important. Follow the original recipe in regards to time needed for proper “dehydration.”

Tip #2: The Magic Bullet Solution. Whether you are preparing an advanced gourmet recipe or simple raw recipes for beginners, you will undoubtedly encounter recipes requiring the fine chopping and grinding of nuts and seeds. Many recipes may call for a coffee grinder to accomplish this task, and while this is certainly a viable option, there are many people who do not own a personal coffee grinder. (And those that do may not be particularly fond of using it to grind nuts.) The Magic Bullet attains the same results as a coffee grinder and can serve a dual purpose of blending and mixing for other recipes.

Tip #3: Pre-planning and Freezing. A common difficulty encountered with many recipes is what to do with the leftovers. Because Raw Foods are devoid of any preservatives that would prolong their shelf life, they often need to be eaten immediately or soon after preparation. What is one then to do with the leftovers of such Raw Food Recipes for beginners? Pre-planning for meals is one simple answer. Do your best to be aware of how much of one recipe you are making and don’t be afraid to cut a recipe in half (or in fourths!) if you are afraid you will not consume the entire thing. But as life is often unpredictable, freezing can be another viable option to elongating the life of your food. For instance, many raw soups and pates can be frozen after preparation, as can any fruits or produce that may be threatening to spoil.

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A perfect way of refreshing yourself this season. The color and taste is great.

Ingredients:

3 celery stalks
4 carrots
handful of parsley
1 apple
1 medium beet
4 leaves of chard
1/2 lemon
piece of ginger
small garlic clove

Recipe Credit: jessicarawfood.blogspot.com

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When you think of raw food diet, the very first thing that will probably come to your mind is that it is a very boring type of diet, especially if you are used to eating foods high in calories as well as fats.  Yes, raw food diet can be very boring particularly if you are new to this type of diet; however you can mix and match the different vegetables and fruits so as to come up with a very tasty dish that is not only very delicious but is also very healthy to your body.  For this reason, you should look for very interesting raw food recipes that can help you transition easily to this type of diet.

There are a lot of places where you can look for raw food recipes.  For one, you can subscribe to food magazines, especially those that deal with Raw Foods, and, more often than not, you will find great Raw Food Recipes there.  Aside from food magazines, you can also buy cookbooks that also specialize in raw food diets.  If you do not have the time though to look for cookbooks, then you can most certainly browse the Net.  In the Internet, you will find a lot of websites that have Lists of Raw Food recipes.  You can simply print one out and try it for your next meal.  You can also subscribe to online food magazines to get weekly updates as well as receive new raw food recipes in your inbox.

For newbies to the raw food diet, It will be to your advantage to try different raw food recipes to keep the meals interesting and the monotony at bay.

Here is a very simple raw food recipe that is perfect for any meal.  This dish, the Mango Avocado Salad, gives a very nice contrasting flavors of sweet (from the mango) and sour (from the avocado).

You will need two ripe mangoes and one avocado, large.  You have to peel them, remove their seeds, and then chop them to small bite-size pieces.  You will also need a tablespoon of lime juice and two teaspoons of olive oil.  Aside from this, you will also need a tablespoon of cilantro leaves and a tablespoon of black sesame seeds.  Once you have all these ingredients, mix them together and then serve.

The lemon juice and the olive oil provides a nice balance to the sweetness of the mango and the sourness of the avocado, while the cilantro leaves and the black sesame seeds highlight the natural taste of all the elements.

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This article will outline the various types of herbs and natural plants that can be used for colon cleansing  and body detoxifying. This is not to be taken as professional medical advice. Please consult your physician before doing anything you are unsure of.

Herbs play a pivotal role in detoxifying the body from waste and toxins. The techniques form an important part of herbal colon cleansing tips. Herbal medicines have gained ground in the last 5 or so years when numbers of researches have been carried out to emphasize the benefits arising from herbs.

Psyllium
It is a gel-reducing fiber used by variety of colon cleansing programs as a tool to prevent colon cancer. This is because of the simple fact that dietary habit of people at present mostly consists of meat products, fats and sugar that are very low in fiber content. These types of food slow down the intestinal transit time, which in turn leads to irregular bowel movements.

Colon Cleansing Materials
There are innumerable types of colon-cleansing materials that are easily available at stores or online. Water, juices, raw fruits and vegetables are commonly used materials for fasting. According to experts, fasting is one of the exciting routes of cleaning the colon, because it gives rise to the self-digestion of most impure materials in addition to some of the metabolic waste present in the intestine.

Herbs and Vitamins
A number of herbs and vitamins, which are not laxatives in nature, are readily available in the market for the purpose of colon cleansing. The best part about these medications is that they are free from any side effects. You will feel fresh and relaxed after having a colon cleansing through herbs and vitamins.

If you are interested in getting a clean and healthy body for a longer time, then efficient colon cleanses are an absolute necessity. Herbs play a pivotal part in implementing a mild colon cleansing. They help in removing fecal matter, prevent toxin formation, and most importantly lead to death of the harmful bacteria and parasites.

Herbs present in the traditional colon cleansing recipes are authenticated by numerous experts in the field and all have come out with one notion that all these herbs have liver cleansing and cathartic actions. Aloe leaf, ginger, and cayenne pepper remove impurities from the colon by stimulating bowel movements. Herbal colon cleansing is one of the best methods, since this method is free from side effects.

Barney Garcia

http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/herbal-colon-cleansing-tips-51684.html

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