Another View Magazine Barrie Winter 2014 | Page 20

Rawlicious Recipe:

And now we welcome

Broccoli Soup
the new year,
By Jessica Valiant

Eat warming foods during winter to increase
your tolerance to cold and increase body
warmth!

2 Cups Cashew Milk
2 Cups Broccoli
full of things
1 Avocado
1 Tbsp Onion
1 Garlic clove
that have celery
1/2 Stalk never been.
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
-Rainer Maria Rilke
1/2 tsp Cumin
Salt & pepper to taste
Cayenne to taste as desired (yang energy builder)

Broccoli Soup

Directions: Put everything into a blender, blend
until smooth. So easy!
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Some Facts About Warming Foods:
They don’t always have to be ‘hot’- it is more about
the thermal properties of the food that we eat and its
capacity to raise our internal fire (yang energy).

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) often refers
to foods as being Yin (cooling) or Yang (warming).

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Incorporating more warming foods into your diet
during the winter months will help keep you in balance.

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Typically, foods that are available and in harvest during the winter months are those that are warming,
like ginger, garlic, parsnips, cloves, cinnamon and
watercress.

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Alternatively, foods that are cooling such as cucumber, lettuce, tomato and cantalope are readily available during the summer months.

■ Jessica Valiant
Registered Holistic Nutitionist
Owner of Rawlicious Barrie
50 Dunlop St. E., Barrie
www.rawlicious.ca
705-739-1001

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