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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Kids Cooking at The Farm at South Mountain: Recipes! Part 2: Simple Organic Hummus

    A New View of Healthy Eating: Kids Cooking at The Farm at South Mountain: Recipes! Part 2: Simple Organic Hummus

    By Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker. Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    This week at the Kids Cooking Class at The Farm at South Mountain, the kids made their own hummus with fresh herbs and wrapped it with a bamboo steamed collard green. Loved seeing the kids’ creativity. One of the hummus batches was full of cilantro and lots of fresh squeezed lemon, and the other one was made with a lot of dill.

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    The timing for the herbal hummus was perfect. This week while shopping at the Old Town Scottsdale Market for the Kids Cooking Class I met Dewayne Frelix of DaddysGourmet.com in Mesa, Arizona, who grows the most intense fresh organic herbs, such as Mexican oregano, chives, marjoram, and basil.

    Before I share the hummus recipe, enjoy my creation inspired by the Kids Cooking Class and the intensity of the Daddy’s Gourmet fresh herbs.  Beautiful, delicious, creamy hummus with fresh oregano and marjoram, and lots of tahini.

    The simple, beautiful marjoram oregano hummus with the edible pansy!

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    Excerpt from A New View of Healthy Eating

    Make Your Own Hummus: EXPERIENCE NUTRITIONTM Super Simple Organic Hummus

    I’m excited to share with you the same recipe we made for the Super Bowl XLIV VIP Tailgate Party for the Super Bowl in Miami. Now you can make it, too.

    SIMPLE INGREDIENTS

    • 2 cups cooked chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
    • ⅓ cup chickpea water
    • 3 tbsp tahini (sesame seed paste or sesame seeds)
    • 3 cloves garlic
    • 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
    • ¼ tsp black pepper
    • ⅛ tsp cumin seeds, ground
    • ⅛ tsp coriander seeds, ground (seeds from cilantro)

    SIMPLE STEPS

    1. Place all ingredients into high-speed blender (such as Vitamix) or food processor.
    2. Blend until smooth.
    3. After the hummus has been blended, taste and add more of any of the ingredients to suit your taste.

    Interested in a fun hands-on interactive cooking class at your organization, contact Melanie Albert at 602.615.2486 or Mel@MelanieAlbert.com

    “A New View of Healthy Eating” book is available now

    OR

    Stop by the Downtown Phoenix Market on Saturday, April 15, 2017, 9-10am or the Old Town Scottsdale Market on Saturday, April 22, 2017, 10:30-11:30am.  I’ll be doing cooking demos with the local Arizona goodies from these markets and I’m happy to autograph a book for you.

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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Top 3 Super Bowl Healthy Snacks: Hummus, Wild Sockeye Salmon & Avocado Salsa

    A New View of Healthy Eating: Top 3 Super Bowl Healthy Snacks: Hummus, Wild Sockeye Salmon & Avocado Salsa

    By Melanie Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    Many of you are aware, I have been active with numerous Super Bowls and guiding former NFL players and their families to enjoy cooking healthy foods.

    As a little background, my very first experience was in 2008 when Super Bowl XLII was right here in Phoenix. My company created 3 healthy lifestyle products with the Super Bowl logo: a Zen Clock, Soy Candle Collection, and Matcha Tea kit. And, I had a lot of fun talking to football fans at the NFL Experience.

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    For a few years, we catered at the VIP Tailgate party at the Super Bowls in Tampa and Miami and attended numerous charity events networking with former NFL players. During Super Bowl XLIII week in Tampa, we learned about the serious health issues, such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease,  of the former players and then started teaching several former players how to cook simple healthy foods.

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    In 2011, my company, Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, was honored to be an Official Health & Wellness Partner of the NFL Alumni and participated in 9 events in 4 days during Super Bowl Week in Dallas.

    Since the Super Bowl and many former NFL players are still dear to my heart, I am sharing my favorite Super Bowl snack recipes with you:  Experience Nutrition Hummus, Quick Salmon on the Grill, and Avocado Salsa.

    Today’s recipe is hummus. Tomorrow I will post the salmon and avocado salsa recipes.

    EXPERIENCE NUTRITIONTM Super Simple Organic Hummus (Excerpt from book, A New View of Healthy Eating)

    I’m excited to share with you the same recipe we made for the Super Bowl XLIV VIP Tailgate Party for the Super Bowl in Miami. Now you can make it, too.

    SIMPLE INGREDIENTS

    • 2 cups cooked chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
    • ⅓ cup chickpea water
    • 3 tbsp tahini (sesame seed paste or sesame seeds)
    • 3 cloves garlic
    • 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
    • ¼ tsp black pepper
    • ⅛ tsp cumin seeds, ground
    • ⅛ tsp coriander seeds, ground (seeds from cilantro)

    SIMPLE STEPS

    1. Place all ingredients into high-speed blender (such as Vitamix) or food processor.
    2. Blend until smooth.
    3. After the hummus has been blended, taste and add more of any of the ingredients to suit your taste.

    Come on over to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/NewViewHealthyEating) and share your Super Bowl Hummus creations with us!

    Enjoy the Super Bowl weekend!

    Purchase A New View of Healthy Eating today and I’m happy to mail a personalized copy to you.

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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: How to Sprout Mung Beans in 7 Days!

    By Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker. Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    I’ve  been having fun with sprouting mung beans the last few days and wanted to share with you some photos, so you could see how quickly and much they grow in a few days.

    Day 1: August 28, 2016

    • Rinse 1/4 cup of mung beans and soak in water overnight.

     Day 2: August 29, 2016, 6pm: Beans are already beginning to open.

    • Drain water from beans.
    • Put jar with mesh top on  a slant.
    • Rinse beans with cold water 2-4 times a day.

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    Day 3: August 30, 2016, 8:30am: Already starting to see a few little mung bean tails.

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    Day 4: August 31, 2016: Sorry, missed taking photos on Day 4.

    Day 5: September 1, 2016: The sprouts are just about ready to eat.

    Day 6: September 2, 2016: The jar is almost full.

    Day 7: September 3, 2016: Time to enjoy the sprouts.

    Get the 7 Simple Steps to Sprout Mung Beans Blog

    Tomorrow I’ll blog  a beautiful organic heirloom tomato and mung bean salad that I intuitively created with these home sprouted mung beans.

    The second print run of A New View of Healthy Eating is expected to arrive in Phoenix on September 6, 2016.  Order now to be sure you get a copy.

     

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