Are you looking for great holiday gifts for health-conscious family members, friends, neighbors, or co-workers? Do your gift recipients have food allergies or intolerances? Do they follow a paleo, practically paleo, primal, or natural foods diet? Do they want to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, more home cooked meals, and less sugar? Do they want to learn how to make healthy food taste great?
I can help. My cookbooks and cooking DVDs are perfect for a wide range of people and fit in with many ways of eating. They're great for people who who know how to cook and have experience cooking with natural fodos and for those don't know where to start. The recipes have been tested on thousands of kids and adults, including both adventurous eaters and picky eaters.Cookbooks and cooking DVDs can change lives. They can educate, inspire, and guide people who want to improve the way they shop, cook, eat, and look at food, and help people look and feel better.
I am offering a holiday special between now and the end of December. Buy any 2 of my cookbooks (The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet & Cookbook and/or The Ice Dream Cookbook: Dairy-Free Ice Cream Alternatives with Gluten-Free Cookies, Compotes & Sauces) and receive my Cooking With Whole Foods DVD (2-CD set) FREE!
Offer ends 12/31/2011! You pay only $5.00 shipping on the FREE DVD.
NOTE: Orders must be phoned in to receive this special offer. Call 602-840-4556. Leave a message if we are out of the office when you call. If you want to order additional copies of the DVD, you may.
I hope that you will allow me to inspire the people you care about most by giving them the gift of my cookbooks and cooking DVDs. If you don't have my books and DVDs, I hope that you will give yourself these great gifts.
American Express is celebrating the movement to support small businesses across America by offering their Cardmembers a $25 statement credit for shopping with Chef Rachel on Saturday, November 26! That’s like getting The Garden of Eating or Ice Dream Cookbook for less then $15.00 each!!
American Express Card members must register their valid American Express credit card in order to get this cookin’ deal. You can register here: facebook.com/shopsmall But hurry! Only a limited number of cards will be allowed to register, so act now!
BONUS! We can’t just limit this celebration to American Express, right?? To help celebrate the small business movement, Chef Rachel is offering ALL customers 10% off their purchase on Saturday, November 26 (ends 6:00pm MST - voicemail orders accepted). What a deal!
NOTE: Orders must be phoned in. Call 602-840-4556
EXTRA BONUS! The good news just keeps coming! Chef Rachel is offering a holiday special to her customers. Buy any 2 books and receive her Cooking With Whole Foods DVD (2-CD set) for FREE! You pay $5.00 shipping on the FREE DVD.
Offer ends 12/31/2011! You pay only the shipping on the DVD. NOTE: Orders must be phoned in. Call 602-840-4556
Chef Rachel’s books and DVD make great gifts for friends and family. Help us spread good nutrition and healthy cooking to the people you care about most.
You don’t see billboards promoting it. It’s just not as profitable as processed foods. But don’t let that stop you from eating more of it! Broccoli’s a great source of powerful polyphenols that have anticancer properties, slow down the aging process, and reduce the risk of cataracts, macular degeneration, and other diseases of civilization.
One cup of raw broccoli contains 567 IU of betacarotene, 81 mg of vitamin C, 92 mg of vitamin K, 57 mcg of folate, 42 mg of calcium, 60 mg of phosphorus, 288 mg of potassium, 2.5 grams of fiber, all for only 30 calories. Cooking it makes more of the carotenes and iron available for absorption. It also makes this cruciferous vegetable more digestible.
If you’ve grown tired of steamed or stir fried broccoli (or you routinely overcook it), don’t give up on this brassica family vegetable. There’s another way to eat it! Marry it with simmered onions, garlic, cumin, ground chipotle and avocado, another super nutritious food, in a creamy soup. If you like gaucamole, you’ll love this soup. The key here is to cook the broccoli without overcooking it and to leave the lid off the pot after you’ve pureed all of the ingredients, lest it turn a dingy gray color and become bitter.
My students, clients, and friends love this recipe. In my Whole Foods Cuisine course at SWIHA (Southwest Institute of Healing Arts) in Tempe, my students makes and serve it with Tuscan Chicken Casserole, Roasted Sweet Potato Fries and Silver Dollar Sweet Potatoes, with Dark Chocolate Dipped Date Nut Truffles as a finale. The soup also pairs well with baked, broiled, roasted or grilled salmon or pork and Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Lime (other recipes you can find in my Garden of Eating cookbook).
If you’d like to watch me make this soup, step by step, here's my YouTube video, a sampling of one of 18 cooking videos on my newly released set of two cooking DVDs.
Avocado adds a rich taste and creamy texture to green vegetable soups without milk or cream. I got the idea for this from the California Avocado Commission. I replaced zucchini in their recipe with broccoli, increased the volume of vegetables, and changed the seasonings. This soup goes well with fish, poultry, or meat with a bright orange, yellow, or red vegetable or fruit. Baked corn tortilla chips would make a great accompaniment.
Ingredients
4 cups homemade Bone-Building Broth (from The Garden of Eating), homemade chicken broth or stock, or preservative-free chicken broth or stock
1 medium onion (1-1 1/2 cups), thinly sliced or diced
2 to 3 small cloves of garlic, coarsely chopped
1/2 to 1 teaspoon unrefined sea salt (Celtic or Redmond Real Salt are best; reduce by one-half if using salted broth, then adjust upwards as needed), or to taste
3 to 4 packed cups broccoli, tops cut into small florets, stalks peeled and thinly sliced, tough part discarded
2 large ripe (but not mushy) avocados, seeded, peeled, and chopped
1/4 cup minced scallions, parsley or cilantro leaves, or red or yellow bell pepper, garnish
Hot sauce or ground black pepper or lemon pepper, optional
Combine broth or stock, onion, garlic, sea salt, cumin, and chipotle in a 2- to 3-quart pot. Cover and bring to boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium or medium-low and simmer for 15 minutes.
Add the broccoli and bring to boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer until fork tender, about 15 minutes. Do not boil hard or overcook. Broccoli should remain bright green.
Purée broccoli, onion, and broth mixture with the avocadoes in a blender, Vita-Mix, or food processor in 2 batches, until smooth and creamy. Add additional water ¼ cup at a time as needed to make a smooth purée. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
Return the soup to the pot and heat gently. Do not cover! Ladle into bowls, garnish, and serve. Add hot sauce or black pepper at the table if desired. Served chilled in hot weather.
Refrigerate leftovers and use within 3 days. Heat gently without boiling.
1 cup: 149 calories, 4 g protein, 11 g carbohydrate (6 g fiber), 10 g fat, 37 mg calcium, 174 mg sodium
Variations:
* For a milder flavor, omit chipotlé. Add 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper or lemon and 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg.
If you would like to buy my cooking DVD set so you can watch me make 18 recipes, see eight cooking techniques, and get tons of tips to help you healthy and delicious meals, click here for more information or to order.
Are you looking for more gluten-free, dairy-free, whole foods recipes, menu planning ideas, and inspiration with food? Do you learn best by watching someone else? Would you try more recipes if you had someone to walk you through the process in your own kitchen? Have you dreamt of taking cooking classes but not found the right classes in the right location at a time that works for you?
If so, I’ve got a solution: a set of cooking dvds to answer your most pressing cooking questions and help you make more satisfying and delicious omnivorous meals.
The evolution of my cooking DVDs In late 2009 and early 2010 I worked with the online curriculum development team at SWIHA (Southwest Institute of Healing Arts), an award-winning, nationally accredited college offering a Certificate of Excellence in Holistic Nutrition on campus and online worldwide, to convert material from two popular five-week cooking courses I teach on their campus in Tempe, Arizona, into online courses. In the process we created video footage of more than 50 recipes and techniques.
After completing the online cooking courses, we created a set of two cooking DVDs drawing on recipes from Whole Foods Cuisine I, a course I lead throughout the year on their Tempe, AZ, campus. In 2011 we plan to create a second set of cooking DVDs drawing on recipes from Whole Foods Cuisine II, the sequel course I teach for the school.
Who would be interested in these DVDS? Do you follow an omnivorous diet? Do you like or want to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits? Do you have food allergies or intolerances? Do you want to lose weight, have more energy and vitality, or improve your immunity? Do you follow a wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free, sugar-free, low-sugar, paleo, practically paleo, primal, or natural foods diet or aspire to do so? Do you want to improve your cooking skills?
Just in time for the holidays Consider buying Whole Foods Cooking with Chef Rachel for yourself or to give as a gift to family, friends, or co-workers. Most of the recipes in the cooking DVDs come from my book, The Garden of Eating, although some of the recipes (those that include grains or beans) do not come from the book.
Here’s what you need to know about my first set of cooking DVDS
Whole Foods Cooking with Chef Rachel • Four complete menus • 19 recipes • Two chicken, one salmon, one beef recipe • Six vegetable recipes and three condiments • Three fruit dessert recipes without refined sugar and one beverage • Two gluten-free grain dishes • Eight cooking techniques • A delicious caffeine-free coffee alternative • Downloadable recipe booklet. . . . and more
I make cooking with unrefined whole foods easy and fun. My simple step-by-step recipes will quickly have you on your way to making the most delicious meals you have ever tasted! Whether you’re a novice or an experienced cook, this two-DVD set will show you how to improve the quality of the foods you purchase, prepare and eat. You will also learn how to present them beautifully to your family and friends.
My credentials Rachel Albert, a natural foods chef, cooking instructor, healthy cooking coach, and freelance food and health writer for 24 years, has led more than 900 cooking classes in seven states. She has written more than 250 articles that have appeared in national magazines and regional publications. She is the author of The Ice Dream Cookbook and co-author of the award-winning book, The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet & Cookbook.
How to order my cooking DVDs DVDs will be available for online ordering soon, if you’d like to order them now, call my office (602) 840-4556. Please have your credit card ready.
Cost for the two DVD Set: $21.95 Tax for AZ residents (9.3%): $2.04
Shipping and handling charges US: Media $5 Priority $7.50 Canada: First Class $5 Priority $14 Int’l orders:First Class $10 Priority $28
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