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Trish Carty is a part of our 2015 Teaching Faculty. She is leading an incredible retreat, Fermentation for Your Mind, Body & Spirit on an amazing bio-dynamic farm February 7-14, 2015. Her blog, Keep the Beet keeps you on the cutting edge of the wonderful health benefits of fermented foods. This great summer salsa recipe is perfect keep on hand for a post yoga snack!

fermented-salsa-verde-edit1-300x225Last summer, at the Farm To Fermentation Festival I taught a digestion seminar. I demonstrated three fermented salsas. One of them was a Fermented Tomatilla Salsa Verde. Here is my recipe. I had just picked up these fresh tomatilla’s at my local CSA down the street from where I love. It was in the height of the season for tomatoes and tomatillas’s in our area! It was so wonderful to highlight my recipes from the season!

Fermented Tomatillo Salsa Verde

Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 1 min Total time: 16 mins Serves: 4-8

Ingredients
Fermented Tomatillo Salsa Verde
1lb Tomatillo’s- prepare by drop in boiling water to blanch first cool in ice water and remove husks then proceed with salsa recipe. Cool and chop medium dice
2 garlic clove crushed
1 cup cilantro washed and chopped
½ of one red onion Diced Or substitute these for ! med.shallot
2 TB. extra virgin olive oil
Same proportions just more lime Juice.
One of the following: 2 teaspoons unrefined sea salt or
1 teaspoons unrefined sea salt and ÂĽ cup water kefir OR
A vegetable starter- follow directions on box

Instructions
Mix all together and put into jar with proper fermentation lid, proceed as above for the fermentation process. I personally do use an air lock fermentation vessel.

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183212_4066559055946_2027869845_nTrue Nature Education co-founder “Luna” Kristin Ray balances her days between being a full-time mom, wife, musician and whipping up yummy and amazing recipes in her kitchen to keep her family healthy, clean and green.   Her super easy (and very yummy) dahl recipe is one you might find yourself choosing to make a staple in your own kitchen, making some at the start of every week to keep and have for lunch each day.

f0c6e9c0c549217307dfc5922e476bd8Luna’s Super Easy Dahl with Coconut Rice

1.5 cups of pink lentils
5 cups water
3/4 tsp of turmeric
5 tbsp olive oil
5-6 cloves of garlic
1.5 tsp salt

Put turmeric, dahl and water in pot, and bring to a boil.  Then simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Turn heat off and with a fork or mixing spoon beat the lentils so they break up and get soupy.

Cut the garlic cloves lengthwise but thin, and then flash fry the garlic in the olive oil in a separate pan.  (high heat, and the garlic cooks for about 1-2 minutes and turns brown) Add the garlic and oil to the lentils, and add salt.  SO YUMMY~

BASAMATI RICE
1cup of rice
1.5 cups of water
1tbsp cumin seeds
1.5 tbsp of coconut oil
1/3 cup of shredded coconut
salt to taste

Combine rice, water, cumin and coco oil, and cook until rice is done.
Add coconut and salt to taste.
Enjoy with your dahl!
Love,
Luna
OSHAlbumCoverFinalRGB2-274x243p.s. Here is a FREE download from Luna’s new CD, One Shared Heart.  Enjoy this mindful music for the heart while you make this food for the soul!