Cooking healthy!

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Though we’ve all heard of chia pets, it’s less known that the tiny black seed responsible for the chia “fur” is a bona fide nourishing food crop, once cultivated by The Aztecs, and even used as a currency.

Chia (Salvia columbariae,

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By Andrew Behrendt, Natural Solutions magazine

Forty miles northwest of Guadalajara, in the arid highlands of western Mexico, lies the town of Tequila. In the hills surrounding the town, the subdued blue of the Agave tequilana plant colors the countryside. The region’s farmers grow and harvest acre upon acr… Continue

Starfish? Soldier? Yearner? How do you sleep? I fall firmly into the Fetus category of sleeping positions–curled up on my side–which, according to researchers at the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, suggests that I am a tough cookie with a sensitive heart. (And yes, it’s true…underneath it all I am a big… Continue

That's a perfect dish for me because it uses brown rice originally so I don't have to substitute it and change cooking time.

You can use white rice but it will cook in only 20 minutes + 10 more minutes to cook the broccoli.

Ingredients:

* 3 tbsp olive oil
* 2 shallots, minced
* 1 1/2 c… Continue