In The Kitchen With Crystal Rome

Watch how to make one of my favorite smoothies!
Coconut milk smoothie

Get Your Health Buddy Today!

So many of us try to do things on our own. And many times that doesn't work out to well. You all know the new years resolutions! This year I'm going to ... I always suggest when you want to start eating better, lose weight, or feel healthy, it's always better to have support. Reach out to a friend, a family member, or FB partner:) to make the changes with you. When it comes to your health why wait? Get a friend on board too and take turns making meals together. It's more fun making a raw soup with a friend and sharing new recipes and encouraging one another! I love to have people over and show them how to make healthy, nutritious foods. And then in turn they show someone else and when more of your friends are eating good food it encourages you too! Just start with one friend or buddy partner and have some fun! It should be fun to eat good not miserable! Like I've said before raw organic food is full of life, tasty, and not to mention healing for your body. Dive into the spices and have fun, and feel great that you've made a change! Sometimes it's babysteps but that's better than doing nothing at all! Start with one green smoothie a day. I believe in you! So go get your health buddy today!

Red Pepper Sweet Potato Surprise

I am so excited to post this soup recipe that I made the other night with my blender. It was my favorite yet! And so fast! We had company over and they could not stop saying how yummy it was!

To start you can either use a sweet potato base from Trader Joes and add ingredients to it, or make with 2 cups water. I have made both ways and both were delicious! If you make it with water add part of an onion and cashews for more flavor.

In Blender
2 cups sweet potato base or 2 cups water ( if making for 4 people add more base )
half of one sweet potato
half of large red pepper
half of large carrot
1 garlic clove
sprinkle generously Tumeric
sprinkle generously Ginger
sprinkle generously Curry
sprinkle generously  Cayenne Pepper
Then heat briefly on low in pan on stove. Don't cook all the nutrients out! Now you have gourmet!
Cut up avocados and sprinkle in center with basil. Enjoy!

Make a salad to go along with it and use a few spoonfuls of the soup to mix in your salad dressing. Tons of flavor!
Olive oil
Coconut vinager
part of lemon
3-4 spoonfuls of soup
sprinkle tumeric
sprinkle ginger
sprinkle curry
sprinkle cayenne pepper
sprinkle cumin
Mix well and pour over salad. I love to make extra and keep on hand in fridge.

Calling All Coffee Drinkers!

This is for everyone who has to have a cup of Joe every now and then! The best thing to do health wise is to make your own coffee at home and resist Starbucks!! I know it's hard but so much healthier! You can use your own organic coffee without the use of harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides. A brand I love is Cafe Altura regular roast that you can pick up at your local health food store. And in the summer of course the iced coffees and blended is the way to go! But when you go to coffee houses they will only give you syrup flavors with sugar and artificial sweetners' that are actually worse than sugar for your health. And if you're lactose intolerant you don't have many choices. So why not make your own iced coffees at home with organic coffee and sweeten with Agave Nectar, Brown Rice Syrup, Coconut Syrup or Stevia. These sweeteners are low Glycemic and taste better than sugar!

I put handful of ice in the blender then poured coffee in with some almond milk and Organic Raw Blue Agave. Blend and pour in cup and top with more ice. You can sprinkle cinnamon or put chi tea bag in for chi coffee! I made this the other day and I can say it was better than Starbucks which is hard to do!

Making soup in a blender

 In the blender we put water, cashews, purple cabbage, red peppers, zucchini, onions, sweet potato, carrots, and spices. Wow it was gourmet! The best soup I have ever tasted! Soup in seconds!

 The salads had arugula, and organic greens with cucumbers, tomatoes, avocados, zucchini, shredded raw cheese and salmon on the side with flax seed crackers. Homemade dressing made with coconut vinegar, olive oil, soup base, cumin, ginger, tumeric, cayanne pepper.

Last night for dinner we had the most incredible soup and salads! If you have a good blender( I recommend blendtech) you can fill it with vegetables and goodies and blend away until thick and creamy like soup and the blender will actually heat it for you. It pours out steaming! How cool is that for a fast dinner. I will be putting up some videos soon on how to make fast healthy meals, since we all have crazy schedules!

Prevention for Illness

There are many things that we can do for prevention from getting sick. The phrase " you live to eat" should actually be " you eat to live!" You are what you eat! The change might not be over night but you can start with adding more greens to your diet and checking your PH with PH strips to make sure you are not too acidic. Your body will start craving good food. I noticed this that when I cut out sugar and had a green smoothie a day that if I hadn't had my greens for the day I would crave it like a candybar! Crazy! Your body will be running on all cylinders and can fight off bacteria and infection much easier. So start today!

                                                       Green Smoothie ( click on smoothie page for recipes)

Jazz up your salads with flavor and spice!

Healthy Green Salad

Start with spinach and mixed greens with bitter herbs then top with cucumbers, tomatoes, shredded radish and beet. Can add raisins, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds. Then add dressing!
 
Dressing
Organic Hemp oil or olive oil
coconut vinegar
squeeze 1/2 a lemon
sprinkle turmeric
sprinkle curry
sprinkle ginger
sprinkle cayenne pepper
sprinkle cumin
(optional) coconut syrup