It's finally that chilly time of the year, when soup warms the soul and keeps away the colds. One of the best things about soups is you can add anything to them, and they almost always turn out delicious. We just had a freezing spell, and I wanted to make a soup using vibrant colors and hearty flavors. I decided on Borscht, and concocted a recipe using ingredients with healthy benefits. Enjoy my recipe!
Borscht
2 boxes of veggie broth
Canned beets or fresh beets (your choice, if canned I like to use the juice too)
Rhubarb (cut into small pieces)
Cabbage (regular or red)
1 whole sweet onion
mushrooms
colored carrots cut into smaller pieces
Potato cut into smaller pieces
Juice from 1 whole lemon
Pepper
2 bay leaves
a little dill (because you will be putting fresh dill as garnish when served)
2 tablespoons of Ketchup
a little salt
Garnish:
Sour cream and fresh dill
Throw this all in a big pot and cook until done. Serve with a dollop of Sour Cream and a little fresh dill. Yummy!
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Monday, January 13, 2014
A New Year
Happy
New Year!
On
the eve of the New Year, I usually spend it with friends. This year I opted to
spend it alone in meditation and chanting. Sending out positive vibes sounded
like the best way to ignite a new year that I intend to make a successful one.
The results over the last few days have already been magical. Which brought me
to an older blog post I planned on adding, but never got around to, it’s about
Dowsing.
This is a short blog post, but an
important one. As you read it, I want you to ponder on the importance of using
dowsing in other aspects of your life in which you want to improve this year.
Align your energy with the earth’s, with the universe’s, and bring some of
their energy back into you. We live on a tiny speck of a planet in a whole
universe and beyond of massive amounts of forces we can tap into. Don’t shut
yourself away from it.
Early dowsers where fond of Y or L
shaped sticks, made from varying woods, usually hazel, ash, willow, peach, or
oak. Today, angled rods of copper are popular, as are pendulums. My preferred
choice of doodlebugging is a feather! I happen to have a love of finding and
exploring caves—whether they are old mines or lava tubes, and I’ve had quite an
interesting rate of success in finding caves by using a plain ol’ crow feather.
Maybe dowsing is all in the mind of the individual, but there are many people
who swear by this age old method of discovery.
The reasons why dowsing is
successful is as varied as its uses. Ley lines are one of the best known
theories—the knowledge that the earth is lined with straight tracks of energy,
and I dare say the very ancient use of feng shui. One of my favorite books as a teenager ‘The
View Over Atlantis’ by John Michell talks much about ley lines and other earth
mysteries. Alfred Watkins is another person of note for reading up on ley
lines.
Besides my own use of dowsing with a
feather, let’s hear some other stories by people who have delved into their own
‘tuning-in’ rod adventures:
Here are a few articles and organizations for dowsing:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17532-why-dowsing-makes-perfect-sense.htmlhttp://www.britishdowsers.org
Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Straight-Track-Alfred-Watkins/dp/0349137072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336839376&sr=8-1
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