A simple Spring day in my kitchen. I’m always talking about kitchari – learn what it is, why I eat it, and why I love it in this cooking class video.
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At school for Ayurveda, my funky looking tongue was the source of a lot of questions.
I had diagnosed myself with something known as Geographic Tongue, and now realize that when you look through an Ayurvedic lens, there is no such thing.
The first time I remember noticing my tongue, really, was about a few years before I went to study Ayurveda. I had never really looked at tongues, or known what they were supposed to look like, but I noticed mine was very strange. Size and shape seemed normal, but the surface was very patchy, and those circles and shapes changed from day to day. I looked that up online, and found this term called ‘Geographic Tongue.’ I wish I had a picture of my tongue, but here’s a photo from Google that looks very similar (I am making it really small, because I get that it’s a little icky…):
(Need a break to go look in the mirror?)
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8 g per serving of protein
3 small handfuls of raw, organic almonds (soaked overnight is even better)
4 cups of pure water
1 teaspoon vanilla and pinch of cardamom (optional)
2 teaspoons maple syrup (optional)
Cheese cloth, folded over 4 times, or very thin dish cloth
Put almonds and water in your blender, and blend on high until you do not hear the nuts being further broken up. It also can become quite frothy.
Put your cloth in a big bowl, spread out. Slowly begin to pour the mixture from the blender onto the cloth, and begin to pick up the four corners. Lift them up so it starts to drain. You will started squeezing the cloth, so the almond milk begins to strain into the bowl. Almond meal will be left over in the cloth, which I recommend you save for baked goods. You can squeeze it pretty hard, twisting the top of the cloth. You may need to do this two or three times to get through all of the blender. Drinking fresh is best! Or you can definitely save it up to a week in the refrigerator, no problem.
