Essential Oils for Athlete’s Foot

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Essential Guacamole

This is such an easy recipe and so yummy that the entire family will gobble it up — I know mine does!  Beware, I am one of those cooks that often seasons by taste and this is one of those cases.  This is such a basic recipe and is good anytime you’re serving Mexican food.  It’s also a yummy, yet healthy snack.  This is the perfect compliment to your favorite Mexican dinner.

We are mostly grain free here, but we do allow small bits of gluten free foods.  We have really missed our tortilla chips though.  We’ve been using rice crackers to eat this with and it’s a pretty good substitute.    We eat so much Mexican food that we’ve become accustomed to serving it with queso, salsa, and guacamole.  It’s one of the ways that we spread the more expensive grass-fed ground beef that we try to use.  But, since we’ve been mostly grain free, we hadn’t been making those items because we were accustomed to eating them with chips.  The rice crackers really do work pretty well, as they are crisp, more like chips than crackers.

This guacamole has a very special ingredient…doTERRA Lemon Essential Oil!  I have to say this was a wonderful addition to my family’s favorite guacamole.  Normally, I would put in lime  juice in this guacamole, but I didn’t have the limes, nor did I have lemon juice.  I remembered that I had the Lemon Essential oil and decided to give that a try and I have to say that this was the BEST batch of guacamole I’ve ever made.  The essential oil made a HUGE difference in the taste.  I had made really big batch of guacamole and we ended up eating it for lunch, along with some strawberries and grapes.  My youngest, who wasn’t a fan of guacamole, ate it like it was going out of style and asked me to fix it again sometime this week for lunch.

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ADHD Blend

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Avocado Olive Oil Vinaigrette

Gather your ingredients

As I’ve mentioned on the blog before, I’ve been experimenting with essential oils for health and since most dōTERRA Essential Oils have be approved by the FDA for internal use, I’ve also been trying my hand at cooking with essential oils. This is my very first recipe that I’ve created using dōTERRA Essential Oilss, but expect more in the future! I decided to try something really simple and since I recently received several products from Mountain Rose Herb’s Epicurean Organics line to review, I decided to try my hand at a salad dressing.

The products from Mountain Rose Herb’s Epicurean Organics line that I used in this recipe are:

• Avocado Oil – Avocado oil is a new oil for me to use. I’ve never used it, but it sound like something we would like. We eat a lot of Mexican food around here and my husband LOVES my homemade guacamole. So, I thought I’d give it a try…and I sure glad that I did. It tastes absolutely fantastic and I’ve found a new addition to my kitchen oil collection!
• Olive Oil – The Epicurean Organics line’s olive oil is some of the best I’ve ever tried. It has the most wonderful flavor. We’ve eaten it in this salad dressing recipe, but it really doesn’t need any seasoning. It’s really yummy just as it is to dip in homemade garlic bread. Yum!
• Smoked Black Pepper – This black pepper is smoked over wood smoke and it has the most amazing flavor! My husband absolutely LOVES it sprinkled over steak from the grill. But he REALLY loves it on steaks cooked on the George Foreman grill because the pepper gives the meat a nice wood smoked taste. It also really smells wonderful!
• Black Lava Salt – My youngest son, Riley, thinks the black lava salt it “totally cool!” because of it’s black color. The flavor is also really fantastic and it has the added advantage that it is infused with activated charcoal which assists the body in removing harmful impurities, and is exceptionally high in essential minerals to help maintain the body’s normal functions.

I also received Mountain Rose Herb’s Epicurean Organics line Mexican Seasoning, which I’ll be reviewing at a later date.

First let me say we are LOVING the Epicurean Organics line from Mountain Rose Herb. All of the products were top of the line and absolutely fantastic tasting. We’ve been using the smoked black pepper and black lava salt on everything and have been so pleased with the flavor. I am really impressed with Mountain Rose Herb’s Epicurean Organics line and I can see me purchasing more products from them in the future. The taste and quality of the items I’ve tried have been out of this world!

Okay…back to the recipe! As I was saying, I decided to try my hand at something simple to begin with. I had been dying to use some of the avocado oil in a recipe and thought now would be a perfect time. First of all, I added equal amounts of the olive oil and avocado oil. Then I added some of Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar. I now had a really basic, unseasoned vinaigrette.

Next I added some raw local honey. This is my go to sweetener for salad dressings. What I generally do is add all the sweeteners and seasonings to taste. I generally start off with the amount a recipe calls for and then adjust to fit my tastes. Next I added the Black Lava Salt. This is a large grain salt, so you will want to let the salad dressing “sit” overnight to help dissolve the salt into the dressing. I would suggest you wait until the salt is dissolved before you try to adjust the salt level. Otherwise you may end up with REALLY salty vinaigrette…like I did with my first batch!

Now you can add some of that wonderful smoked black pepper. It gives the vinaigrette the most wonderful flavor! Add some minced garlic, you can use fresh or the kind in oil. I used the kind in oil because it is so much easier .

Now you can add some crushed red pepper flakes. This give the vinaigrette a bit of punch. Finally, add 2 drops of dōTERRA Oregano Essential Oils. This adds such a fantastic Italian sort of taste to the vinaigrette, as well as some healthy benefits! Oregano Essential Oil is antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic, antiseptic to the respiratory system, antiviral, and is an immune stimulant. It helps to boost your immune and respiratory systems. My son loves Oregano oil…he calls it pizza oil because it smells like pizza to him!

Now, all you have to do is shake it up to combine and let rest overnight in the refrigerator. This will allow the flavors to blend. Shake and taste the next morning, and adjust the seasonings if you wish.

This is now one of my favorite salad toppings. Since we are eating grain free, I eat a LOT of salads and veggies and so I like to have several options when it comes to topping them for variety.

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Edible Tulips

Wow!! Edible Tulips featuring basil essential oil!! YUMMY & BEAUTIFUL!

Edible Tulips

13 large cherry or small Roma tomatoes
14 stalks of green onions or chives for the stems
8 oz. cream cheese or cottage cheese for filling
1 cucumber, chopped fine
1 drop basil oil
Salt and pepper

Scoop out the insides of the tomatoes and cut them as in the photo.  With a straw, cut a hole in the bottom for the green onion “stems”.  In a mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, cucumber, basil oil, and salt and pepper.  Fill each hollowed out tomato with cream cheese filling.  Arrange on plate and serve!