What is Cleansing Kuku? Imagine a quick-cooking frittata with bushels of fresh herbs bound together with just enough egg. It’s based on Kuku Sabzi, or “herb kuku,” customarily served at the festivities of the Iranian new year to celebrate spring, a traditional time for cleansing. If you’re looking for a cleanse-appropriate recipe, it would be “kuku” not to try it! It is packed with detoxification-supporting foods: alliums like onion and leek, fresh eggs, and green herbs like parsley and cilantro….
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“Fall” into a New Cleanse Routine
September 24, 2019
Summer 2019, at least in the northern hemisphere, is in the rearview mirror and autumn leaves are beginning to fall. As the seasons change, now is the perfect time for a cleanse and digestive tune-up before heading into the season of food temptation: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. In early fall, our brain begins to signal some hormonal changes. Insulin resistance increases slightly. Our bodies begin to store a little more fat. Millions of years of mammalian evolution are behind this…
Turkey Meatloaf
January 11, 2019
This recipe for turkey meatloaf, featuring sacha inchi oil, is an excellent meal for a winter cleanse. Print Turkey Meatloaf Ingredients 3 small white onions, chopped 3 tbsp. Flora Sacha Inchi Oil 1 tsp. fresh thyme leaves 2 tsp. unrefined sea salt 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 3/4 C chicken stock 1/4 C Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp. tomato paste 5 lb. ground turkey breast 3 extra large eggs, beaten Instructions Preheat oven to 320 F. Heat sacha inchi oil…
Chocolate Smoothie
January 10, 2019Cleanse Happy with Flor-Essence
January 9, 2019A cleanse is a wonderful opportunity to practice supporting yourself. Instead of seeing it simply as maintenance—or worse yet, as a kind of penalty for having enjoyed life—doing a cleanse, especially during winter months, should be a form of self-care. Warming meals and practices In winter, choose pungent herbs and spices (cumin, cayenne, black pepper) to overcome hibernation mode and stoke the metabolic fire. Warming ginger, cinnamon, fennel, and angelica soothe and reduce phlegm. They promote digestion, dilation, and circulation….
Wild Salmon & Stir-Fried Vegetables
January 9, 2019Print Wild Salmon & Stir Fried Vegetables Servings: 4 Ingredients 2 onions 4 garlic cloves 4 carrots 2 large zucchini 1 large sweet red pepper 2 tbsp. Flora Sacha Inchi Oil 4 (6 oz.) wild salmon fillets Instructions Peel onions. Cut each in half lengthwise. Dice garlic and chop carrots, zucchini, and red pepper into chunks. Heat oven to 400 F. Meanwhile, add 1 tbsp. oil to large skillet on medium heat. Add onions, garlic, carrots, zucchini, red peppers, salt,…
A Holistic Approach to Cleansing
January 1, 2019
Refreshing Drinks with Flora Apple Cider Vinegar
December 31, 2018Celebrate Health This Holiday Season
December 18, 2018From culinary and omega oils to probiotics, teas, and detoxes, we’re helping you give the gift of health to those who mean the most to you this holiday season. And maybe a little self-care for you while you’re at it. We all have that loved one who’s impossible to shop for. When it comes to their gift, it’s worth considering a gift from the health & wellness sphere. The average American spends over $100,000 on health and fitness in their…
Apple Cider Vinegar: The Secret Ingredient to a Healthy Mocktail
December 11, 2018Our apple cider vinegar isn’t like the others. Flora’s Apple Cider Vinegar Wellness Shots and Drinks combine our ACV with traditionally detoxifying, freshly ground herbs. Burdock, sheep sorrel, turmeric, blessed thistle, and kelp combine with proven digestion and immunity boosting plants like ginger, elderberry, turmeric, and lemon for a rounded out and amplified apple cider vinegar wellness tonic. They come in conveniently-sized glass-bottled shots for those on-the-go and 17-ounce bottles for the daily dose. ACV may not be broke, but…