Growing my own Sprouts

Growing your own sprouts is the easiest thing to do in the world. I have a three tray sprouting garden. First you soak your seeds in water for at least 8 hours. I usually soak them overnight. Wash and rinse your seeds well, pour the soaked seeds into the sprouting tray, a light rinse will help spread the seeds evenly. You must always allow to drain completely. Cover the tray and you may stack them four high. I have one broccoli under the cover and one on top of the cover so it can develop Chlorophyll. A day in in a warm bright spot will work perfectly.

Broccoli sprouts at one day old they are just starting to sprout out of the seed.

Finished Broccoli Sprouts at about Four Days.

I order seeds from The Sprout House http://www.sprouthouse.com/ and also some from Sprout People. Broccoli sprouts are by far my favorite sprouting seeds and they are said to be the very very high in  phytochemicals. Phystochemicals not only benefits the young plant, but when eaten by humans, acts as an antioxidant to stimulate the ability of animal cells to protect against disease.

I enjoy sprouts on almost everything that I eat and my sandwiches are not the same without my sprouts .

Green Smoothie of the Day

The Smoothie of the day today is just a quick simple smoothie with frozen organic bananas, frozen organic strawberries (locally picked at The Berry Patch) frozen grapes and fresh spinach from my local Farmers Co op from Raccoon Farms here in Iowa. You cant get any fresher than this beautiful spinach and the taste is superb !!!

Fresh Hot Apple Cider

Today was the day I finally took the apples and made Apple Cider. It turned out better than I thought it would. We had many cooking apples left over so instead of making those delicious apple recipes that I defiantly don't need to eat I decided to get out my Green Star Juicer and make Fresh Apple Cider. So I enlisted my husband to help as I cut up the apples he pushed them through the Green Star and we had beautiful fresh apple juice. I put a few cups of the juice and heated it on the stove with 2 cinnamon sticks, some cloves and some allspice. Instead of adding maple syrup or brown sugar I added a small amount of amber agave for the sweetener. I put a small amount of nutmeg (should have used fresh) in the cup and it was the most wonderful apple cider I have ever tasted. It was a wondrous hot creamy decedent drink of love.