Light Summer Recipes!!!

Pasta with Corn, Zucchini and Tomatoes!

This vegetarian dish is both colorful and delicious.
Ingredients
Salt and pepper
3 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil, or 2 Tbs. oil and 1 Tbs. butter
1 C. corn kernels (from 2 or 3 ears)
1 C. diced zucchini or summer squash (from 2 or 3 small vegetables)
1 medium onion or 3 or 4 shallots, diced
1/4 tsp. minced garlic, optional
1 or 2 sprigs tarragon
4 plum or 2 large tomatoes, diced
1 lb. cut pasta, like penne
Directions
Set a large pot of water to boil and salt it. Put 2 Tbs. oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and add corn. Cook, stirring occasionally, until corn begins to brown. Add zucchini and some salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until zucchini begins to brown. Add onion or shallots and garlic if you are using it. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion softens, about 5 minutes. Add tarragon and cook for 30 seconds, then tomatoes. Put pasta in boiling water and cook until tender but not mushy, 10-15 minutes.
While pasta cooks continue to cook sauce, reducing heat when tomatoes begin to break down. If sauce dries out (with plum tomatoes, this is likely), add some pasta cooking water, about 1/2 C. at a time. When pasta is done, drain it, toss with sauce and remaining oil or butter, and serve immediately.

Fruity Spinach Salad

A salad with all sorts of ingredients that truly go well together. Mix up some spinach with fresh mushrooms, red onions, cantaloupe and green grapes
Ingredients
1 cantaloupe half, seeded and skin removed
7 C. torn fresh spinach
1 C. chopped fresh mushrooms
1 C. thinly sliced red onion
1/2 C. halved green grapes

Dressing
3 Tbs. sugar
2 Tbs. orange juice
2 Tbs. vinegar
1 Tbs. chopped onion
Dash pepper
1/3 C. vegetable oil
1 tsp. poppy seeds
1/3 C. chopped pecans, toasted.
Directions
Cut melon half in 1/2 inch rings, then into 1 inch pieces; place in a bowl. Add spinach, mushrooms, onion and grapes. Chill for at least 2 hours. Place sugar, orange juice, vinegar, onion, orange peel and pepper in a blender, cover and blend until smooth. With blender running, gradually add oil until slightly thickened. Stir in poppy seeds. Cover and chill. Just before serving, pour dressing over salad and toss. Top with pecans. You can substitute other fruit such as strawberries or blueberries for the grapes, or other types of melon.

Summer Iced Tea

A subtle black tea with a hint of fruity flavor. A great way to wake up.
Ingredients
5 teabags English Breakfast or other black tea
2 teabags blueberry or peach tea (Celestial Seasons is nice)
1 qt. of water
2 Tbs. honey (optional)
2 qt. pitcher filled 1/2 with ice
Directions
Boil water, add tea and steep for 6-7 minutes. Add honey if using. Pour tea over the ice in the 2 qt. pitcher, then fill with water to make 2 qts. Keep well-chilled.

GOD'S PHARMACY!!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

My dear Daughter-In-Law Cheryl, sent this to me...You are welcome to use on your blog...

SUBJECT: Psalm 46:19
'Be Still and Know that I AM GOD'