This soup is quite easy to prepare, easy to digest and verrry nourishing. It is wonderful for warming your cold and weary bones on blustery autumn days.

Many of the fresh and vital ingredients in this recipe (organic ginger, onion, carrots, parsley) contain nutrients that will provide your body with building blocks to help strengthen immunity, detoxify the liver and stave off nutrient deficiency as well as other conditions that can promote cancer growth. Food is medicine, so treat it accordingly and source the best quality that you can within your budget. Don’t be led to believe that it is necessarily expensive to eat well. In fact, it can be very affordable to eat healthfully if you, for example, avoid packaged foods, skip the exotic foods, and buy dried goods in bulk.

Ingredients: One quart of organic low sodium vegetable or chicken stock (ideally homemade) One large organic/local onion

• 1 lb (approx. 8 med.) organic/local carrots, chopped
• 1 tbsp organic butter
• 1 tbsp cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil
• 1 large chunk of fresh ginger pressed through a garlic press (a piece of about 2 inches in length, or larger if you want more flavour intensity)
• 1 sprig of fresh parsley (easy to grow on your own)
• Unrefined sea salt to taste
• 1 cup (approx.) peeled and cubed organic/local apples

Method:

1. Sautee the onion in butter and olive oil, in a saucepan, until transparent.
2. Add in the ginger and chopped carrots, cover until carrots are soft.
3. Meanwhile, simmer chicken or vegetable stock in large pot, covered.
4. Once the carrots are softened, add all saucepan ingredients into food processor and puree.
5. Add to stock, salt to taste, and simmer for ½ hour to meld flavours.
6. Add apple cubes approx. 15 minutes before serving to soften them.
7. Serve with a sprinkling of fresh chopped parsley.

Accompany with a few slices of warm wholegrain sourdough bread, a baked potato (skin-on) with all the fixings, or some roasted chicken with sautéed greens.

This soup is even better the next day when all the flavours have enmeshed… Enjoy!

You can start improving your health with the very next meal you eat. Remember to eat it slowly, bask in its health-giving properties and be in a mindset of gratitude.

Stay tuned for more of this fun, simple and cutting-edge nutritional information for you in upcoming issues.

May you be well-nourished, Lisa Marie

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