Blueberry Juice

The past weekend I was touring Quebec with some good friends of mine; Four girls on a road trip from Montreal through Baie St Paul, to Anse St Jean, to Roberval, then Mashteuiatsh, passing after by La Tuque, moving to Trois Riviere, then back to Montreal.

The best local Blueberries can be found near Roberval, QC, so we stopped and bought some.

This morning, I decided to juice some, and really the taste is delicious!

 

Very easy to do, put as much as you want blueberries in the juicer, juice and serve.

 

Bon Appétit!

La Reina

 

Juicing season?

I have been planning to go on a green juicing for quite sometime... wasn't exactly sure what was keeping me from it.. maybe one of the reasons was not to loose more weight specially after what I have lost lately...at the same time I have been dealing with adult acne for quite sometime, and tried different ways to get rid of it, using organic remedies, to naturopathy, moving to meds.. which I really didn't want to integrate in my system again.. so I stopped it. Now I will test that by creating green juicing remedies.

Today I thought, after what I have been going through, to go back to what I used to call my energy pill... RAW.

My first green juicing creation, turned out to be quite tasty and interesting. Try it!

Raw Organic Ingredients:
6 Carrots
2 Kale leafs
1/2 Zucchini
1 Pear


Equipment:
Omega Juicer, or any juicer

Add the ingredients one by one in the Juicer.

Bon Appétit!

La Reina

Frozen Coconut Flavored Smoothie

After a long nice weekend...we need something refreshing to give us a good morning boost.
Enjoy my  Frozen Coconut Flavored Smoothie!

Frozen Coconut Flavored Smoothie

Raw Organic Ingredients:
6 Frozen Strawberries
8 Frozen Raspberries
8 Frozen Blueberries
1 cup Coconut water
1/2 cup Coconut meat
1 t.s. Organic Honey


Equipment:
Vitamix

Add all the ingredients in the vitamix, and mix until smooth.

Bon Appétit!

La Reina

Refreshing and Yummy Smoothie

Looking in my fridge this morning, I found a coconut, half a mango, and seems I had some frozen strawberries in my freezer!
I thought what a wonderful combination for a new fresh morning.

Raw Organic Ingredients:
6 Frozen Strawberries
1/2 Mango
1 cup Coconut water
1/2 cup Coconut meat
a bit of water if needed

Equipment:
Vitamix

Add all the ingredients in the vitamix, and mix until smooth.

Bon Appétit!

La Reina

My Red Heart Smoothie

Today is a new day, back to my routine, back to my life. The heart makes us alive, so I decided to mix my heart, my love, and my passion to Raw and offer it to you!
Cheers!

My Red Heart Smoothie

Raw Organic Ingredients:
1 Banana
1 cup Cherries
1 cup Strawberries
1 cup Blueberries
1 cup Raspberries
1 Plum
1 Pear
2 dried Apricot, soaked
200 ml Water

Equipment:
Vitamix

Add all the ingredients in the vitamix, and mix until smooth.
If you want it cold, use ice with the water.

Bon Appétit!

La Reina

Prayers in the Church

I got tired to write the other day, was late at night and had a long day of work. But this didn't stop me from writing in my personal note my experience during the Prayers in the Church.

It touched my heart when I joined them for the mass on Tuesday for prayers. The signs made more meanings then the words. For a first time I attend such a graceful and blissful prayers with kids who, from their heart, are praising for God.
Their personality, their confidence, I dare you stand up at the altar and pray like they do. For instance I wanted to join them, although my faith is different, but still I praise the same God.
I wish I was allowed to take a video to show the world how beautiful to see them praying, thanking God, where most of us forget to do, about everything they have, their school, their friends, their teachers, their visitors and volunteers, to help this person get well, and that person to succeed in the exam, you see them asking God for a lot of things, but nothing in particular for themselves other then succeeding in the exam, whereas other people might give God a bigger list for oneself.. Maybe.

Their beauty and believe in their eyes, the truthfulness about their love, their actions and themselves. No judgments, no one else is better, we are all equal. How wonderful is that.
Do you think we can be the same, or at least as equal as they are, as honest and loving? All the time almost?

It teaches us a lot when we experience the life of others, forgetting about one self and choosing to see the happiness from another side, shows us other meanings of life and mostly appreciation.

I refer here to couple of my old quotes which I wrote for other reasons, although works well with this blog:

"Beauty, is Only the soul's positive energy spread all around projecting to the outer world the excellent thoughts and the gracious behavior of a human - RH "

December 17-2011

"Life is too precious; live it up enjoying every second of it. Heal yourself through beautiful thoughts, smile & happiness. Spread the love around! - RH "

February 5 – 2012"

 

There are still lots to write about ... the details of every day, the people I have met, the way kids come to you and play with you, then ask you in their own way to take pictures...

Their graduation and end of the year party, their dance, singing and laughters... Yes, if you see the video, you wouldn't believe they are deaf....

 To be cont'd

 La Reina

New meaning of life

The title says it all. Life has lots of meanings, lots of faces and most importantly lots of souls. The way you see it makes it difference. I just saw it from another angle. From the beautiful side of the deaf children, from their heart, their laugh and their joy.

I came up with this quote today:
"It is such a beauty to connect with other people, try to understand them and embrace them within you... even if they have a different handicap then you. Bring yourself to their life, learn from them, as some of their meaning of life might flip out yours...- RH"

Today has passed like a blink of an eye. Arriving to Jordan after a two hour delay from Montreal, finding very nice Jordanian driver, who brought his wife and child and waited for me for almost 2 hours to drive me to Salt, the area I will be staying in for the period of 2 weeks, specifically to the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf.

On the way we stopped for a quick bite at a food street restaurant, who serves hummus, foul and balila, being away from home, you can not always ask for raw food, so vegan tasted perfectly well, specially when it comes to traditional Jordanian breakfast. They were so kind to invite me, and making me feel at home.

Arriving to Salt, the school staff welcomed me with an open heart, had my room arranged, then rested for couple of hours after this long flight.

Later, had a perfectly well guided tour in the school, the Audiology department, the offices, the kitchen where we all get together for the meals, the classes, the main school staff offices. Everybody was welcoming, even the kids, feeling so hard that I don't know their sign language, they were extremely happy to great me with their own way, with their warm beautiful smile, and gesture.


I have thought about learning the sign language before I arrive here, but did you know that this language is not universal, and that every country, continent, has his own? 

Yes, of all the languages we know, I thought sign language is universal, but it is not. 

Different cultures have different ways to express, different referrals to names, persons, houses, and even sentences. So I might come back with a new language, which I believe, it is a must for normal people to learn it in case they were for instance around deaf persons, as after what I have experienced here today, it is our role to fit in their life, as they are working hard to fit in ours. I actually feel bad when describing it this way, as we are all humans and equal, and for each has his own way of learning, communicating, and speaking. 

We see it easy to take an Italian class, or Spanish, because we feel these languages are spoken worldwide, or because we like the sound of it, well, we should feel and touch the sign language which comes up to be a wonderful gesture of embrace which touch the heart and the eyes more then the words.


Time is late, and tomorrow is a long day... an interesting blog about the rest of the day will be posted soon, so to be continued....


La Reina
 

PS: excuse the typo, I am still jet lagged and wanted to share my "live feed" experience.