Nutrition Counseling by Erin

I got the different looking squash in the farm box... its a golden hubbard! And we also got dates in box, my daughter just happened ask for walnuts in the shell at the store, and we had baby arugala on the garden that needed to be thinned.... Viola! Brown butter date and walnut sauce over roasted golden hubbard topped with arugala and shaved Pecorino Romano! Delicious!

Farmbox Friday! Just in time for Feast of Trumpets! The potatoes and arugala will go perfectly with the lamb!

Love, love, love these homemade bread and butter pickles! Fresh out of the garden! So easy to make, I got the reicpe from recipegirl.com!

This cherry orange cobbler was a huge hit yesterday! The revipe is from Better Homes and Gardens. Pretty easy to make and a crowd pleaser! I got to use the sweet oranges from the farm box for the zest and juice!

Delicious Sabbath dinner! Acorn squash stuffed with ground beef, rice, and Swiss chard. Topped with cheddar cheese Adapted from the healtyfoodie.com This is a paleo recipe, but I modified by adding rice and cheese, well, bc I am over dieting!

Fresh spinach and nasturtium flower salad from the garden! Gorgeous!

I finally made the Rosewater Shortbread! It was so easy and so delicious! Secret ingredient is cardamom! It adds just the perfect kick!

Happy Anniversary flowers! Complete with my favorite Chamomile flowers! Thank you, honey!

Farmbox Friday! Beets, radishes, avocadoes, greens, lettuces, potatoes! Yum!

Hubby's favorite! White chocolate macadamia nut! I was able to find white chips without partially hydrogenated oil! Thank you, Guittard!

Farmbox Friday! Yay! A whole bag of arugala and 4 of the world's best avocados! Can't wait!

Farm box Friday! Can't wait to try those cherimoyas!

Shabbat shalom! Lamb dinner with veggies from our first vegetable box from Sage Mountain Farm!

Chocolate frosting for my chocolate birthday cake! My daughter made my favorite frosting for me! 1 stick butter, melted 1/2 c cocoa 1 pound box powdered sugar... 6-7 Tb milk 1 tsp vanilla Combine butter and cocoa, mix well. Then add powdered sugar and mix. Add milk and vanilla and mix until desired consistency. Enjoy!!!

About fifteen percent of women struggle with endometriosis, some have severe symptoms while others experience lesser symptoms. Common symptoms include dysmenorrhea (cramps and pelvic pain due to menstruation), tender ovaries, heavy flow, painful intercourse, and even infertility. There are many factors that can aggravate symptoms of endometriosis including lack of exercise, a high fat diet, IUD use, estrogen imbalance, immune dysfunction, and prenatal exposure to estrogens or... endocrine disruptors, and decreased liver metabolism. In order to support endometriosis symptoms a reduction in inflammatory foods while increasing anti-inflammatory foods is the first step. Then supporting the detoxification process as well as estrogen detoxification would be the next steps. The most inflammatory foods include sugar, dairy (conventional), grains, meat (conventional), and alcohol. Initially cutting out sugar, dairy, and alcohol, and greatly reducing grains and meat would be the most helpful. Make sure the meat is pastured or grass-fed and the grains are organic. Anti-inflammatory foods include berries (along with grapes & cherries), fatty fish, olive oil, avocados, turmeric, green tea, chocolate (dark), leafy greens, cruciferous veggies, and certain nightshades: peppers and tomatoes. If sensitive to nightshades, then avoid those. Foods that increase Phase II Liver detox include carrots, beets, artichokes, lemons, dandelion greens, watercress, burdock root, and cabbage. Foods that contain Indole-3-carbinol (an estrogen detoxification substance) are broccoli, cabbage, Brussel sprouts, and cauliflower. Quercetin (anti-oxidant, immune supportive and anti-inflammatory) containing foods include leeks, garlic, and onions. Other nutritives that support symptoms would be ground flaxseeds, evening primrose oil, chaste tree tincture, selenium, B-vitamins, motherwort, and liver supportive lipotrophics such as choline, betaine, and methionine. For more information on how to support endo symptoms contact Nutrition Counseling by Erin! Pizzorno, Murray, Joiner-bey. (2016). The Clinicians Handbook of Natural Med. Elsevier: MO.