Declutter Your Life in 3 Practical Ways!

Declutter Your Life in 3 Practical Ways:

1) Declutter Your Mind: Don't allow negative thoughts to take over your life, instead, override them with the positive ones.

2) Declutter Your Home and Work Environments: Remove, recycle, donate, trash, sell, do whatever is needed to remove all items you don't need, use or even like. Clutter generates negative energy and has a direct impact on your physical and emotional health. Start decluttering now!

3) Declutter Your Relationships and Social Network: Identify negative and toxic people in your life by making a list. Then, come up with a plan to letting them go. No explanation nor justification necessary, release and let go!

Happy Decluttering!

Ellie Lavender

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Happiness is a habit – cultivate it!

So many simple things you can do to cultivate happiness in your life and below are just a few:

1. Appreciate life.
2. Practice optimism.
3. Express gratitude.
4. Be a problem solver.
5. Love yourself unconditionally.
6. Do what you love & love what you do.       
7. Choose friends and business associates/partners wisely
8. Say No to people making demands 
9. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.
10. Consider your own happiness, because you deserve it.
11. Mind your own business. 
12. Whatever is holding you back from living a happy life, make peace with it and Let It Go.

Choose to be Happy!

Ellie Lavender

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Butternut Squash D’Anjou Red Pear & Ginger Soup Recipe!

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The beauty of homemade soups is that you can play around with the Ingredients to your liking. I use a varieties of seasonal vegetables and fruits when making soups!  

You can enjoy this delicious Tangy Creamy Butternut Squash, D ‘Anjou Red Pear and Ginger Soup hot or cold. In this recipe, pears are roasted to sweet perfection with butternut squash and pureed to create a creamy soup that gets a beautiful garnish of crushed pistachios and a drizzle of olive oil. The flavor is amazing!

Ingredients (serving size 4):

2 cups butternut squash, pic 1

1 cup d'anjou red pears, pic 1

2 tbsp. Meyer lemon juice, pic. 3

1 tbsp. Meyer lemon rind, pic. 4

1 1/2 tbsp. grated fresh ginger, Pic. 4

1/2 cup hazelnut milk, pic. 6

Instructions: 

1. Cut butternut squash in half, remove seeds, peel skins and chop into medium size cubes, Pic.1

2. Cut pears  in half, remove core and chop into medium size cubes, Pic.1 

3. Roast butternut squash and pear with olive oil and sea salt at 400 for 20 minutes. Let it cool for 1 hour.

4. Rind one Meyer lemon and extract juice 

5. Grate enough ginger to make it for 1 1/2 tbsp.

6. Place butternut squash, pears, Meyer lemon rind and ginger in food processor, pic. 4

7. Process all ingredients until they are pureed, pic. 5

8. Add hazelnut milk, pic. 8 and process again until creamy, pic. 9

9. Place soup in a bowl and garnish with crushed pistachios and a drizzle of olive oil

10. You can enjoy this soup cold or hot (warm up the soup in a saucepan for a few minutes).

Enjoy!

Chef Ellie Lavender 
Vegan Mediterranean Personal Chef
Culinary Instructor
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Lily of the Valley Flowers Story!

Lily of the valley is the birth flower for the month of May and represents humility, sweetness, purity and is said to bring luck in love. It also means "the return of happiness" which is the reason why it is often used as decorations in weddings. 

The delicate, fragrant flowers of lily of the valley typically appear in early to mid-spring, and the plants bloom three to four weeks. In mild, coastal climates, they bloom from March to April. Lily of the valley can be grown indoors as a potted plant to bloom out of season.

On May 1st, in France, Lily of the Valley flowers are given as a token of love and affection. This tradition started on  May 1st, 1561, when King Charles IX of France was presented with a bunch of lily-of-the-valley flowers as a token of luck and prosperity. 

Lily of the valley flowers are one my favorite flowers after lavender of course! No matter which flower you like, gift yourself with fresh flowers from your garden and potted flowers throughout your house. They generate good energy in your home and bring visual pleasure too!

Ellie Lavender

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