Organic Granny

When I first made this soup it was Spring and the most delectable fresh asparagus was popping up in organic produce bins in grocery stores all over our little city!  Depending on where you live, you might have these neat little tender twigs growing in your own garden.  Here is the perfect Spring-Early Summer soup-- you can use fresh succulent new asparagus, or take advantage of the flavorful (but older) frozen asparagus in your freezer.  Enjoy! Ingredients      2 lbs green asparagus     1 large onion     3 tablespoons Extra Virgin Coconut Oil     6 cups vegetable broth OR 6 cups water and 3 Golden Bouillion cubes     4 cloves minced garlic     2 teaspoons organic garlic powder     2 teaspoons organic onion powder     Celtic Sea salt to taste (mmmm... those minerals!)     grind a little fresh cracked pepper to taste     juice from half of a ripe fresh juicy lemon  ...

Savor the rich, layered flavors of my Harvest Pumpkin Stew,  a vegan twist on traditional beef stew, served in a tender pumpkin shell!  Argentina is not a country that pops to mind when one thinks of Vegan or even Vegetarian fare. Argentina is renowned for its beef-eating, the average consumption of which is something like 150 pounds annually... My beef-raising brother and his wife went to Argentina just to see their famous wandering herds and horses. They had a wonderful holiday. It turns out that they DO actually have some marvellous vegetarian restaurants, probably because they have a large cosmopolitan tourist industry and have hopped on the bandwagon with the rest of the Global community (yay!). I'm featuring a really yummy Vegetable stew, an adaptation of a beef stew. If you are a lover of beef, I would be surprised if you were not delighted to find that you don't actually miss the meat in this particular multi-flavoured vegan stew. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 large Onion, cho...