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Here are two healthy salads, one made with Kale, carrots and tomatoes. The other is a twist on a traditional Mediterranean salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, and red onions. Also I have a huge life update to share with you all!
Truly God is faithful in so many ways.
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Ephesians 6:12
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12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
I am Christian, LCSW, and a dancer. I have 12 years of experience in the mental health field across varies settings. I feel the call and see the need for a safe place for Christian women to be open and vulnerable about the issues they are facing. Many Christians hear wonderful sermons week after week, yet many that I talk to still struggle with mental strongholds that prevent them from fully receiving the life and power in God’s Word.
Hello everybody my name is desire um if you don’t know I am a Christian psychotherapist um and mentor to women who are looking to change their relationships with god with men um with themselves lots to unpack here today um I’m here to um talk about uh some video series that
You guys are going to see starting maybe with this one um but I’m getting married y’all I’m so engaged right now okay and I am just like um so blown away by God’s goodness and Grace and uh you will meet my fiance uh and we’ll share our stories and you know
The testimony I’m sure you’ll hear this a lot but in case this is your first time um I wanted you to uh kind of understand when I was editing some videos that I did this summer when I met my fiance some of them were before I
Even it was like right before I met him um and that’s what the video that you’re watching today was a cooking uh my first ever trying to do like a cooking video um which was more challenging than it looks um trying to do all of that um but
I managed um but uh that was filmed on June 8th um two days before I would match with unbeknown to me would be my future husband um so I wanted to share that caveat before um I showed the video to you guys guys so um and I also want to
Let you know that there’s a lot of you know uh great things coming um I am filming some more um self-development um personal development videos um I am filming uh things about the wedding um and I think you’ll really enjoy the testimony um some of the things that I had did I had
Did that I had done prior um probably oh wow since teenage years um I’ve been preparing to be a wife and um I will attempt to kind of walk you through what that looked like and maybe give some encouragement to some of you um and I also wanted to discuss uh
Some really potent relation reltionship issues that I’ve been encountering with my clients lately um were just women that I mentor and so I want to share some of that with you guys here so um I hope you enjoy the cooking video um and then we’ll we’ll dive into um a lot of
Other things I was trying to release some of these videos that I filmed last year I just did not release so yeah got busy um with other things um so if you are enjoying this content like I was saying if you’re enjoying this content like subscribe so that
You’ll get some more but you will watch the video all right enjoy hello everybody thank you so much for watching my channel my name is Desiree AKA virtuous Desi so today as you might have seen from the title we are doing a what did you how do you eat
Healthy when you really hav’t meal planned um which has been my reality honestly um I haven’t found a rhythm yet with pre-prepared meals and by meals I don’t mean whole meals I meal I mean parts of meals um because from the research I’ve done I know for sure that
Would be the way for me like planning I can meal plan when I go to the to the grocery store but pre-prepared liting days negative okay this is not going to work for me because I might not want that so um anyways so I do have some things in my
Head that I I want and I go to the grocery store and I get them so this is kind of like stuff that I’ve pulled out of my fridge okay that I need to use okay and this is what I mean like you know we had a a bountiful thank you
Yeshua Bountiful Harvest of cucumbers so we’re making a cucumber salad we’re making a salad with cucumber in it um we’re gonna figure out something um you know short of canning them okay uh I got my my purple kale in this bag and a jalapeno from my dad’s
Garden God knows when I brought these so you know I think this is cilantro from my garden this is some aspar guess that I’m probably going to put in the pasta that I’m making today so I’m making some pasta but I wanted to start um this I got some uh organic
Uh shredded carrots which you know when you use organic things it’s wonderful but let’s let’s use them asapp brish okay kale okay I’m going to show you guys how I rub it down and prepare if you’re not used to having kale as a base of one of your salads so I’m going to
Wash all this produce and then hopefully I’ll get some close-up shots with the phone um you know these types of videos are not easy to do which is why I haven’t done them yet but we’re going to we’re going to try it today is the day so kale salads up
Next all right beautiful peoples we’ve got all of our produce washed I washed I got some feta cheese here that I’m going to use in the salad because we got to use it um that leak is actually going to go in my pasta and I’m going to make a
Tuna salad with this um may put it in the salad too the asparagus is going in the veggie pasta as well and so is this pepper but we were just washing everything here are all of my herbs um the purple basil the Rosemary and cilantro that are homegrown baby and
Then um the carrots are good to to go so first I’m going to do the olive oil on here and then I’m going to um put a little bit of this lemon juice in there you can put some in a top but I do like a splash this is a lot of
Kale so and I’m going to massage away guys so again you guys um this just breaks down some of the roughage of your cake and makes it more smooth and more tolerable to the palette okay you guys so I have my cucumber salad here and my a kale with
All of the things in there let me give you guys give you guys um a closeup of that so this is the carrots I put some peppers in there um I’ve got a bunch of my stuff for the pasta over here but it was a big
Pepper so I put some of it in the kale salad with cucumbers and tomatoes and then the cucumber salad it’s going to be kind of like my Israeli cucumber salad um I’m going to chop up a red onion and put that in there and then we’ll do the
Dressing and all things for this and this this salad I’m going to make a salad dressing for this probably going to use Ranch and a homemade um salad dressing cuz this was probably going to last me for a couple of days um this is going to be my cucumber salad kind of
Like my Israeli salad with the Cucumbers tomatoes and the Red Onion I also have a bunch of beautiful herbs up and Har um I have some Rosemary and cilantro and purple basil to go with my purple onions um and this uh basket is for my pasta I’m going to use this just
FYI um give this a try so I usually use chickp pasta but I’m going to try this whole wheat P um yeah and here’s my feta cheese that I also need to put over here over there I’m not going to put in there right now so your SP spes that’s what
I’m going to put in this okay this is a sumach okay it’s like a citrusy type of spice that’s common in uh the Middle East um that sort of thing and then zotar which is also common in like Mediterranean dishes um even Middle Eastern um but yes so I’m
Going to do this inside that one and then I’m going to put some olive oil in there we’re just going to have some fun okay okay oh can youall see my smoke situation bless the Lord for your food especially when you grow it yourself that is so cool and
Amazing so let me take a cute picture of this for you guys and um call it a day okay so so for this mamama Jama this baby is really big we’re going to rinse these off for this particular salad I’m going to get a container so this is some anchovies you
Guys you can use omit this if you do not if you know you’re not filling it um I’m going to make a little bit of a paste and take the olive oil I have um flat Fila an chovies in olive oil and I’m going to use that olive oil since
Olive oil is in the recipe but it’s another vinegarette with uh lemon juice and uh I think salt pepper and Dijon mustard so okay hopefully we can y’all and I’m choking I didn’t realize as I’m editing this video I did not realize that I say that in the video where’s my
Husband you basically smooth down your knife like you do when you’re mincing garlic if you don’t know like how to make a past okay we have the anchovies smash you guys in there And now what we’re going to do is add the Dijon must mustard Okay so we’ve got a little bit more olive oil in here if you want to drain the anchovies of their liid olive oil and do that then you know knock yourself out um and again
You can’t omit the uh you can actually omit let me add a little bit more lemon juice I’m just going for memory I saw a chick on YouTube make this I think her name is Bri Turner she made a similar kale salad she called it a million doll
Salad um which I see why because it’s power packed okay and then we’re going to maybe do some um salt and pepper I don’t really remember the seasonings but we’re going to do the pepper and then what we’re going to do is let’s do some sea salt there what we’re going to
Do um cuz the anoes are quite salty so don’t put too much um but if you’re omit omitting them then you know knock yourself out okay so I’m going to shake this shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake your dressing hopefully this does not bust
Let’s do this near the sink just in case make sure okay with my look okay you can use any type of mustard you like you got to emulsify it okay so emulsify and chovies are a great anti-depressant they’re also considered uh a great source of all your
Omegas the good ones but that was that um I am about to make my pasta cuz I’m really hungry so I’m going to cook that we are not filming that cuz we ain’t got time but um y’all pray that I get some help maybe I have a cameraman IFH thisis
On man um so RS I’m using the RS I’m doing this pasta here um you know whole weight okay you guys that’s actually where the video cuts off I didn’t realize that um but if you head over to my Instagram I do actually have the vegetable pasta that I
Made and I made it so many times that um it’s probably on there sooner than June 8th of of um 2003 which is when this video was recorded So anyway thank you guys so much for watching my channel um please hit that like And subscribe I hopefully this gave you some great ideas
On how you can make some uh salads that are healthy for you and delicious powerp packed with some superfoods love y’all bye okay you guys so I have my kale in this uh salad pumper vibrator um I mean what is Spinner salad spinner whatever I’m going to get kicked off of
YouTube so let me stop Talking