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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Blackberry Dressing or Sauce: Raw Vegan





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How To Make A Blackberry Dressing or Sauce:

Ingredients:
1 c thawed frozen blackberries
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons agave nectar
1/4 teaspoon garlic granules
1/4 teaspoon onion granules
chilli powder to taste



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Procedure:
Put the blackberries in a blender
Blend
Strain with a very fine strainer or produce bag (from The Container store) to remove the fine seeds
Put the strained fruit puree in a bowl
Add the spices
Whisk to mix with a wire whisk
Put in a Squeeze bottle

USE:
Drizzle to fruit salads, veggie Salad or grilled meat



Put the blackberries in the blender
Blend


The blended blackberry puree


The blackberry puree strained



Add the chili powder (optional)
Add the garlic and onion granules and the rest of the ingredients
Mix with a wire whisk 


Put in a squeeze bottle


The blackberry sauce drizzled on a fruit salad


crushed blackberries can also be used as sauce drizzled on a smoked 'pastured' pork rib





Spinach Mushroom Cheese Omelette: Ovo Vgetarian






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Ingredients:

Egg Mixture:
4 'free-range' eggs
(we can visit the farm to see if chickens are well treated)
1/4 tsp. salt
1 Tablespoon water

Filling:
1 slice cheese
4 bacon sliced into pieces 
(made from animal or plant meat -we used 'Morning star' veg. bacon here) 
1 cup (packed) spinach
3 medium white button mushrooms sliced
1/4 of a medium red bell pepper diced
1 medium roma tomato sliced 
1/4 of a medium red onion
1 big clove garlic finely minced
salt to taste
black pepper to taste
1 T olive oil 

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Procedure:

Putting it All Together:
Heat the pan you used to saute the filling or get a new pan 
Put 1 T olive oil and 1 T butter
(whatever animal or plant oil or butter your body prefers)
Add the egg mixture
Spread the egg mixture throughout the pan
When almost done, spread the filling mixture in one half of the omelette
Add the cheese all over the filling
Cover with one side of the omelette
Transfer into a serving platter. 
Serve.





Egg Mixture
Put all the egg mixture ingredients in a bowl
Whisk the egg, water and salt
Set aside



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Filling
Prepare and cut the food items needed for the filling
Heat the pan
Saute the garlic and onion in the olive oil
Add the 'bacon' pieces, tomatoes, mushrooms and red bell pepper
Mix and taste


Add the mushrooms


Mix


Add the spinach


Mix and when cooked, set aside.

                                 

Fry the egg mixture


 Add the filling in one side of the fried egg mixture


 Add cheese on top
                                 


Fold half of it on top


Eat and enjoy.

Note: I ate about 3/4 c of this 



Saturday, March 22, 2014

Ground Beef Pineapple Cashew No Oil Stir Fry: Paleo


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Ground Beef Pineapple Cashew No Oil Stirry

Ingredients:

1/2 lb. ground 'pastured' grass-fed beef (95% lean)
1 inch ginger peeled and finely chopped
1 clove garlic chopped
1/2 c red bell pepper
1/3 c shallots chopped
1 tsp Braggs Liquid Aminos (optional - you can use salt)
1/2 c pineapple chunks
2 pcs. green onions

Procedure In Pictures:

Prepare the Ingredients.


Cut the pineapple into chunks.
How To Cut Pineapples Into Chunks



Get the ground 
'pastured' grass-fed beef out of the container


Open the stove.
Heat the pan on top of the stove.
Add the ground beef and stir until it is halfway done and you can see the oil coming out.


Add the chopped garlic.


Add the chopped onions.


Add the tomatoes and the red bell pepper.


 Add the pineapple 


Add the green onions.


Stir to mix


Add the cashews and the Braggs liquid aminos (or soy sauce).
Stir to mix.
Done.


The Finished Dish
Enjoy









Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Chia Coconut Jackfruit Pudding: Vegan




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Chia Coconut Jackfruit Pudding

Ingredients:
1 T plus 1 tsp white chia seeds
1/2 c coconut milk ('So good' brand, canned or fresh)
1 T unrefined coconut palm crystals/sugar

Topping:
1 ripe jackfruit sliced (if canned, wash it in water, then slice into thin strips)
1 pitted medjool date (or if using smaller ones use 2) sliced 

Procedure:
Put the chia seeds in the coconut milk with the coconut palm crystals/sugar.
Mix with a wire whisk.
Leave for 2 hour or more until it's gel like in consistency.
Add the topping.
Enjoy.

Pictures:

Putting the chia seeds in


Chia seeds in the coconut milk with the coconut palm crystals/sugar



Mixing with a wire whisk


Leave for 2 hours or more until it's gel like


 Topping: 
sliced jackfruit 


The finished dish









Monday, March 17, 2014

Weight Loss: Self-forgiveness for Mental Health: Hiding Weight Gain


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What is Self-forgiveness?
It is the process by which an individual forgives oneself for accepting and allowing oneself to separate oneself from objective reality, releasing positive and negative value judgments such as good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative - as interpretations of reality regarding something or someone, to rather accept and allow oneself to have an objective look at reality - as what it is, with an increased ability to be stable as breath. 

Self-forgiveness Statements for Mental Health: Weight Loss

                                         Failure Through Gaining Weight and Hiding It:

=== Self-forgiveness for Mental Health: Weight Loss Click here to subscribe to my mailing list === I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to fear failure believing i should hide my weight gain because people will judge me as a failure if they know about it and wear clothes that are biggies so they will not notice my weight gain.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to connect this to a memory in the past, thereby living the past in the present, rather than being here, present, in every moment.

The stress that i am subjecting my body to, when i have internal conversations like this conversation below, for example, is not helping because the mind will feed on this and it will resource the body for energy, like a laptop plugged on the wall, (electricity flowing to the computer through the cable, from the socket on the wall).

Note: this is a memory

Me in My Mind:
'Can they notice that i gained weight? I know they will not, because this loose top hides it perfectly. I have to hold my breath to hide my stomach so they will not notice'.
Friend: Are you pregnant?
Me in My Mind:
'Boy, she is rude!' (fear reaction)
Me talking (reacting, but allowing myself to breathe freely, thankful, that i do not have to hide it anymore, because it is now out in the open):
'No, but i know i have to lose some weight' (fear reaction: embarrassment)

The fear reaction can lead to a physical reaction which leads to stress

When i am stressed, my muscles tense, my heart rate goes up and my thoughts race.

I know that if i release my value judgments through self-forgiveness, i will be more stable because i will remain here, present in this moment, as breath, and will not be reminiscing about the past and worrying about the future.

I realized that weight loss is about me finding out about the what food to eat and how much of it i should take
to achieve the weight where my body can have optimum movement.

This involves an objective look at data i gathered from my weight loss, weight gain and weight maintenance logs for example, to pin point what i ate when i lose, maintain or gain weight, rather than a belief driving me about what weight loss is and what it isn't.

I commit to stop and breathe and release the judgments i have about my body size and weight by doing a quick self-forgiveness when and as i see myself having internal conversation about being 'fat and ugly' in my mind within personal bias.

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to desire to lose weight from a starting point of looking good and feeling good, so people will like me and so people will admire my new look, to stand out from the crowd,

Instead of realizing that i am creating a value judgment based on beliefs and it is for me to realize that this desire to be liked and to be admired is stimulated by my 'negative self-talk' within my mind that' i look ugly when i am fat' and is a polarity crutch that i hold on to, to be able to feel okay about myself .

This is an opportunity for me to look at why i do not feel okay about myself.


What do i feel inferior about?
Looking ugly, because i judged myself as inferior having seen the stars on tv and how slim they all are, comparing myself to them.

What will happen to me if people don't like me?
Nothing really. I will still be myself. I can use this though, to accept and embrace all parts of me and learn how to be self-intimate with me.

I realized that,  instead of having internal conversation within my mind about how i look when i am fat, i can look at 'fat' objectively and see that it's function is to protect the body's vital organs and instead of judging myself as ugly when i see myself gaining weight/ fat, i can release the positive and negative judgments through self-forgiveness, and correct myself by eating the amount of food that will give me the right amount of fat based from my own impartial investigation that will help the body to function/move optimally.

I commit myself to stop and breathe when i see that i am judging my body and instead of having internal conversation within my mind through negative or positive 'self-talk', i can correct myself by looking at reality objectively, see what the definition of the word 'fat' is - see it as what it is, as per its definition and how i can effectively support myself using that definition in changing my subjective view of reality.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Fruit Salad with Raspberry Citrus Chia Seed Sauce: Raw Vegan



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Fruit Salad with Raspberry Citrus Chia Seed Sauce

Raspberry Chia Seed Sauce
Ingredients:

1 c water 
2 T White Chia seeds 
(black chia seeds can also be used, and both kinds can be found online)
3 raspberries
juice of 1/2 small lime
juice of 1/2 small lemon
juice of 1/2 big orange
1/4 tsp fine sea salt 
(or to taste)
1 T agave nectar
(or your sweetener of choice)

Procedure:
Juice the lemon, lime and orange.
Add the citrus juices to the water.
Mix the chia seeds in the water and soak overnight.
Add the salt and the sweetener to the citrus mixture.
Add the raspberries.
Blend 
Drizzle 4 Tablespoons (or more) on your fruits

Fruits:
1/2 Asian pear
1 small fuyu persimmon
1 kiwi fruit
1/2 mango
3 blackberries

Pictures:

The white chia seeds in the citrus juice mixture


Getting ready to blend the mixture the next day 

 After blending all ingredients including the raspberries

The blended raspberry citrus chia seed sauce

Note: I will  refrigerate the sauce and use the rest of it as dressing.

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