Forbidden Black Rice Noodles: Vegan

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Ingredients:

One 2.8 oz. pouch forbidden rice ramen noodles

Note: I did not put the spice mix that's inside the pack

 8 strips of red, yellow, green, and orange sweet peppers

1/3 of a medium portobello mushroom sliced

2 c water

2 tsp light miso

1 tsp soy sauce

salt and pepper to taste

2 broccoli florets sliced

4 grape tomatoes halved

1/2 tsp sesame oil

Procedure:

Heat a pot in medium heat

Put all the ingredients in the pot except for the veggies and rice ramen noodles

When water is boiling, add the veggies then the ramen

 (simmer in low heat following the packet directions)

Turn off the heat 

Note: The veggies can be added in the last minute if you want it half-cooked

Serve topped with the Shrimp Scampi

Shrimp Scampi:

http://foodandnutritionjunejourneytolife.blogspot.com/2014/05/shrimp-scampi.html

Forbidden rice ramen noodles 

Note: I did not use the spice packet

Forbidden black rice noodles 

Prepared veggies 

light miso

Miso in 

Miso, portobello mushrooms and broccoli in

Miso, portobello mushrooms, broccoli and sweet peppers in

black rice noodles added

Finished Dish

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May  24, 2013

Friday

 1/8 of a Medium Watermelon

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I ate this at midday. The texture is firm.

It did not have much seeds and it was juicy. It also tasted sweet

i ate one and then i ate another slice until i finished 1/8 of a watermelon.

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 1/2 of a Cantaloupe

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I ate this after i ate the watermelon. 

I was still hungry, so, i went to the fridge and saw a Cantaloupe.

I peeled it and deseeded it. I was so hungry that i finished all of it.

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Sweet Potato Sprouted Chia, 

Sprouted Quinoa and Corn Chips 

('Way Better' Brand )

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I was looking for Mixed vegetable Chips - 

When my partner and i went to the supermarket, i saw the packet saying 

Sweet Potato but then when i was about to put it back, i saw the word "Tortilla' written on the packet. I cannot believe that there's a tortilla made out of Sweet Potato and Corn - i always see the tortillas made of corn. 

I kept looking at the packet.Then, i saw sprouted chia seeds and sprouted Quinoa. I decided to buy one.

I took the chips because i was intrigued by the combination of ingredients

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Cage Free Bison Coffee Crusted : Wholefoods

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I went to Wholefoods with my partner to buy some cage free pork BBQ ribs but then when we arrived

it was closing time, so i looked for meat at the produce department

I pointed on the meat and asked the guy working there if he had turkey or pork and he pointed on the cold cut Turkey.

I asked if this is Cage free. He said yes and then pointed at the Bison 

I asked if it is also cage-free, and he said 'yes'. 

He said it is Bison with an Espresso Crust.

I was surprised that it had an espresso crust because i heard some chefs doing it but never really tried it.

So, I asked him, 'did i hear you right? Did you say Bison using coffee as crust? 

He said 'yes'.

I asked what is Bison. He said it is Buffalo meat. I asked him if i can taste a little bit.

He said, 'yes', and gave me a sample to taste.

It tasted good. so, i bought 3 thin slices.

I ate it in the car. 

I was intrigued that even if they put espresso in the crust, i can't even 

taste it.

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Vegan Sweet Potato Kale Corn Soup (Wholefoods)

with Kelp Noodles, Collard Greens, Coconut Cream powder, Balsamic vinegar  and Ginger

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While at Wholefoods, I went to the soup department of the Prepared Food Section.
I got some Sweet potato Kale Corn Soup
I tasted it in the car but it was very bland.
I did not like the taste at all.
I did not like to throw it away because i will be wasting money.
So, i decided to add something to it so it will taste good.

I first put olive oil and balsamic vinegar and Braggs Liquid Aminos.

It was 'yucky'.
I tried to look at what could balance the taste of the soup where i can eat it and enjoy it.
I then looked at what goes well with vinegar
I know that back in the Philippines, we put vinegar and ginger in coconut milk.

So, i added coconut cream powder and finely chopped ginger.
I also know that we put greens in coconut milk. 

I saw the collard greens on the table so i sliced 1 big leaf thinly (chiffonade way) 

I had some Kelp noodles from my raw food stash so  i put it in.

It tasted good and the warm noodles was comforting to have for dinner while watching a movie with my partner

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Note: In the next blogs i will look at my fears and desires within my food choices

The Creator and Created Part 2: This World as Me Day 6 The Wheat Plant, Nature, Me and Consequence

Interview with Animals:

June Journey To Life Blogs:
http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com/

Parts 1 -5
http://juneroca.com/food-and-nutrition-blogs/

I have seen when i looked at my first 5 blogs - that when i started questioning my starting point in my choice of food and investigate the desire i have for that 'positive energy experience' where 'i feel entertained and happy' after eating some food i came face to face with how we collectively abuse nature and food. 

What i did was i walked back and looked at what fear directed that desire, i saw the fear of me not getting this 'positive energy experience from the food', either because i read or heard someone saying,  that food will make me fat or that food contains a substance that cause cancer or can cause some form of disease.

When i looked at why i feared having an illness or disease i saw that it is based on my fear of death.

When i looked at why i fear death i saw that it is because i fear not existing

Then i looked back and saw that my fear of not existing is based from my 'unawareness of who i am' or 'will be' after death.

I looked at this fear of not existing, because this is what i saw in my self-perfection process blogs, the Journey to Life blogs:
http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com 

What i did is, instead of going within my mind and look at all the theories about life after death, where i will separate from what is here, by hanging on to my beliefs and knowledge and information separate from me, 

I looked at the word 'unawareness' in one blog that i did a while back in my journey to life blog:
 http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-lost-it-day-184-unawareness-connected.html

I saw that i connected and defined the word 'unawareness' to other words which made me see it more than or less than what it is.

For context, look at this blog:
 http://juneroca.com/words/redefining-words/

So, essentially, my 'fear of' or 'unawareness'  of who i am or 'will be' after death influenced my choice of food!

Wow! 'I did not know that or was unaware of that'

I did not realize i am 'unaware of me' as the mind character/personality or the  mind characters/personalities  i act out or activate when:

choosing the food i will eat
choosing someone i can have a relationship with as a partner or husband
choosing the work i will do
choosing the school i go to
choosing the business i will do to survive
choosing the clothes and shoes i wear

I realized this goes on and on...

So in my blogs i talk also about the mind characters i act out where i let go of my energetic relationship with the mind using self - forgiveness and  then correct my physical expression as the real character/personality breath by breath moment by moment in my practical living in this physical existence or reality.

I realized that: 

 When my choice of food is based on 'my desire to experience happiness' i am driven by the mind

When my desire to eat something is driven by my 'fear of not eating something' i am driven by the mind
 

How do i stop the mind and birth myself as life ?

Have a look at this blog:
http://earthsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-144-birthing-ourselves-as-life-as.html

The question to ask ourselves is: 

Did we create this world system, the USDA, Monsanto etc. as a consequence of our mind participation?

So, let's look at the Gordon Ramsay vs La Mian Video Competing in Making the Hand- Pulled Noodles:

When i looked at this competition i saw:

Comparison
Comparing how Gordon Ramsay's way of making hand-pulled noodles with the way La Mian made the hand - pulled noodles

Judgment
Judgment of who can make  the 'best' hand-pulled noodles in 'record time'

Jealousy

'Anxiety at anticipated possible loss of prestige' - as the 'losing chef within the competition' 

Are these points existent within me?

Am i 'comparing others to me'?

Am i 'judging others'?

Am i 'jealous of others'?

Looking closely, i can see that the mind constructs of comparison, judgment and jealousy - which is how i designed competition - is existent within me when 'i compare others to me, when i judge others or when i get jealous of others'. 

I decided to stop, write and look at the mind character that is who i believed i am

I asked myself:

Could i have really realistically created my 'without' as this world system as i participate in the mind 'within'? Commonsense dictates, it it so.

Am i creating this world system as a mirror of my 'within' - as my 'without'?

Let's look at this Quote:

'What we Found, through the Desteni Portal – is that: there is a Consequence - Meticulous, Measured, to every single Breath, every single Action, every single Thought, every single Choice, every single Emotion, every single Feeling, every single Influence, every single Ripple Effect, every single Allowance, every single Acceptance – there is not a single thing, throughout existence, that is Not Measured as to its EXACT Nature and Cause. And this Measurement has only ONE Purpose, ONE Reason: to Establish Who is Worthy of Life. And thus, Death is: Either Death or the Birth of Life. And yet, it is Also Possible to Birth Life on Earth – without the Body Dying, because the Only Real Self, the Only Real Being on Earth: is the Physical Body. The Mind as Consciousness as Energy – is just an Illusion, so Vast to the One Trapped in it, that it seems to be everything, but ALL of it, manufactured in a Quantum Moment, through One Human Physical Body, a Body so Astoundingly More, than what could ever be Imagined. '
http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-185-after-death-communications-part.html

I saw that i can either do something driven by the mind or i can change who i am 'from the mind character to the real character' and stop consequence

The who i am, i am talking about here is the real physical character , as the flesh, as the blood, as the physical/substance/body, equal to the body of the animals, the body of the plants, the body of the earth, the body of water, of nature as LIFE itself

The real birthing of Life 

Who Am I Within My Choice of Food? Day 1

'Raw Philippine Pansit'

The  Interview With Animals

http://juneroca.com/animals/5556-2/ 

Welcome to my Food Blog 

 In this blog, I am looking at 'Who am i within food?' 

I am facing the reality that my body is made from the same substance the earth is made of , the same substance food is made of.

I will use this reality in looking at who i am within food and look at the principle that 'governs' LIFE. 

The principle of LIFE states that : We Are One and Equal as All Life

I am making this my platform in looking at my relationship with food. I will look at food originating from plants, animals, air, sun and water

When talking about food, we cannot disregard the body. The body needs nutrients to survive and we get these nutrients from food.

How do we know what the body needs?

Different bodies have different genetic make-up. What is good for one may not be good for another. 

My question is, 'how do i find out what the body needs to survive optimally'? To do this, i have to communicate effectively with the body and get an accurate feedback or answer. I have to clear my communication channels.

What does this mean?

With the amount of mind chatter that i have, as the amount of thoughts, imaginations, backchats or internal conversations and reactions etc.i know i can only get a real 'communication line' with the body when i get rid of my mind chatter.

Just as in a telephone conversation with someone, when there's static or when there's a 'bad connection', we cannot hear each other clearly - this is what i can see happening when i have a lot of mind chatter - which can be my thoughts about my likes and dislikes about food, my beliefs about food - as in what i heard or seen others said about food which i accepted as my truth, without first investigating all dimensions of it, the positive and negative connections we have  with certain foods - where we do not see the food as what it is - we see the memories as 'positive or negative energy experiences 'we experienced while eating the food in the 'past'.

There are many modalities used to 'silence the mind', yet the question is what is real silence? I will look at silence in my blogs to come. 

I am the creator of my 'within' - as the mind, as my mind chatter - as thoughts, internal conversations etc.and also the creator of my 'without' as i can see that if i buy food from wholefoods, farmers market or farmers themselves i will support their business which will get them to either remain in business or go out of business - businesses which are part of this current system we are in. 

What i would like to focus on here,  is self-forgiveness - as this is me acknowledging my being the creator of my 'within' - as the mind and 'my without' as this world system, the food industry and all systems in this world -  and within this, look at equalizing with all parts of me as life - where within doing self-forgiveness i am giving me back to myself and releasing the relationship i have formed with everything - and the self-correction that follows - being my standing and changing myself within my living application for what is best for all.

This to me is standing on a real platform from which i can see clearly what is not aligned to the value that i give to myself, as who i am based on that principle of Life  - the value equal to the physical/substance that everything is made of - that exist in nature and the earth, the value equal to life itself.

So,  seeing what is not aligned to the value i give myself, i start writing/blogging and doing self-forgiveness for everything i judged based from my beliefs. I can see that i judged food a lot because i wanted to taste and eat 'good tasting food' to ensure my 'happiness'. When i see food on  the table instead of seeing the food as what it is, as in, where it came from, how it reached my table, the labor that was put in it etc.  i instead smell the food, connect it to a 'positive experience in the past and judge it according to whether or not it is tasty , as what i am doing is using food to please me and make  me 'happy and satisfied' , not looking at 'where that desire came from' or what 'directed that desire' and facing it - as what i discovered is, that my desire for happiness is directed by my fear of sadness, pain, suffering and fear of death/not existing as who i believed i am.

This  'positive energy experience'  is what i defines myself within - as the 'food is happiness' character - where i used 'food to make me happy' - not facing who i am within my 'fear of sadness, suffering, pain, sickness, death' and essentially 'fear of not existing'

In blogs to come, i will look at the different foods 'i like and don't like' and do self-forgiveness for the 'beliefs i have about food',  starting from my childhood.

I saw food as 'more than or less than' what it really is - as i have formed a 'relationship with the food' i grew up with 










- 'forgetting and being unaware' of the fact that food comes from the earth - 'unaware' that the body is made from the same substance the earth is made of - 'unaware' that the body is made of flesh and bones which was nourished by the food coming from the earth - so essentially, it is also made from the same substance all are made of.

Self-forgiveness: 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to be 'unaware' of the fact that food comes from the earth, 'unaware 'that the body is made of the same substance the earth is made of - 'unaware that the body is made of flesh and bones which was nourished by the food coming from the earth - 'unaware' that the body is made of the same substance all are made of 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to be directed by me as the mind - as what my limited awareness -  accepted and allowed for me to see is the light, that blinded me from the reality that is here - as i go within my mind and bask in the light of 'happiness' - when i eat on the table using food as entertainment - to make me 'happy' because i do not want to see the poor people without food on the table, the ones without shelter, the ones who till the soil for the food to arrive at the table in exchange for money to survive etc.- as i fear the pain, suffering and sickness that i see around me that is real - that is here - within 'separation awareness' as i separate from what is real as the physical/substance/body that the body of the earth, the water, the plant, the animal etc. are made of - when i go within my mind - to hide from what is here and justifying that by eating tasty food that makes me happy so i will continue the entertainment and as i am the creator of my 'within' and 'without' - create this current world system based on inequality that mirrors my 'within' - as it entertains people with movies, games, music,  etc. so people will not see what us really going on when the lights of happiness is turned on - not seeing and realising that when the lights of happiness are off the same suffering and pain exist.

I commit myself to when and as i see myself going within my mind  to hide from the reality of what is here - justifying that within 'unawareness' -  i stop mind participation, and stop using the light of happiness within tasty food to see the suffering that is around me  - instead i bring me back here as breath and  accept and allow me to bring food within and as myself and stand equal to the food, and see how the body responds to it - as i prepare food that will assist the body to survive -

I commit myself to assist in establishing a world that truly honors life based on equality - where humans will get all the basic necessities they need to live in dignity and animals and plants will not be slaughtered for food and profit anymore.

continued in the post to come