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Showing posts with label breakfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breakfast. Show all posts

Sunday, December 28, 2014


Raspberries and lavender goat cheese.  

That is all.  It tastes like cake.  It's amazing.
It's a local goat cheese, even better. 







Sunday, November 23, 2014

A Yummy snack dessert dressing or boost:
  • Banana 
  • Coconut milk (whole, no gums, no cans)
  • Goat milk keifer
  • Crushed almonds
  • Maple syrup 
  • Squeeze of lemon 
  • Fresh grated ginger 

Blend as desired.  Add what makes sense.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Breakfast to keep things moving

Hemp seeds, coconut milk (original type from a can, Natural Forrest brand for less BPA), kiwi.

Hemp seeds are called Huo Ma Ren in Chinese, they are used for elderly constipation and contain plenty of beneficial fats.


Chia seeds

You can soak them over night or just add hot warm or cool water.  If you don't soak them make sure you take in enough liquid because they will soak it up at some point.

Try adding coconut milk and berries or kiwi and banana or whatever other delectable treat you like.  You can add other seeds or nuts too!  

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Grains

Amaranth, Millet and quinoa all make excellent breakfasts especially mixed with coconut milk, berries or fruit and nuts.  Try cranberries too, they astringe your jing (in Chinese medicine this means that they help keep your vital life essence in).

Soak the grain over night (especially the amaranth) then cook like rice.  Amaranth is my favorite, it comes out with a unique almost gelatinous consistency that is surprisingly smooth and yummy.

Squash

Autumn and winter are the time to be eating squash, delicata, acorn, spaghetti and some of those big scary ugly ones that taste so great.  Squash is very simple to prepare and can be quite good on it's own or with a little ghee or coconut oil.  Buttercup squash is my favorite !  Just cut the squash in half and bake it until it's mushy.  I don't know what temperature but all the one's I have picked worked out just fine :D


Eat the mush for breakfast (squish it with your fork), or as a side for lunch or dinner. 


Chop it into chunks for a stir fry with coconut milk, curry, turmeric, green beans, beets (baked then chopped into chunks) and add to rice.  

Eggs and Veggies

Eggs (get local fresh eggs preferably from chickens fed a high omega 3 diet).
Scramble with veggies:  try a few of the following: green onions, kale, spinach, collard greens, bok choy, chard, garlic, thyme, sage, grated or chopped zucchini, squash, broccoli, onion (don't add first, add later don't over cook).

Simple smoothie

First I have to say don't take everything at once.  Mixing all your nutrients into one smoothie is not only gross but may block absorption of some nutrients and decrease the action of others as they compete and interact and simply get in each others way.  It is also confusing to your body.  Your pancreas has to come up with enzymes, your vast immune and nutrient response system in your gut has to respond to each and every thing it sees, and it goes on and on from there as the nutrients send a mass of mixed messages to the brian in your gut, and the brain in your head, and throughout your body.  Simple is simply more effective.

So here's my favorite smoothie (modify fruit as desired)
I warm up my frozen BERRIES (by setting them in the fridge for the night or by slightly warming them in the toaster oven) so my body does not have to waste energy heating them up (genTly don't destroy the nutrients).  Fresh is great too but not always accessible and sometimes it's better to get a local frozen fruit than one that got shipped across the world with fumes in dark crates.

Then I add NUTS and or SEEDS (walnuts or cashews or almonds that I soaked overnight, or hemp seeds, or sunflower seeds, or flax seeds, or whatever).

COCONUT MILK and water (or better yet coconut water with coconut milk).

A BANANA if I want it sweet.

Sometimes spirulina, chlorella or other algae and blend to desired consistency (no I can not taste the green - not at all in fact).

Healthy Breakfast / Dessert

Blueberries, flax, chia, sunflower and hemp seeds with coconut milk

Mixed berries or pears (sometimes cooked, fired in ghee or baked in the toaster oven) with coconut milk, walnuts, macadamia, almonds or whatever you like.

Mango, seeds, and coconut milk