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Showing posts with label nuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuts. Show all posts

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

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.

Longevity Nuts

Fresh whole walnuts drizzled with honey then coated with black sesame seeds and baked.  Use enough honey to get the walnuts black with sesame seeds but realize a little goes a long way in the melt, use a low temp for the walnuts and do not scorch them.

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