AKA; the Good Program dietary style of eating

I have learnt this and many variations.
I have mildly studied the anti inflamatory and macrobiotic as well.

So this is my variance to all of the degrees.

Including this chart; and it's link;
http://www.puristat.com/foodcombiningchart_2.aspx
Digestive Highway = Eat your meals starting with the easiest to digest first followed by the more complex to avoid a "food traffic jam".


First = Water or Fruit Juice
Second = Soups that are not cream based
Third = Green leafy non-starchy vegetables
Fourth = Starches and starchy vegetables
Fifth = Proteins

Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Dr. Weil's link with food pyramid;
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02012/anti-inflammatory-diet

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02995/Dr-Weil-Anti-Inflammatory-Food-Pyramid.html

MDJunction,
Jessica K Black, N.D.;
http://www.mdjunction.com/erythroderma/articles/anti-inflammatory-diet--recipe-book

http://www.hunterhouse.com/shopexd.asp?id=651

http://www.theantiagingartist.com/tag/jessica-k-black/
Excerpt of a yummy looking recipe;
Quinoa Vegetable Salad (this can be for lunch or dinner)

2 cups leftover cooked boneless, skinless chicken, cubed

1 cup cooked quinoa or 1/3 cup dried quinoa
1 medium apple, peeled and chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 medium carrot, shredded
¼ cup walnuts
1/3-cup raisins
1 ½ tablespoons organic mayonnaise (w/ no preservatives or hydrogenated oils)
4 large lettuce leaves (for serving)
If dried, cook quinoa according to directions
Toss all ingredients together, and serve chilled over lettuce leaves.
Serves 4.
(Note; there is nutritional information in the site, link above)

More linkies of interest;
http://www.alaskaacupuncture.com/pdf/aca_ai_diet.pdf
Excerpt of food list example;
Some examples of great vegetables TO EAT:
Asparagus, Bean Sprouts, Beat Greens, Broccoli, Red&Green Cabbage, Mustard Greens, Parsley, Radish, Spinach, Cauliflower, Celery, Swiss Chard, Cucumber, Lettuce(red, green, Watercress, String Beans, romaine), Beets, Bok Choy, Brussel Sprouts, Chives, Collards, Eggplant, Kale, Leeks, Kohlrabi, Onions, Red Pepper, Pumpkin, Rutabagas, Turnip, Zucchini, Artichoke, Parsnip, Green Peas, Squash, Carrots, Yam (in small Amounts)

Divine Nourishment

All I can say is, Aloha!
Openminded and honoring the Divine!
The link is attached to the title which goes to the book site.
It will take you to Amazon, if you like, where you can read
MANY MANY pages of this magnificiant document of one woman's journey!
She is amazing!
 Thank you for visiting~~~

Winter Wonderland

I have found myself singing Christmas Carols a time or two of late. We've had the most beautiful weather I have ever seen. With it's stories of close calls and close quarters. All in all it was a wonderful time to see the world slow their perspective pace down and just enjoy the ride.
Here are a couple of my photo memories.
Peace!

Full ON! Douglass Fir

Before the storm. Bare Honey Suckle, same doug fir tree in background from the above photoed tree.

The first pass, honey sucke's cute! Still see the doug?

Full ON now our honey suckle is fabulously ART! and no doug;/

The most beautiful snow drop in this area. We walked in it that night! It was so peaceful and the snow was so soft and cushioned beneath our feet! Talk about your zen moment! WoW, is all I can say, it's tacit, ya know

We ate snow icees for a couple of days! Most delightful treat!

Snow Treat

1 cup of fresh white snow

Add any preferred beverage or sweetener

Suggestions; honey, maple syrup, brown sugar and cinnamon, tea, mashed fruit, berries, yogurt, soda

Oh yeah, and coffee,

or one of my new found yummies, blackberry root tea. Sounds weird, but it's

~~~~YU-UM-MY!!!~~~

ENJOY!

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Phaselous vulgaris; aka black bean

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-black-beans.htm

Boiling Leeks from Lovetoknow.com

http://recipes.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Boiling_Of_Leeks_Recipe

Looking for Leek Recipes; my search findings for tonight

Reading Laural's Kitchen, by Laruel Robertson looking for Leek info, she said, "...Leeks are sweet and mild and green in their flavor, so they often don't play a supporting role but star in dishes like Leek Soup, patty, or pita."

Looked around a bit and wasn't satisfied with what I found for now, but will want to try later. I just wanted a starring lead to my leeks. So, I will just go back to my kitchen and make something up. My gut has won as well. She has a mind of her own and is saying leek soup should simply be boiled leeks, as usual, and the only way I have really had them.
I will make a pita dip and try a patty I am going to create for tomorrow.

Here are a couple of the sites I found when I wasn't looking about.
For referencing later.

:D


A Blog A Blogspot Blog!
http://livinginthekitchenwithpuppies.blogspot.com/2010/07/fool-mudamas-and-fresh-pita-from-tables.html




A little Health Talk;
McKinley U of I
http://www.mckinley.illinois.edu/handouts/pdfs/vegetarian_eating.pdf

And let me not forget! George's Grist Mill Pancakes! From Cedar Creek Grist Mill

With Great Gratitude!
Thank you for sharing in your bounty Cedar Creek Grist Mill! Your efforts are much needed and greatly appreciated!

1000Thanks~~~:D

Alli

Cedar Creek Grist Mill; making their own flour, powered by Mother Nature Herself, and an annual apple pressing too!!! Woot Woo!

One of my friends, which is a huge influence on me, saw this grist mill on the news. It's been on my list for so many years that it got buried in there somehow. Their reminder, which was so ironic, got me here. I am going to be a member and will be visiting it asap.
Here's to all of your adventures.
Alli McD

http://www.cedarcreekgristmill.com/

Food, FDA, regulation and the heart of healthy foods

Here's what Yahoo has to say
http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/ap/us_congress_food_safety

I'd take this with a gain of salt. Our food safety is ultimately in our own hands. Education on many aspects is probably the most important thing to consider. There are so many sides to consider. Once food is out of the producers hands many things happen to it that is out of control of the maker/manufacturer.
Many consumers eat in such a way that is not conducive to genuine health to start. Education on healthy practices is great, if it is actual education. I.e. exposer the ideas outside of reading about it and having the whole of the students life involved. The secular education/family connections are weak at best save for the very few who can bridge that ever growing gap. I have also learned lately that what is 'said' is very important. So I hesitate to say much in a negative way.
I would just like to see a community that can bring food and the education of it broadened. Many kids haven't had a garden or forest experience that would show them any different. And many have more of the grocery/restaurant experience to contend with.
Just thinking.

Cold Cucumber Soup

One Cucumber pealed (unless you like the peal)
1/4 cup yogurt or coddled milk (in the photo is coddled milk; lemon and milk mixed)
1 tablespoon honey
mint to garnish

serves one



I make my coddled milk, pick the cuc, them go back to the kitchen to prepared the rest.

Grate cucumber, Dribble honey on grated cuc, add yogurt/coddle milk, garnish with mint. Enjoy!

I had fried zucchini blossoms and used the left over batter to make fried mozzarella cheese. A most enjoyable treat.








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Fried Zucchini Squash Blossoms

1/2 Cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin (optional)
1 egg
1/2 cup milk

I don't use ground cummin
Mix, dip blossoms in mix, fry and enjoy...
For more details, please email me, or look up Taste of Home.







I have had this recipe since before computers (at least in my life).
Enjoy







P. S. These were gone before I was done with this article.
Let me know if you've tried them.
I know some high end restaurants serve these delightful treats, but they are smaller in size, from what I could tell. This is because the blossom shrinks when you save them in the fridge while waiting for enough to make. So I am sure that it's the same sort of thing if you are storing them to ship them or get them from some sort of restaurant market. Fridge shrinkage, but still quite worth the effort.

Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles

I wanted to use one of the book's insights as a Saturday Morning Post, but the whole book is so interesting, I couldn't pick just one this morning and am reading the whole 120 pages again in full with it's Inconclusion, it's moving.
This book is a conservative look at conservative ideals and remedies that are reused, non-toxic, and such. Some is for 'wow' effect and historic, most is practical and comical techniques we all can adopt. Ellen Sandbeck shows environmentally safe and developing ways to help our world get off the poisons our culture uses. She believes humor is a key, as well as, wit. She explains about "garden helpers, making toad homes (simply turn over a flower pot and sink it a little)," natural pest control, and safer marketed cleaners. I personally recommend not buying any of that stuff, and learn to boil water, make our own soaps and cleaners and the like. It is a lot of work to be environmentally friendly, but commerce counts on us thinking that you know!
Ellen believes that "Laughter is the best medicine, and so are Dandelions."
AND THAT
"We need a new attitude if we are to excel in the "human versus pests" game; we need to recover our sense of humor and realize that a worm in an apple is not life=threatening, and that nobody ever died of having dandelions in a lawn. We need all the laughs we can get in our dealings with pests, or we will be deadly serious all the way to the cemetery."
She talks of DDT, and exorcism but not in the same sentence. Made you look. Anyway, it's a great addition to your library's garden section; at least it is for my library. Wouldn't exorcise it for the world. Always good to have a tickle and a nickel where pest control, and the toxic commercial remedies out there, are concerned. So, it's time to go look at the dirt for signs of life. I can't wait for the lights to come on. Just joking, open, open, open~~~

©Allisonians

Benne Seed Cookies~~~~Guess they're good, they're fantastic!

Although, in the photo, Ginger Snaps on the top left, are my absolute favorite and on the goodie menu for this week, Benne Seed Cookies are heaven on earth, the lower cookie in the photo is another family favorite, The Oatmeal. YUMMY THREE~~~



Benne Seed Cookies
1 C Benne Seed
1 ½ C packed Brown Sugar
1 C flour
¼ teaspoon Baking Powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ C butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
375 degree oven
Toast seeds for 10 to 12 minutes.
Mix all ingredients. Drop dough by ½ teaspoon 1 ½ inches apart. Bake until brown, 4 to 6 minutes. Cool 30 seconds before removing from the baking sheet.
They are so good!
Old Betty Crocker out did their self here!

©Allisonians

Fish Soup~~ Yum!!!

Fish soup -- Bisque
1 Cup cooked String Beans, use own juice
1 large onion, chopped
2 stalks celery and leaves, diced fine
1 green or red pepper, diced fine
2 Cups fresh or canned shrimp, crab, lobster (I am using Alaskan Cod, I don't eat shell fish)
1 bay leaf, crushed
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon crushed anise or dill seed (I use dill 'cause I have it) &
Grated Zucchini, enough of make soup thick (I use one small one)

Cook all ingredients until well done. Add seafood and boil for two to three minutes, of just until seafood is heated. This soup should be think as a bisque. If not as think as you desire, just grate more zucchini very fine and pour into soup before adding fish.
This is a Protein Flesh soup. Sorry… no bread or tomato. However, leave out seafood and you may have bread or steamed rice.
From Proper Food Combining COOKBOOK by Lee DuBelle

Eat More, but eat well~~~Thanks Mike

Yum! Soup! Always in the Soup
3 tomatoes, one zucchini, 1/4 onion, one alvacado, one clove garlic, 2 tablespoons honey~VERY YUMMY



NaturalNews) Can you really heal yourself by eating more food? It seems counterintuitive, but in this article -- part eleven of our 15-day self-healing series -- I'm going to share with you how eating more food can actually be a powerful tool in accelerating your body's own natural healing potential.

But there's a catch, of course: It's not about eating more junk food, processed food or factory-made food. Eating more of that stuff would only promote more disease of course. It's about eating more of some specific foods and superfoods I'm going to share with you in detail right here.

The whole point of this "heal yourself by eating MORE" approach is to chill out and get away from the "avoid everything" trap that becomes a psychological obstacle for a lot of people who are trying to improve their health. The demands to avoid everything can seem intimidating and repetitive: Avoid cheese, avoid sugar, avoid diet sodas, avoid processed meat, avoid MSG, etc. For many people, the list of things to avoid becomes so large and confusing that they just give up trying to be healthier.

So I've advocated a totally different approach that's focused on eating more of the right kinds of things and worrying less about all the other stuff. You might call it a more balanced, relaxed approach to healthful living for a more mainstream audience.

But how does it work? How does eating MORE food actually help heal your body?

How eating more promotes real healing

Here's how: There's a physical limit of how much stuff you can eat in one day. So by adding certain healthy foods and aiming to achieve the goal of eating MORE of those foods, you will automatically end up dropping something else out of your diet without really trying.

For example, one of the action strategies here is to aim to eat three whole fruits per day; one before each meal. So each day, I want you to consume a total of three whole fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, mangos, large plums, etc. But here's the key in all this: You must eat one whole fruit BEFORE each meal.

While you're following this strategy, I don't want you to worry about what to avoid. Eat whatever it is you normally eat, but add three whole fruits per day. (Not dried fruits. They must be fresh, whole fruits of a significant size.)


Tick the title to redirect to the site for the rest of the story.

For one of my favorite reciepts, search in my search bar;
Always in the Soup, by Dick Greggory

The Farmgirl Movement~~~The need to know where your food comes from people

Mary Jane's Outpost~~Tick the title to redirect to Amazon~this book is one you can read a page or two on. I love those kinds.

MaryJaneFarms~PO Box 8691~Moscow, Idaho836843
(888)750-6004 toll free~iris@maryjanesfarm.org
$20 membership fee. FYI; She's on book tour and such, so no B&B this summer.
I was thinking that'd be great, and so would starting a chapter or such here in the PNW. Just thinking~~~

My personal favorite 'Mary Janes Outpost' excerpt;

..You pull up in front of the town’s general store, grab your hat off the seat, and step out and into…your next fantasy.
“Got any night crawlers?” you ask the young gal who’s already seriously wondering what you’re about. Everything else you already have in tow behind you-the beauty of a trailer (or a pickup truck with a camper or shell). Your stuff is always packed and ready to go.
Now you’ve just planted another seed, this time in someone else-the young gal who checked you out and spied your rig out front. Here’s what she saw:
Either a woman completely unafraid of being alone or doing her darndest to contront head-on her “alone-out-there” fear. She sensed your strength. She envied your spirit. Your gumption. She asked, “Where you from?” She wanted to know more….
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Meet Mary Jane; article from Mountain Rose Herbs

If you have not yet visited Mary Jane's Farm, let today be the day!
Mary Jane Butters pioneered the Farmgirl movement, which focuses on organic farming with a do-it-yourself attitude. Articles in her magazine, as well as the beautiful videos on her website, will inspire you to harvest green garlic scapes, sew a garden apron, or bake fresh biscuits from your own home milled flour.
Mountain Rose Herbs has been working with Mary Jane for over a year now and we continue to draw inspiration from her story and her efforts to spread the message that choosing organics will lead to a healthy future for all of us.

Check out her website. The title redirects to amazon. This link goes to her own website. Just cut and paste, if need be...
http://www.maryjanesfarm.com/
here is her video bio
http://www.maryjanesfarm.com/video-library.asp

1000 Thanks to Gypsy Trader

Another of my favorite Blogs, I mention here for their guidance, insights, and amazing articles.
1000 Thanks!.

Please tick the title to be redireted to their blog.
Their post today has an amazing article with one of my favorite salads. It is made by an amazing little lady on GT's blog video there. The little lady, Clara, on this video garners from her depression experiences with much ambition, and a beautiful soulful manner to inform of her unusual boundy and outlook in such times.

Thank you again for all of your wisdom and such.

Cheer's to Mother Nature's boundy and the simple pleasure found there!

Caio!

clabbered milk

Ehow showed me how to make butter milk, if I ever was in the milk business....No dairy here, but it is a great reference tool.

Cheese, cheese~ the wonderful~~ food

With all of this weather, it's no wonder we need an outlet.
Cheese Page.........




http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/CHEESE.HTML