RECIPIE CENTRAL - JANUARY 2008 DISCOVERIES

Here I'm going to list all my favorite recipies on my healing journey, and the dates I experimented with and incorporated them into my diet. Enjoy! And let me know what ones you liked!

Raw Recipies January 2008

Green Smoothie-of-the-Month: KALE-STRAWBERRY-BANANA

5-7 leaves of kale
2 cups, or 12 strawberries ( I use Frozsun brand, Wal-Mart)
2 bananas
1 avocado (but good without the avocado too)
2+ cups of water

Blend in a Vita-Mix blender.

Other variations are to add apple juice (can also add whole apples, but it gives it too much of a thick applesauce-y texture for my taste most of the time!) The best part of this recipie is that my 9-month old son LOVES it!

Joseph's (9 mo. old) Smoothie-of-the-Month:

4-5 cups, or 25 Strawberries
2 Avocados
1 Banana

Blend in a Vita-Mix blender.

He likes the above kale-strawberry-banana one above, but will eat this smoothie any time of the day. Another thing I should mention - he prefers it spooned rather than in a cup or bottle because it clogs so often, even with enlarging the holes. Other variations are adding applesauce or pears.

Transitional Recipies January 2008

Quinoa.

I had a hard time eating quinoa - I loved it's texture but it was so DRY! I wanted something that would be filling and moist. I had one of those "aha" moments and made it into salad!

To cook quinoa it takes about 3x as much water as grain, so I usually eye-it in a pot and then turn it on until it boils and then reduce heat, cover, and simmer about 15 min.

Adventures in Quinoa!

Quinoa
Half a cucumber
One whole tomato
Stir all together - YUM!

Quinoa
Half a cucumber
Salsa
(Vegans-don't-kill-me!) A bit of ground beef/turkey and the fat out of one pound of it that we had fried.

The story behind this is the salsa turned out to be "HOT" accidentally - no one knows where the stuff came from! (We always buy mild!) I can't stand eating hot stuff and I was SO mad I wasted the last cucumber and the last quinoa!!! So I poured some fat into the mix to cut the spice.
Yes, at this point beef is still a daily part of my diet. My 1 priorities, being still pre-diabetic, are eliminating breads, cereals, crackers, sugar in all it's refined forms, cooked whole grains (except the alkalizing ones like quinoa), and dairy. I don't do well with fish or any other supposedly "healthier" meats. Maybe someday I will be vegan but at this point that's not my goal. My goal is to greatly increase the ammount of vegetables, and some fruits into my diet, and cut out the stuff that personally gives me obnoxious health problems.