We love to play with our food!
Glorious Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson feisty, independent-thinking, and adventurous woman….. She took up with a very avant garde nutritionist who really had a hate on for sugar… one of her husbands actually wrote a book called Sugar Blues…
Gloria In Ruins
Like her contemporary Garbo, these hollywood dames were all about using nutrition to keep their looks … and by extension, their health!
So I really have a hard time believing that she may actually be enjoying a martini and cigarette here!
“I feed my babies vegetables every Sunday”
I pray for this lady and her family right now. I hope that one day soon something will happen to bring them greater awareness of the alchemical, sacred and miraculous nature of eating pure and simple food….God Bless Them!
I would love to whip them up a delicious and nourishing Kitchari – a fantastic bean stew that is not only delicious and nourishing… but EASY, FAST, and CHEAP!!!
Magnificent Kitchari
So many recipes you can find online… Here is a great foundation to work from..
Ingredients
2 TBS ghee (this is just a fancy word for clarified butter)
1 cup brown basmati rice
1 cup moong dahl or mung beans
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 inch of sliced ginger
2 tsp shredded coconut
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp turmeric
½ tsp cumin seeds
ground ¼ tsp cardamon seeds
¼ tsp ground fenugreek
¼ tsp ground black pepper
½ tsp sea salt
3 bay leaves
Optionals: dark greens, carrots, zucchini, sweet potato, asparagus
Directions
1. Soak beans overnight and wash both rice and beans well under cold running water. Set aside.
2. Melt ghee in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
3. Add all spices as well as salt to melted ghee. Stir for about 1 minute.
4. Add rice and beans, stirring for about 30 seconds so that they get coated with the ghee-spice mixture.
5. Add water and turn heat up to high, mixing all the ingredients together - Kitchari means mixture!
6. After the water has reached a boil, reduce to a slow simmer .
7. Cook for 30-35 minutes, stirring one or two times during the cooking process.
I like that it is so incredibly flexible … you can zing it up with more ginger, or ground it with a few pieces of kale or spinach… a different dish every time you make it! But so beautiful on the digestive system too! Of course the bean-rice combo is a perfect protein and mung beans are great for detoxing. Because I am not big on curry flavours at this time, I don’t add cumin at all.
Delicious, nutritious, easy, fast, and cheap…. what more could you possibly want!
Ron English - Kids On Coke
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler (yes, the one who took on tobacco companies) has a new book out documenting the food industry’s success at conditioning us to overeat… what he calls “conditioned hyper-eating”.
“Kessler deconstructs the endless cycle of craving and consumption that the industry has created, and breaks down how our minds and bodies join in the conspiracy to make it all work. He concludes by offering us a common sense prescription for change, both in our selves and in our culture.”
I get the feeling that this prescription will be something along the lines of … “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants”
Michael Pollan
Irving Penn
Great ideas from Dr. Phil’s fitness buddy Robert Reames on HuffoPo
…Beans and brown rice. Add in a frozen or fresh vegetable. Use your own fresh herbs spices and homemade sauces. Nutritionally and financially this is the best meal out there. If there was one food left on earth….and it had to be the perfect food…it would be beans. Any kind…black, pinto, red, white….all work well. And brown rice is loaded with B vitamins and is a good source of fiber.
We have successfully migrated off PC and onto…
Hallelujah!
Book of Daniel
Vegetables and pulses indeed!!
Reubens… exquisite!
Interesting discussion about the interpretation of “pulses”
