Eating Alone In Half The Time

The first part is normal me. The second part (after the title “I am a vegetarian”) is after I discovered the secret of alkaline/acidic and it’s importance for health. And the story of a guy who cured himself of cancer.

Rice Balls
The rice is leftovers from “Combo Protein Rice with Sweet Potato Roll” below. Add enough flour to the rice so that you can take a spoonful and roll it in your hands to form a ball which sticks together. If your hands are a little wet, it helps. Also, your hands should be clean since you are not cooking this, only browning the flour on the outside which is just enough to re-warm the rice inside. Roll in flour and fry in a pan with olive oil. Must stay on top of this one, constantly turning since they brown very quickly. Served with chutney or other favorite sauce. The salad in this case is just salad.

 Hummus Sauce Spaghetti
High protein sauce with plenty of health engendering spices. Make the sauce first, and taste it. If it doesn’t suit your taste, then you  don’t have a lot of spaghetti sitting around, and you can decide to cook something different. Sauce: half a cup of milk, three heaping tbsp hummus, coriander, basil, thyme, cayenne pepper,  sesame seeds, butter, heaping tsp brewer’s yeast,  dash of red wine, salt, pepper. Dump it all in the sauce pan and bring to a boil. Do not cook it. There is nothing to cook. Taste it. Mine was delicious. Almost sat down and ate it without waiting for the spaghetti. Cook the spaghetti and sieve it (one of my two utensils, the other being the pan of course, aside from my fork, cutting knife and spoon), put back into the pan and add a chuck of butter, or dash of olive oil, salt to taste, and mix. Pour over spaghetti. Paprika to highlight the gray.

Fake Raison Fruit Salad
Got the raisins from three slices of the special French Style Bread. So they are just for show, but I couldn’t have a fruit salad without them.

The rest is:
1/2 diced apple
1/2 cubed orange
1/2 sliced banana
8 cut roasted almonds
Mayonnaise
1 tsp honey
Cutting almonds is labor intensive. I used a knife, but a garlic press might have done the job better. And the cinnamon on top is more than decoration. Cinnamon is a great anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-clotting spice which also appears to enhance cognitive processing. You might try eating cinnamon toast before an exam.

Fried Sweet Potato, Soy Dogs and Salad.
I have been a vegetarian for 29 years but I can still taste the difference between the real thing and the soy. But these dogs could be either. Excellent. Depends on the manufacturer. Dinner with hotdogs? Not the height of fashion but with the right cook (not me) any dish can be high end. It depends on the method of preparation, the herbs and spices, the condiments and, of course, the wine. This is an anti-flu plate. It is high on A and C. The E was not included here but I was noshing on olives and almonds during the day. I still must buy the sunflower seeds. The sweet potato was shaved with the carrot peeler and fried in olive oil, with a small amount of brown sugar and cinnamon on top once on the plate. The salad combined 1/2 apple, lettuce, onion, tomatoes, carrot peels with oregano, basil, turmeric, thyme (za’atar), cayenne pepper, salt, pepper and mayonnaise. And 2 oz. of great wine (in a cup [1/4 cup]). Must buy myself a wine glass. Makes all the difference in atmosphere, even when I’m sitting at my compter. The small things really do count. They set the tone of life, and while the meaning is totally dependent on the observer, unique moments consciously created and appreciated do make a difference.

 The ultimate friedwich.
Didn’t want to cook. Just two slices of bread with something inside I told myself. The thought formed of smashed soy hotdog on a piece of bread, so I fried up one hotdog (two if you’re really hungry). Then a thin slice of onion came to mind, which I doubled and it ended up in the pan with the hotdog. Then cheese had to be added but “baking” the sandwich in the frying pan would not melt it. So, I decided to build the wich on the outside. Two pieces of French style bread with raisins laid out and covered with the now smashed hotdog and fried onions. Next, butter in the pan and a slice of yellow cheese placed in and almost immediately taken out and laid on top of the build. Sliced cherry tomatoes, oregano, basil, coriander, ground cayenne pepper, salt, and another heated up cheese slice topped with the second slice of bread and the works fried in butter cayenne pepper. Turning takes two hands. Covered until “done”. On the side, never much liked olives until I bought the deli style olives you see. Great evening sack.

Spaghetti and spinach with mushroom/soydog sauce
The spaghetti and spinach with onion is a no brainer. But the sauce is something else:
1 packet instant mushroom soup
tbsp butter
tsp olive oil
7 crushed pecans
1 soydog (cooked with the spaghetti) and cut into small pieces
1 tsp coriander
1 tsp basil
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp powdered garlic
1 tsp powered cayenne pepper (put on top after the shoot)
salt to taste
sufficient water and milk to keep it flowing as you cook the sauce
Be sure to use low flame for this as you are combining it  to avoid clumping before you can add more milk or water.

Soydogs In Designer Rolls with Pea Salad
This is one tortilla to fit. Heated up the tortilla on both sides just so it could be rolled. Fried soydogs. Cut the tortilla, using the dogs to measure, and rolled. Fried in butter or olive oil. These can be turned only  one way or it unravels. The pea salad is fried peas and onion cooled, with 1 tsp each basil, thyme, oregano, garlic powder, coriander, brewers yeast(optional but very good for all the B vitamins). Salt and pepper to taste with cayenne pepper on top. Hummus with olive oil, olives on the side.

I’m a vegetarian BUT THOSE OF YOU WHO EAT MEAT should also read this, and the story of the guy who cured his own cancer. 

And I thought I was doing rather well on the alkaline-acidic balance of the body which should be about 75% alkaline to really be in excellent health. Anything below 70% is a recipe for trouble either now or in the future because cancer and other diseases grow best in an acidic environment. In fact most disease cannot exist in a highly alkaline environment. I saw this  chart which listed most of the alkaline and acidic foods, and I was shocked. There I was with most of the foods I eat on the acidic side of the chart. True, I am vegetarian, with meats being highly acidic, but I was also eating a lot of breads, potatoes, rice, sugar, beans, cheese, pasta, and coffee!. It’s not that you shouldn’t eat these things, but they should not out weight the alkaline foods. Here is an easy to read/use alkaline-acid chart called The Alkaline  Chart . Another site containing a number of different alkaline/acidic lists.  While there appears to be some disagreement between them on certain items, there is overall agreement. Apparently, some foods which are not acidic cause the body to become more acidic when ingested and therefore are considered to be on the acidic side.

And then I ran across the story of a guy who was diagnosed with Class IV aggressive prostate cancer that had spread to the bones. He, along with the medical community, thought that he was a goner. But he found this diet on the net and decided to set a goal of becoming 85% alkaline. Apparently he was heavily acidic which had put him where he was. For two weeks, he built up to taking 2-3 tsp of bicarbonate of soda together with 2-3 tsp of molasses along with a better diet. The high doses of baking soda and molasses made him feel sick at times, but when he went for the scheduled check, he had nothing – no cancer at all. It simply could not survive in such an alkaline environment. With the urging of friends, he finally put his story on the net at  My Dance With Cancer. His story is also written about on Naturalnews.com  Bicarbonate of Soda Used to Cure Stage Four Prostate Cancer

If you are wondering why there is so much death from cancer if it so easy to resolve, then read this  and you will know.

Ph STRIPS.   If you want to test your ph level, ph strips are available in drug stores, health food stores, etc. although I understand that some individuals cannot find them at the local pharmacy, so here is one place where it is available at Amazon.com and a lot of positive reviews of their product.  Also, here is a page which gives a very good description of how to do the tests, depending on the type you get.  And  a review of different brands of ph strips.

Below is the high alkaline dish which is sure to keep you in the black instead of the red body-wise. I decided that I was fooling around with my body by eating so many foods which increase the negative ph level and open the body up to a whole host of diseases, not the least of which is cancer. So this is the first step on the road to greater avoidance of all those things which tend to end life high on the hog, as it were, and fast. Of course, I can wait and turn to this at the last moment, but that is somewhat of a gamble which even the high rollers would not take if they really know what they are betting against. 

This is all cooked only slightly to reduce the number of micro-organisms which might otherwise prove a problem, but not enough to throw away much of the minerals and vitamins. I’m not ready for the raw yet. Chunked cauliflower, crimini mushrooms (button or champignon), red bell pepper, walnuts, and avocado, with turmeric. Fried in olive oil. Tried to dice the avocado in the skin, which is fine if you scoop it loose first with a spoon. But not the other way around (dice and then scoop). Yes, I did that, and it doesn’t work. And by the way, no salt, no pepper, no cheese, no creamy dairy sauces, no refined flour, no sugar, no peanuts, no butter – all things which are either acidic or whose processing is high on the moss, mildew, yeast, lichen, fungus (that’s the word) index. It helps to go through all of the synonyms and associated words until the right one is found. And yes, the mushroom is a fungus but not the kind which poses a problem for the body. In fact, this dish is high on: Vitamin C, antioxidants, phytonutrients which inhibit cancers, enzymes which trigger the release of bodily enzymes or help in the  detoxification of carcinogens, and other phytochemicals which reduce cell division and stimulates the demise of tumor cells, all of which are found in cauliflower and other cruciferous vegetables – broccoli, kale, collard greens, cabbage, brussels sprouts, turnips, mustard seeds, radishes among others. Mushrooms: high in selenium, Bs, copper and phytonutrients which prevent the buildup of excessive estrogen which can promote certain cancers. I’ll leave the rest to your own searching unless you know already. Do I feel any better after this meal? No, except for feeling a little bit more virtuous, which is really not a bad feeling once you recognize that’s what it is. These things take time – at least a full day or two (the effects of, not the recognition) :-)

Breakfast to help your body against cancer and all sorts of other problems. This is a border line alkaline-acidic dish which avoids many of the more acidic foods normally eaten for breakfast. It works well with other more alkaline dishes throughout the day.
2 eggs very low acidic
raisins medium alkaline
basil  alkaline
cayenne pepper  alkaline
kaskaval (sheep) cheese very low acidic
mushrooms (crimini) low alkaline
no refined salt, no pepper, no high process cheese, no straight soy products (soydogs which I thought of cutting up and putting on top), no coffee (reserving my one cup a day for the coffee shop). Now, you may say, life without coffee is just not living. When I was drinking 12-15 cups a day, I would have agreed with you and even have been ready to demonstrate in the city square for it, but it takes a lot of highly alkaline foods to act as a counterbalance. So now, out of a sense of self survival (more important than coffee – but that’s an individual decision), I have my cup of poison (coffee, refined sugar, cow’s milk) once a day. Giving it up entirely would take a total universe of change. And the walnuts? Highly acidic, but they give the omega-3 needed to solve the deep vein thrombosis problem from sitting too long at my computer. Eat them now with raisins and a few almonds which evens out the score, and is a great combination.

Don’t Know What To Call This – so that’s its name.
Country style rye bread (slightly acid to neutral full rye flour, malt extract, oat fiber, gluten), with alkaline cucumber slices, fried button mushrooms on mashed avocado. Sea salt and cayenne pepper as condiments. Very high alkaline dish. I ate it with a salad but you’ve seen enough of those, with 1/8th cup red wine for all of its health qualities, and only one teaspoon of fat-and-additives-mayonnaise on the salad, along with 3 cherry tomatoes. This 70+/30 ratio of eating with alkaline high is not half bad. My body thinks it’s great. Now, to just get my mind in sync.