Really worth seeing photos with great music. But first the dish. 

Whatever Comes To Hand
This dish is whatever came to hand in a kitchen which was rapidly running out of everything. And this is what was left, except for the lettuce which I was just not in the mood to prepare, much less eat. So starting with the quinoa, it was cooking with some shreds of fennel which I had placed in a plastic box kept right in front of me where I won’t forget. Also put in the other half of the zucchini squash from yesterday which was also in the box.

Then, I was looking in the bags (I keep what I bring from the market on the floor until they are empty. Even then they sometimes stay there for a while until I simply can’t get to the ones which still have something in them. I opened one bag and there at the bottom was a lone beet. OK. Sliced it without peeling and added. Then I put in the spices thyme, oregano, salt, black pepper, turmeric, salt, plus about 2 tsp of coconut oil and let it cook until the quinoa was done. How did I know? When I didn’t have to chew it to get the sample down. Excellent. Beets are one thing which are difficult to work with and this way is definitely a great way to go.
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NOW THE GREAT PHOTOS AND MUSIC –  go to ‘Beautiful Swans‘  and just click on photo of swan
See my comments below.

The other day I was watching a loon running on the surface of the river to get up speed to fly. It was beautiful to see. Where did the thought of being able to move through the air come into play in the theory of evolution? I’m not saying that the theory doesn’t have a lot of validity and rationale behind it, but there is a point. And this flying business is beyond that point. Man has tried to do it, according to accounts from ancient times, and has never even come close, until he finally mastered it using mechanical means, and that only after hundreds of thousands of years.

I haven’t seen a feather attached to a human or a membrane which would enable him to soar once he jumped off the cliff, leaving few progeny to benefit from the attempt. Flight is simply the most incredulous capacity to possess, and there must have been a blueprint, if you will, behind such an astounding ability. Call it God, or nature itself behind such an inspiration if you are an atheist. Logically, it just doesn’t come out of small changes over thousands of years, particularly the feather part. 

OK, now I’ve had my say and having thought this for a few days now, I received the following from a Romanian friend of mine who sends me fantastic stuff. This is very moving ‘Beautiful Swans‘  with the music ‘Forever In Love’.
And the quote on the frame I like the most (slide 9) reads, according to her translation of the Romanian, “The most beautiful gift you can give someone is hope, so don’t get stingy.“ 

If you want to download it, do not click the big ‘download now’ button with the red lettering or green check unless you want ’Babylon’s translation tool’. Use the very small ’download (inca 27)‘ link way below the photo. If it does not open, or it simply downloads, then right click the title and choose ‘open with microsoft power point’. Any time during the presentation, if you stop it for any reason and the music stops, to start it again, right click, and select ‘go to slide’ and then select slide 1.
Really worth all of it.
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My big discovery of the day – FALAFEL.

With only this (well almost) you could live to 100. It would take the ‘well almost’ to get you beyond that point.

Went and got a second so I could do my own photos. All the ones in Google are not anywhere near what I just ate. Chickpea balls in a pita with two salads (cabbage and chopped up greens) on top of them with a dill pickle, tahini sauce and a cayenne pepper sauce added. All for 15 shekels which is the price of a cup of coffee here. Perspective – everything in perspective. Not too long ago, coffee was 2 shekel.
High in manganese, molybdenum, dietary fiber and 30% of your daily protein needs.
“In the following study, it took only one week of garbanzo bean consumption to improve participants’ control of blood sugar and insulin secretion. Equally important, only 1/3 cup of the beans per day was needed to provide these blood-sugar related health benefits.” whfoods.com on garbonzo beans

Well, here is my photo of the interior.  Opened it up to show the inside. Was obviously not cut out to be a surgeon. I just hope that most surgeons are. One point to note. Be sure to open it up a little bit by squeezing it on the ends when you buy it, and get the tahini sauce deep inside because otherwise it can get sort of dry down toward the bottom.
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Fennel bulb for breakfast?
That was fantastic.
My stomach will not soon forget that. Until the next meal – it has a short memory.
But the rest of the system will thrive on the ingredients in this very unusual combination.
- quinoa which I had prepared 4 days ago with a number of spices
- walnuts added at the end to maintain all of their nutritional value
- fennel grated
- red onion
- ginger grated
- turmeric, thyme, oregano, turmeric, salt
- tahini on top together with a sprig of the fennel
- And to drink? ginkgo biloba leaves together with a bag of green tea

This is the first time I have ever tried fennel. It gives a slightly sweet taste to the food which is great, and it has anti-inflammatory and anticancer effects on the system, plus being a very good source of vitamin C  whfoods.com on fennel. It’s found in many middle-eastern dishes and in Italian cuisine – and for some ways to use it, take a look at these Italian recipes. You will wonder why you never tried it before. It’s great roasted, in salads, in stews, bean dishes, vegetable recipes, etc.
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Lentil, Greens and Squash Soup

Added the following to water boiling:
broccoli with stem (starting to turn yellow. Not a necessary requirement)
lentils pre-soaked for a long time (actually needs only about 2 hours but mine had been sitting there for 3 days)
red onion
1/2 zucchini squash
fennel leaves
parsley
fresh ginger grated
cinnamon, turmeric, thyme, oregano, turmeric, salt
2 tsp coconut oil
1 cap soy sauce
not too much water You want a thick soup you can add water to if necessary but do not to run dry in the cooking.
tahini on top
How long to cook? Cook until parsley stems are soft. It’s also good if the lentils are cooked.

Warfarin (Coumadin). If you are on it, this is a must read.
Had a deep vein thrombosis 8 years ago or so, from (according to my doctor) sitting at the computer too long without moving, and started taking coumadin. Got off if it by eating about 10-12 walnut halves a day. Works great to keep the blood from clotting. And not side effects. If you have seen the list of side effects on Coumadin, you will never take it.  Coumadin side effects which makes me wonder why any doctor would recommend it for anyone when there are natural foods which can do the same thing with no side effects. Something is wrong here. But if you are taking Coumadin, be sure to read this -  livestrong.com on fennel which gives all the foods you should not eat when taking coumadin, its interaction with other drugs. In short, do some research to find another way to control your clotting processes and blood flow. I wonder if they have ever done a study on the average life span of coumadin users against the normal population factoring out whatever is producing the coumadin use.  One of the best rundowns I have run across is truestarhealth.com on Warfarin (coumadin).
So today, I have not had any walnuts for 3 days due to budgetary considerations.
My leg started to swell. Been on walnuts now for about 2 years. and off the coumadin. Means I can now go out in the sun and get my vitamin D naturally. I finally have some walnuts.
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Had to have something to hold the cinnamon
egg with 1 tsp melted coconut oil added before shake.
cayenne pepper sauce, thyme, oregano, cinnamon, salt
Just the ticket. The egg gives you energy and protein, the cayenne clears out your arteries and protects the heart, the thyme and oregano provide anti just about everything microbial and fungal, and provides for normal blood clotting, helps preserve bones from calcium loss, thyme the great antioxidant and anti-microbial, and…

CINNAMON the great
The greatest antioxidant, blood sugar control so you don’t clump when there’s no need, anti-inflammatory, best anti-microbial, and cognitive functioning improving agent around. If you want to do your best on tests, be sure to put cinnamon on something, plus it reduces risk factors in diabetes 2 (reduces blood sugar, reducing insulin resistance) as well as protecting against cardiovascular diseases whfoods.com on cinnamon.  Since discovering what it can do for us, can’t stop putting it on everything. So I photographed the dish before I added it, just in case it totally obliterated the photo, which it did.  The taste was great.
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Beets in the morning?
Well, if you already have it with the quinoa, than why not. With extra cayenne sauce, turmeric, coconut oil, it makes wondering why you never tried it a real question. No hold-over-after-meal hunger on this one.
Also, while heating up the walnuts is not recommended due to the loss of certain nutrient effectiveness, the crispness of the walnuts with the egg was great.

The ultimate tea for getting your blood flowing: ginkgo biloba together with green tea, cinnamon, coconut oil, powdered cayenne pepper, and stevia or honey to taste. If you have never checked out the use of ginkgo, and who should be careful and when not to use it, do some reading before trying this. But do not let that stop you from using it. Very good for relief of Alzheimer’s and dimentia, improving blood circulation, reduces pain when there is blood flow restriction, helps in various problems with the eyes, and much more. Truly great stuff.  University of Maryland Medical Center on ginkgo biloba
Look at the ‘How to use it‘, ‘Precautions‘ and ‘Possible Interactions‘ at the bottom of the page above the long list of supporting research.
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broccoli spears which are turning yellow plus their stems sliced thin
parsley stems which everyone throws away, cut up very fine
half an onion
half a tomato
walnuts
soy sauce
half a bell pepper
cut up walnuts to give crunch along with everything else walnuts give
2 tbsp of coconut oil to fry in.
Fry as long as it takes to soften the parsley stems, and if it gets too dry, either add more coconut oil, or a small amount of water which should evaporate by the time everything is ready. When the parsley stems are done, the rest are patiently waiting, having been done 1 minute after they were added. Spices: thyme, coriander, oregano (if I had had it), turmeric (if I had had it), sea salt, black pepper, powered cayenne pepper – as much as everyone can stand – for it will do amazing things keeping you well, and keeping your blood flowing and protecting all of the arterial system along with aiding in keeping the heart running smoothly, along with everything else it does.
Of course, you can put all of this on top of rice, noodles, spaghetti, or anything else for that matter (except for ready to eat breakfast cereals. here have to be some limits). I just eat it without all that grain, but they make it go further, without adding much to your health. All done under 10 minutes.

Caveat: never time yourself when using a knife, or any other sharp instrument for that matter. And don’t be doing anything else. I mean anything! And next time you cut yourself, remember what I said. Unfortunately, knowing the rules is not the same as learning. This is one of the laws of the universe which should be changed.

This is about as healthy as you can get
Put everything I felt I needed into this one. I assumed that nobody will try to emulate it so I went overboard. Followed it up with a dessert of unroasted pecans.

Fresh country whole grain chiffon bread without preservatives, some sort of goat cheese spread, the type of organic mayonnaise you can usually buy these days only in a health food store, slices of fennel (they could have been thinner but the taste was great), red onion laid on after the shoot, avocado, lots of turmeric, oregano, salt. The grated carrot salad in a bell pepper ring had organic mayonnaise, 1 tsp of coconut oil mashed, thyme, and salt. After coming home from a 4 km walk, and eating lunch I went out again for another 4 km walk to deliver something feeling full of energy throughout.
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A great soup – Sparce Mushroom
Primarily great because the lentils are at the bottom where you can’t see them. Don’t know why I don’t like lentils but given that they are high in protein (35% a serving of your daily need) pus iron, manganese, tryptophan, fiber, folate and for those who know what molybdenum is, about 200% of daily need. In using them, my rational side upstages the emotional.

I asked at the organic store if they had cayenne sauce, and was told that they hadn’t seen any in the country for two years. So, the jar that I just finished off I had for over 2 years. Whether or not it was any good, it sort of neutralized itself, and by adding the thyme, oregano, turmeric and, just to be sure, a little cinnamon, I was covered. Not taking his word as the last truth before the apocalypse, I checked at a super market and sure enough Frank from Buffalo, New York had gotten through. Add only at the end when it is already in the bowl and then several drops at a time between tastes. Even though this was Frank’s original and there was ‘Buffalo hot’ and ‘red hot’ above it on the heat scale, it packs a punch.

That’s goat cheese and goat butter on top (no preservatives, but what they give the goats is anyones guess), mushrooms (and remember, never pick them yourself even though they may look exactly like what you would buy in the store. Buy them from someone who knows what they are doing. Some of these mushrooms are deadly, and I mean deadly), 2 tablespoons grated fennel bulb, grated ginger, 1/2 large squash, 1/3 bell pepper, 1/2 tomato, tablespoon coconut oil, 2 capfuls of kikkoman soy sauce. If you don’t use real unadulterated, fermented soy sauce, you don’t know what a great treat it gives to a dish.. I was going to put an onion in but figured that enough was enough. Added thyme, oregano, turmeric, sea salt, and black pepper to the mix.
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The pages below definitely made a change in my eating habits.
Especially after taking the questionnaire.
In my opinion http://whfoods.com is one of the best and most complete listing, description of vitamins and minerals in the food we eat, up-to-date food and nutrient research website going.

List of vitamins and minerals in the food we eat: For a very quick look, take a look whfoods.com Foods  

List of foods giving different nutrients:  whfoods Nutrients

Questionnaire: Very important Questionnaire to find out how well you are eating, and if you are really getting all of the nutrients you need whfoods food advisor 

**If you want to do it again,  to find out which items you can add to make it better, be sure to uncheck the box “I have read and accept, etc. input the changes and recheck the “I have read and accept, etc.”
But, be sure to do a copy of your original answers, or you won’t remember what you changed to make the results better or worse.
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By the way, I use a free SpellChecker.net to check my spelling. Really very good. But to get corrections on your grammar, you need to pay something. So remember that, and don’t think you have covered everything because your words are spell checked. Saw something the other day in which the spelling was perfect and the grammar was… shall we say somewhere in the sky.

ABOUT CAYENNE
The important thing here is the red stuff on top. Very hot cayenne sauce which became very mild when mixed with this assortment of vegetables in a tahini base.
 And why do I emphasize cayenne? It is one of the more powerful healing spices in the world. As I indicated in another post, it stops external and even internal bleeding almost instantly (carry some flakes in my wallet), is said to stop a heart attack in 20 seconds, is great for the circulatory system, rebuilds tissue in the digestive tract, and is good for ulcers, is reported to kill cancer cells in various parts of the body. In fact if anything is wrong with you, this is the spice to take, even if it doesn’t target the actual problem, it will help the rest of the system which is crucial for benefiting the healing process. If you do nothing else this year, read this one article and its stories of what it has done for people Medicinal Use and Health Benefit of Cayenne Pepper (Capsicum) http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/cayenne.htm And its side effects are practically nil. The one precaution is that if you are not used to cayenne,  use a small amount and work up. If you decide to put it in water and drink it (like some people do), but less than a teaspoon in a cup of warm-hot water, or you should start with a less hot form of the pepper group and work up to the amount which will be most beneficial for your system. According to this article, the only side effect was possibly when someone went into shock by taking too much, or used a particularly hot cayenne. Afterwards, he continued to use cayenne but worked up to a higher level http://www.cayennepepper.info/side-effects-of-cayenne-pepper.html

For a good summary of some of the benefits of cayenne http://cayennepepperdiet.org/cayenne-pepper/cayenne-pepper-health-benefits It suggests that cayenne be used every day for optimum health effects. I definaiely agree.

And so you will know what you’re getting yourself into, here is a chart of the capsicum in different peppers. Cayenne is in the middle range but there is a large range of ‘hottness’ from 30,000 to 50,000 SHU (Scoville Rating Scale), but can go as high as 125,000 to 190,000 SHU. There are some peppers that rate at 350,000-580,000;. So be sure you have cayenne. BTW police grade pepper spray is evaluated at 5,300,000 SHU. http://www.cayennepepper.info/cayenne-pepper-heat-units.html

0 sweet bell pepper has zero SHU.

2,500-8,000 SHU jalapeno usually green but sometimes red http://www.google.co.il/search?q=jalapeno&hl=iw&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=Qc39TouQLMbMsgaVury7BA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=646

30,000-50,000 SHU cayenne pepper http://www.google.co.il/search?q=cayenne+pepper&hl=iw&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=88v9TufxIsqFsgasnfjyDA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=646

100,00-225,000 SHU birds eye pepper http://www.google.co.il/search?q=birds+eye+pepper&hl=iw&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=psv9ToyUDsnmtQbw2fHVDw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBEQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=646

Be sure you are getting cayenne and not another with higher SHU, even though it may look similar.

Ingredients of this dish: Fried in coconut oil and a small amount of extra virgin olive oil, zucchini squash, onion, garlic cloves with turmeric, thyme, salt, and sweet basil.

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<no photo found, but still a truly great dish straight out of an empty mind – early morning>
In place of an EGG for breakfast
Seriously.
If I wasn’t going to have an egg, what was there to eat?
Well, I made a green tea with two drops of Stevia, some cinnamon and one teaspoon (more or less heaping) of coconut oil, while my mind was blank. Doing something else allows the universe to reposition for a new focus.
Started with the nuts. There they were on the plate after pouring boiling hot water over them (bulk supplier), looking – well, sort of inhospitable and inedible. So added two heaping teaspoons of coconut oil and avocado, mixing them well with the nuts. Now we were getting somewhere. Chopped up an onion. No, I cut an onion. You don’t chop one of those things. Then, thin sliced a large garlic clove. Grated some cabbage, half a small carrot, a small amount of bell pepper, and a lot of ginger. Added salt, oregano, thyme and a little cinnamon for its nutrients, and the fact that its anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and general anti focus was different from that of oregano and thyme. With all three, you sort of cover all possibilities. After the shoot, added a sauce made of hot peppers. Couldn’t reshoot because the stuff was all over the plate and I couldn’t clean up again like I had done with the first.
Absolutely delicious. This dish will guard you against everything except overeating. The only thing I was missing was one of my niece’s chocolate chip cookies. In two days I keep telling myself.
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I have to admit that was the best fried egg I have ever eaten. And I’m not even selling.
Grated red and yellow bell peppers, grated fresh ginger, grated carrot, 2 egg omelet with 2 tsp melted coconut oil included in the shake, with a side of beet leaf, onion, garlic, and all my usual spices spread all over the top of the omelet after the shoot. How could we write and be understood without the comma.
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Boiled Vegetables
Sounds terrible. And as you know if you have looked over my site, boiling is just not on the menu. But after reading so much that frying all the time is just not good for you, I decided to try it one more time before going back to my what my one pan was made for. Had finally found broccoli, and decided to slice the stem also, even though I didn’t know whether it would be any good. What come to mind is the rule ‘Only proceed when you are sure’. A corollary of ‘don’t jump until you’ve seen the bottom’, which is a corrollary of ‘once you hit bottom, it’s too late. If you haven’t seen those three before, it’s because I just made them up, good or bad, but it describes my relationship to cooking – I both proceed and jump without looking. But this time it worked out. With salt and thyme, plus some leftover tahini from yesterday, it was delicious. Even the leftover water with some spices added was great. Ingredients included: broccoli crown and thinly sliced stem, sweet long red pepper, chopped onion, zucchini squash.
Good enough to try it again? In the interests of health, reversing my aversion to boiling tendencies – yes.

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Received a phone call which was not the one I expected. In my frustration, ate one of my niece’s cookies. Solved everything. And anyway I was going out to walk 4 km; and I only ate one – rationalizations, rationalizations. What did I do before her cookies? Can’t remember.
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Zucchini squash, tomato, beet leaves (much better than spinach or even swiss chard), bell pepper, and all the regular spices which were put on after the photo.  Avocado with tahini and ginger. Be sure to divide the stem of the beet leaves. Here is a photo before chopping/cutting the stem and leaf.

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Breakfast with Quinoa
No, I haven’t started dating. For those who don’t know of Quinoa, it’s a grain like seed which is treated like a grain but is actually a vegetable and is entirely safe for diabetics, or anyone else for that matter. Easy to cook, tastes great, well… basically has little taste, or my taste buds are on the fritz, and can be served with anything which you would serve with any other whole grain. With butter, it’s great, and with nuts, cinnamon and maple syrup, excellent.

My Apartment Mates
When I went for the bag of quinoa, I had not rolled the top as tightly as I had thought and there were tiny cockroaches inside. I carefully opened the bag and the majority (the crew) made a dash for the top and jumped to safety. One just leisurely ambled up to the top, and then once outside the bag, just sat there as though jumping was just not his style, so I put the bag down sidewise and he walked off. The last one was still inside, not moving. Maybe thought he was the captain and was ready to go down with the ship. Finally got him out with a lot of coaxing. Yes, I save cockroaches. They have a hard enough time with the salamander which lives in my kitchen. And over time, I have determined that each one has its separate personality or way of reacting. I am going to say what to some would be blasphemy, but I believe that their consciousness is actually no different than any other creature including us. If I were in their bodies, with all of the capabilities which both limit or take them far beyond what we can do, I would act in exactly the same way they do - except jumping from tremendous heights, flying, coming out only at night type of thing.
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This is the last minute Broccoli Special after I thought I had finished a salad dinner.
The image of broccoli was hanging in the air, so I decided to pluck and manifest. Chopped up broccoli including the stem, until it got sort of hard to cut down toward the root. Added onion, garlic, bell pepper, turmeric, thyme, sweet basil, salt, and fried in coconut oil with a heaping tsp of coconut oil added after it was on the plate.
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Put the spoon in my mouth to finish it off – NEVER do that. 
Breakfast with nuts (walnuts, pecans, almonds), hard boiled egg (cold), two tsp coconut oil (hard), half an avocado, turmeric, salt, thyme, basil, oregano (if I have it), and a spoonful of cayenne sauce. I had never tried the sauce alone, only mixed in something making it appear to be  mild. So, after putting the sauce on the egg, I put the spoon in my mouth to finish it off – NEVER do that. That stuff is burning hot alone. There are some things you should never try alone. Be sure someone else is with you.
The cayenne mixed in is not shown in the photo. But it really makes the dish.
And for added health and antibacterial protection, some cinnamon. I didn’t put it in, and when I finished the egg etc., due to the very old cayenne sauce, I had a pain in my stomach. So, I cooked up a pancake to put cinnamon on (a lot). Not shown because I used so little whole spelt flour that it fell apart. Still served its purpose.
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Very interesting. I thought I saw a flock of loons diving in the estuary nearby, but as I came closer, I saw that it was a flock of mallards. And near them was a loon. For the mallards which are dabbling ducks (feed mainly on vegetable matter by upending on the water surface, or grazing, and only rarely dive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbling_duck ) this is rare behavior. Has been seen elsewhere when a species of diving bird takes up residence in the same body of water as the mallards Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6CsOidPLDM. My group could stay under for 3 to 4 seconds while the loon, and later its mate, stayed under for 18-20 seconds. Long enough for you to think they’ll never come up. Interesting adaptive behavior for the mallards. In this case, It was bathing and preening time, apparently not feeding.
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One of the advantages of living alone is that you don’t have to please anybody except yourself.
In fact, that’s the only advantage.
I took all the stems off the parsley, dill and cilantro. A great visual of many of the fresh herbs is http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/seasonalcooking/farmtotable/visualguidefreshherbs. I didn’t want a lot of stems sticking out of my food. Saved them in case I find out that they have just as much vitamin and mineral quality as the leaves, and I will use them in a salad where stem sticking is not as noticeable.
This is boiled cabbage (red) and garlic, onion, and zucchini squash, with all of the green things I have never bought except for parsley which I never used except once when I was going out and didn’t have time to brush my teeth. Had heard that it’s good for the breath. Whether or not it worked, I will never know. That was one of the mercies of creation – you can not smell your own breath because what would you do if you couldn’t do anything about it?. My daughter gave the parsley to me saying they were good for all sort of cleaning processes – liver, pancreas, etc. Mostly etc. since I don’t remember what she said. Plus some grated ginger. One thing to note: do not freeze ginger. When it thaws, it turns literally soggy.
That’s crumbled goat feta on top.
And additives? Fermented soy sauce, thyme, turmeric, oregano if I had had it, salt, pepper which I forgot, sweet basil in the soup made out of the leftover water, which with salt and soy sauce, was not bad at all. Throw nothing out – especially in these times, but also for all of the vitamins and minerals going down the sink which really doesn’t need it.
I put the green stuff in after the cooking had finished to preserve as much of the V&M as I could.
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After reading not to fry or char food, I fixed this in the frying pan (my one pan) with coconut oil.
The only thing burning here is my mouth because of the cayenne. This is one egg with melted coconut oil poured into the egg before I shook it up in the jar, and CO in the bottom of the pan. The red stuff is cayenne sauce spread on the partially cooked egg, and pecans on top of the quinoas with turmeric, cinnamon (out of thyme, oregano the other anti everything spices) and salt, pepper. Was that ever good. The quinoa was leftover from yesterday.
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This is the ultimate diabetes 2 breakfast and if anyone tries it, they’ll never go back to snap, crackle, and pop.
Had a lot of things lying around – a hard boiled egg, some old broccoli, half an onion, some soggy ginger root, and decided to combine them into what was incredible. Starting with a lot of coconut oil in the pan, I put the onion, broccoli including some of the stem sliced thin, some fresh long sweet pepper, grated ginger, and a sliced tomato all on low flame. Mashed the egg and mixed it with avocado. The cooked in oil (not fried) vegetables when ready but not too done, were placed on top. Photographed wi
thout the spices which sort of obliterate everything: lots of oregano, thyme, powered cayenne, salt.
The cats don’t know what they’re missing. And they don’t care, as long as I give them kibble and top of the line canned cat food. To each his own.
Cayenne squash without the garlic
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OK, you asked for it (actually you didn’t but that was going through my mind). It’s what I had for breakfast. Very healthy, but it’s not a pretty sight except for the walnuts and apple. The stuff under the walnuts is one egg fried in three teaspoons of coconut oil, with some leftover quinoa from two days ago, one heaping forkful of cayenne sauce, half an avocado, lots of thyme, some cinnamon, oregano, salt.
Together with the apple and walnuts, this gives you just about everything you need to get you through the day in one piece. That’s if you were falling apart in the first place. And if you are already together, this will make sure you stay that way. 
The four staples of health: cayenne pepper, cinnamon, avocado, turmeric. Make that five. Forgot the ginger. When you add the walnuts and the apple, it’s over the top. When you combine that with sunshine and a salad for lunch along with limited sugars and grains, and a good spell checker, you’re on the road to a long, healthy and successful life. Although I’ve said this before, Quinoa is treated as a grain because of the way it is used, but is actually a vegetable.
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Wasn’t going to show this.
Probably the worst looking, best tasting dish I’ve made in a long time. But finally decided to make a photograph of it as a notation to myself to try it again. Just what every single person who doesn’t really know how to cook can fix.
Put about two tablespoons of coconut oil in the frying pan (frying everything will do me in one of these days), dumped in some cut up cabbage, followed by sliced cucumber squash (actually put it in the other way around because you want the squash to sit on the bottom to have that fried look in case anyone just happens to drop by or you want to take a photo. Then large-grate half a bell pepper, and put it in. Checked the already prepared beets but found them covered with mold, so forgot  it. Cut up some onion. Took the skin off about 3-4 garlic cloves and crushed them. I saw a professional cook smash it with her hand. Tried it. Won’t do that again. I just cut into small pieces They say wait a while for the necessary reaction of the garlic clove to being crushed, but I can’t wait that long, and besides, to think a vegetable is reacting to what I do just doesn’t sit well with me. Add a teaspoon of cayenne pepper sauce but didn’t mix it in. Maybe I’ll decide that I just can’t take that much sensation, and I’ll still have an option. Mix up some tahini without the lemon and the whatever else they say to put in with it. Spiced the glop with oregano, thyme, sea salt and fork it onto the plate. Put the tahini on top and mix in. Fantastic. Even with the cayenne which I mixed in and found to be much milder than I thought it would be. It actually really added to the great taste.

Had half an avocado afterwards to sort of put an elan finish to the dish, which I ate way too fast. That’s one of the problems of being alone. Should get myself a bottle of wine and force myself to relax, sit back, and sip some wine during. It really does something to change the atmosphere, your sense of priorities, your feeling of doing it right, etc. Attitude is everything in this life.
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Lentil soup with Hummus
Excellent soup except I couldn’t taste it because of the cayenne pepper.  But it cleaned out my whole system, and I would benefit from its vitamin A, C, complete B complex, organic calcium, potassium, and the fact that it rebuilds tissue in the stomach, helps in the assimilation of food, heightens circulation and is beneficial to the whole cardiovascular system, lowers blood pressure, helps overcome fatigue, restores stamina, stimulates organ secretion, helps against various itchy skin conditions, gives relief from headache pain, has powerful anticancer benefits, and if I was having a heart attack, would stop it within three minutes. http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/cayenne.htm Guess I’m covered.
Put 2 cloves of garlic and the two teaspoons of ginger into the pan 1 minute before turning off the flame in order to take full advantage of two of the best spices (except for cayenne) in the world.
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I will put this up against any ‘power breakfast’.
Whole organic spelt, cooked until flakes opened (about 6 minutes), lots of cinnamon, teaspoon of turmeric, lots of fresh grated ginger, grated green apple, salt, fig boiled with the walnuts and pecans for 6 seconds (it was the fig taken out of the box for me by the cat), a teaspoon (actually half a forkful) of honey, two teaspoons coconut oil. Eaten only after I had drunk 2 glasses of water. Didn’t want that going into a system which wouldn’t have the means of transport ready and able to carry it to all parts of the body. Finished with a cup of coffee with 4 drops (only) of Stevia.

Incredible ginger
SOMETHING TO PUT GINGER ON (for the purists: ‘on which to put ginger’)

Last night I was looking around for something I could put ginger on, and at 11:00 at night and the no sugar-no flour thing was uppermost in my mind, nothing came to hand. This is the answer the next morning. After at least 2 cups of water (very important since your body has gone at least 7 hours without anything)
Two eggs (although eggs have come under attack in the past, so check it out and make your own determination (for 2011, for 2010  source, against 2009) with coconut oil, almonds with skins, walnuts, pecans sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds internally and as the garnish on top: tomato, onion, garlic, broccoli sprouts, grated ginger, parsley, soy sauce, and turmeric if I had had it. Of course, the overall benefits to the system will make you the healthiest person on the block, or potentially in the city. These ingredients are incredible.

And a little bit on GINGER
GINGER IS A MUST, and many of us have only ever heard of things like ginger ale, ginger cookies, ginger beer, ginger snaps, and gingerbread. How many times do we indulge in any of those? We are losing one of the great boosters and protectors of the system know to man.

As I wrote once before, if you really know what ginger does for you, you will not ever not put it on just about everything. There’s about two teaspoons of grated ginger on that dish. 

Let’s just say that if I was experiencing morning sickness, had menstrual cramps, tended to feel nauseous when traveling, had ovarian or colon cancer, or wanted to avoid them, had osteoporosis or rheumatoid arthritis, was experiencing significant pain and inflammation, was often experiencing heartburn, had a cold or wanted to stay healthy during flu season, and was diabetic, I would use ginger.
And if I was male and healthy (I’m not saying that all of the above are just experienced by females – well some of the conditions), I would take just as much, for all of the benefits to the system these symptoms suggest is going on in the body (male or female) including great for the breath, as a mood enhancer, stress reducer, solution to athlete’s foot (strong anti-fungal properties), and as an aphrodisiac.

- For the fastest listing of the benefits of ginger:
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-ginger.html
-The best overall discussion on ginger
Discover the Benefits of Ginger
-For the most sophisticated discussion and background, try
Ginger at World’s Healthiest Foods
-If you want the full story, history and all, try this encyclopedic page on Wikipedia
Ginger

To you and yours in health.
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I HATE TEA
I hate tea, or let’s just say that for 76 years I have probably had 4 teas. Well, now I’ve decided that green tea is going to help me out of the hole I’m in. But not just any green tea, but green tea with cinnamon, ginger (How much? Didn’t measure because I’m at the pour until… stage), and a heaping teaspoon (well, forkful because that stuff is hard to get out of the jar) of pure cold press, unadulterated coconut oil, and two drops, only two, of Stevia (the hole is possible diabetes 2). Now you may try a tea with all of that in it, and then decide never to do it again. But if you look at all the benefits of each of those ingredients, it just might be the thing to do – again and again. Check out the links below to find out what they do for you.
One quote on CINNAMON: “Another common spice of particular interest to diabetics is cinnamon, which also has “insulin-like” effects. For example, just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day has been shown to significantly reduce blood sugar levels, triglycerides, LDL (bad) cholesterol, and total cholesterol levels in people with type 2 diabetes.” source: 
Half a Teaspoon of This Each Day Can Optimize Cholesterol Levels…

And for GINGER this link The Amazing Ginger 

COCONUT OIL And for those who have not read any of my other posts on this blog, check out  A Whale Rescue; The Turning Point On Alzheimer’s, and for coconut oil and the reversal of the belief that it’s bad for you, check out 
History of why saturated fats became non-beneficial after the development of poly-unsaturated oils, and why the misinformation continues. Also, this link by Dr. Carolyn Dean and why it’s good for Alzheimer’s.

A really great (in my opinion) site on one man’s personal story of curing cancer with coconut oil, and further information on diabetes 2
About Miracle of Coconut Oil.com 
The Truth about Coconut Oil –  his research
and
Coconut Oil and Diabetes 
An incredible description of how coconut oil helps in the recovery process of diabetes.

Good Luck
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Needed some garlic, so this is the answer

 From small needs to grand results.
 Kind of extreme but it fulfills all of the necessities for diabetes 2 which is what I have determined I have after much denial and a life filled with chocolate chip muffins and pancakes. So, I’m on a strict no sugar, no grain diet, and already I have noticed some changes. In two weeks, if I can maintain this horrendous diet, I will know more. But in the mean time, this has quinoa which is not really a grain and has been indicated by many as very good for diabetes and very high in protein, Included the garlic of course, and the following: avocado, bell pepper, onion, pumpkin and sesame seeds, oregano, thyme, cinnamon which I thought was turmeric (both are great for diabetes). In any case, always glance at the labels and be sure not to store arsenic or even cayenne pepper next to the other spices), sea salt. And what could be salvaged from an egg the cat broke, plus two teaspoons of coconut oil.
Started the after cooking bit and felt something was missng – fermented soy sauce. Now I can say it was a great dish.  The green tea with cinnamon, ginger and two drops of Stevia which is one third of what I had normally used, and half a teaspoon of coconut oil. Remember that this stuff actually helps you lose weight because unlike the other oils it actually helps get the nutrients directly into the cell and does not go to storage.

By the way, cayenne pepper is very good for diabetes, but if it’s more than you wanted and you thought it was basil, then you are in for a surprise.
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With no grains, rice, sugars of any kind, what do you eat?
Here is one answer. And delicious.

The main ingredients are beet leaves, almonds, avocado, squash.
And there are, of course the following: fried in coconut oil, 1 cap of fermented soy sauce,   pecans, yellow oat cheese. The beet leaves are incredible and take almost no time to cook. In fact, they were done before the squash, so the squash was eaten half cooked.
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Vegetarian or Diabetes Breakfast

1 egg in lots of coconut oil, 1 large beet leaf,  yellow goat cheese, regular compliment of spices including cayenne pepper which is not shown here. And after, walnuts, almonds and yellow goat cheese slightly fried.

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Only One Egg Left

I had only one egg left. What to do with one egg… fried, poached, boiled and then I would usually be out of options. Actually, those options didn’t even go through my mind, the result you see was just sort of there already, waiting to be brought into physical existance.

This is a SPECIAL for Diabetes, Heart, or Anything That Afflicts You
But what if I couldn’t get the omelet out of the pan in one piece, much less five?
The answer was also sort of just there. Melt two tsp of coconut oil and pure it into the egg I had shaken up in a jar. I still don’t know where these things come from. Like a premonition as though on some plane it already existed.
Didn’t know if it would work, so you see my hedge (taking no chances) in the first photo while it was still in the pan.
The internal ingredients: two beet leaves, avocado, grated carrot, onion, bell pepper, pumpkin seeds, garlic if I had had it, all lightly fried in coconut oil. Anyway, after adding my usual spices minus those I had run out of, and transferring the vegetables to the side in order to fry the egg in some more coconut oil, you see the successful finish which just slipped out of the pan.  And I must say something about coconut oil. It’s less expensive than a good extra virgin olive oil and does so many things for the body that olive oil or any other oil cannot do, because of its structure which is a medium chain trigliceride while all the others are long chain. Why is this important? It allows the nutrients to go directly into the cells bypassing the other processes the body has to go through with the long chain oils.
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 Cabbage Cup
Absolutely delicious
Carefully pealed the leaves from a small red cabbage and tried to arrange them in a cup form. Not so easy until I just laid the leaves on top of each other. Fried in coconut oil: onion, garlic, red cabbage, bell pepper, tomato, thyme, oregano, salt, soy sauce,
With the yellow goat cheese on top. And if I had thought of it: grated ginger.
At the end, cut up the left over leaves and together with other vegetables, made an omelet.

 View of Cabbage Cup With Goat Cheese

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DIABETES?
The last 7 days on self imposed diet for supposed diabetes 2.
All right, 7 days have passed. And how did I fare?
The basic idea is no sugar and no grains
no sugar (brown or otherwise) normally using Stevia now anyway
98 drops of Stevia as against 294
49 cups of green tea without milk as against 75 cups of coffee with milk (I hate tea in principle which is why I drink less and make do with glasses of water)
1 chocolate chip muffin as against 6
1 pancake as against 7 (almost did it with no pancakes, but I felt bad from something I ate and needed something to put cinnamon (that anti-everything) on, so made a pancake with 1 1/2 tablespoons of whole spelt flour, and 1 cap maple syrup.
1/2 roll as against 7 full
1/8 wholewheat bread as against 2-3
0 cookies as against 12-16 and perhaps even a whole box of date bars
0 noodles or spaghetti dishes as against 4
0 raisins as against 160
0 milk as against 2 quarts
0 rice as against 1 rice

And since I mentioned it, here is the pancake

Lots of pecans, almonds, walnuts, cinnamon, 1 capful of maple syrup on a whole spelt pancake with one egg and lots of coconut oil. Perfect as a respite.

Other than that, what am I eating? Eggs and vegetables, avocado and nuts. Yes it can be done. with a respite here and there, like the muffin and the pancake. Is it pleasant?
No comment
Walking every day about 4 km, doing exercises of arms and legs/feet, full sun at noon for 15 minutes on a good part of myself when sun is out which was 6 days.
The result: I have not had a reoccurance of the instigator. I basically feel the way I felt before the incident, so to really get rid of this thing, I am going to have to remain on the regimen quite a bit longer.
Also, using a lot of fresh ginger on 2/3rds of my meals, about 5 teaspoons of coconut oil a day. This, everyone should do, but I know no one will.  
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Books and Interviews on HOW TO CURE DIABETES
Two Books Which Look Very Interesting
which I have not purchased yet but definitely will.

1. An extremely interesting interview with Suzy Cohen, http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=4CE4C4EBD8C341B89ADD5447AD1D67B2 a pharmacist and holistic health author, who has a new book “Diabetes Without Drugs.” It explains how to overcome diabetes using natural, non-pharmaceutical remedies. “Learn how to reverse (and prevent) diabetes without drugs, how to block sugar from destroying your body using just vitamins, how to save your vision, how to burn off fat faster (with or without exercise), how to lower blood sugar with nature’s superfoods, vitamins and even chocolate!”
Her new book “Diabetes Without Drugs” is sold by amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1605296759?ie=UTF8&tag=book-search-engine-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1605296759 paperback 14.60, bargainprice 9.60 
Her website is http://dearpharmacist.com/

Save what you can
My computer had one of its seasonal breakdowns.
Took it in and found that the disk was corrupted, but most of the files were salvageable – just not the part that had all my writeups for this section. So here I am with some great looking dishes and no commentary. But I’ll show them anyway, and if any one of them piques your interest, make a comment and I’ll see what I can do to remember  and/or write what comes to mind plus what was in it. Remember that you can enlarge the photos.
 
SquashNoodles

SweetPotatoCompact

NoodleDessert
 

MushroomNoodlesWithSquash

SquashWithEverything

EggplantSoup


MyPizza

By the way, I gave a jar of  certified organic, from fresh coconuts, cold-pressed, unrefined, unfermented, unbleached, unhydrogenated coconut oil to my friends, one of whom has Alzheimer’s although they are not quite sure that’s what it is. In any case, outwardly it seems to have many of the earmarks of it. Two days later, I get a call from the husband saying that it is amazing, but it has had an extremely positive effect. His wife is responding, speaking more fluently, more to the point, wants to be in the center of things, is more demanding (well, you can’t have everything), and he’s very excited about it.  To see the story of what started all this, go to http://tsingle.info/blog/2011/11/09/a-whale-rescue-the-turning-point-on-alzheimers/

Hummus on Eggplant on Chinese Noodles.
The noodles are flat chinese noodles already partially cooked. While the eggplant is cooking, put the noodles in boiling hot water and just let them sit for 5 minutes, then put them together with the eggplant and add the pre-prepared tomato sauce. Once on the plate, add all the spices (plus some more coconut oil to the noodles if you still have not gotten 6 tsp in for the day, and the humus on the eggplant.

Do not let a true wine connoisseur read the next sentence. Since the cabernet sauvignon is dry as it should be, I add a few drops of Stevia to it. Works great. Would never do it to a bottle costing over $10 but since this one is on the lower end, well, I figure that I can be non-purist about it.

Diabetes? At my age? Thought I had gotten past all that stuff – especially on a vegetarian diet.
Had severe tingling and cold flashes in both legs and feet at 2:30 in the middle of the night
Well, this was unexpected. There I was at 2:30 in the morning, with cats under foot who must have been thinking ‘this is a strange time for him to be up, but who are we to argue, and where’s the food’  sort of thing. You don’t think that goes through their heads – in the language of cat, of course?  So what was I doing up at that hour? I was fixing myself a sandwich with all of the things that I should have been eating, but hadn’t been which are good if you have the possible onset of diabetes 2  with severe tingling of my lower legs and feet and flashes of cold in both feet. I had done an emergency search at 2:35 using the following words:   ‘alternative diabetes control tingling feet’. What I came up with was ‘Diabetic Neuropathy natural treatment using vitamins supplements herbs, alternative therapy and remedy and the role of diet and food by Ray Sahelian, M.D.’ http://www.raysahelian.com/diabeticneuropathy.html (very good site)
“Many patients with diabetes develop numbness, tingling, pain, or weakness in their hands or feet, a condition called diabetic neuropathy which refers to symptoms and signs of neuropathy, or nerve damage, as a result of diabetes.”

And why was what I was feeling possible cause for concern?
The article continued: “There are many other reasons for nerves to be damaged or harmed. An important clue that often distinguishes this condition from other forms of neuropathy is that the nerve damage is symmetrical. This means the nerve damage is similar on both sides, for instance, both feet.  If the nerve of only one side of the foot or arm is damaged, then the neuropathy is likely to be from another source, such as a nerve entrapment.”

I then did a separate search for everything listed using the name of the nutrient or supplement:

1. alpha lipoic
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/alpha-lipoic-000285.htm
meats and brewers yeast, spinach, broccoli, yeast (particularly Brewer’s yeast), and certain organ meats (such as kidney and heart).

Learn more: Alpha Lipoic Acid: The Multi-Tasking Supplement – NaturalNews.com 
http://www.naturalnews.com/025150.html#ixzz1fZFAaUa2
 
2. acetyl-l-carnitine
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080627073420AA3tyxY
Beef steak 3 ounces* 81
Ground beef 3 ounces 80
Pork 3 ounces 24
Canadian bacon 3 ounces 20
Milk (whole) 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) 8
Fish (cod) 3 ounces 5
Chicken breast 3 ounces 3
Ice cream 4 ounces (1/2 cup) 3
Avocado 1 medium 2
American cheese 1 ounce 1
Whole-wheat bread 2 slices 0.2
Asparagus 6 spears (1/2 cup) 0.2
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnitine#Physiological_effects
The highest concentrations of carnitine are found in red meat and dairy products. Other natural sources of carnitine include nuts and seeds (e.g. pumpkin, sunflower, sesame), legumes or pulses (beans, peas, lentils, peanuts), vegetables (artichokes, asparagus, beet greens, broccoli, brussels sprouts, collard greens, garlic, mustard greens, okra, parsley, kale), fruits (apricots, bananas), cereals (buckwheat, corn, millet, oatmeal, rice bran, rye, whole wheat, wheat bran, wheat germ) and other “health” foods (bee pollen, brewer’s yeast, carob).
 
3. Benfotiamine  B1
http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/benfotiamine.htm
Some of the best natural food sources for vitamin B1 are from:  whole grain products, whole rice, wheat germ, brewer’s yeast, egg yolk, peanuts, bananas, sunflower seeds.  The special, fat-soluble, food-form of B1 called benfotiamine is only obtained from crushed garlic, onions, leeks and shallots. 

4. B12 (I had it but was not taking it regularly)
5. Ginkgo biloba (remembered buying but couldn’t find it. It was 2:30 in the morning)

So what did I do?
Being vegetarian, this is what I found: half a whole wheat roll, piled on lots of sunflower seeds, broccoli sprouts, avocado, yellow goat cheese, organic natural mayonnaise. Also found aloe vera liquid for drinking and aloe vera gel to put on the lower legs and feet and went back to bed figuring that I had done whatever could be done at that hour. Slept the rest of the night.  When I woke up in the morning, my legs and feet were like they normally are which is stiff and heavy but without the tingling and cold flashes. And today? I will get the rest of the stuff.  

The universe is wired.
Well, this is the end of the day and I did not get the rest of the stuff I needed. I was able to get about 6 of the list of 40. But, you know that the universe is in your corner when the door bell rings and its a messenger delivering a holiday gift package from your sister who has no idea of your condition (at all), and in the package are five of the things that you have not gotten and do not have the funds to get right now.

Dark Chocolate Muffin This is not mine, but I walk about 4 km everyday for one of them. The owner of this great ice cream parlor in Tel Aviv makes them herself and they are the best muffins (also milk chocolate and apple) I have ever eaten together with a cappuccino. And the ice cream is really fantastic. This is a muffin she gave me because I told her how great they were. She doesn’t know that I photographed it and am putting it up here. If you are ever in Tel Aviv this is a must. Italian Ice Cream at GELATERIA ITALIAN PARK on 67 Yehuda Macabbi Street.
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This will save your life

The photo is of the apple version
The apricots had to be boiled with the oats and quinoa because while I was typing yesterday, I heard a strange noise which sounded like the top of the dried fruits and nuts box (plastic) my sister had sent me. I went to check and there was a cat, from outside, opening the top and taking out the apricots and figs one by one with her paw. Upon seeing me, she leaped down, whereupon I closed the lid tightly. Very interesting: about 20 minutes before that, I had noticed that the lid was slightly opened and had said to myself “I had better close it because of the cat – in my mind I didn’t even specify ‘my cat’, but as with most premonitions, I let it go – otherwise it would not have been a premonition since it would never have happened). Being in a generous mood, I decided that if she was so intent on taking them out, she might want them, so into the cat dish. No takers. Apparently it had been an interesting puzzle to solve or just something new to do. So the apricots ended up being boiled with the cereals. I waste nothing.  And anyway, the cinnamon and ginger (forgot the thyme) are an additional bulwark against whatever – antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal, anti-just-about-anything else (for ginger – considered adaptogenic, anodyne, anthelmintic, antiallergenic, antibacterial, anticoagulant, anticonvulsant, antidepressant, antifungal, antithrombotic, antiaging…etc.

This site on ginger is very worth taking a look at http://www.stuartxchange.org/Luya.html – you will never not use it again (remember two negatives are a positive). 

This dish will solve all your problems. Just don’t quote me. I could list all of the conditions and illnesses, but that could go on for quite some time and wouldn’t even begin to include all of the conditions we haven’t yet defined.
The quinoa and whole oats are just the carrier for what really does the job: walnuts, almonds, pecans, raisins, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, chia seeds, ginger, cinnamon, sea salt, 2 1/2 capfuls of pure maple syrup and two teaspoons of coconut oil, plus two apricots. 

OK, I will mention a few of the conditions which this dish is a step on the way to relieving: diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s (particularly the coconut oil), and deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
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Art In Life

Everyone must have some art in their life. Why not start off each morning with your own version of modern art. The chef could charge extra for one of a kind – soon to disappear, creation. Remember, almost everything of any value in our life lasts but for seconds.

Ingredients: 2 eggs, slices of goat cheese, turmeric, hyssop (za’atar), sea salt, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil if I had had it). 
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This Is One Healthy Egg
 
 
Fried in extra virgin olive oil, and loaded with melted goat cheese, sunflower, pumpkin, sesame seeds, sweet basil, coriander, thyme, sea salt, oregano, broccoli sprouts with organic mayonnaise, tsp of coconut oil in the middle, Olivia’s special tomato sauce which you can’t get anywhere except here, But it has pieces of garlic, tomatoes, olives, soy in an olive oil base… no grains, no sugars, no unhealthy fats, no preservatives, no food coloring, and because it’s made in Israel I am assuming that the soy is nonGMO. In general, I feel much better than I did 1/2 hour ago. Of course, most of life and health is conceptual, and I’m riding a wave. So to be totally good for you both physically and mentally, this dish must be eaten with your eyes open.

Coconut Oil, what’s that?
In fact, in the supermarket where I have to get some things not available in the small organic store I frequent, when I asked them if they had coconut oil, the manager said “‘What’s that? We have olive, canola, saffron…..” The population just does not know about it, and is not demanding it. When everyone finds out how healthy it is for the heart, circulatory system, the rest of the body, and what they are just discovering, the incredible effect it has for those with Alzheimer’s, it will be available everywhere. But it must be pure, cold pressed, undiluted, unadded to, etc. 
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How do you eat 4 teaspons of hard coconut oil?

And this was so good that I did somethig I never do. After finishing the first, I made another in order to photograph it, and of course ate that one also.

After three decades of all the experts saying coconut oil was bad for you, new research is showing the exact opposite for it’s positive effects on the entire system, and even that it may be an amazing factor in alleviating the effects of Alzheimer’s. To really be healthy, eat 6 teaspoons of coconut oil a day.  That’s usually two per meal. Which is OK if you have cooked dishes, or put it in coffee or tea which are all hot and melt it, but what about putting it on something cold, since it is hard as nails at room temperature. Well, I had to try it. And this was so good that you see the results, each with 2 teaspooons full of hard coconut oil squashed directly on the roll with a fork. In addition to the coconut oil, there is organic mayonnaise, a slice of onion, slice of tomato, slices of yellow goat cheese, thyme, oregano, coriander, sweet basil, and Olivia’s olive and tomato sauce (the dark stuff there). Any sauce that you like will do. If they are right and coconut oil actually helps you lose weight, I’ll be extra thin next week. But because of what it does for the system, I’ll also be healthier, and far more lucid than I already am.
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Vegetables on Hummus 
I’ll tell you what’s in here but warn you not to add the apple slices. A great taste spoiled with the sweetness of the apple. 
Without the apple, which I spent valuable eating time attempting to separate out, this is an absolutely great dish for those interested in a great taste which is also healthy. Many think that’s hard to come by. The vegs: cucumber squash, bell pepper, onion, garlic. The spices and herbs: coriander, basil, thyme, ginger, oregano, sea salt. The sauces: kikkoman soy sauce (why do I specify Kikkoman all the time? Because many of the others are not fermented, and some are soy sauce in name only), and on with the sauces which include coconut oil (one rounded tablespoon), and tahini mixed in with the hummus. This dish sharpens memory. I know because I was able to remember all the ingredients. Fried in extra virgin olive oil.
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 The Guardian
This is the dish for guarding against diabetes. Delicious, with no sugars, no grains, and just vegetables (swiss chard, cucumber squash, oinion, garlic), walnuts along with thyme, oregano, turmeric, sea salt, Kikkoman soy sauce, and two teaspoons of coconut oil.
Frying  time (in coconut oil) longest for squash with the chard added during the last two minutes (approx), with nuts rinsed in boiling water from the coffee maker and added after everything was on the plate. Two tsp of coconut oil was put right on top along with the nuts. You don’t see it, but I cheated and included 1 tablespoon of instant couscous (semolina wheat) on the side. “Couscous is among the healthiest grain-based products”. Look under Nutrition at bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous. If you’re going to cheat, do it right.

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My five favorite foods/spices for maximum health are:
ginger, cinnamon, turmeric, walnuts, coconut oil
There’s no order to it – they are all important in their own areas.

Below, I will deal with two of these: coconut oil and ginger

What coconut oil can do:

This is amazing stuff. Do yourself a favor and read this
one paragraph if none other.

In the last post I dealt with coconut oil as potential  prevention of Alzheimer’s and a reversal of most of the effects of the condition. This time, I give a list of the other areas in which it  has an effect.

There are some 50 things coconut oil has been found to do for the body which Dr. Fife, an expert on coconut oil, lists. These are replicated on the  Naturalnews site http://www.naturalnews.com/032727_coconut_oil_Alzheimers.html, but I’ll try to simplify it – or not.

Antibiotic/parasites: expels, kills, or prevents viruses,  parasites, disease causing bacteria including those found in periodontal disease and tooth decay.
Energy and endurance: provides energy and boosts endurance for physical tasks and athletics.
Weight loss: lower in calories than other fats, increases metabolic rate, promotes loss of excess weight
Organ support: helps protect against kidney/bladder/liver infections and diseases, dissolves kidney stones, supports the thyroid, and reduces epileptic seizures.
Reduces disease symptoms: associated with pancreatitis, diabetes, gallbladder disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, stomach ulcers, malabsorption syndrome, cystic fibrosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia (prostate enlargement), chronic fatigue syndrome, and pain of hemorrhoids, plus protecting against osteoporosis.
Improves digestion and absorption: and bowel function, and the absorption of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids including calcium and magnesium which are important in the development of strong bones and teeth.
General system functions: improves insulin secretion and utilization of blood glucose, relieves stress on pancreas and enzyme systems of the body, and improves utilization of essential fatty acids, and protects them from oxidation.
Heart: reduces risk of heart disease by improving cholesterol ratio, and protecting arteries from injury.
Skin: applied to skin helps form chemical barrier against infection, and protects against effects of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Internally, supports the natural chemical balance of the skin, and softens skin helping to prevent wrinkles, sagging skin, age spots, and relieving dryness, flaking, dandruff, and reduces the symptoms associated the psoriasis, eczema, and dermatitis.
Immune System: supports immune system, protective antioxidant and does not deplete antioxidant reserves like other oils, reduces inflammation, supports healing and repair of tissue, and protects against free radicals which contribute to premature aging and degenerative disease.
Cancer: helps protect against breast, colon, and other cancers.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032727_coconut_oil_Alzheimers.html
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Reds and Purple
My one chance to put cinnamon and stevia into a vegetable dish..
To my taste buds, when they conjure up sweet potato, that makes sense. And if something doesn’t make sense to your taste buds, as the controlling power to the outside world, you are well advised to heed its hunch. We have all these sensory worlds which are sort of mini empires unto themselves. Sometimes they cooperate and sometimes they don’t, or like the rest of us, mistakes are made, as when the visual doesn’t see because the cerebral has no interest or has set up boundaries. Ah, but the visual saw, and when there is a recall under hypnosis, there’s the object right there slightly to the right but in full view, and ‘we just didn’t see it’.
     In fact, in the interests of survival, internal harmony, justification, isomorphism with knowledge base, and 100 other parameters, we don’t sense and/or remember as much as 80-90 percent of the world around us. Just ask someone else what they saw and remember, and it is as if they were in another world. Where there is overlap, it is truly a miracle. And where there is significant overlap, you have an instant friend. We go around subliminally searching for the person who sees the same world we see.

That was great:
sweet potato
carrot
eggplant
quinoa
walnuts, cashews, almonds. (There’s one pistachio in there. That took a lot of self control)
5 drops of stevia (or other natural sweetener or brown sugar)
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
thyme
sea salt (I’m out)
coconut oil
extra virgin olive oil
capful kikkoman soy sauce (fermented which most of the other stuff isn’t)

Boiled the vegetables and quinoa until quinoa ready, dumped the water (strainer), and added the rest. Got one photo before my batteries gave out.
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Another breakfast which contains three of the essentials: cinnamon, turmeric, and coconut oil.
What’s important here are the additions to what I used to consider breakfast – fried eggs and toast with nothing on them except for salt, pepper and jam on the toast.
Egg fried in coconut oil and a little olive oil, so I could get it out of the pan, with turmeric, oregano and thyme
Toast fried in coconut oil with additional coconut oil spread on the toast under the cream cheese (organic goat but doesn’t have to be), cinnamon and agave/stevia/maple syrup
The reason for the extra coconut oil will be expalined below.
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Eggplant and Basmati Rice with…
The important part is the ‘with‘.
no garlic (I go to the dentist in the morning)

And it had no taste, at least that’s what I said to myself when I tasted it.
So I added 1 capful of kikkoman soy sauce – wow, what a difference. It was suddenly so good, I was eating it out of the pan before the photo shoot.
Now — the no taste ingredients
swiss chard
onion
chopped up pecan and walnuts (1 almond)
basil, oregano, thyme, turmeric, pinch of cayenne powder
All added after the rice was almost ready. Actually it never really was.
And ginger – since ginger is bitter, put it on only a small part of the finished product – not mixed in.
Then, you can eat and get-it-over-with for all the great things ginger does for you.
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And Ginger?
So what does it do for you?
The extensive list on the following link gives all that ginger does for you http://www.boost-immune-system-naturally.com/health-benefits-of-ginger.html
But my favorites in the list are:
Anti everything: Is a strong antioxidant, antimicrobial (bacteria which includes salmonella) , and antiseptic plus anti-inflammatory helping with inflammation and minor burns.
Lungs: Eases asthma symptoms and other respiratory problems, and helps reduce congestion
Down below: Helps in kidney health, cleans the colon, helps against indigestion, and reduces motion sickness (take in some tea 1/2 hour before traveling)
Heart and blood: May help prevent heart attacks, and mini strokes, cleans and stimulates the blood, prevents blood clots, lowers cholesterol levels and is a natural blood thinner 
Cancer: Prevents, inhibits, suppresses the spread of, stops growth, induces cell death, and reduces viability of different types of cancer cells

All the female stuff is sort of out of my area, but if you are, then it’s worth a look.
http://www.boost-immune-system-naturally.com/health-benefits-of-ginger.html
Suggests taking 1/3 tsp ground or 1 tsp fresh three times a day and gives suggestions on how to use it
This is one incredible food and the reason it is not used more may be linked to its bitterness. But if people only knew…
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Here we go again. This whole-grain spelt is really great. That’s the last of the maple syrup on there plus two teaspoons of coconut oil plus all the add-ons that you see – without and with milk. The milk is true organic milk produced under international organic standards, which I don’t expect anyone else to use because it’s twice as expensive, but that’s what’s available where I have credit. And, by the way, it tastes great. It’s from  harduf.co.il which says they are the only organic dairy in Israel.    
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I cook for two and hence eat for two. Doesn’t seem to make me any fatter.
Weight is really a perceptual thing. Just think thin and live double and you’ll burn off the extra. Plus use coconut oil which actually helps reduce weight (so they say).
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This is before I combined the pickle and humus with the goat cream cheese and broccoli sprout/onion sandwich. Not a pretty sight. So, I decided not to show it. But it was great. Sometimes the down right ugly in this life are the real diamonds (in the rough as they say). In other words, always ‘eat’ it before making your decision.
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This is a composite dish and hence has no name.
The secret ingredient is a capful of maple syrup, and of course the humus on top.
tablespoon of coconut oil for frying.
sweet potato
swiss chard stems
carrot
onion
garlic (have not been eating garlic because I want to go to the dentist for an adjustment which should take about 5 minutes. But I keep putting it off so I’ll finally give in and put only two cloves in which by tomorrow morning will no longer have any residual).
swiss chard leaves
cashews (but almonds and walnuts snuck in because I buy in bulk and put them into the same bag)
turmeric, thyme, oregano, basil, salt
capful soy sauce
capful pure maple syrup
extra coconut oil mixed in
Each part goes in as I prepare them. So, the order above is important with the pieces which need the extra time going first. Of course keeping the pan covered as much as possible. The humus is put on afterwards.
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THE RESCUE OF A WHALE
Absolutely beautiful. It is really worth living – just to see this.
http://www.koreus.com/video/sauvetage-baleine-filet.html
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I’M AMAZED
Alzheimer’s treatable? preventable?
We still don’t know what causes it. And 99% of everybody, and that’s quite a few people, say that it isn’t curable and it can’t even be successfully treated – at least not yet. But that appears to be about to change.

Read the following article to get one version of what happened in the real world with one researcher, and the links to others who have experienced similar reactions. It’s amazing. To make a long story short. A medical doctor’s husband had Alzheimer’s and had totally lost his personality, ability to remember, and could not even talk coherently. She heard of two programs which were testing a new drug for Alzheimer’s and since nothing which he was taking was helping, decided to enroll him. They went to the first and after the husband was evaluated, the administrator came out and said that the husband Alzeimer’s was so severe they could not accept him. Totally depressed, she went home and while waiting for the next  interview, ran across something about coconut oil and its possible beneficial effect on Alzheimer’s. So she said to herself ‘why not?’.  She bought and gave him some coconut oil the morning of the second interview. They went for the interview, and since there was no change in her husband she figured that he would probably be rejected again. After the evaluation, the evaluator came out and said that he had done very well on the test (the same test which had been given on the previous interview) and was accepted for the trial. It appears that it takes about 3 hours for the beneficial effects of coconut oil to have an effect on the brain cells and the effect had kicked in during the evaluation. One of the reasons for this effect on the system may have something to do with the fact that coconut oil is made up mainly of fatty acids which are joined together in medium chain triglycerides which the liver matabolizes into keytone bodies which are very easily assimulated as fuel by the neurons in the brain, while almost all other oils we use are long chain. Whether or not this is the reason for its effect on Alzheimer’s, on with the story. So she decided to continue with the coconut oil. One day the husband came downstairs laughing and talking coherently and joking like his former self.  She says that she had gotten her husband back. And the improvements (while not total) have remained over time. She contacted a researcher Dr. Richard Veech at the Natonal Institute of Health (NIH) in the U.S. who could verify what had taken place based on his experiements. The 5 part video gives the details and is really worth viewing. This transformation has also occurred to others, and I include below a video of another couple.

Article summarizing the above:
What if there was a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and no one knew? A case study by Dr. Mary Newport. Especially see drawing of clock at bottom of page. http://www.coconutketones.com/whatifcure.pdf
Available through Amazon

Since I live in Israel, here is an on target article in Hebrew:
שמן קוקוס תרופה טבעית לאלצהיימר? ריפוי בשמן קוקוס

And this interview in 5 parts is worth every minute you spend watching it. An interview with Dr. Newport’s experiences with Alzheimer’s and the use of coconut oil for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s. Also mentioned is the work of Dr. Veech a researcher at NIH.
Part I  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScs0uzQZFk&feature=related
Part II  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOrDIixbGMs&feature=related
Part III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfY-lHDLRk&feature=related
Part IV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jp7BhDFrU&feature=related
Part V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up6JrQhaDUw&feature=related

Another case of Alzheimer’s and the use of coconut oil
An interview on a different case of Alzheimer’s and the effects of coconut oil and naicin http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mMw3d3ohx_s#!

A new book by Dr. Fife backed by years of research including a diet which will prevent and even stop the effects of Alzheimer’s, dimentia and other neurological diseases: Stop Alzheimer’s Now
“A must read for everyone concerned with Alzheimer’s disease…the author explains how diet modifications and the addition of coconut oil can drastically change the course of the disease”. –Edmond Devroey, MD, The Longevity Institute
Have not yet read it but it has some very good reviews.
Piccadillybooks: http://piccadillybooks.com/stop-alzheimers-now.htm
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Alzheimers-Now-Parkinsons-Neurodegenerative/dp/094159985X

The first question everyone asks – isn’t it fattening?
Well, no and it actually helps the body reduce weight. Listen to the following, to find out why we have been led to think of it as fattening.
Dr. Mercola: Is Coconut Oil REALLY Healthy?
It emphasizes the fact that you should never use hydrogenated coconut or any other type of hydrogenated oil.
Use only virgin coconut oil or other virgin or natural oils.

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How to use it? Here is one.
Pure undiluted coconut oil on a biscuit with real strawberry jam. Absolutely delicious!

 Two teaspoons three times a day, and there are so many ways to use it because at room temperature it is hard but melts when you eat it, has almost no taste, and the body apparently loves it. Over the years there has been a lot of research on what it does in the body and how it can help in a large number of conditions, but few had connected it with Alzheimer’s.  See the list by Dr. Fife http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/
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Homemade dill pickles
You can have them also. But then, you would have to know my daughter. Of course, you can get them at the super, but it’s not the same.
The important thing here is the fact that the spread, on which the sandwich filling rests, is 80% coconut oil plus a lot of herbs and spices. The story of Alzheimer’s above tells you why that’s important.
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The Perks
It’s the perks in life that make it worth all our effort, aside from the survival aspect and fulfillment of goals sort of thing. That smile from friends when they see you, or the smile from the girl in the coffee shop, because you gave her a big tip last time, or because she thinks you are the nicest person in town, well in the neighborhood, or let’s say the shop when you are the only one in there. No matter! The important thing is the smile. It makes it all worthwhile. It’s like the blob of strawberry jam on the spelt and the small piece of goat feta on the egg. They make the breakfast. Try giving some – you’ll make someone’s day. No, not the feta and jam.
By the way, that spelt is great, especially when all the water has dissipated when cooking it – even if it means putting it through the strainer and back into the pan for a last minute on high flame. It becomes an entrée and not mush – very important conceptually. Not that I’m against mush as such, but sometimes mush just does not say anything to you, although  in most cases that is exactly what we need when we have just gotten up. But at other times, it just isn’t enough. The egg was fried in coconut oil, and the spelt was boiled and coconut oil added to ‘moisten’ the drying flakes.  
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Basmati Rice
Rice slightly underdone, but who can wait forever. Hoped my stomach would give me some slack. Actually gave it a slightly chewy feeling which was great. Will do it again. Soft rice just has no character, I don’t care where it comes from, or who brought it up.
Ingredients
slightly underdone basmati rice
1 small onion
1/2 bell pepper
1/2 zucchini squash
basil
oregano
thyme
sea salt
1 capful kikkoman soy sauce
fried in coconut oil
I would even invite someone over for this one.
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Vegetable quinoa stew with an egg.
Didn’t think I could get it out of the pan successfully, hence the photo within.
All my eggs have come out with broken yokes, until I decided to use both hands.
There’s a solution for every problem. You just have to find it.

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My lunch
A salad as always. I feel that it’s sort of boring, but if I’m healthy who am I to complain.
Nothing new here: romaine, egg, goat feta cheese, bell pepper, spices, herbs, olive oil, Kikkoman fermented soy sauce. But, just to  be able to say that there is balsamic vinegar in there, I had to stand a full 15 seconds with the empty bottle upended to get 3 drops of the stuff. 
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Breakfast – The best of all worlds

grapefruit, avocado slices, 2 eggs fried in coconut oil, walnuts and raisins with maple syrup, and the spices turmeric, thyme, oregano, basil, sea salt. Could be fried in coconut oil with a small amount of olive oil to help seal the pan so that the eggs would not stick.

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 Eggplant, squash, chard, cauliflower mash
Delicious
In hot coconut oil, put the eggplant, chard stems but not the leaves, and chopped up cauliflower. Cook for about 8 minutes and add the squash. After about 2-3 minutes add the chard leaves for another two. Add the spices and herbs: thyme, oregano, basil, turmeric, sea salt, black pepper and as much goat feta cheese (or other cheese) as you want. Mix well. Cover and turn off flame. Let sit for 2 minutes if you can wait that long.
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Bothered by Spam?
Just found a way to siphon off some of the spam to your blog if you are bothered by it. I was able to locate 1700 out of 4500 spam using this which then enabled me to delete them more easily. Because many spam comments include references to sites starting with this string, just  search the folders with the following (no spaces on either side) : [url=http

However, there may occasionally be a valid comment with that string. 
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Spelt-spelt pancake with next bite incentive
Decided that I didn’t want just a spelt flour pancake, but a full grain spelt pancake.
Cooked the spelt first – about 7 minutes – until the grain really opens up.
Mixed up a 2 egg with water and spelt flour batter,
Added raisins, grated ginger and a special pistachio nuts which took some self control not to eat them all before they got into the batter. The other bit of self control came earlier in the day when I ate only half a banana and saved the other half for I knew not what later in the day.
Put the cooked full grain spelt into the batter and poured into a just smoking olive oil and coconut oil base in a stainless steel frying pan.
Had to spread out the full grain spelt because it rose to the top of the batter in the pan.

When one side is done, turn. But this part takes nerves of steel and about 5 previous failed attempts because it must be done as a full platter flip. The cake is eased onto a plate with the undone side up. And then the plate is turned over to turn the pancake, hopefully into the pan. It was a three point landing.

The pistachios are the surprise element – you keep hoping that the next bite will contain one. Just be sure to tell whoever is joining you that they are in there so they won’t think that something fell in by mistake – could be a nasty confrontation.
Top off with Cinnamon
Banana slices
Real maple syrup. Do not use those artificial substitutes. I use only 3-4 capfuls per pancake and it lasts a long time. The other stuff is made up of high fructose corn (possibly GM) syrup which is not good for the system.
Hoped that the last bite would also contain a pistachio but was disappointed.
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The Flip Side
This is the under side of what was still a great egg pizza on the face of it. Don’t do other things when you’re cooking.
It was still delicious.
I just imagined the other side, as I ate it with my eyes closed.
OK, how do you make it – other than the burned part.
Put about 2 tablespoons of spelt flour into a jar with two eggs and a small amount of water. Shake. I’m very jar oriented even though I have a mixer, which I never use.
Pour on top of whatever was left in the pan from the previous meal. Fortunately a vegetable dish with an onion ring and bell pepper. I waste nothing and also do not clean up after each meal. Maybe I should really get serious about this other-half business. Not that I’m looking for a cleaner-upper.
Back to the dish. Once burned or not, flip it onto the plate, preferably sunnyside up and add:
goat feta cheese or any other kind will do
grated ginger
avocado slice
turmeric
basil
oregano
thyme
sea salt and black pepper
Close your eyes and enjoy
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Breast and Colon Cancer Prevention and Vitamin D3
If you are getting the Mercola newsletter, I know that you have noticed the interview of Mercola with Carole Baggerly about the prevention of breast cancer (about 1 hour – very interesting).
I found a 5 minute tape of Baggerly talking about this subject on youtube
Basically the Mercola interview states that we need 40-60 and even higher nanograms per ml liter of vitamin D3 in our blood. And this may be obtained with about 15 minutes of sun a day between the hours of 10am-2pm. But that exercise is also very important. and that mammograms are at best very iffy propositions with much over-reporting as well as under-detection.
The prevention is the key.
So what they are saying is that it is very important to get your vitamin D3 levels tested to see just where you are, because it takes different sun exposure levels, or vitamin D3 supplementation for each individual based on a whole range of factors, but that direct sun exposure is at the top of the list.

I wrote the above to my sisters and received the following back from them:

First sister responding: My doctor has me on 5000 Vit D for 2 months then 1,000/day. I had no idea I was low because we spent so much time in the islands and then here in our garden.

Second sister responding: I now live in the Mojave Desert and have spent the entire spring/summer outside in up to 112 degree weather.  Always with sun.  And still my doc said I needed to add Vitamin D to my daily intake.  So good to know.

Measuring would appear to be all important. At least once, to get an idea of where you are and what you might need to keep it at the right level.
Apparently, you can’t get too much as long as you don’t burn. And don’t use sunscreen during those 15-20 minutes of prime time. And, according to some,  don’t wash with soap afterwards on the premium exposure areas but just the crucial areas, for as many hours as you, your best friend and neighbors can stand (it sits just under the skin until totally used by the body.  One of the best treatment of this subject giving a number of reasons for possible low readings which I have found is Showering after Sun Exposure Lowers Vitamin D Levels and Dr. Iverson’s comments on the whole subject of showering.  The web source for the first part of this article is Shocking Udate Sunsine Can Actually Decrease Your Vitamin D Levels by Mercola

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Best of Both Worlds
Wanted eggs but I had to have something to put the grated ginger on, so I mixed up a bit of spelt flour batter, and that was the only space left over from the eggs. This dish is about spices and condiments and not the backdrop.

base
2 organic eggs from happy chickens
whole spelt flour
the spices
turmeric
basil
oregano
2 pinches of cayenne
cinnamon
condiments
maple syrup cap full
avocado
ginger lots of
feta goat cheese
fried in
coconut oil because that was what was in the pan from last night.

My rant for the day
Ginger has been found to reduce the inflammation which is one of the markers for colon cancer Natural News. Note on reference to grams in the article: for those, like me, who need to translate 2 grams into understandable syntax, there are 5 grams of water in a teaspoon. So if you think of the ginger as completely liquefied, I used the equivalent of about 7 grams on this pancake, and intend to use more during the day. I put this link in before, but if you really want to know what ginger can do for you, this is a page to help start the mental search, because it’s astounding Boost-Immune-System-Naturally. 

It is truly amazing that most of us have some ginger around, but it just sits there waiting in vain to be used. And then we throw it out after 4-5 years. Truly incredible how much we (principally I) do not know about the health effects of most of the foods, herbs, spices and condiments available to us, and the fact that we use so little of it when we do use it. Don’t think ‘sprinkle sprinkle’, think ‘pour pour’ or ‘dump, dump’ some of these herbs, spices and condiments on your plate. In particular, take a look at the take of world’s healthiest foods on ginger for more specific information (and they have  references).  And then I was wondering how else to use ginger and came up with this video on making a cup (actually 6 cups) of Chai Tea

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What I didn’t give the cat
That’s the fried egg you see there in the middle. I wrote that line before seeing the photo – you can’t see it but it’s there.
Got home and had nothing to feed my cat Attackit, and if you have a cat, you already know that’s a disaster – as far as they are concerned. To hold her while I went for food, gave her about a quarter of an egg (raw) and some kibble (which she ignored). And the rest of the egg I put into the frying pan and just left there when I started dinner. So, the real name for this is
Squash Spaghetti (chinese noodles) and leftover egg.
The squash replaces the sweet potato in ‘The most delicious nothing…’  below. Also without the nuts but with newly purchased thyme, oregano, and basil.
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The most delicious nothing I have ever had
(That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but…)
I stood in the middle of my kitchen, looked around and said to myself
there’s nothing here.
A sweet potato had been sitting in the empty basket for some time. Decided to at least start the sweet potato in coconut oil.
Then decided to add 5 garlic (wasn’t going to the dentist until after the weekend).
Then put the chinese rolled noodles in some boiling hot water on my one plate.
Took out the garlic from the frying pan after about 3 minutes. Didn’t want it to really be cooked and lose some of its nutrients.
Added the rest of the bell pepper left over from lunch.
When potato slices half way done, added noodles with a little bit of the hot water and covered.
When done, added the garlic, 1 tsp turmeric, very small amount of olive oil, 1 cap of kikkoman soy sauce, sea salt, a pinch of cayenne powder and something else which I now forget (maybe coriander).
Added the boiled-in-hot-water-for-count-of-6 nuts and raisins (bulk purchase)
Fantastic
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Triple Egg Deluxe
3 eggs
spelt flour
red bell pepper
crimini mushrooms
1/2 onion
goat feta cheese
1/2 avocado
grated ginger (a lot) for its purported effect on cancer
sea salt
turmeric
thyme
coriander
sea salt
basil and oregano still do not have them
extra virgin olive oil
coconut oil

It was either use the mushrooms or lose them. When they get sort of rubbery, its past time. So I piled on the anti-everything spices and went ahead. Fried the mushrooms, bell pepper and onion in olive oil, and then added coconut oil just before adding the egg mixture to be sure that the egg would not stick to the pan. Worked perfectly.
The egg mixture is made up of three eggs and about 1 rounded tablespoon spelt flour.
Poured it on the mushroom concoction and covered. When ready, added the spices and herbs, the feta and avocado. Added a lot of cayenne pepper to one part of the finished product. Enjoyed it with 1/2 glass of deep red wine.
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This is the new apple cereal
after 1 glass of water (should have been 2 but some days it just does not make it before breakfast, so it has to be after)
And of course after feeding the cat (she always comes first. Her meows (had to look up the spelling on that, and while looking, I ran across the way they say it in some 30 different languages (of course with different accents) http://www.paw-talk.net/forums/f10/what-do-cats-say-in-different-languages-2263.html are so insistent that it’s difficult to deny her. But in the early morning, if she sees that I’m just not ready to get up she just sits there expectantly without saying anything (she’s a realist).
quarter cup of spelt grain
assorted nuts but especially the walnuts to keep the blood flowing
a grated apple with its skin (organic)
lots of cinnamon
grated ginger (a lot for its purported effect on cancer)
sea salt
real maple syrup
1/4 glass of dark red wine (yes, even for breakfast)

One of the best treatments on the subject of cinnamon is Cathy Wong’s http://altmedicine.about.com/od/cinnamon/a/cinnamon.htm which covers the types, health properties, and safety issues. If you are thinking about using a lot, be sure to check this article out.

INVESTING IN MY FUTURE
or how to ward off 101 deleterious conditions

Making it to 101 years. If this doesn’t do it, nothing will.
Why 101? I just figure that after that age I’ll just be a drain on the system.
Best to start anew.

Ginger with Eggplant and Friends

grated ginger - If you’re into health and even if you aren’t, you must see this page health benefits of ginger which is a list of benefits of ginger including
antioxidant
antimicrobial
anticongestion
and anticancer agents
which will turn you on or, if you aren’t that sort, will simply amaze you. You will never be the same afterwards.

As one reputed defense against colon cancer states ”ginger inhibits 5-LO enzymes, the only food for prostate cancer cells, prostate cancer cells die in one to two hours without this enzyme” health benefits of ginger Plus, the whfoods.com website adds anti-motion sickness, anti-nausea and vomiting if pregnant, as well as anti-inflammatory for such things as rheumatoid arthritis to the credit of ginger.

In short, if you love life, eat ginger. And even if you don’t – love life – it’ll take some of the rough edges off.

small eggplant - one of the best renditions of this particular benefit to health is from someone who loves India (really worth reading)http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/benefits-of-eggplant-5792.html .

Others have the following to say -  the skin of the eggplant has a potent antioxidant which is good for the cells of the brain, and the eggplant itself has phenolic compounds that function as antioxidants and one of them includes “antimutagenic (anti-cancer), antimicrobial, anti-LDL (bad cholesterol) and antiviral activities” while also giving free radical protection and improving blood flow World’s Healthiest Foods

And if you want to know what 3fatchicks have to say about eggplant: it may be good against colon cancer, and according to them good for weight loss and good skin tone 3 health benefits of eggplant by 3fatchicks.com

Taken altogether, try to consume the skin of the eggplant for its nasunin, a potent antioxidant/free radical neutralization, and for me who is not aware of any bitter taste in the skin, even if it’s there, it’s not worth putting aside with salt for 1/2 an hour. Particularly when I have very low attention span and the meal has to be on the cutting board and out of the pan and onto the plate in 10 minutes.

lots of crimini mushrooms for their immune system benefits WHFoods on mushrooms, although Dr. Weil swears off the white buttons found in many supermarkets and suggests other types which may have varying benefits including  some which have “anticancer, antiviral, and immune-system enhancing effects and may also help control both high blood pressure and blood sugar levels” Are Mushrooms Good For Your Health

5 cloves of garlic – lists all the good things with some precautions worthy of being aware: garlic health summary by garlic-central.com

zucchini squash – important as an antioxident but everyone seems to be waiting on the research.  One thing which has come out so far is that the skin of the zucchini holds some of the more important antioxidants. Therefore, buy organic so as to not get all the insecticides and super grower concoctions.

This you have to read.
red bell pepper - one of the best discussions I have ever read: Bell Peppers’ Health Benefits ionehealth.com Gives the why’s behind the scenes in discussing why you should fear free radicals and what the sweet bell pepper can do about it – arteriosclerosis, protecting eyesight, why eating bell peppers is good for rheumatoid arthritis, and against cardiovascular problems, as well as helps in staving off colon cancer and lung cancer, just to name the tip of the iceberg. And then there is the fact that one bell pepper is worth two oranges in terms of vitamin C. 

According to another site, they are one of the more pronounced fat burners out there Unusual Health Benefits of Bell Peppers by fatburningfurnace.com

Looking back, you’ll wish you had eaten more of those things, but then the past is the past. But wait, there is still what is left of the future.

And all the rest
1/2 onion
and all the herbs and spices put on after the shoot: turmeric, thyme, coriander, sea salt, oregano if I have it, basil if I have it
1 capful Kikkoman soy sauce
extra virgin olive oil
pure coconut oil

no grains and no sugars, neither of which are necessary, and both of which have actually been found to feed cancers, help you put on weight, and later on, generally rue the days you walked into the mall for a quick snack.

dark red wine – a half glass (sometimes before and always with)
This one’s cork wouldn’t extract, so rather than bother my next door neighbor for a different type of corkscrew, I just pounded it into the wine (carefully). Drastic measures are sometimes called for when the best blood and mind protector is sitting there just inches on the other side of the glass, and in this case, cork.

and a B12 sublingual pill every day, and magnesium, zinc, E, multiple B, and a really good multivitamin (not available in supers) about every 2nd-3rd day when I remember (I’ve got to find something for memory – or is the lack of memory just for vitamins).

And that’s not all
Each day I walk 3,000 paces (about 3 miles round trip) to an icecream parlor where I have a cappuccino with brown sugar, a muffin with dark chocolate chips, the best newspaper in the city, and a smile from the waitress and the owner. Then I walk back home. If the sugar and cream in the cappuccino, and the muffin mix do me in, then it was worth it. My consolation is that the coffee and the dark chocolate, both of which have been found to be very healthy for you.
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Think I’ll open a restaurant
Chinese Rolled Noodles and Nut Dish

Absolutely delicious
2 noodle rolls
1 red onion
5 cloves garlic
pecans, almonds, walnuts
extra virgin olive oil
thyme
coriander
sea salt
1 capful kikkoman soy sauce
lots of cayenne pepper flakes and seeds

Preparation: use your imagination. The one principle to remember is that the less cooked the nuts, onion, and garlic, the more healthy they are.
One hint: Boil the noodles first, drain and add the rest on a small flame until half way done.
Also, the cayenne was only put on a small part of the finished product and not mixed in with the whole. Wanted the cayenne, but I also wanted to truly enjoy the second part of the dish :-) See previous posts for the great health value of cayenne.