Chia Chia!

I have been hearing people promoting Chia Seed lately, in

Vegetarian Society and in Facebook...The introduction of this seed tells people that it has multiple of certain elements that will benefits the body and this seed is labelled as SUPER Food. Only EPG is selling this and they look so precious for people especially vegetarian because we worried we will missed out certain nutrition when we omitted meat from our diet. For mothers, we will worried that our children will not be nutrition enough as a vegetarian or vegan.

While we are in the progress of improving our diet, these worries are understandable and we would want to know more information before we do the transit. Reading up books and proper website is essential initially, this will built up your confident with examples from others.

Reference : www.ourplaceinternational.com

Herbert Shelton

Harvey Diamond

As our body gets cleaner, our instinct will be better and we will listen to our stomach instead, without using our intellect. When we reached that stage, we don't have to worry about the Nutrition Factor in the food, we just go according to our instinct. This is what I understand from Siok Khoon from our place international. They have been doing self healing and cleansing their body as and when necessary according to body's needs with Fasting. Their instinct revealed slowly and understand the truth better. For me, I am still in progress and will believe that I will experience their freedom if I continue to cleanse my body but not now... ke ke :)

In Buddhism, it is similar, we clear our mind from dust everyday with practise and meditation. So our wisdom will slowly revealed as times goes by. If we stopped one day, the dust will accumulate and we have to start all over again. I am so blessed to know the Dharma and the way in healing our body. For those who read this Blog, hope that you can too, seriously look into these two areas.

Coming back to Chia, me too, bought a bottle of Chia Seed for fun because I have not tried it before. It is quite impressive that this seed can expand 10 times of its size after soaking it in the water for 2 hours, some used them after soaking for 30 mins. It is gel like and is good as a pudding. I tried drinking with beverage like bubble tea with the pearl. But I realised that I will just swallow the seed without chewing them and I don't feel comfortable after that, difficult to digest if not properly chewed. I got this Chia Pudding recipe from everyday raw desserts by Kenney. He has impressive pictures in his books and they all looks like commercial desserts selling in Hotels. I got the Chia Pudding recipe from it and add my own created cream sauce on top. Have fun with the gel like food but don't to be too obsessed with the nutritions in it and force it on your child.

Chia Pudding (simplified from everyday raw desserts by Kenney)

1 cup cashew

2 cups water

1/2 cup agave nectar

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp liquid amino

1/2 cup chia seeds

Blend all ingredients except for chia seeds.

Pour mixture into chia seed and mix thoroughly.

Let it sit for 2 hours.

Cream (by TSL Kitchen)

Cashew

rice milk

agave nectar

vanilla extract

blend them all up and drizzle on top of chia pudding

Cute Mini Processor can do WONDERS

I had been skipping recipes that requires processor because I don't have one. I am reluctant to buy one because it is huge and bulky. With my small kitchen, there is no space for any more equipments or my husband will shake his head.... My intention of buying the Philip hand blender was to make smooth porridge for my son. We went to a Philip Sales with my sister, Kate and brother in law, Trevor. With their generosity, they gave it to me as a Christmas Gift. So Grateful!!! I was hard on cash during that period, hee...

This hand blender comes with a mini S-blade Processor and cake batter, so neat! I started to dig out the processor when I am tempted to try to make raw cake. It works GREAT!!! I love it from the 1st day I used it. I had make so many recipes with it and it is easy to clean too. Raw cakes, pizza, sushi, bread and thick sauces..... Thanks to Kat and Trevor again for making my dishes works!

My friends has been asking me about the recipes for the Foccacia Bread, here it is, enjoy!

1 cup flax seeds, grounded

1 cup sunflower seed, grounded

2 cups onion, quartered

1 1/2 cup tomato, chopped

1/4 cup sesame seeds

1/4 cup olive oil

2 tbsp liquid amino

1 tbsp rosemary

1 tbsp thyme

Process everything in S-blade processor into batter form

Spread on the tray and sprinkle some sesame seed and dehydrate them

For vegetarian, use the below recipes for non onion version

2 cups of sprouted wheat berries

1/2 cup olives, pitted, diced

1 tbsp rosemary

liquid amino to taste

water

blend everything except olive (if you have masticating juicer, use it!!! for smoother texture)

mix the olive in the batter

dehydrate

No more abuse please!

This is a HUGE one!!! The earth had been giving signal that he cannot take the abuse any more, but we still continue to add toxin to the earth. Now the disaster are bigger than before. The earth is just like our body, if we give him loving kindness and give him proper food. It will flourish and grow and give you more. But if you abuse it with all the pollutions, all the symptom and dieaster will follow. Cause and Effects.... What can we do? If we reduce meat in take, we can actually helps to reduce the pollutions from the animal farm and suffering of the animals. Everyday, there are millions and millions of animal been slaughter for our craving. If we stay near the animal farm, you will actually hear the cry and feel the fear from the animals.

We can actually have all the nutrients we need from the plant kingdom. We have our calcium and proteins from seeds, nuts and beans. Once they are sprouted, more nutrients are available and they are cheap too. With a little handful of seeds, you can sprout a whole bunch. Sunflower greens and sprouts are high in protein, vitamin A, D, E and B complex and they are good source of minerals, including calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, potassium, phosphorus and zinc. We also don't need cow's milk for calcium. We can have them from raw sesame seeds, raw nuts, green leafy vegetables, kelp, dulse. Raw Sesame seed contains more calcium than any other food on earth.

Food For Playgroup ---- Part 2/2

Giving the DULL looking Fruit Roll a New image

In my very early blog, I had introduced fruit roll as one of the healthy snack with the link:

http://rawhealthyfood.blogspot.com/2010/05/dehydrator.html

But it looks dull, I realised lately that appearance is important. The dish needs to be appealing to your eyes before anyone would pick them up to eat. So I revamp this dish into Fruit Stick....

This was not one of my bring along dishes for the playgroup, I had my Mush Nugget as mentioned in my earlier blog. But some how I don't know how, this idea popped up in my mind. It was like a picture painted in my mind and I just have to do it. I could not find any good sulphur free dried apricot in my nearby supermarket so I replaced it with strawberry and dates. It still taste Good!!!

You can do your own combination of fruits. Let your favourite smoothies turn into rolls which you can bring out without worrying that you need a cooler bag for your smoothies. But I still emphasis that we should eat more high content food. Smoothies is still better than dehydrated fruit roll but in term of outdoor snacks, fruit roll is a better choice. There should be a balance to everything and eat with moderation.

Coming back to dried apricot, you can get them from Cold Storage. They carry organic sulphur free dried apricot which is brown in colour. The bright yellow one that you see in supermarkets, usually contain sulphur which is not good for your health. Read the ingredients and labels!!! Make sure we know what food we are buying and consuming. We are paying for the food and we don't want to pay for anything that will damage our health ya.

Food For Playgroup ---- Part 1/2

I happened to saw this recipe from Evie's Kitchen from Shazzie. Mush Nuggets!!! It looks good on the pic with crispy coating similar to the bread crumbs coated on fish nugget and the ingredients are simple. To my surprise, it taste good, soft on the inside and crispy from the outside. I don't have to watch my husband eating his chicken nuggets again, I can still have mine too.

For this Mush Nugget, the recipes asked for...

4 large flat mushroom --- slice into 3~4mm wide of strips

100g golden flax seeds --- blend into powder

20ml olive oil --- organic, cold pressed

20ml water

pinch of Himalayan pink salt --- replaced with Liquid Amino

Mix water, oil, liquid amino into a bowl.

Coat the mushroom slices in the liquid mixtures on all sides.

Coat the mushroom slices again with Flaxseed powder on all sides

Dehydrate for 2 hours and serve or place in an oven in lowest temperature for 1 hour or until the flaxseed powder is crispy. Flaxseed itself contains high content of plant-derived OMEGA 3 fatty acid, similar to those found in fish. It can be hard to digest for children but once in a while I would add some in the smoothies for my son. It has to be soaked for at least 20 mins before using.

Of course, with nuggets, we also cannot miss TOMATO Sauce. I have prepare my dehydrated tomato in advance, prepared for this recipe a long time ago. Now it is time to use it!

60g dried tomato

3 red pepper bell

4 dates

1/4 onion

1 tbsp lemon juice

Blend everything together in the blender. It should have the same consistency as ketchup - dollopy.

Accident Recipe --- Goreng Pisang

It was by chance that I did this with the left over flaxseed powder from the Mush Nugget. It would be wasteful to throw away the remaining so I searched through my kitchen to see what else can I use it with. My husband said that it looked like Fish Fillet when I MMS the pic to him. And he asked me for this dish when he reached home. I cutted the banana into half and coated it with flaxseed and dehydrate for 2 hour. To get the flaxseed stick to the banana, I poked holes on the uncutted area to wet the surface. It is warm and nice when you eat it immediately from the dehydrator. It is good!!! But one thing to take note is not to dehydrate the banana above 46 degree so as to have the fruits remain raw. Fruits should be eaten RAW and with empty stomach!