It transports me back to my childhood days when Macdonalds and Pizza Hut weren’t around yet–at least where I lived-that is. On Sabbath afternoons when my mother thinks we could use some nice snack and my cousins were around, she’d make the simplest but delightful merienda — Boiled Cassava with coconut milk. One coconut grated [...]
Read more »Almond Milk and Grape Juice: Recipe for a Good Blood
According to Dr. Rudy Davis, from amazingdiscoveries.tv health lecture, almond milk and black grape juice make the purest blood. However, I got red grapes so I reckon it’ll make just as good as pure blood if not the purest. Not sure exactly why because he didn’t exemplified it but I think it’s because almonds and [...]
Read more »Why I Eat Fruits Before Meal, Not After
A variety of fruits eaten fresh and before meal will provide optimum health benefits. Like many others, I used to eat my fruit last. Most of the time it was my dessert kind-of-thing especially when there was no prepared sweets. This was the idea and practice I grew up with. When I read Ellen G. [...]
Read more »Why You Need a Food Processor
This food processor of mine which I refuse to mention the brand, is a great little helper. Apart from making soy milk and smoothies, I also use it for chopping (nuts, onions, mushrooms, and herbs), mixing ingredients, and whisking eggs among others. It makes me feel like a pro. When I decided to become a [...]
Read more »My first Ratatouille was a Success!
ratatouille This is my first ratatouille and I got the recipe from Courgette Recipes. These past few weeks we always got a couple of courgettes from our allotment and since they’re sort of foreign vegetables to me I knew not how to cook them, much more in a various ways. I have tried them in stir [...]
Read more »My power up breakfast drink
L-R: avocado, berries, and peach blended with soymilk and dates My power up breakfast drink consists of dates, soymilk, and other fresh fruits, i.e. raspberry, strawberry, cherry, peach, avocado and banana, the last two are the thickener. It’s either I use one or the other. It’s basically a raw breakfast with the exception of soy [...]
Read more »Oranges for breakfast, anyone?
Blood oranges come from Sicily in Italy. They grow near Mt. Etna, the most active volcano in the world. I love oranges especially the ponkan ones but since I’ve got an issue with hyper-acidity, I can’t have them and not suffer from heartburn and such. Everytime I eat it I get to relish the pleasure [...]
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