This is a lovely alternative for people with a sweet tooth who pick and choose the specific carbohydrates in their diet. For an 8 inch pie, use maybe 7-8 apricots. Cut the fruit into chunks and simmer in 1/3 cup agave nectar with 2 tbs. butter, 1 tsp. vanilla and 1/4 tsp. cinnamon. When the fruit lets go of its juices, in only a couple of minutes, strain. Return the sweet buttery juices to the stove and cook on low heat. After the liquid begins to thicken add a splash of cream or substitute (I used a couple tbs. coconut concentrate) and cook down until the mixture is syrupy. Add only the teeniest dab of lime or lemon juice.
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Health, Starch & Sugar Free | 22.08.2011 21:20 | No Comments
It is remarkable how much I enjoy the food that I enjoy. I think that I may be a bit obsessed. The contrast between the alkalizing diet and the SCD (Simple Carbohydrate Diet) that I am following in my quest for healing has provided me with a sense of profound gratefulness for the items that are available to me. There are very few shortcuts available to me, which is fine, because I am a capable cook. I am eating wholesome, hearty, well-rounded meals, and loving it. Even while I am eating, I scheme about the delicious meal I will have next.
Here is what my day of eating looked like today:
Breakfast: smoothie with banana, yogurt, and cottage cheese. (The yogurt I make, extra fermented (24 hours) so that all the lactose gets broken down into a more simple sugar. Extra-ripe banana, and dry-curd cottage cheese.) A couple of poached eggs, and fruit juice jello (grape).
Lunch: a home-baked chicken breast seasoned with sage, steamed asparagus, a salad with red-leaf lettuce and a home-made red wine vinegarette with dill and red onions.
Snack: a piece of you-guessed-it, home-made almond bread with almond butter (store-bought, can you believe it) and honey. Mmmmmm, sweets, my favorite.
Dinner: Home-made chicken soup. Buffalo meatloaf with home-made ketchup (has to be sweetened with honey, and no weird starchy ingredients like xanthan gum) and cauliflower mashers.
Thank goodness for left-overs of I would never leave the kitchen because I’d always be cooking.
Since starting the diet I have learned how to make my own practically everything. The best items so far have been almond bread (guess what, I ground the almonds to make the flour) and honey-sweetened strawberry jam.
Bees, I love you. Please stick around and pollenate the flowers and make delicious bee vomit here on Earth for a very long long time.
Health, Starch & Sugar Free | 26.04.2009 21:49 | No Comments
This is a lovely alternative for people with a sweet tooth who pick and choose the specific carbohydrates in their diet. For an 8 inch pie, use maybe 7-8 apricots. Cut the fruit into chunks and simmer in 1/3 cup agave nectar with 2 tbs. butter, 1 tsp. vanilla and 1/4 tsp. cinnamon. When the fruit lets go of its juices, in only a couple of minutes, strain. Return the sweet buttery juices to the stove and cook on low heat. After the liquid begins to thicken add a splash of cream or substitute (I used a couple tbs. coconut concentrate) and cook down until the mixture is syrupy. Add only the teeniest dab of lime or lemon juice.
Yoga-mat psychologist and Crohn's disease warrior, Nina-Lois Turtledove is deeply interested in philosophy, analytic and somatic psychology, peace studies, nutrition, tradition, and progress. This is her public journal where she spills her thoughts, and records her dreams, rants, and reflections.