Yearly Archives: 2009

Sourdough No Knead Bread

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… a photo tour.

This is the simplest bread you can make – and delicious. Super easy! Super simple! No yeast! No kneading! Only 4 ingredients! Only a few minutes of your time!

Watch for complete recipe and instructions in our Freedom & Simplicity™ in the Kitchen guide, Good for You-Naturally!™ Simply Sourdough.

I didn’t get a picture of Day 1 of my homemade sourdough starter.

Day 3 Homemade Sourdough Starter

Day 3 Homemade Sourdough Starter

Sourdough Starter Day 5

Sourdough Starter Day 5

Mixing the Sourdough Bread

Mixing the Sourdough Bread

Sourdough Bread First Rise

Sourdough Bread First Rise

End of First Raising

End of First Raising

Short Rest

Short Rest

Final Rise

Final Rise

Sourdough Bread Baking Pan

Sourdough Bread Baking Pan

Finished Sourdough Bread

Finished Sourdough Bread

A Fave Smoothie ~ Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgYes, Friday Food is a bit late this week. What can I say? I have a family and home that come first. But I’ve been wanting to share more living food recipes with you. Take you beyond just grabbing a piece of fresh fruit, or veggie sticks, or tossing a salad.

Here is a quick delicious, living food recipe that can be varied in a myriad of ways. I won’t say this is my absolute favorite variation. I don’t know that I’ve found that yet. But this is certainly A favorite, and super simple.

Smoothies are a great way to get the needed quantity of greens in your diet when you just can’t eat any more salad. AND they don’t really taste like greens. Your fruit disguises them. Therefore they’re a great way to get greens into your children that you haven’t raised on greens, so they think they don’t like them.

Good for You-Naturally!™ Smoothie

2-3 organic oranges (juice them)

1 huge handful of organic spinach (I use baby spinach)

1 banana (organic if you can find them) – ripe or frozen

Pour your juice into your high powdered blender. Add your spinach. It should nearly fill your blender. Blend until smooth. Add your banana and again blend until smooth. (In my Bosch, I like adding my banana after my greens are smooth, especially if my banana is frozen and I want it to add a frozen “shake” like consistency. You don’t have to do this in the Blendtec or Vitamix.)

See? Super simple. Super delish. Super Good for You-Naturally!™

Have a Blendtec or VitaMix? Great. It’ll take no time at all. Have a Bosch Kitchen Center? It’ll blend it right up. Have just a standard blender? It’ll work. Just may take a bit longer.

Mmm!

Learn more about Green Smoothies in Green Goodness ~ A Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide to Green Smoothies.

 

Friday Food?

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Well… It’s getting late. I’m tired. And although I thought about it – when I realized I didn’t have a post scheduled – I didn’t have time to actually post one.

It was a mommy day – for teaching, for birthday present shopping and giving, for making food rather than writing about it.

So Happy Birthday to dd#3. 27 years ago today….

Check back tomorrow for a Saturday edition of the Friday Food post. 🙂

Free Holiday Recipe Book

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Well, I’ve already conceded. This year is not going to allow enough time to get a Good for You-Naturally!™ ThanksGiving recipe book done and ready for you. But here’s another Holiday Recipe eBook you may want to check out. Its different than my recipe books, and may be quite different than what you are used to, but expand your horizons and take a peek. The recipes are beautiful and quite Good for You. AND it’s FREE!

29 pages, complete with photos, of Holidays Recipes from the Raw Gourmet, Nomi Shannon.

I have a couple of my recipes (both cooked traditional foods, but Good for You ingredients) posted from last year, and will at least try to get a couple more posted before Thanksgiving.

What’s your favorite holiday food? And how are you making it Good for You-Naturally!™?

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Ice Cream for Breakfast?

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strawberry-nicecreamNa. It’s Nice Cream! Made quick and easy from frozen bananas and strawberries in my Champion Juicer! Mm-Mm GOOD!


Psst! We’ve got a Special Holiday Offer on the Champion right now. Get yours today and start making not only great tasting and Good for You-Naturally!™ nice creams, but also real living food nutritional supplements (a.k.a. fresh raw fruit and vegetable juices) and so much more! This is the piece of kitchen equipment I say is far more important than a stove.

Sunny Spinach Salad – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgThis is a great change of pace salad, and super simple to make. I served this salad at a church dinner recently, and was asked to post the recipe.

Lisa’s Sunny Spinach Salad

1 bunch of organic seedless red grapes (washed and de-stemmed)

2 small to med. organic oranges (peeled, sectioned, and cut in half)

1-2 large handfuls of organic baby spinach (washed and dried)

handful of organic raw almonds (whirred in the blender, into bits – don’t whir too long or you’ll have almond butter)

Toss together with Dressing. You may want to reserve a few almond bits to garnish the top.

Dressing:

1-2 Tbl. organic raw honey

1/3 c. organic extra virgin olive oil

fresh squeezed organic orange juice from 1/2 orange

fresh squeezed organic lemon juice from 1/2 lemon

1/2 tsp. organic celery seed (non-irradiated)

Shake well. Pour over Salad and Toss.

(This was enough dressing for my salad. If your salad is much larger, you may need to double dressing ingredients.)

New Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide

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Our newest Freedom & Simplicity™ guide is up and available! And just in time to go with our Holiday Special on the Champion Juicer! Drinking Your Vitamins! is a Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide to Juicing. Have you ever wondered why fresh fruit and vegetables juices? Why not just take vitamin supplements? What kind of juicer to buy? What to do when you can’t juice? Where you can find juice recipes?

These are all covered in this inexpensive, quick introduction to juicing.

Order yours today! Or get it FREE when you purchase the Champion Juicer, with our Special Holiday Pricing.

When the holidays get here, you’ll be glad you did.

Swine Flu again

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What’s your best defense against Swine (or any) flu or disease? My answer is always having a healthy/uncompromised immune system that can fight it off. That requires taking in the proper nutrients in a form easy to assimulate, and avoiding toxins/nutrient robbers.

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Sugar and caffeine are 2 of the worst (although certainly not the only) and should be completely avoided if you want to have a healthy immune system. (Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs – illegal or prescription – shouldn’t even have to be mentioned.) Other refined/chemically processed foods and additives, including colors, preservatives, and flavoring – including all the forms of MSG – should also be avoided. And even too many cooked foods, especially meats, can lead to a less than healthy immune system. Yep, if you want a healthy immune system and just health in general eat G.O.D. foods that are Good for You-Naturally!™

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Here’s a bit from a Dr. Mercola article last week.

So far we know that, of the 36 children who died from H1N1 between April and August of this year, 30 had some form of chronic health condition, and all of them had a co-occurring bacterial infection.

Clearly, having a robust, well-functioning immune system is the best way to ensure your body’s innate ability to fight off this mild flu virus, and not succumb to secondary infections such as staphylococcus aureus.

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Update: Also read this article and watch the video at Mercola’s site today, with Dr. Blaylock, neuro-surgeon and researcher.

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BPA – not the Biblical Principles kind

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from Dr. Mercola:

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about Bisphenol-A, or BPA, if you’ve paid attention during the past year. It’s been getting a lot of press for good reason.

BPA is an estrogen-mimicking chemical, invented nearly 120 years ago, that is used to make hard plastics and epoxy resins. It can be found in numerous products that most people use on a daily basis, including baby bottles, canned foods, water bottles, and microwaveable plastic dishes and containers.

The Environmental Working Group has published an interesting review of BPA, showing the timeline of BPA’s use over the years. It offers a glimpse of the reality behind nearly all chemical dangers, showing just how long it can take to get something dangerous off the market, despite the evidence of harm.

Industry uses more than 6 billion pounds of BPA a year. As a result, scientists have found that 95 percent of people tested have dangerous levels of BPA in their bodies.

This is one valid reason why you should not tolerate the suggestion that “trace amounts” of toxins are okay.

The cumulative effect of being exposed to minuscule amounts of BPA from cans, bottles, plates and all other sources over the years can eventually spell serious trouble for your health.

read the rest of the article

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Sourdough’s a comin’!

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I am so excited about the new “from-scratch” homemade wild yeast sourdough starter I started. It worked!! A living bread starter is a-growin’ in my kitchen, that I started myself. It’s on Day 5 now and it looks great. I’ll be able to bake with it in a couple days and will try to remember to get a pic of what I make. The question will be, “Can it raise a bread?”

Sourdough Starter Day 5

Sourdough Starter Day 5

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