Golden Pumpkin Delux

At the class that day I showed two versions of the pumpkin soup - one with steamed pumpkin and another just with raw pumpkin. I am not surprised that the students like the raw version. They said it is light and naturally sweet. 

Ingredients

2 cups raw pumpkin or steamed pumpkin

3 cups filtered water

2 tsp salt

1/2 cup sprouted cashews

5 tbs coconut oil

A pinch of all spice or curry powder

Blend all ingredients in a high speed blender, Top with herbs like mint or basil and serve. 

Tacos Pink Flamingo

Another way of eating high raw for people transitioning into the raw food diet. Filling a wholemeal wrap with herbs and veggies and homemade pickles and kimchi. 

Vroom Vroom Shrooms Salad

Simply marinated. It is all in the sauce. 

Swiss Brown Mushroom Tapas

Couldn't believe the freshness of the Swiss Browns at the supermarket. They are edible raw, but not everyone takes perfectly well to them like the portebellos. So they need to be marinated. And I did so most luxuriously with mulberry enzyme and brown rice vinegar. 

For 3 tubs (300g) of mushrooms

Marinade:

4 tbs brown rice vinegar

3 tbs mulberry enzyme by SCWO

1 tbs raw honey

1 tbs sesame oil

1 tsp sea salt

5 tbs macadamia oil/coconut oil

liberal sprinkles of thyme and sage

Toss and leave it a covered bowl for half hour at least and see the whole mass of mushroom 'cook' before your eyes, releasing their lovely juices and sucking in the flavoursome marinade.

Sushi with Oomph

This was my breakfast and lunch today - will a tangy oozy enzyme tahinni dip.

Raw foods is creative - you prepare a bunch of rainbow coloured veg and fruits, throw in a few slices of living tempeh, sprinkle a few powerful herbs and roll it all up ;-). Violaaaa. 

Eat Weeds Save the Earth - Dicliptera Chinesis

Oh my Dog Liver weed (狗肝菜/草。Dicliptera Chinensis). I am so crazily in love with you. You are so dedicated and grow well without pest control and in a humble pot. You taste great in salads and in soups. I am so glad I found you. EAT 'WEEDS', SAVE THE EARTH

來源: 爵床科植物狗肝菜Dicliptera chinensis (L.)Nees，以全草入藥。全年可采，洗凈，曬干或鮮用。

性味: 甘、淡，涼。

功能主治: 清熱解毒，斑疹，小便不利；外用治帶狀皰疹，癤腫。

用法用量: 0.5～1兩；外用適量，鮮品搗爛敷患處。

Gut Brain Link to Health - Behavioural & Brain Disorders Alert

Giving the health talk at hpb this morning to parents of children diagnosed with ADHD, I realised that many of these parents have not done very much at controlling the one factor they had control over -- lifestyle and diet. A few among them had done their own research, and they had seen very significant improvements.

But the rest had either submitted to the label of ADHD like it is a genetic finality or rested in a sense of helplessness in not knowing where to begin. The key intervention is prescribed medication and expensive supplementation.

Now what science is conceding to its that behavioural disorders are very much a result of a bundle of factors. Maybe there is a genetic link, but more and more links to environmental lifestyle factors are being revealed ongoingly. More and more research decrying the belief that such behavioural disorders are genetic. Take autism for example, if there is 1 in 45 cases today and 1 in 10000 cases ten years ago, how can this be a genetic disorder? This clearly directs our attention to the link between environment and health. 

Facts are showing that there is a clear link between the GUT and the BRAIN for people who manifest symptoms of such disorders. Apparently, these folks are born with very sensitive stomachs that cannot take hard to digest, low vibration foods. So out with grains, starches, dairy, processed foods, unnatural oils, chemicals. These folks are made so pure they cannot endure the effects of toxins.

The implication is clear - why not start taking charge of those lifestyle aspects that we have strong control over? We change what we can so that our loved ones have the best chances of living a healthy vibrant life?

Must we wait for the jury to come out with a final verdict before we make lifestyle changes? That is absolutely unnecessary isn't it?

What we are learning from such special individuals is a lesson amplified.

1) we can choose to be helpless in the face of science and let the pharmaceutical industry find the magic fix. This stance is fraught in logic and anchored in complacency.

2) what is so tough to give up if we have the possibility of vibrant health as a result? Are taste buds so important? Are habits so daunting?

3) trust in our own ability to assess and judge. This is the knowledge age. But why is it that we don't apply our ability to learn to find out how to get really healthy? Why choose not to know? Why choose ignorance?

4) if toxins can affect such special individuals, they do affect us too. .. we are just slower to react to the ill effects of the environmental degradation than they. So we too have to sit up and be aware. It is for us too.

There was so much dedication and love from the parents in the room. I hope they can start making changes in an empowered way. Blessings to them.