April 27, 2010 Tuesday
"Being happy does not mean everything's perfect. It just means, we have decided to see beyond the imperfections."
Who doesn't want to be happy. I certainly want happiness every single day. I once thought that happiness was the smell and sound of the first morning rain of spring. Today, to be happy we must create our own happiness. All of us can sit in our own self-pity, but that doesn't seem to create happiness. It creates havoc, fear, anger, loneliness and boredom. Why are we unhappy?
Do not be unhappy today. Think of what you have learned. Let's start this morning with a good breakfast. Remember, breakfast should be like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. This morning I had gluten-free, egg-free and yeast-free pancakes bought from Trader Joe. It is a weekday, so it is either a shake, appropriate cereal, or quick pancakes. If I had a weekend, I would like to try to make my own pancakes. So here it goes:
Recipe# 3 Breakfast Pancakes
A gluten-free all purpose flour mix can replace rice flour, millet flour or even tapioca flour. Use 1 1/2 cups of this all purpose blend. If you feel the batter is too thick, add rice milk
1. 1 cup of brown rice flour 2. 1/2 cup of millet flour 3. 1 T tapioca flour 4. 2 tsp of baking powder; 5. 2 T olive oil; 6. 1 1/2 tsp egg replacer (or real eggs if not allergic) plus 2 Tablespoons of warm water; 7. 1 1/2 cup of rice milk (makes it thinner); 8. 1/2 tsp of lemon juice 9. 3/4 cup of blueberries 9 fresh or frozen)
Whisk all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Put in the egg, rice milk and lemon juice, then whisk to blend. Add the type of berries, if desired.
Spray olive oil on the griddle or in a large nonstick skillet. Drop 1/4 cup of batter onto the griddle and quickly spread with the back of the spoon into 3 to 4 inch rounds. Cook until brown and cooked through, estimated 2 minutes or less per side. Repeat until all batter is gone. Serve not with syrup, but with wild flower honey. If you didn't add the berries, you can mix in blender and serve on top of the pancakes with the raw wild flower honey (not clove honey in the bear shape)
Recipe #4 BREAKFAST :TOFU SCRAMBLE
Instead of a traditional breakfast, let's try the tofu scramble (for Gregory and Ryan)
Ingredients: 1. 1 T olive oil; 2. 6 green onions, cut into 1/4 inch slices let sit for 5 minutes; 3. 1 small red pepper, thinly sliced without the seeds; 4. 2 minced cloves of garlic (again let sit for 5 minutes - in the same family as onions, allium) 5. 1 piece of fresh minced ginger; 6. 1 package of extra firm tofu diced into 1/2 cubes. 7. 1 T gluten free tamari sauce or Braggs Amino Acids (can be bought in Trader Joe's or Whole Foods)
Heat 1 T of olive oil over high heat in a large skillet. Saute the peppers for 7 - 8 minutes. Add the ginger. The last to add is the garlic and onions, as they needed to air or oxidize to get the most medicinal use of the allium family. Add the tofu and sauce, mix thoroughly and heat through. You can serve with quinoa or brown rice.
The second breakfast involves Allium sativum, Zingiber officinale, and the White globe onion . Unlike allium sativum (garlic), the onion does contain a variety of sulfur compounds. Each of these herbs can be used medicinally. As a group , alliums- both garlic and onions - have antimicrobial activity and cardiovascular effects . There are many more uses. The Zingiber is ginger, which has anti -inflammatory effects plus other activities. Just as there are Healing Powers of Herbs, there are the Healing Power of Flowers. I hope to talk about that one day.
Enjoy the medicinal herbs today
The above is a cross stitch of a bird. I haven't researched the bird yet with its chicks but will do so. It has been started but not completed as of yet. You see I work with many canvases at once.
Until tomorrow...
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