some good statement

I just got this book out from the library.
there are some great statements that made me think deeply about how I see myself. How many people could confidently say this to themselves. "I love you. I really really love you. I enjoy living my life with you. My love for you is constant. All the love in our lives begins with us."


UNIQUENESS
We are unique and different expressions of the one life. There has never been anyone like me before, and I rejoice in my uniqueness. I am neither too much nor too little, and I do not have to prove myself to anyone. I choose to cherish and love myself as the divine, magnificent expression of life that I am. Being me is an exhilarating adventure! I follow my inner star, and sparkle and shine in my own unique way. i love life, and I love me!

CHANGING MY THINKING
It is time for me to acknowledge that I create my own reality with my thoughts. If I want to change my reality then it is time for me to change my mind. I do this by choosing to think and speak in new and positive ways. I change my life when I change my thinking.

CHILDREN
I can teach but I cannot force.

RELATIONSHIP
Relationships are wonderful, and marriages can be wonderful, but they are all temporary because there comes a time when they end. The one personI am with forever is me. My relationship with myself is eternal, so Im choose to be my own best friend. I choose to love and accept myself and to talk to myself as I would to a beloved person in my life.

drying

Did I write about sprouted flour?
You know with the grains you eat they should be soaked beforehand. It is even better if you can leave them to sprout a little bit sometimes.
But how about flour. the flour you get already milled from stores are not soaked before. and are they even washed? You can't be too sensitive to that all the time but if you can mill your flour you can do all that.
Though it does take a bit of an effort so I usually use my sprouted flour for pancakes and buscuites etc. when I make sourdough bread, which will be left to ferment anyway, I choose to use an easier option.





sprouted and dried kamut grain




quickly milled in vitamix

I usually keep the flour in the freezer for maximum freshness.


Other thing that is worth doing is drying vegetables. You can almost dry everything. cabbage, daikon (my favourite), carrot, mushrooms, zucchinis... The umami, its flavour becomes concentrated and it is good when you need a bit of fridge clean up!
I do have a dehydrater but why waste all that energy if there is free sunshine! I also think the sun gives the vegetable all that positive energy as well.







daikon and sweet potato (I love these red variety ...sweeter than orange one. )

another retail shop for my raw chocolate truffles

hooray!
another shop which sells my raw chocolate truffles.
The vegetable connection on brunswick street is a beautiful speciality shop that sells fresh veges, fruits, bread, deli products and other grocery products.
They have been operating since 1941!




The vegetable coinnection
255 Brunswick Street Fitzroy 3065
Phone: +61 3 9417 2788 Facsimile: +61 3 9486 0443 Email: shop@fruitnveg.com.au

me at work

As you know I cook at friends of the earth on Tuesdays.
just thought I will post these photos of me in action...















good to see empty plates....






that is ME! over the hot stove

more sweets...

Now that the weather is warmer I am making more sweet things.
I don't usually like to have sweet bakings (even though I do enjoy making them) these are some of many I baked over the holiday.
At Foe, we usually get our sweets from vegan organic bakery but because they had a holiday (even though Foe cafe didn't!) I made a few cakes and brownies when they were off.

more occasional desserts for me and my daughter are something that are not so drying,
creamy seasonal fruits with kudzu,
kanten jelly
and on these really hot days
smoothies and fruit icecream.

Our ice cream is so easy and flexible.
it could be made of just frozen bananas creamed just before serving. Or If I feel like it I make it with nuts, tofu or non-dairy milk.
left over smoothies can be frozen and eaten as frozen pops too.

soy milk yogurt

Because the weather has been so warm I have been making soy yogurt. (I can leave it outside to set instead of using oven to keep the temperature)
I don't drink soy milk or use processed soy products usually but at least you will get some good bacteria in the yogurt and by making my own soy milk I can sprout the beans a little bit for easier digestion and use Okara (left over soy fibre) for something else.

All you need is
500ml soy milk
2 tablespoon soy yogurt(unpasteurised)
or
4 tsp acidophilus powder ( I use Inner Health dairy free powder)

yogurt smoothies, raita, frozen yogurt mixed with homemade berry jam..... so endlessly versatile

medical findings

I do feel like there is so much information about what is healthy and unhealthy. It can be very confusing. Add to that you may have noticed that it can change over time as well. Chocolate and red wine were bad but now they are called anti-oxidant. forget the carbohydrate for weight loss to no fat diet. So what is to believe?
Also what if you become sick and are advised to take a certain drugs by your doctor. Are you sure what you are given are not harmful? How about the certain preservatives in the processed food you buy. They may not be classified as harmless but how about in 20 years time?

Here is something you should read. Interesting thing is this article is from a mainstream publication.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/23/why-almost-everything-you-hear-about-medicine-is-wrong.html