Dear Heavenly Bodies,
Hope you are finding "our people" out there or on the Internet. It is ultra important to have people who are on our teams for a healthier life and are following similar eating plans, some vegetarians, some vegans, some Essy buddies like me or VNO', vegan-no-oil.
I work at a B&B. I recently served another Dr. Esselstyn follower who took this path after a quad bypass. In comparing notes, we had both lost the same hugh amount of weight. The breakfast at the B&B was watermelon, cantaloupe with fresh mint from the garden for the first course (you can also try zesting some lime for an exciting twist on melons ) so back to Breakfast. Then for the Essy buddy, toast points with hummus spread and cute designs as follows: With pumpkin seeds in a wheat design with a goji berry for color NEXT: With sunflower seeds and a scant slice of olive and ANOTHER: with sesame seeds.
The main plate for our sweet breakfast was waffles with homemade berry sauce. Delicious.
Marion's Waffle Recipe (amended for VNO's) takes 2 days... Just kidding
The first part is placed in a bowl overnight.
2-1/2 cups soy milk (plain or with vanilla) or other milk substitutes
2-1/2 tsp. dry yeast ( packets are approx2-1/2)
2 cups whole wheat flour.
2 tsp sugar (or your choice of sweetener )
3/4 tsp salt.
In the morning......
2 E-nergy egg replacements with water. Prepare as directed for 2 eggs
1/2 tsp baking soda
Powered sugar
1 lemon for zest.
Night before......
Warm milk to take off the chill but not to boiling. Add dry yeast to milk.
Sift flour into a large bowl. (mixture will grow)
Add sugar and salt and mix.
Whisk in milk mixture.
Wet the rim of the bowl with water and seal with plastic wrap (you can also use a big bowl with a plastic lid)
Let sit over night.
In the morning the yeast will have worked and your mixture will have grown.
Add the baking soda (be sure to sift it in so there is no lumps).
Waffle time.
Heat non-stick waffle iron
Pour batter on iron (if the batter is too thick, thin with soy milk)
Cooking time is different with each waffle iron. We use 3 minutes.
Serve with a sprinkling of powdered sugar.
Sue's Berry Sauce
4 cups fresh mixed berries. (can also use frozen mixed berries)
1/2 cup sugar. (1/4 cup or none if berries are sweet)
1/4 cup corn starch.
Zest of one lemon. Added at the end
Put berries, sugar, and corn starch in a big pot. Bring to boil then turn down.
Stir for a few minutes.
For serving you can use some fresh berries. Enjoy..........
A HELPING HAND.
After breakfast my Essy buddy and I were talking and I mentioned as you have read before, that tahini is my go-to peanut butter. He commented that Dr. Esselstyn doesn't use it .... What? I was so hoping that it wasn't true. Went back to my "How To Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease.".
Yes, Elin, read it and weep... Actually I will get over it and adjust........
Page 157. Second sentence.
What I need to do is have a refresher course by reading Dr. Esselstyn's book again. I did miss a part in Anne's recipes about "no tahini." It is because of the fat content. Also I reread, but listened this time , that seeds are in the "special treat" column not the "dinner" or "hand-full" one.
VIRTUAL TOUR TO AN INDIAN KITCHEN WITH MANJALA
Now to my new find. An Indian dish and a great website. It is Manjala's Kitchen Vegetarian Indian Cooking.
I like cookbooks but do a lot better with hands-on experiences. I guide tours to Turkey, France and Italy and we always offer the group the opportunity to know the country through a cooking class... From Rome to Paris and Istanbul, we have learned about spices and methods of preparing and cooking that are unique and exotic. What memories!
Now my new virtual journey.. If I can't go to India, I have Manjula. Her site has recipes and instructions but she also shows me how to make the dishes in her videos.... How cool.
I listened very closely to how Manjula pronounces the dish for I am just beginning my Indian cooking adventure. The two recipes I choose for my first step was Baingan Bharta and the Lacha Paratha to go with it, of course, of course!
Baingan Bharta is an eggplant dish which is so delicious. I only bought one eggplant as the dish calls for - a big fat one and mine seemed like the size of a football. (American not a soccer ball)
The recipe suggests cooking it in the oven for 45 minutes or the microwave for 8-to-10. I chose the microwave and it took the 10 minutes. When the final dish was ready to enjoy, I wished I had bought 3 eggplants and made a triple batch. ... we shared the dish with some of "our people" and everyone loved it. No one asked for the receipe, they just said, "oh, you can make that again. We love it.". I'll take that as an endorsement.
Here is the recipe site and below and after I will put my Essy adjustments
ADJUSTMENTS
green peppers are unripened red, yellow, or orange, peppers and for me do not digest well so I used the red ones. Out with the oil of course. No one missed it. I used vegetable stock to soften the peppers. I heated the seasonings in a dry frying pan until I could smell the flavors but was careful not to burn the spices.... Fine line... Then poured in the blended tomato-ginger mixture.
Oh and I am still in search for asafetida.
Lacha Paratha is a layered flat bread. I loved watching this video. Manjula will astonish you with her spiral method. Just plain fun.... I want a rolling pin like hers.
Adjustments- Well we all know what I adjusted here..... No oil. Basically it was whole wheat flower, salt and water. I think the next time I might add some spices or herbs but it turned out well.
Also since I did not have a frying pan as big as my bread circles, I cut it in fourths. Odd experiment.. each piece puffed up like a pillow and only rested on a tiny spot on the pan not giving it a browning look like the video. I tried another circle in the oven at 400f and that turned out more like a crustini. They were still good but not Manjula quality.
Hope you enjoy the adventure in Indian cooking. Best to your journey. Elin.
Disclaimer: all spelling mistakes are the fault of the spell checker, I'm sure!!!
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