Momma Made Manna

Sprout some wheat and whiz it in the Cuisiart, then put it in the oven on the lowest setting and you have made Sprouted Wheat Bread.

Ooo La la.

What is on the side? Why sprouted Hummus of course!

A nice daily breakfast of love and sprouts. With my tea I have all a girl could ask for. What a blessed life I have. Good food, warm clothes, a nice soft bed and all the sprouts I can make.

I bought a new sprouter and it has made making sprouts super easy. It is a cute little hive of activity and I will post pictures of it soon. I just love the little thing.

Parsley Salad

This dinner was just a bunch of leftovers! It was a base of Parsley salad. This was made with chopped Italian Parsley and some vinegar & olive oil. Then I plopped some of the Cashew Dip on it. The Cashew Dip is soaked (for 1hr) cashews & some olive oil blended very well in the Cuisinart. I added some fresh pepper to the dip. I topped it with some Kalamata Olives and cayenne and paprika. Around the edge you see some mushrooms....cant remember the type, but they might be monkey paws.
This was very filling and so incredibly HEALTHY.
Parsley is so full of goodness and greenness (did I just make up a word?). It is a little powerhouse that just gets shunted aside as a "garnish".
I used to make this other (back in my cheese days) Italian Parsley Salad that had lots of fresh grated Parmesan cheese, lemon juice and olive oil. It was so simple and so addictive.
It is snowing again today and windy, windy, windy. There was some leftover Chai in the fridge so I heated it up. The flavors got better as they sat for 2 days. Seems it will last for awhile. I made it the traditional way with loose Chai Tea & milk and it is way better than any of those mixes you can buy. The mixes have far too much sugar for my taste buds.

Blue Breakfast

Spicy Cabbage

Speecy Spicy Cabbage

This was my dinner last night. It was just the right amount of food. I think we all just stuff ourselves with much more food than we actually need. Indulge on the Holidays but for everyday we can live & survive on so much less food than we think. If you eat more uncooked food.....Raw Food....you will be less hungry because your blood sugar levels stay much more stable.

I made extra of this Cabbage Stuff so I have a lunch already for today. The cabbage gets better as it marinates over night and it also develops some of the beneficial microbes that you get in Sauerkraut. You don't need mayonnaise on this for it to taste great but I love Mayo so sometimes I add some. Mayo is a health food. Yes indeedy it is, if made properly. What is Mayonnaise? It is oil, lemon juice & eggs. Make your own if you have a Cuisinart as it is simple to do.

I topped it off with the Raw Hummus & Avocado. I also like it a bit spicy so I added some cayenne to the cabbage and then sprinkled some on top of the finished dish. Just lovely.

Now away from Cabbage:::::

Today is Martin Luther King Day. God Bless MLK! He had so much wisdom. His thoughts on nonviolence are very strong and very true. Here is a quote of his::: Hate is too great a burden to bear. I choose Love. I Still Choose Love.:::::

MLK is someone I look up to and honor for all he did. I think he knew he would be killed so he lived his life as outspoken as he could. He spoke truth to power.

Me in the morning

OK it is really cold in my house, so I wear this in the morning until I warm up. Cute right?
When I first started eating raw about 25 years ago I followed a book called: Fit for Life. I was a fanatic at that time and really followed the books tenets to a T. The hardest part was the breakfast. They called for only fruit until noon each day. Eating cold fruit every morning was hard. In the winter it was doubly hard. I used to make this concoction in my Cuisinart that was a mess of fruit blended up and then eaten with a spoon. A crazy friend who live with us for a while and who had to adhere to the same food policy called it "fruit poop"! Oh man, it did make you poop too!
I would never try to eat cold fruit in the morning in winter anymore. I just don't think it sets right with me. I used to get these crushing gut aches from it. But it was supposed to be healthy right? I read years later the wife of the guy who wrote the book divorced him and wrote her own book about healthy eating and she does not recommend the cold fruit in the AM. I think she just sick of the guy as he was really a Zealot! So many rules to live by.
I had my sprouted bread thingy this morning and zapped it for 10 second to take of the chill. I think I might have some Miso Soup tomorrow as well. I need to get some green onions, as the taste of Miso Soup just cries out for green onions. Well If I am going to get the green onions I might as well go whole hog and get the shitaki mushrooms.