It's All in the Telling.

Wednesday evening my husband watched a video.  A friend had sent him the link.  It was all about clean eating and nutrition.  The woman in the video is a doctor.  She has/had MS. She did a lot of research and came up with the Hunter/Gatherer diet.  Within a few weeks her symptoms had permanently disappeared. This is not a diet to lose weight but a lifestyle choice for better health. It's supposed to improve the brain function (mitochondria) significantly. 

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From what I understand (which isn't much) we are to eat tons of fruit and vege plus grass fed meat. Just like in the old days when our settlers' diets were from their own gardens and farm or whatever they could find to pick and hunt.

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Now about this time a year ago I decided to stop eating meat, the prime reason being I couldn't stand the look or taste of it anymore.  Mr LC agreed to do this with me at home if he could eat whatever he wanted when he was somewhere else at mealtime.

I remember explaining to him how much better we would feel with such a diet.  I would make green smoothies to get valuable minerals and vitamins.  Mr LC wouldn't drink them.  He would have a sip of mine and that was that. He grew tired of eating veggies all the time.  He missed his meat.

So because his BUDDY thinks it's a good idea now so does Mr. LC.  He came home today with bags of fresh produce. None of it was organic by the way, he forgot about that.  That's pretty much all we eat these days but whatever.

Now we're going to find organic tongue and brains and liver and every other organ meat known to man.

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I hope you've all eaten before seeing this photo.

No way on earth am I eating or even cooking that stuff.

I've kind of lost the plot here, but how is it whenever I suggest something it's not really taken seriously?  When a buddy suggests something it's always the right thing to do.  Every.single.time.  Does your significant other do this?

I have to confess I've been eating some meat once in a while.  I found I didn't have enough energy without it.  For some reason the smell or taste doesn't bother me anymore either.

BUT I DRAW THE LINE AT ORGAN MEAT!

He brought home so much produce that I am at quite a loss as to what to do with it all.  There's no way we can eat all this before it spoils.  Does anyone have a recipe for squash salad?  Baked celery perhaps?

Carry on.

Cooking 101.

Long ago in a galaxy far, far away I loved to cook.  I love cook books, I read'em like novels but I seldom make anything out of them beyond my tried and true recipes.  Since the advent of fussy children turning up their noses at mealtimes, I kind of lost my mojo.

He's still cute.

Enter Jamie Oliver. (I wish he would enter my house.)  I love watching him on the food network.  I especially love the British shows: the ones on school lunches- That had a far reaching effect.  Once Jamie started on the rampage all the junk food was removed from the schools here.  I also like the Food Revolution.  He tried to get a whole English town to cook.  He is so earnest, as one of my commenters said.

Daughter #1 gave us the above cookbook a couple of years ago.  All I managed to make out of it was Spaghetti Bolognese and I must say it hit the spot.  My husband dug this cookbook out a couple of weeks ago and we have been endeavouring to liven up our veggies Jamie style.

We tried broccoli with Asian dressing and it was good.

I made a leek and potato soup that was lovely.

We were doing so well and then Mr LC decided to try Jamie's Light and Fluffy rice.  EPIC FAIL!!!!  I think the cooking times were off in the recipe because it sure tasted raw to us.

Undaunted, we decided to go for the Buttered Spinach.

Delicious!  We had a do over because it was so good.  I cooked the broccoli and spinach for the same meal and Mr LC said ' Perfect.  Now all we need is a slab of steak to go with this.'  FAIL Mr LC! FAIL!

p.s. Do you think that Julie and Julia idea would work in this case???  Probably not.  I'd have to change my name to Olive.

All photos are from Jamie Oliver.com.

Lunch.

This is what I had for lunch today:

Don't laugh.  It was delicious.

Seriously.

A customer reader asked for the recipe so here it is:

  I played with it a little bit.

Sweet Parsley Smoothie  2 quarts

2 cups fresh parsley
1 Fujii apple. (I used a Cripps apple) Hey there really are Cripps apples FYI.
1 Banana
2 Medjoool dates. (I don't know what kind mine were)  I would add a couple more next time maybe.
2oz fresh lemon juice. (I used bottled)

That's the recipe but I added maybe 1/2 cup water and four or five ice cubes because I like mine really cold.  This will keep covered in fridge for a day so you don't have to drink it all at once. Let me know whether you like it or not.

I Had to Do It.

When you have fresh organic raspberries,

And some free range eggs,

What's a gal to do?

Make pavlova.

Apologies to my vegan friends but it was delicious!

Sweet Saturday.

Since I started on my vegan path eight weeks ago but who's counting  my husband has been very supportive.  He agrees to eat vegan at home but reserves the right to order whatever he likes (MEAT!) when we dine out once a week on date night.

However, he does miss my baking.  A lot.  So after much weeping and wailing and  gnashing of teeth (by me) I endeavoured to find some yummy recipes for sweets.  I think I hit the jackpot.

Magical Coconut Cookie Bars

I used the recipe from this cookbook:

Small in stature but big in delicious recipes.

  Seriously.  Head over to amazon or your local bookstore and peruse through the photos and recipes and you will be surprised.  In a good way.

Peanut butter and chocolate. Seriously.

NYC Black and White Cookies

These squares were To.Die.For.

My husband is one happy man.