Raw and lactofermented veggies and pan seared beef heart. Topped with steak sauce, hot sauce and soy sauce. Or add a little bacon, egg and mozzarella, what the heck!
Organ meats are often shunned by the public but it can be picked up for rather cheap. It is a tender meat and provides some excellent nourishment. Cook like a steak in pan or on the grill. Marinade ahead of time with wine, garlic, soy sauce, ollive oil and kombucha.
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I love this time of year when everything is ripe at the Farmers market from local producers.
I made some organic beet kvass and lactofermented pickles with fresh dill. Lots of varieties of foods available, like broccoli, zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, beets, dill, fresh Colorado peaches and plums. To make beet kvass, simply boil beets for a few minutes until softened. Let cool for a few minutes and then pour juice and beets into mason jar. Add kefir or kombucha and some sea salt. Let ferment on counter for a couple days then put in fridge. Ready to drink in just a few days. Beet kvass is known as a super tonic to help cleanse the blood. To make lactofermented pickles, cut up cucumber and put in mason jar with water, kefir or kombucha and sea salt, plus some fresh dill. Let ferment on counter for a couple days and put in fridge. Be careful when opening as it can spray all over! You can drink the juice (recommended) and it provides great enzymes and pro-biotic bacteria. Skewers are fun and easy with a group of friends, and you can add almost any kind of meat and vegetable.
I first made up some tenderized steak I bought from the 30% off section of the grocery store. I also found a good deal on some lamb. Plus I had some chorizo sausage from the local Italian grocer. I also used some local farmers market broccoli. And something different like dates and figs, and some vegetables, like fresh peppers, grape tomatoes, mushrooms, potatoes and onion. I dipped it in some sprouted-grain batter and deep fried in coconut oil ghee and local rendered pasture raised pork lard.
I love sushi. But it is tough to find where I live. So I bought a sushi set to make my own. Mine came with a sushi making guide, mat, wooden spoon, rice mold, Japanese sushi knife (watch out it's sharp!), a rectangular tray and two sauce dishes.
It's a fun group activity. You can add your own favorite ingredients. And it's not as hard as it seems. I used salmon, Colorado peaches, radishes, rolled dates, and brie cheese in mine. Dipped in soy sauce, mustard and hot sauce. Sea weed provides great nutrients including a good source of magnesium. I got a hold of some duck and goose livers last year from a local hunter. Hunters these days often reject the most nutritious and prized parts of the animal, wrongly believing that liver is somehow toxic or are offended by the flavors or smell or texture. Fine by me, this is one of the ways to get free nutrient dense food!
Cook up onions, mushrooms and other favorite veggies. Add livers. Cook until just under-done and still a little pinkish. I sauteed in coconut butter ghee from Green Pasture. I also added a little bacon. Add ingredients to food processor. I added fresh local Colorado peaches, sour cream and a tablespoon or so of yogurt. I also added some homemade water kefir, herbs, spices and sea salt. Process into paste and pour into ramekins or bowls. Add melted butter on top to create butter crust. Cover with cellophane wrap and place in fridge for 3 days before serving. (PS: It is recommended to freeze organ meats for at least two weeks to rid potential parasites. These were frozen from last year's hunting season.) Pinto bean with sausage dish, combined with oxtail bone broth and some meat, egg, goat cheese, avocado dip, Greek style yogurt, quick kraut, lactofermented vegetables, fresh basil and hot sauce.
I keep the pinto bean mix in the fridge for quick meals like this. I made up this mix at least a month ago and keep it in the fridge. I use yogurt to keep it from spoiling. It tastes as fresh as the day I made it, if not better because it's lactofermented a bit as well. Beans provide good fiber and protein. I believe they can be part of a low-carb diet when combined like this with other foods and vegetables. We need 20-30 grams of fiber per day to help keep the colon healthy. This can also help with weight control. Everything needed to make kombucha.
Plus extra flavored teas for secondary ferment, including pumpkin spice, chamomile flowers, Ayurvedic tisli ginger lemon, and herbal spicy mint. Sauteed onions, veggies, and liver in goose fat, topped with goat cheese and hot sauce, side of egg and lactofermented vegetables.
A very friendly ketogenic meal, low in carbs, high in fiber, and nutrient dense with many vitamins and minerals, plus delicious and satisfying. Whip up a quick pizza in minutes by using sprouted grains you keep on hand in the fridge.
Add sausage, pizza sauce, shredded cheeses, pineapple, tomatoes, mushrooms, fresh basil or whatever are your favorite toppings. Sprouted grains are easy to make but you need a decent grain mill and grains. Mill grains, put into mason jar with water and yogurt, sea salt. Let sit over night for grains to soak and remove phytates and release phosphorous and other nutrients from the germ. It's essentially a hearty pancake batter. I like to add nuts like sunflower seeds, walnuts or other favorites as well. I use rye, organic wheat, millet, buckwheat, and steel cut oats for my grains. Do not overfill the mason jar and make sure to leave about half the jar for room to expand, or it may overflow or blow off the lid. Crust:
2 cups grated cauliflower, 2 cups mozzarella cheese, 2 eggs. Form into shape with hands (on parchment paper recommended). Bake in oven at 410F for 15 minutes until crust is slightly browned and holds together. Top with pizza sauce and favorite toppings. Finish baking at 375 F. Great alternative to bread crust! Sauteed and steamed cauliflower with turmeric and turmeric ghee, topped with melted mozzarella, homemade blue cheese yogurt dressing, sauerkraut (for live enzymes), sea salt, potassium chloride "No Salt", and fresh basil.
Cauliflower provides some great nutrients, including sulfur nutrients and is high in potassium. Turmeric helps transport of sulfur in the body for detoxification. Sulfur compounds are known to help fight cancer. All the brassicas are known for this as well as good sources of potassium. Potassium, an important electrolyte that needs to be balanced with sodium, magnesium and calcium, is often deficient and we need an estimated 4700 mg/daily per average adult. This meal provides an estimated 1000mg of potassium!
Super Ghee from grass-fed cows, combined with a formula of turmeric, black pepper and ginger.
I listened to the founder of Pure Indian Foods, Sandeep Agarwal, at the 2016 WAPF conference talk about the health benefits of turmeric, including allegedly it's anti-cancer properties. He believes it should be combined with ginger and black pepper as the three have synergistic properties with each other. And it should be combined with a natural fat to help absorb the nutrients. This formula sounds great to me. So I picked some up from Amazon. The daily dosage is 1 tsp. I put some in my bullet-proof coffee! Click on the image to take you to the Amazon page (I received small monetization if you do buy it). Turmeric can have some negative side effects, so do your own research and don't do too much. Beef liver from local pasture raised heritage breed cattle. This provides super nutrients like no other food. It is recommended to get liver in the diet at least once a week to help provide extra super activators plus all the other vitamins and minerals that healthy liver provides. I pick up local liver for $4/lb.
I use plenty of vegetables with my pate. Throw favorite veggies like carrots, sweet potatoes and onions in the pan with some traditional oil and saute for a few minutes until tender. Add liver to the veggies and cook until the liver begins to bleed. Don't overcook liver to retain some of the vitamin B6. Add fresh ground pepper and other herbs/spices of your choice. Add the chipotles and BBQ sauce and finish cooking a few more minutes. Put ingredients into food processor. Add yogurt, blueberries, pear and/or pineapple. I also add a little cream or sour cream. Add a dash of kombucha, kefir, apple cider vinegar. Plus shot of cognac, brandy or vodka (optional). Process into paste. Pour into bowls or ramekins. Melt butter and pour on top. Cover with plastic wrap and put in fridge. Enjoy in 2 or 3 days to let flavors blend. Put on sourdough or with organic corn chips. Also great way to get liver into babies diet. Children need the growth factors. Curry uses turmeric, which contains curcumin, which is considered a powerful anti-cancer agent. It also has some other powerful spices, like ginger, cinnamon, coriander, cumin, fenugreek, pepper, cardamon, cloves and nutmeg. All are supposed to have many digestive and healing properties. Plus it tastes great.
Making your own curry dish is easy. Pick up some organic curry, like the Safeway Organics brand. Or buy your own dried spices and make your own. Some powdered turmeric was recalled due to high lead content, so best to stick with organic. Saute tomatoes, onions, garlic, fresh ginger and vegetables in traditional oil (no modern vegetable oils), like coconut, olive, avocado, lard or tallow on medium for a few minutes. I also added zucchini using my zucchini pasta maker tool. Next add sausage and let simmer a minute. Add coconut milk and turn to low. Add curry last and turn off heat. Stir it all together. Soak your rice ahead of time for a few hours, then cook until tender at same time as preparing the curry. Top rice with curry combo. Delicious! Throw sliced carrots, apples, tomatoes, fresh ginger into a bowl with water, kombucha or kefir or apple cider vinegar, and some sea salt.
Much healthier weight loss option than potato or corn chips! Grilled corn on the cob, carrots, onions, sweet potatoes, potatoes until tender.
Seasoned with whatever I have on hand. I sometimes use herbs de provence or poultry seasoning, a little olive oil, sea salt. Plenty of butter for the corn! Great way to feed a small group. The other day, I did a yogurt-making demo with some friends.
As you can see, I used a slow cooker to make the yogurt. It did work, but I have some comments and recommendations. The slow cooker is probably not as functional as an actual yogurt maker. On warm, it does keep things heated for the required amount of time, 8-10 hours. However, even on warm, it can get too hot. The ideal temperature for making yogurt is under 118F. When I took the temp of the yogurt the next morning, it was 140F down near the bottom of the crock. At top it was a perfect 110. One of the issues is that I might have had the towel covering it not allowing out enough heat. Previously, when I've made yogurt, I cover it with a towel, not with the lid. The lid holds in too much heat. But with the towel it should should be open on one side, I have found, because even a towel can slow down the heat escape. Also, we used simple whole milk. I like to add cream or half-half to my yogurt. This gives it a creamier result at the end. We used A2 and Organic milk. I prefer using A2 milk as this protein is safer for most people, especially those sensitive to dairy. Most milk from the store is A1 milk protein and this can be bothersome to some people. It contains a protein that turns into an opiod in the body and this can cause gastric distress and allergies. Add 1-2 tablespoons of yogurt from the store or buy yogurt culture to inoculate. Must inoculate! We added blueberries, minced ginger and pineapple for flavor. For some reason the yogurt came out a little bitter, I'm not sure from which of these, but I suspect the ginger. Otherwise, it came out pretty good. I add molasses to sweeten it up a bit. If you wanted a secret to health, this might be it. As you can see, the Super Activators are very critical to overall health.
This diagram shows the relationship between the Super Activators and important bodily functions. Without them, the body cannot do its job. Eventually things will begin to break down. Who knows the number of potential diseases with fancy names are a result of simple deficiencies? I'm guessing hundreds or thousands of diseases are partially or directly a result of deficiencies. These would include the big killers, cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Mineral absorption like calcium and magnesium depend upon them. So does digestion, for example hydrochloric acid generation in the stomach, depends on them. Water soluble vitamins, like B-complex, vitamin C and others function more efficiently when the Super Activators are present. Synergy - "whole is greater than the sum of their parts." They also work holistically and synergestically. The Super Activators are a team or web. They work best in concert with each other. When one is missing, the whole team is affected. Synergy: "the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects". Synonyms: cooperative interaction, cooperation, combined effort - Oxford Dictionary For example, Dr. Price discovered that when A and D3 were combined with Activator-X, that their effectiveness was greatly enhanced than if they were on their own. Vitamin A and D3 depend upon a proper ratio. We need 4-10 times as much A as D. More of one demands more of the other. Activator-X relationship to D is important and helps to prevent vitamin D from becoming toxic in the blood. Omega-3 must be kept in balance with Omega-6, and so forth. Deficiencies Dr. Price also discovered that his patients were obtaining 1/10th the Super Activators than people following their native diets. The healthy populations were resistant to disease like TB and tooth decay. The children were strong and without deformities. In his practice at home, he used high vitamin cod liver oil combined with high vitamin butter oil to obtain the Super Activators together in the levels more closely matching those he studied in healthy populations. This is why the Blue Ice formulas closely mimic Dr. Price's work like no other product out there, in my opinion. You also get the added benefit of thousands of other health compounds that are well known, like ALA, choline, selenium, and healthy fats, plus other compounds that haven't even been fully researched. You can obtain all the Super Activators and Omega 3 DHA and EPA conveniently in one source with Blue Ice packages in the Organic Fool store. Minerals are very important to health. These are some of the top minerals our bodies require each day. And we need the SuperActivators to absorb them efficiently.
Minerals will pass right through the body and not get to where they are needed if we don't have the fat soluble vitamins found in animal fats, liver and high vitamin cod liver oil like Blue Ice (which you buy here in the Organic Fool store). I am happy to announce that I'm producing a new booklet summarizing the Organic Fool's way of the Weston Price inspired foods!
This simple little visual booklet is a good introduction to the Weston Price diet ideas, including fermented and cultured foods and dairy, bone broth, sprouted grains, gravy, and simple recipes based on my own ideas and inspiration from Nourishing Traditions. It also includes a little education on the fat soluble vitamins or as I call them the SuperActivator Vitamin Heroes ©, plus info on top minerals, and other good stuff. I hope to use this in my counseling sessions and food demonstrations. I will be selling the book online when I feel it is ready to go. Mixed vegetables, water chestnut, eggs, shrimp, and homemade sprouted grain batter with a little soy sauce and herbs, sea salt.
Cook in pan and turn once. I fried mine in coconut oil and some rendered lard. Topped with drizzle of oyster sauce. Raw cream from legal local raw dairy.
I love the raw cream that comes around in the spring when it's calving season and there's plenty of extra milk. I use cream for my coffee mainly, and I enjoy a small spoonful for breakfast. I even give just a tad to my dog. We are mammals and cream is fine for most people as it contains little lactose sugar. Humans generally can create their own lipase enzymes for fats whereas many cannot produce the lactase enzyme for the milk sugars in pasteurized milk. Cream contains very little lactose sugar anyway. But raw cream will contain lipase to help digest the fats. These are healthy fats the brain and heart require. Humans need a lot of these fats and should avoid modern polyunsaturated fats in many new refined vegetable oils. Real cream for babies! I like to marinade pork. It does several things, such as add flavor and reduce possibility of pathogens.
I use olive oil, kefir or kombucha or apple cidar vinegar, molasses or sugar, soy sauce, worchester, sea salt, fresh garlic, pineapple, ginger, basil and other herbs. Kefir once again adds pro-biotics than can help keep down bad bacteria. Marinading pork also helps to neutralize certain proteins in pork that can cause blood cells to coagulate in a bad way. I put the marinaded pork in a safe glass container with lid and put in the fridge for a few days before cooking. I like to keep it on hand for guests that stop by for tacos and for myself for breakfast with eggs and sprouted grain pancakes. Pork should be marinaded, cured or smoked to neutralize these proteins. I learned about this from a Wise Traditions article. You can look it up on the Weston A. Price website to learn more: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/food-features/how-does-pork-prepared-in-various-ways-affect-the-blood/ "The processing of pork in customary ways by salts and acidic marinades makes pork safe for consumption— not only by inactivating parasites, killing off noxious bacteria that may cause food poisoning, and promoting safe fermentations in the meat that add flavor; traditional processing of pork also seems to prevent the inflammatory and blood clotting effects as observed here through live blood analysis, although we do not know why." Some people do not eat pork for religious reasons, and I respect that. There are good reasons not to eat pork due to possible parasites as well. If one does eat pork, I recommend local pasture raised pork not fed soy. Sliced cucumbers placed in Mason or Ball jar with water, kefir, sea salt, dill (I used cilantro because I didn't have dill on hand), few slices of fresh ginger. Seal lid, let sit a couple days and place in fridge. Keep an eye it doesn't bulge the lid too much from carbonation produced during fermentation. You may want to release some of the gas during this process or it may spray liquid all over when you open it! This has happened to me and it makes a big mess.
Use fermented condiments like this with every meal for enzymes to aid digestion. It also should provide some vitamin C and maybe some B vitamins plus pro-biotics. Kefir provides the starting culture and many more strains of pro-biotics for the the gut than yogurt, but I have used yogurt to start my culture. Whey from raw milk is also another option. I make both water kefir and milk kefir which I use for all kinds of fermented foods. You can buy water kefir culture on Amazon here. |
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