My Ideas About Food and Nutrition
My Ideas About Food and Nutrition
My plan is to use this food section as a collection point for my ever changing and developing thoughts, ideas and conclusions about food and nutrition and the role I want it to play in my life. It's a place to keep some recipes I like too.
Food Page List
Some links
- Central Bean
- Porto Rico Importing Co - for coffee
- Regional Farm and Food Project
- Growing New Farmers
- Guido's Fresh Marketplace
- Living to 100
- FDA Bad Bug Book
- FluWiki
- HealthMap - Global disease alert map
- Miles from Babylon
- Free Man's Garden
- Free Man's Table
- Brad Marshall blog
- A Year in Bread blog
- The Food Timeline
- Wild Fermentation.com
- Table Talk, a conversation with Michael Pollan
- Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Food is primary to good health
Food is primary to our existence and good food is primary to our long term well being. It is literally true that we are what we eat and if we want to feel good and feel good for the long haul we must eat food that truly enhances our health and well being.
My thoughts about what constitutes a good diet are constantly changing . There are a lot of conflicting claims and advise out there and finding the good, grounded truth amidst all the noise is quite a trick. Big food is constantly trying to reassure us their latest concoction is safe and nutritious and health enhancing while others beg to differ. Meanwhile big medicine stands ready to patch us up if something goes awry.
My personal goal
My personal goal is to figure out what a healthy diet really is, prepare it in a way I like it, eat it, and try to avoid the worst of industrial food and medicine. This should, with some luck, help stave off a long slow decline into poor health and the chemical and surgical fixes big medicine stands ready offer me.
A Few of my Favorite Recipes
This is a page of links to some my favorite recipes.
My plan is to use this food section as a collection point for my ever changing and developing thoughts, ideas and conclusions about food and nutrition and the role I want it to play in my life. It's a place to keep some recipes I like too.
The Ancient New England Standing Dish (Stewed Pumpkin)
The Ancient New England Standing Dish But the Housewives manner is to slice them when ripe, and cut them into dice, and so fill a pot with them of two or three Gallons, and stew them upon a gentle fire a whole day, and as they sink, they fill again with fresh Pompions, not putting any liquor to them; and when it is stew'd enough, it will look like bak'd Apples; this they Dish, putting Butter to it, and a little Vinegar, (with some Spice, as Ginger, &c.) which makes it tart like an Apple, and so serve it up to be eaten with Fish or Flesh: It provokes Urin extremely and is very windy.
John Josselyn, New-Englands Rarities Discovered (1672)
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John's Molasses Bread
This is a very basic molasses bread I tossed together.
Molasses bread
Ingredients
- Organic whole wheat flour
- An egg
- Baking soda
- Blackstrap molasses
- Olive oil
- Salt
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Mom's Pfeffernuesse
From Mother's recipe file
One thing I'm thinking of doing is putting up a selection from my mother's recipe file - starting with some of my old favorites. They're hand written on 3 x 5 cards and I haven't decided whether to scan them or transcribe them. Scanning might preserve their character better. Let's try one...
Pfeffernuesse
Mom made these great pfeffernuesse cookies for one of her holiday give-aways:
Mom's Pfeffernuesse recipe card (obverse)
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John's Pretty Good Veggie Stew
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John's Pretty Good Oatmeal
Let's talk oatmeal
We've had our coffee. Let's talk oatmeal.
Ughh!!.... oatmeal!
Ma,
can I have Cheerios?.
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John's Crunchy Chopped Hummus
Chopped hummus? Why would anyone hand chop their hummus? They probably wouldn't but I'm one of those rare birds who doesn't have a blender or food processor and I wanted some hummus. So I chopped it. And ended up with some nice crunchy hummus. An unexpected crunchiness I like a lot. So I call it John's Crunchy Chopped Hummus. A food processor would make it go quicker and if one is careful not to process it too fine it should be possible to electrify the processing. Try it and see if it works.
Heart healthy hummus
In keeping with Dr Esselstyn's prescription for a heart healthy diet this hummus contains no animal products, no oils and no nuts. I've been reading his new book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, and find his research into heart attack proofing one's body through diet quite compelling. His diet is causing me to rethink John's Rules for Healthy Eating for healthy eating and it's about time I revised them to reflect what I've chosen to adopt from Dr. Esselstyn's book.
Crunchy Chopped Hummus
Ingredients
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The Ancient New England Standing Dish (Stewed Pumpkin)
The Ancient New England Standing Dish But the Housewives manner is to slice them when ripe, and cut them into dice, and so fill a pot with them of two or three Gallons, and stew them upon a gentle fire a whole day, and as they sink, they fill again with fresh Pompions, not putting any liquor to them; and when it is stew'd enough, it will look like bak'd Apples; this they Dish, putting Butter to it, and a little Vinegar, (with some Spice, as Ginger, &c.) which makes it tart like an Apple, and so serve it up to be eaten with Fish or Flesh: It provokes Urin extremely and is very windy.
John Josselyn, New-Englands Rarities Discovered (1672)
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My Ideas About Food and Nutrition
My plan is to use this food section as a collection point for my ever changing and developing thoughts, ideas and conclusions about food and nutrition and the role I want it to play in my life. It's a place to keep some recipes I like too.
Food Page List
Some links
- Central Bean
- Porto Rico Importing Co - for coffee
- Regional Farm and Food Project
- Growing New Farmers
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John's Molasses Bread
This is a very basic molasses bread I tossed together.
Molasses bread
Ingredients
- Organic whole wheat flour
- An egg
- Baking soda
- Blackstrap molasses
- Olive oil
- Salt
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