Month: March 2015

Recipe ~ Pistachio, Arugula & Mixed Herb Pesto

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by The Vegetarian Ginger

Ingredients

  • 2 cups fresh arugula
  • 2 cups parsley
  • 1/3 cup each of fresh sage, basil and oregano
  • 1 cup shelled, toasted and unsalted pistachios
  • 1 1/2 cups olive oil
  • 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated
  • Salt to taste

Method

In the bowl of a food processor, add arugula, parsley, sage, basil and oregano. Pulse until very fine and well combined. Add in pistachios and process for 30 seconds. Slowly pour in olive oil while pulsing, stopping along the way to scrape down the sides of the bowl in necessary. Add in Parmesan and salt, and process for a few more seconds to allow the ingredients to blend together.

For best results, allow the pesto to sit for an hour so the flavours can develop. Serve fresh with pasta, sandwiches, pizzas and whatever else you want to smother pesto on.

Seeds for Meditation

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Hospitality entails creating not just physical room but emotional spaciousness where the stranger can enter and be himself or herself, where the stranger can become ally instead of threat, friend instead of enemy. May this cause you to pause and consider the lines you can artificially draw between yourself and others, and wonder what beautiful things may happen if you are willing to let those lines go.

More Seeds for Meditation

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Is there an observation of silence by silence in silence?
Krishnamurti: Is there an observation of silence by silence in silence?

Questioner: That’s a new question.

Krishnamurti: It is not a new question if you have been following. The whole brain, the mind, the feelings, the body, everything is quiet. Can this quietness, stillness, look at itself, not as an observer who is still? Can the totality of this silence watch its own totality?
Eight Conversations,12 Krishnamurti

Recipe ~ Vegetarian Dumplings

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  • Prep Time:
    20 min
  • Cook Time:
    15 min
  • Ready Time:
    35 min
6 servings

 Ingredients:

  • one box frozen organic spinach you dont need fresh for this and flash frozen are perfect
  • on scallion chopped
  • one small onion chopped
  • one clove of garlic chopped
  • one cup of cilantro chopped
  • one cup silken tofu
  • kosher salt and pepper
  • good store bought won ton skins should have ingredients, flour, water, salt anything more than check for a lab experiment going on.
  • 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
  • dash of sesame oil
  • chives to garnish

Directions: 

In a hot pan with olive oil, add the spinach with a little kosher salt and saute’ until the water has evaporated out of it to the point where you can push down on it and no liquid comes out.  Take out and cool.

Now add all the other ingredients (minus the won ton wrappers) and mix well; check for seasoning and adjust. You don’t want it too salty, as the sauce will help with that.

Take your won ton wrapper and put a small quarter size dollop of the mixture into the middle of the won ton wrapper, using some water wet the edges, now bring one side over to the top (see photos) to make a purse and press together to seal.

You can either freeze them or put them on a baking tray and into a freezer.  Once they are frozen, remove into freezer bags.  I like to do individual portions  of 5-7 pieces, that way when you get home and want a snack, you can just grab a bag and cook them.

Fried from fresh:

In a hot pan with olive oil, put the dumplings in flat side down and fry them until golden brown (keep checking) now add a 1/4 cup of water and cover for a couple minutes until they are cooked fully and all the water has evaporated.

From Frozen:

In a hot pan with olive oil, add dumplings  then a splash of water, cover and let steam when the water starts to evaporate the bottom will start to brown. When a golden color they are done

Steaming:

Into a bamboo steamer for 12 minutes from frozen … 6 minutes from fresh.

Plate and drizzle some of the sauce on the plate (just mix all the sauce ingredients together) and go to town!

Enjoy!

Recipe To Make Cannabis Oil For Chemo Alternative

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Over the past few years people became more and more aware of the power of cannabis as a potential cure for cancer. The studies conducted over the last decade confirmed the anti-cancer effect of the plant, without leaving any doubt behind.

Cannabinoids (any group of related compounds that include cannabinol and active substances of cannabis) have the ability to activate the cannabinoid receptors in the body. The body produces endocannabinoids, compounds that play important role in many vital processes that create a healthy environment.

Radiation and chemotherapy are the only approved cancer treatments, but people must know that there are other options as well. Exploring these options is bad at no aspect, and if people only knew about all the other alternatives, they would sure be able to make the best choice for themselves.

Many people chose this alternative treatment to fight cancer and live longer, and the number of people who become aware of the healing power of this plant increases every day. “How is it used?” is the next question to be asked.

You can either do a research on your own or find more information about Rick Simpson’s hemp oil.

Rick Simpson is a medical marijuana activist, and he has been giving people information about the healing properties of hemp oil medications for a long time. His own experience inspired him to help other people, after he cured his metastatic cancer in 2003.

We give you the original recipe for Rick Simpson’s hash oil. 

 

Health ~ 11 Life-Changing Rituals For An Excellent Start Of The Day

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We live in busy times when most of us have to work around 40 hours a week. In order to lead this kind of lifestyle, one should sort their time and energy properly throughout the whole day. Healthy morning rituals can really have a positive impact on the way you spend your day. Not everyone realizes that what you do and the way you think in the morning can affect your mood, motivation, energy and the way you do things throughout day.

It is of great importance to start your day the proper way in order to grow, feel happier and to be more productive. Read on for ideas on how to make the best of your mornings.

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Recipe ~ The Raw Brownie

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Ingredients:
2 cups whole walnuts
2 ½ cups Medjool dates, pitted
1 cup raw cacao
1 cup raw unsalted almonds, roughly chopped
¼ tsp. sea salt

Directions:
1. Place walnuts in food processor and blend on high until the nuts are finely ground.
2. Add the cacao and salt. Pulse to combine.
3. Add the dates one at a time through the feed tube of the food processor while it is running. What you should end up with is a mix that appears rather like cake crumbs, but that when pressed, will easily stick together (if the mixture does not hold together well, add more dates).
4. In a large bowl (or the pan you plan on putting the brownies in), combine the walnut-cacao mix with the chopped almonds. Press into a lined cake pan or mold. Place in freezer or fridge until ready to serve (it is also easier to cut these when they are very cold). Store in an airtight container.

Source:  http://www.mynewroots.org/

Daily Chabad ~ Unimaginable Journeys

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Each journey the soul travels takes her higher.

Some journeys are painful, but with purpose. The purpose overwhelms the pain and transforms it into joy.

Some journeys are painful, but with no purpose in sight. There is no medicine to wash away the pain.

There is no medicine, other than the faith that every journey the soul travels takes her higher. Some so much higher, she cannot even imagine their meaning. Until she arrives.

Seeds for Meditation

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The tendency of people to be fearful of those experiences they call apparitions or assign to the “spirit world,” including death, has done infinite harm to life. All these things so naturally related to us have been driven away through our daily resistance to them, to the point where our capacity to sense them has atrophied … Fear of the unexplainable has not only impoverished our inner lives, but also diminished relations between people; these have been dragged, so to speak, from the river of infinite possibilities and stuck on the dry bank where nothing happens. For it is not only sluggishness that makes human relations so unspeakably monotonous, it is the aversion to any new, unforeseen experience we are not sure we can handle.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Five Surprising Facts About Orchids

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Here are five interesting facts you may not have known about one of the most popular flowers in the world:

1. There are more than 25,000 documented species of orchid, and scientists are finding more every day.

The family Orchidacea is home to more than 25,000 flower species. Scientists suspect that there are more species in the topical areas of the world, and horticulturalists hybridize the flower to create new species that wouldn’t occur in nature, and giving rise to some of the most popular varieties of the plant in existence. [Photo: Orchids of Latin America]

2. Orchids have a symmetry similar to human faces.

Much of the reason orchids are so widespread is thanks in part to humans’ affinity for and desire to grow them. The symmetry of the flower could have a lot to do with why people are so fond of orchids. An orchid has bilateral symmetry — like a human face — so if a line is drawn vertically down the middle of the flower, the two halves are mirror images of each other.

3. Orchids are masters of deception.

Orchids deceive insects into pollinating them. The reproductive parts of many orchid flowers are shaped and colored to look like the kind of insect they hope to attract. Once the insect is interested, the orchid’s pollen sticks to the bug until it flies off to find another orchid that it mistakes for a mate.

4. Scientists found fossilized orchid pollen on the back of a bee.

Pollen from an ancient orchid was found on the back of a bee encased in amber, as detailed in a 2007 study in the journal Nature. The fossil was dated to around 10 million or 15 million years ago, but the orchid family is far older. Some research even dates some species of orchid to around 120 million years ago, before the continents split into their current form.

Two species of orchids whose natural habitats are thousands of miles apart are actually closely related. Scientists think that the plants probably had a common ancestor before they were separated by continental drift.

5. Vanilla is a species of orchid.

Perhaps one of the most popular species of orchids, the “flat leafed” vanilla plant is also one of the most widespread. Horticulturalists all over Latin America cultivate the plant for its flavorful charms.