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Green bean pickles
After 10 days of eating only brown rice and water, I had a good idea for pickles: green bean pickles.
Take 1100 gr. green beans, 300 gr onion, 150 gr carrot,5 cloves of garlic, 2 inches fresh ginger, 3 clove pods, 3 juniper berries, 3 leaves of laurel, 1 table spoon sauge, 1 tea spoon of thyme, 60 gr natural seasalt.Read more
Long term investments that cannot fail
Today I started to make long term pickles; those are pickles which take much longer to ferment, as the vegetables are cut in much larger pieces.
2 cauliflowers, 1 broccoli, one big carrot, half an onion, 2 stems of celery, 4 pieces of garlic (not sliced), and a whole bunch of fresh dill (roots included).
As herbs I add juniper berries, mustard seed, dried thym and clove pods. I added 40 grams of salt, a litle bit of juice of my pickled cabbage and I filled with spring water, till the Perfect Pickler was full.
The Vegan Cow
I was asked to write a rice milk recipe: how you make rice milk depends solely on your milk maker.
I use the soy milk maker from HomeMate, the D 54902. It is a very practical, simple and robust machine.
First I soak 80 grams (2,8 ounces) rice overnight (I use brown GABA rice), and put the rice together with 1,7 liter of water in my D 54902.
This milk maker has 3 positions: full bean, 5 cereals and mung bean. As I never make bean milk, I always use the position 5 cereals.Read more
Another healthy recipe
Black beans are very good for the kidneys, and as I am going on a diet, I wanted to make a bean paté that was healthy and delicious.
-2 cups of black beans
-4 inches of kombu sea weed
-1/2 cup brown lentils
Soak overnight in 10 cups of water.
Add 1/2 celery, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 3 pieces of garlic, 1 inch of fresh ginger, 1 tablespoon of thyme, a few leaves of fresh basil.
Sweet Winter
A typical winter dessert and easy to make in only 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
1 red apple, a table spoon of tahin (sesame paste), a dash of salt, a teaspoon of cinnamon, a hand full of non bleached sultana's, a table spoon of sesame oil.
Take the apple, cut it in quarters, remove the core, sprinkle with the cinnamon powder and the salt.Read more
Surprising Onion
One of my favorites is "confit d'oignons" or onion marmelade.
Take 1 kg (2 lbs) onions, cut them diagonally, heat the pan (7), add a bit of sesame oil, add the onion, a bit of sea salt, put on medium flame (4) and cover with the lid.
Keep it on the fire for 3 hours, check from time to time and let the water released by the onions escape a bit, otherwise you have a cooking process, what we want to avoid.Read more
Cooking techniques
Cooking is not only an art, it is also a technique; even if you have the best ingredients, you can ruin a meal by the wrong techniques.
I cook vitro-ceramic and can choose the heat between 0 and 9; if I fry I heat the pan on 7 for a while before I add my oil, this way I need less oil. Afterwards I add the vegetables, close the lid and put the heat on 4. Read more
How to make healthy ice cream?Healthy Chocolate
A very good chocolate substitute is carob powder, it is much sweeter than chocolate, so it needs less sweetners. The carob tree is cultivated in the Mediterrenean area and is also called Saint John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, Saint John the Baptist subsisted on them in the wilderness.
If you dont live in the Mediterrean you can buy organic carob powder in our shop.Read more
Amasake
Finally I decided to make amasake, fermented rice. Where I live I only can buy amasake (kao maak) made from white rice, and I want it made from brown rice.
First you soak your glutinous brown rice overnight in water : then you steam it for 30 minutes, the first 15 minutes with a lid on it, the last 15 minutes without a lid. You let cool down till the rice is still hot on your hand, but not too hot.
Rice Burgers
Rice burgers are healthy and easy to make; just take some brown rice, and a spoon of miso, fry an onion with some garlic and ginger untill the onion is transparant, add the mix to the rice, add some thyme, soy sauce and blend well with a pestle, till in becomes one paste.Read more
Pickled Watermelon Rind
Watermelon rind is especially high in an amino acid known as citrulline. Our bodies use citrulline to make another amino acid, arginine, which helps cells to divide, wounds to heal, and ammonia to be removed from the muscles and the liver.
Use the white inner rind, not the outer green part of the rind. This relish goes deliciously well with summer marinated and grilled foods — especially with proteine rich food.
Take a watermelon, remove the outer rind, like you can see on the picture. Then remove the inner rind, till you can see the red part .From one watermelon you get abound 400 grams / 0.90 lb rind.
Add 8 grams of natural sea salt, a teaspoon of mustard seeds, 1/2 teaspoon of celery seeds, 1/2 tea spoon cinnamon, 1/2 tea spoon ginger and a few cloves.Read more
A healthy Lunch Box
It is not easy to go to work or to school with a healthy lunch box, as people always look at the food you eat, and ask questions about it.
Last weekend I had a day trip with some people who do not eat health food, so I made me some wraps with spring roll pastry.
It is easier to make than sushi : here I used slightly cooked vegetables, baked tempeh, pickled vegetables, brown rice, sesame and flax seed but of course you can use whatever you find in your fridge. You also can add a bit sauce, just do not make it too liquid.
For kids, you also can make dessert wraps, with baked apple with cinnamon and sesame butter, sunflower kernels, pumkin seeds etc..
Tempeh
As I was craving for tempeh , since I moved to Thailand 2.5 years ago, I started to investigate how I could get it here in Bangkok, as there is a small factory about 50 kilometer, 35 miles from here.
And I finally found a shop, The Lemon Farm, where the staff wanted to order it for me.
In my enthousiasm, I ordered far too much, 12 packs normal soy tempeh and 12 packs soy tempeh with black sesame seed. A pack weigh 150 gram (5.2 ounces) and costs 43 thb, so about 1 Euro or 1.50 USD.
I prefere tempeh over tofu for many reasons; if the tempeh get older, it gets more "cheezy", tempeh is a fermented product, tofu is not, tempeh contains vitamine B12 (except the tempeh made in the USA, as the FDA applies some strict rules about "hygiene").Read more
Pizza
Coming back from the gym today , I passed a Pizza Hut outlet, so I wanted to make pizza. First I started with the filling:
1 onion, 1 carrot, 2 mushrooms, a quarter of a pumpkin,some leaves of basil (I used fresh holy basil, but you can use whatever kind of basil), ginger and optional garlic. Slice everything very fine, grate the carrot for a smoother structure. Do the onion with some sesame oil in a hot pan, fry it till it gets brown and transparent, and add the other ingredients, put it on a lower fire for 30 minutes and afterwards take the lid of the pan so the humidity can evaporate.Read more
