KarakD.

Preheat grill to 400 degrees

* Pour EVOO into bottom of grill safe pan

*Clean Rosemary branches & remove all the bottom leaves but keep the very top

*Clean Figs gently under running water

* Very, very gently pierce the fig from top to bottom onto RM branch/Skewers

* Place skewers into pan coat w/a little more EVOO then place on grill

* Cook for approx. 15 - 20mins or untill figs about to burst.

---- At this point I toss in Pine Nuts (pine nuts will turn golden brown)

------I also add a dash of Makers Mark at this point. I don't know what it does to the

figs but it's like magic!

Oooh I wonder if I used coconut oil if it would still be good?

This is so easy to make! I say try it & if you don't like it then feed it to the birds

1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon chopped rosemary plus 2 (6-inch) sprigs

1 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup water

1/3 cup olive oil plus more for brushing -or- sunflower oil

Kosher Salt

Preheat oven to 450°F with a heavy baking sheet on rack in middle.

Stir together flour, chopped rosemary, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Make a well in center, then add water and oil and gradually stir into flour with a wooden spoon until a dough forms. Knead dough gently on a work surface 4 or 5 times. Then roll out as flat as you can

Once the dough is rolled out gently pour EVOO on top & a dash of salt.

Place in center of oven for approx. 10 to 12 mins.

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I started using sunflower oil in place of EVOO because it makes for a crisper cracker.

However, I still pour EVOO on top of the dough for flavor.

I think the biggest challenge to this would simply be mental. IF you can learn to eat food for fuel instead of for pleasure, then the problem is solved. But that's the real challenging part isn't it?

When we go out & friends give me a hard time about not eating I explaine I'm not "Recreational Eater".

For example: when I go to a soccer game ~ I watch the game or I go the County Fair ~ I ride the rides.

I don't just sit there & eat mindlessly.

I hope that makes sense.

K

Anybody try this one? It's quite simple, just eating 'whole foods.' What does that mean? Only a food that has not been separated from any of it's components due to mechanical or chemical processes, but it doesn't matter if a food has been cooked or not. This means you would only eat:

 

Nuts

Seeds

Legumes

Fruits

Vegetables

Whole grains

Spices

 

There is still some confusion if tofu/tempeh should be included, and I think it could go either way.

 

Anyway, I think this would be an ideal diet for health and athletic performance, but I suppose the real challenge is following it, just like the challenge posed by any other diet. Has anyone here tried or done this?

That's pretty much how I eat every day but instead of tofu I eat tons of humus (LOVE!!!)

The only thing that list is missing is fresh herbs (basil, rosemary, etc.)

----spices to me are pepper, salt, cardamom

K

I shun man made supplements like the plague & never ever take them.

Try adding

Quinoa -protein content is very high (18%)

Amaranth & Buckwheat http://www.aaoobfoods.com/graininfo.htm

Pine Nuts:

iron, 8 percent; magnesium, 20 percent; phosphorus, 16 percent; potassium, 4 percent; zinc, 12 percent; copper 20 percent; manganese, 120 percent; thiamine, 6 percent; riboflavin, 4 percent; niacin, 6 percent; folate, 4 percent; choline, 4 percent; vitamin E, 15 percent.

All are excellent for the body

I agree, I freeze atleast 20 one gallon bags of tomatoes that I grow every summer. I prefer to have upwards of 30 bags frozen. That way I can eat one bag a week and last me for 7 months, which gets me almost back to when fresh tomatoes are in season again.

I hear ya on that! I just keep hoping that we never lose power for 5 days again (thanks to the Derecho).

We had to toss everything in the freezer/fridge

Interesting read from NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/07/26/157370769/gut-check-should-you-embrace-our-mostly-vegetarian-past

1. What is your favorite word?

Meow

2. What is your least favorite word?

the "C" word

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Thunderstorms

4. What turns you off?

Crosses

5. What is your favorite curse word?

Depends on the situation.

6. What sound or noise do you love?

Cicadas

7. What sound or noise do you hate?

Chainsaws

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

NASA

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Big Ag

Baby Otto <3

 

http://i48.tinypic.com/33okvtu.jpg

my kids are SQUEELING over your picture!

Just remember 99% of the grocery store produce will not produce plants becasue they have been treated with Sprout Inhibitor Residues (i.e. they were built for shelf life).

Even if they do grow it might not look or taste like the original.

Make sure you're getting an Organic avacado:

**Avocado – A new GM avocado variety is scheduled to be introduced this year that is immune

to “stress” and pests, per an Indian state report published in March, 2008.

Informed consumers are the best consumers

Ah, yes, the feline method of bodybuilding: Strength Gains Through Osmosis!

 

Baby Herc

He's a love bug! He doesn't like the fact that I spend time w/the weights & not him

Brother & Sister NYC recue street cats

Hocus & Pocus

Pocus (girl) is very small & mostly spends her days in my bed.

If I can get anyone do just one thing it would be to can your own tomatoes.

The taste is like a ray of summer sun on a bleak Feb day.

If you don't want to can you can grill or roast tomatoes, bag them & toss in freezer.

We stashed over 20 bags this summer & they go pretty quick when tomato season is over.

Time to hot pack the jars & put into a boiling water bath for 17mins. (you can use smaller jars & the processing time will be less)

after grinding the home grown goodness, we cooked it in a large pot for 2hrs.

Not a lot new on the bike commute front *but* we've been canning tomatoes like //CRAZY\\

Yeah, I think I'm gonna stick with a healthy diet & lifting

 

What're you saying, KarakD.? That spending an hour every day picking at your face until you look like a strung-out vampire Kewpie Doll isn't as much fun as stepping out of the shower clean, pure, naked, and gorgeous?

 

Baby Herc

Don't forget cats! I can't live with out them

Now that Ray Bradbury is gone ~ I think NdGT is the sexiest man (next to hubby) alive on this planet!

Hocus helping me out today & every day I lift at home.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna stick with a healthy diet & lifting

Pharmers Market???

You KNOW that title made me cringe.

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P.S. Why is my avi messed up?

Nothing but a tool for the Politicians to get all the wackos in an uproar.

 

Nevermind the fact that most of the wackos all shop at walmart for the low, low prices.

 

Most of the people I know who shop at Wal-Mart are the ones who are being squeezed out of the middle class into being poorer with every year, and they're definitely not "wackos". Lots of good people out there who are barely making ends meet who have to choose between new items from cheap sources or shopping exclusively at thrift stores, and not everyone is a fan of second-hand goods for all their wearables. With a declining economy and fewer job options to make a solid living without a college education (and, fewer jobs now for those with degrees), it's not an easy thing to convince someone scraping by on $12/hour with kids at home to spend $25 on an American Apparel t-shirt and $60 on a pair of organic fair-trade cotton yoga pants

Believe it or not there are great places to get good kids clothes that do not have to be purchased at Walmart.

I buy lots from Yard Sales or this great place Thrift store called: "Unique Thrift"

Unique Thrift is run by the Vietnam Vets & is just amazing.

I do not shop at Walmart & avoid Target like the plague. Walmart & Target are unethical, they pay slave labor and destory endangered Forrests all for "Cheap Goods" & "Fast Profit"

Yeah, it is annoying and embarrassing really as a country, but I agree not surprising.

 

What is suprising to me is that the politicians are so surprised over this?! Where have they been the last 10 yrs? Do they not realize that almost every textile mill in the country as closed down and it's almost impossible to find a piece of clothing made in the USA.

Nothing but a tool for the Politicians to get all the wackos in an uproar.

Nevermind the fact that most of the wackos all shop at walmart for the low, low prices.

GM Apples that wont turn brown?!?! I plan to vote with my pocket book.

That Fresh Look, Genetically Buffed

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/business/growers-fret-over-a-new-apple-that-wont-turn-brown.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1