Eat Bold And Eat Big

 
Eat beyond the ordinary

 
I've been trying out lately - things like peanut butter pizza and popcorn mush. Some of them are too good to miss. The typical American diet is implicated in most of health problems that rob people over 60 of productivity and enjoyment. It seems to me it is time to start enjoying foods that give enjoyment and do not take enjoyment away. I'm no expert, but from what I have happened to read, it seems a consensus is building that a person can add a decade or more of independent, enjoyable living by making good choices about diet and other practices. Yep, the world needs recipes that are different and I'm gonna put some right here on this page, I'm posting a few of the I come up with as I continue my adventure in . So far, it has been fun. Eating is even more pleasurable when the food is definitely not the same old same old. And what else is more important than avoiding as long as possible things like heart failure, kidney dialysis, dementia, and an extended stay at a nursing home. I'll try to add a about once a month and delete one of the older ones.
 
These recipes are not for the picky eater. They are for the adventurous eater who wants a little more than the usual. Can you handle it? If not, ease up to it gradually. Some of these foods require some getting used to. Some of these recipes will be a hit on the first run through. Anyway, to me the effort is worth it. And what else is more fun?

For the most part the food will be nutritous, lower in carbohydrate then the typical American diet, low in saturated fat, high in fiber, low cost, made from readily available ingredients, and not high in prep time. But everything is relative. Your idea of typical prep time could be opening the bag you got at the take out window at McDonald's and unwrapping that burger. In that case, my recipes are preparation intensive.

Anyway, expect unprocessed food, quite a bit of raw food, some slicing and chopping and some new tastes and textures.

 
 
 
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polk salad Polk salad (on the side): 20080609
Polk salad (on the side)
3 ounces polk shoots
1/2 cup water
2 teaspoons olive or canola oil
1/2 teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 pinch salt
Cut the top 5 or 6 inches of new growth from the polk plant in the spring or whenever you find newly emerged polk stalks.
Remove and discard all leafs.
Cut the polk shoots into 1 inch lengths.
Put the polk and water into a microwaveable bowl.
Heat on full power until bowling, about 2 minutes 40 seconds.
Heat on low for 4 minutes.
Drain the water off by pouring into a sieve.
Heat again in 1/2 cup water until boiling, then 4 minutes on low.
Drain the water. Combine all ingredients and toss.

 
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Mackerel tomato pumpkin nuts peas grain: 20080501
1/2 teaspoon orange juice concentrate
1/4 teaspoon (about 12 drops) lemon juice
3 ounces canned pumpkin puree
1 ounce mackerel
1/4 cup (1 ounce) California walnuts
  or 2 tablespoons unroasted tahini (sesame seed butter)
1 tablespoon whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon olive or canola oil
2 teaspoons sugar, add another 1 teaspoon if needed
1 pinch salt
1/8 cup raw peas
Process the walnuts and flour until either the mixture stops flowing or a fine crumb is produced (about 2 minutes), (including flour keeps the oil in the walnuts from stopping the flow of the mixture).

Put the nut meal into a mixing and/or portion bowl.

If using frozen pumpkin and/or mackerel, break them into pieces your food processor will handle.

Process until a fine texture is produced.

If using frozen tomato, break it into pieces.

Put the stewed tomato in the processor.

Process the pumpkin and/or mackerel and tomato into a smooth texture.

If necessary, repeatedly lift the processor one quarter inch and bang it down against the countertop to jar the pumpkin into the path of the cutting blades so that a fine texture is obtained.

Combine all ingredients in a mixing and/or portion bowl.

Mix until uniform.

Can be used as one portion large enough for a light meal.

For a large meal use 1/4 cup peas and serve a side of fruit, perhaps melon and/or cherries.


 


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