Cinnamon, pine nuts, yogurt, yum... I've even got
lots of cooked grains in the frig today — quinoa, freekah and brown rice.
Not exact matches
I
cooked the brown rice using my pasta method,
lots of water and then strain the rice, voila you have the perfect separate
grains very efficient and anti-gluppy rice.
Its fun to make fritters with, but I don't typically
cook a
lot of grains.
** The soaking process means the quinoa
grains have already absorbed a
lot of water, so only 1 1/4 cups are needed to
cook the quinoa.
I was just wondering because my
cooked spelt
grains weighed almost 300 grams and that seemed like a
lot, when combined with 500 grams
of flour, for one loaf?
For those
of you who are curious, I made note
of everything in my freezer: five types
of chili powder; three serrano chile peppers; kaffir lime leaves; white popcorn kernels;
cooked chickpeas, mung beans, flageolets, and marrow beans;
lots of Massa brown rice; pasta sheets; unidentified cookie dough # 1; unidentified cookie dough # 2;
cooked posole in one bag, red sauce in another (for this); 2 pounds wild huckleberries; 1 sweet whole wheat pastry tart shell, round; 1 sweet whole wheat pastry tart shell, rectangle; 6 small spelt - semolina tart shells; small bag
of ginger juice; 2 pounds Straus European - style butter; plenty
of this green soup - I puree it and make a tart filling; one pack
of three -
grain tempeh; a stack
of frozen rye crepes;
cooked farro, pound
of green beans; pack
of expired acai juice; 8 Parmesan rinds, and roughly five pounds
of cherries from my sister's tree.
A
lot of fast food options are marketed as being healthy, but unless you're the one doing the
cooking it's difficult to control how much sugar or salt (or fat or energy or... you get the picture...) is in that bowl
of superfood lentil stew with mixed
grains from the healthy fast food chain next door to the office.
Because I'm a vegetarian we eat a
lot dal, rice and one veg but I've recently acquired Fushcia Dunlop's Every
Grain of Rice — Simple Chinese Home
Cooking and I've become mildly obsessed with the frugal simplicity of much of Chinese home cooking so we are going on a bit of tofu and Chinese vegetables bender at the
Cooking and I've become mildly obsessed with the frugal simplicity
of much
of Chinese home
cooking so we are going on a bit of tofu and Chinese vegetables bender at the
cooking so we are going on a bit
of tofu and Chinese vegetables bender at the moment.
(Even though yours is pecans I'll sub in walnuts) I've amassed
lots of flours and other items to
cook grain free but it's gotten a little out
of control so my plan is to organize and use up stuff while finding a few staples that I make consistently to have on hand each week or month.
I don't eat a whole
lot of grains, at least not when I am
cooking a meal just for me.
GAPS means a
lot of creative
cooking, though, and I turned to blogs like Tiffany's for great
grain - free recipes.
It is filled with tips, tricks, charts, and
cooking times for
lots of beans and
grains.
We talk a
lot about
cooking times on this site, and as with most
grains (or
grain - like ingredients),
cooking time can vary greatly from rice to rice depending on the type
of wild rice you buy, when it was harvested, and so on - so keep that in mind as you go into any recipe that features wild rice.
When rice turns out gummy or clumps together, it's generally a sign that there was a
lot of extra starch coating each
of the
grains before they were
cooked.
The children
cooked lunch together and it was all organic, whole
grains,
lots of fruit and veggies.
Cook Once, Eat All Week is here to help you prep the basics for healthy meals (
lots of veggies, along with some
grains and pulses) ahead
of time, then give you the simple recipes to turn those ingredients into hearty, satisfying meals.
Opt for seasonal vegetables (
lots of leafy greens), fresh fruit (low GI options like berries and green apples are best), gluten - free
grains (like quinoa, brown rice, buckwheat, etc.), nuts and seeds, high - quality organic and locally sourced fish, eggs, and chicken, and use coconut oil or extra-virgin olive oil in your
cooking.
Start your day with fresh fruit, enjoy green Smoothies,
lots of salads, whole
grains, beans and steam
cooked vegetables.
My theory is that it just uses up a
lot of nutrients in the body to be able to digest it, almost like very burnt food and therefore depending on if you're running low on vitamins and minerals anyway, it can have a negative knock on effect on your Candida symptoms... I definitely noticed that I never experienced any set backs from eating wholegrain rice, only ever from rice cakes... so the past few months I have been sticking to soaked and
cooked whole
grains, and it is making a difference.
I currently feel that I do best on my own (non-named) gut healing protocol which includes tons
of veggies, some fruit, eggs on a rotational basis (as I suspect a sensitivity),
lots of bone broth, no dairy except occasional
cooking with ghee, no refined sugar except the occasional bit
of dark chocolate, no
grains except the occasional serving
of quinoa that has been soaked for 6 - 8 hours, and limiting alcohol intake.
By the time my third baby started solids, I was gluten free due to Hashi's so I did the
grain - free GAPS baby diet with him, using a
lot of natural liver sausage and
cooked veggies pureed together.
While a person wanting to lose or maintain weight would include a whole
lot of raw food, say big salads with some lemon juice as the dressing, you might eat smaller amounts
of raw food and far more
cooked veggies, beans, and
grains proportionately..
But one thing that is definitely true about this blog is that we
cook and post about what we actually eat (and we eat a
lot of grain salads!)
I made a
lot of batch -
cooked grain - free curries and stews.
i do
grain free and home
cooked (
lots of greens like broccoli and kale) for Astro because he has lymphoma and i do corn free for the other dogs because i believe the herbicides and pesticides in the GMO corn in dog foods may be related to the increased incidence
of canine cancer.