Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
Scrambled Tofu Tastes Exactly Like Scrambled Eggs!!!
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't tried it myself 2 days ago. It's absolutely unbelievable. I crumbled a cup of tofu into 1 tbsp of vegetable oil. Then added some spices, and let it cook till the water evaporated and the tofu got a little bit of colour on it. Then I stuck it in a wrap and I basically couldn't tell that I wasn't eating scrambled eggs in a wrap.
Basically blew my mind.
Ingredients:
1 cup firm tofu
1/4 tsp minced ginger
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tortilla wrap
Method:
1. Heat the oil in a pan. Add the tofu and ginger. Cook uncovered on medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Stir once or twice.
2. Add the soy sauce, stir and cook another 2 minutes.
3. Place cooked tofu into a tortilla, add veggies of your choice and roll up.
The crazy (good) thing was that the tofu didn't soak up the oil, so when I scooped up the tofu from the pan, all the oil was left behind. WOW! Perfect breakfast dish.
Next time I'm going to try it with some crumbled bacon in the wrap. I'll replace the ginger and soy sauce with salt and pepper. Maybe some hot-sauce another day. I could also do curry powder or piri-piri powder. So many ways to do this. Zing!!
Tofu is low fat, high protein, has isoflavones (phytoestrogens) that mimic estrogen in your body. All Good Things!
Basically blew my mind.
Ingredients:
1 cup firm tofu
1/4 tsp minced ginger
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tortilla wrap
Method:
1. Heat the oil in a pan. Add the tofu and ginger. Cook uncovered on medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Stir once or twice.
2. Add the soy sauce, stir and cook another 2 minutes.
3. Place cooked tofu into a tortilla, add veggies of your choice and roll up.
The crazy (good) thing was that the tofu didn't soak up the oil, so when I scooped up the tofu from the pan, all the oil was left behind. WOW! Perfect breakfast dish.
Next time I'm going to try it with some crumbled bacon in the wrap. I'll replace the ginger and soy sauce with salt and pepper. Maybe some hot-sauce another day. I could also do curry powder or piri-piri powder. So many ways to do this. Zing!!
Tofu is low fat, high protein, has isoflavones (phytoestrogens) that mimic estrogen in your body. All Good Things!
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Pineapple Cake with No Sugar, No Sweetner, No Honey, No Agave....
Be brave. Try out a truly no sugar cake.
Other than the fact that refined sugar is basically poison to humans, a cup of sugar has 773 calories!!!! Are you kidding? That's half of a person's daily caloric intake!! And most cake recipes call for 1.5 - 2 cups of sugar! Sure, you won't eat the whole cake in one day. But you will eat one slice, and then another. In an 8-slice cake, 2 slices would equal a quarter of your entire day's caloric intake - consumed in sugar alone!!! And we aren't even taking into account the calories in that cake from flour, eggs, oil and fruit. No wonder we're a nation of overweight people.
Artificial sweeteners did help me on my journey to lose 70lbs, but they have unknown long term side-effects so I stopped taking them also. Over the years I've realized that sugar is a privilege (not a right) and the tongue is very quick to acclimatize to low sugary-tasting foods.
Try this cake. It's good. It's sweet. It won't put you in a sugary diabetic coma. It'll just make you say, "Hmm... that's definitely a cake, pretty pineapple-y, pretty sweet, a little more like moist and delicately sweet pineapple-bread than pineapple-cake, but I'm feeling pretty satisfied!"
Ingredients:
1.5 cups unbleached plain flour
1 egg
1 can crushed pineapple and it's juce
1 cup milk
0.25 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder or essence
scant pinch of salt
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 deg.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients thoroughly with a whisk.
3. Combine all the wet ingredients and mix in the with the dry.
4. Grease a 9 inch baking pan. Pour cake batter in it.
5. Bake for 40 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
Serve with some natural sauce... like apple sauce or evaporated milk or soak the cake in natural pineapple juice. Fruits are INCREDIBLY sweet naturally.
Enjoy!
Other than the fact that refined sugar is basically poison to humans, a cup of sugar has 773 calories!!!! Are you kidding? That's half of a person's daily caloric intake!! And most cake recipes call for 1.5 - 2 cups of sugar! Sure, you won't eat the whole cake in one day. But you will eat one slice, and then another. In an 8-slice cake, 2 slices would equal a quarter of your entire day's caloric intake - consumed in sugar alone!!! And we aren't even taking into account the calories in that cake from flour, eggs, oil and fruit. No wonder we're a nation of overweight people.
Artificial sweeteners did help me on my journey to lose 70lbs, but they have unknown long term side-effects so I stopped taking them also. Over the years I've realized that sugar is a privilege (not a right) and the tongue is very quick to acclimatize to low sugary-tasting foods.
Try this cake. It's good. It's sweet. It won't put you in a sugary diabetic coma. It'll just make you say, "Hmm... that's definitely a cake, pretty pineapple-y, pretty sweet, a little more like moist and delicately sweet pineapple-bread than pineapple-cake, but I'm feeling pretty satisfied!"
Ingredients:
1.5 cups unbleached plain flour
1 egg
1 can crushed pineapple and it's juce
1 cup milk
0.25 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder or essence
scant pinch of salt
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 deg.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients thoroughly with a whisk.
3. Combine all the wet ingredients and mix in the with the dry.
4. Grease a 9 inch baking pan. Pour cake batter in it.
5. Bake for 40 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
Serve with some natural sauce... like apple sauce or evaporated milk or soak the cake in natural pineapple juice. Fruits are INCREDIBLY sweet naturally.
Enjoy!
Grape Cake with No Sugar, No Sweetner, No Honey, No Agave...
Tired of cake recipes calling for cups and cups of sugar. And then I'm tired of no-sugar recipes using cups and cups of honey or agave or stevia or splenda... How about a naturally sweetened cake?
Here's one that's not as sweet as you would imagine cake to be, but it's still a DELICIOUS cake that's sweet enough to satisfy.
Ingredients:
1.5 cups unbleached plain flour
1 egg
1 cup (home-made, unsweetened) apple sauce
1.25 cups milk
0.25 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp baking soda
0.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder or essence
1 cup grapes (cut in half)
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 350 deg. F
2. Mix all the dry ingredients thoroughly with a whisk.
3. Mix all the wet ingredients and combine with the dry ingredients. Fold in the grapes.
4. Grease a 9-inch round or square baking pan. Pour cake mix into pan.
5. Bake for 35 minutes or until done (knife comes out clean).
As a sauce, I just soaked the cake in a quarter cup of evaporated milk (which is naturally sweet) and it gives the cake a creamy, soft texture.
Enjoy!
Here's one that's not as sweet as you would imagine cake to be, but it's still a DELICIOUS cake that's sweet enough to satisfy.
Ingredients:
1.5 cups unbleached plain flour
1 egg
1 cup (home-made, unsweetened) apple sauce
1.25 cups milk
0.25 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp baking soda
0.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder or essence
1 cup grapes (cut in half)
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 350 deg. F
2. Mix all the dry ingredients thoroughly with a whisk.
3. Mix all the wet ingredients and combine with the dry ingredients. Fold in the grapes.
4. Grease a 9-inch round or square baking pan. Pour cake mix into pan.
5. Bake for 35 minutes or until done (knife comes out clean).
As a sauce, I just soaked the cake in a quarter cup of evaporated milk (which is naturally sweet) and it gives the cake a creamy, soft texture.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Vege-pate Wrap (Yeast-Free, Vegan)
This delicious pate wrapped in a yeast-free tortilla is the most Delicious, Wholesome and filling thing you'll ever have!! You will HAVE TO add this to you regular menu.
Ingredients:
- 1 can cannellini beans
- 1 tbsp tahini (organic, sugar-free)
- 2 tbsp finely diced red onion
- 1 small clove garlic, minced or paste
- (optional) 2 tbsp cooked oats
- salt, pepper to taste
Method for Pate:
1. Wash and drain the beans. Boil gently for 5 minutes and drain. (We want the beans to get super soft and mushy.)
2. In a bowl, mash the beans.
3. Combine beans, tahini, onion, garlic, oats, salt and pepper.
Your pate is ready.
Assembly of Wrap:
- 1 small handful alfalfa sprouts or lettuce or shredded carrots or tomatoes
- 1/4 cup of pate (made above)
- 1 tortilla (yeast-free, sugar-free)
Fill your tortilla with the above ingredients, roll up and serve.
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Gosh! I cannot tell you how DELICIOUS this is and how your body will love you for feeding it this heavenly, protein-packed, fibrous goodness!
Why Yeast Free?
I'm starting to live a yeast-free (or at least yeast-reduced) life from now on. I've realized that a proliferation of yeast can cause a whole gamut of health issues. And excess yeast in the body doesn't always show up as a yeast-infection. The latter is just the "last stages" of a yeast over-abundance. As a matter of fact, most people in North America probably have too much yeast in the body because we are constantly taking anti-biotics, all food is injected with sugar, we are constantly stressed out and we drink copiously to deal with our stress.
A healthy amount of yeast in the body is a good thing, it's only when there's too much of it that it's a problem.
How do we know if we have too much? Well, your doctor can do a test to confirm. But if you can say 'yes' to the points below, chances are you have too much yeast:
Have you had/have:(1) taken Antibiotics often (or as a child)
(2) eat a High-Sugar diet (people from North America and the Indian Sub-continent especially)
(3) consume Alcohol fairly regularly (12 servings per Year or more)
(4) experience lots of Stress/Anxiety
If those things above are happening, then the "good bacteria" in the body gets killed off, leaving you as a petri-dish for yeast growth. There are many good sites on Candida Albicans, so please read up.
Ingredients:
- 1 can cannellini beans
- 1 tbsp tahini (organic, sugar-free)
- 2 tbsp finely diced red onion
- 1 small clove garlic, minced or paste
- (optional) 2 tbsp cooked oats
- salt, pepper to taste
Method for Pate:
1. Wash and drain the beans. Boil gently for 5 minutes and drain. (We want the beans to get super soft and mushy.)
2. In a bowl, mash the beans.
3. Combine beans, tahini, onion, garlic, oats, salt and pepper.
Your pate is ready.
Assembly of Wrap:
- 1 small handful alfalfa sprouts or lettuce or shredded carrots or tomatoes
- 1/4 cup of pate (made above)
- 1 tortilla (yeast-free, sugar-free)
Fill your tortilla with the above ingredients, roll up and serve.
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Gosh! I cannot tell you how DELICIOUS this is and how your body will love you for feeding it this heavenly, protein-packed, fibrous goodness!
Why Yeast Free?
I'm starting to live a yeast-free (or at least yeast-reduced) life from now on. I've realized that a proliferation of yeast can cause a whole gamut of health issues. And excess yeast in the body doesn't always show up as a yeast-infection. The latter is just the "last stages" of a yeast over-abundance. As a matter of fact, most people in North America probably have too much yeast in the body because we are constantly taking anti-biotics, all food is injected with sugar, we are constantly stressed out and we drink copiously to deal with our stress.
A healthy amount of yeast in the body is a good thing, it's only when there's too much of it that it's a problem.
How do we know if we have too much? Well, your doctor can do a test to confirm. But if you can say 'yes' to the points below, chances are you have too much yeast:
Have you had/have:(1) taken Antibiotics often (or as a child)
(2) eat a High-Sugar diet (people from North America and the Indian Sub-continent especially)
(3) consume Alcohol fairly regularly (12 servings per Year or more)
(4) experience lots of Stress/Anxiety
If those things above are happening, then the "good bacteria" in the body gets killed off, leaving you as a petri-dish for yeast growth. There are many good sites on Candida Albicans, so please read up.
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