Monthly Archives: July 2010

It's Tomato Time

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Last year my tomato yield from my garden was zippo.

What a difference a year makes!!

What are you doing with all of  YOUR tomato’s?

I personally have an astounding Pico De Gallo made.

Bruschetta is on the horizon

Pico De Gallo

chopped tomato, cilantro, onion, garlic, jalepeno or pepper of choice – squeeze lime all over and let macerate

serve with anything mexican

superb on eggs

Bruschetta

chopped tomato, onion,garlic, parsley, basil and lemon – slather with , olive oil, balsamic. let macerate …

serve on toasted breads, rubbed with more garlic, add bruschetta, more oil and fresh parmesan

it’s all about the ceremony with this mixture

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above garden fresh images photographed by karen hanrahan

Chicken Curry Recipe Revised

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Saute one large vidalia onion  - sliced in thin 1/2 moon slivers, one entire red pepper – long thin strips, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 jalapeno or other hot ( serrano is also good) in an extra virgin olive oil until tender.   This smells amazing as it’s simmering!! Add soup –  I use Pacific Roasted Red Pepper Tomato.  Amy’s has a nice canned version – use two.  ( another completely different version of  this is to use 2 T of tomato paste in 2 cups of half and half) Add one T of your favorite curry seasoning. 1/4 C lemon. Crushed White and Black Pepper. I never use salt. Add chicken. You can use boneless. Or you can use bone in w/ skin on. It depends on what you prefer.  If using with skin saute those in a seperate pan until brown first. Simmer all for a good hour.  Using the Pacific brand yields the most sauce.  I make this for 4, and often have sauce leftover to freeze. Great for a quick heat and serve meal later!!

Serve over brown rice. As a kid we always had fresh steamed green beans too.

Getting Enough?

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Getting enough??

Fiber isn’t particularly fun to talk about. Yet when you don’t have enough fiber in the diet that’s not fun either.

A nutritionist once told me that in order to get enough daily fiber in our diet we needed to eat:

13 cups brown rice ( brown rice is 7 times more fibrous than white )
an entire lb of carrots – that’s a bag folks
and 7 apples

a day.

Try and imagine ALL of that food sitting on your plate waiting for you to eat it – each and every day.

The FDA suggest 25 Grams a day

Goodness my.

We just don’t do it.

Fiber is the transit for the ugly. The ugly binds ( no pun intended ) to the fiber we eat and gets it the heck out of our body where it doesn’t belong.

Best way to get the fiber we need in our body is to eat it. Whole grain breads, pastas, veggies and fruit.

The second best way is to supplement it. Tuck it in as we say. Be sure that it’s something you get “regular” about.

I have fiber tablets ( sourced from beets,soy, lemon and grapefruit), this includes both a soluble and insoluble fiber.

I also carry a very special fiber that cholesterol binds to making it an absolutely excellant addition to a natural cholesterol lowering program.

Are you getting enough fiber in your diet?


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The Story Of Cosmetics

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I want to applaud  Director of Story Of Stuff Annie Leonard again.

Her  video The Story Of Cosmetics recently launched and I just love it!!

She speaks to something out loud that I have often thought. How can cosmetic companies like Estee Lauder raise funds for cancer research and produce products with carcinogens in them? Shouldn’t they start in their own back yard and produce a safe cosmetic in the first place?

She speaks to having choices that really matter, not choices guided by marketing hoopla.  She also applauds companies that have taken on being more responsible for what they manufacture and share with the public consumer.

You can have a say in what’s next for this unregulated industry. The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 needs your thoughts and support.

The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky with Rep. Edward Markey and Rep. Tammy Baldwin, is a huge moment for consumers, parents and environmental health advocates: for the first time in 70 years, we have a real chance to pass national legislation that would eliminate harmful chemicals from the products women, men and children put on their bodies every day.

Now Congress needs to hear from us. Please tell your elected officials this common-sense legislation is important to you!

I have written in the past about the skin care products I absolutely adore.

What is chronological vs accelerated aging ? Can I really prevent neck wattles, double chins and age spots? With products that are actually safe?

Why should I take care of my face ? What skin care chemicals should I avoid?

The above  post is a collective shout out from Green Moms Carnival, hosted by our carnival founder,  Lynn at Organic Mania in total support of Annie Leonard and The Story Of Cosmetics Project.

Try Chewable Calcium Instead Of Tums

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I will never forget the first time I heard a client tell me they were sourcing their daily calcium from Tums.

Hello!?  Tums is an antacid for heartburn!!

I then found out that chewable calcium is actually a way to neutralize stomach acid.

I didn’t know that.

The problem with Tums is it markets itself as an antacid with a bit of a calcium supplement on the side.  It touts itself as an antacid and then says multi-vitamins don’t have enough calcium in them so use this antacid as an inexpensive way to get your calcium too.

Talk about ploy.

Here’s the deal:

If you have heartburn you have a digestive issue – not a calcium deficiency.

Multi-vitamins don’t have enough calcium in them simply because it’s too bulky of a mineral to tablet. If multi-vitamins put enough calcium into their products they would be horse pills compressed so tight they would not dissolve.

( Which just so you know that’s alot of what’s on the market out there now!)

Tums in addition to having only one source of calcium, is also loaded with sucrose ( first ingredient on the label), has talc in it – some sources of which are carcinagenic. Tums have artificial flavors, way too many food dyes, sorbitol and aspartame.

I have no idea how many folks actually take Tums as their source of calcium but we are a nation with a very high percentage of Osteoporosis.

I’d say the Tums isn’t helping.

In addition if I wanted to take calcium I’d prefer to take it without the sugars, chemicals, talc and food dyes — thank you very much.

It is said that it’s best to use a calcium supplement that utilizes a variety of sources of calcium. Best calcium sources are a combination of concentrated and absorbable calcium carbonate, calium citrate, and calcium citratemalate. If you are taking a calcium supplement that does not include Vitamin D, Magnesium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese or Boron then you have nothing toactually assist the calcium into the bones. These minerals are the matrix that pullscalcium where you need it most. Nature never works single handedly. Calcium alone is not enough.

Calcium with the junk found in Tums is simply preposterous.

I have an absolutely lovely high quality chewable calcium. By design it is simply that. Chewable Calcium. Naturally flavored with raspberries, includes all the matrix minerals to assist the variety of sources of elemental calcium into the bones AND it also works as a natural antacid.

Which would you prefer to take ?

I also have nutritional solutions to many digestive issues. I’d love to be of assistance.

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