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14 years ago
frances
Rawvolution is a good one, though you should be careful about the amount of salt Matt calls for is sometimes too much to swallow.
I've tried several raw food books, and for a long time my favorite has been "The Raw Transformation" by Wendy Rudell. It's a large collection of recipes, and I haven't found a bad one yet. Whenever I'm looking for recipes using particular ingredients or ju
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
That's funny, Nick, thanks for sharing. I thought of sprouting in the office too, but I realized that the Monday-Friday growth cycle was the only one that would work, so I'd only get sprouts on Fridays.
Generally, I think it's fine if the seeds are resting on each other, as long as you're getting your rinses in twice a day, and everything is well drained.
Forum: Sprouting and Organic Gardening 14 years ago
frances
Wheatgrass can be grown with or without soil, but it can't be tossed around the way sprouts are in jars. It needs to be able to grow upward and not be jarred too badly. Standard black two-foot by one-foot agricultural trays are the most common thing, but not the only option. WheatgrassYogi has posted some very pretty photos of his growing in stainless steel mixing bowls. You can combat mold by ma
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
I recently purchased the Omega 8006, and find it to be a great all-around blender. I do have to push - lightly but fairly consistently - to encourage food into the grinder. If some of the twin gear models do a better job of self-feeding once food has been put into the chute then that might be a huge improvement, but I don't have the twin-gear experience to know.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
Your smoothies will always be thicker than juice. I prefer my smoothies to be thin enough to sip. When they get goopy, I'm not impressed.
Better blending can make the smoother and more uniform, but if you are unhappy with the thickness, only additional liquid can improve that. It can help to play around with your sources of liquid. Water gets the job done, but if you're bored, coconut water ca
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
If you enjoy salads, one simple thing you can do is to start making your own raw salad dressings. Commercial salad dressings are often very unhealthy, and your homemade ones can taste much better. If you find two or three that you love, it can increase your enjoyment of your salads, and their health value.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
I do trust the Organic Consumers Association. They were one of the groups leading the charge against the fake organic dairies. Their assessment of this bill is that like a lot of agriculture bills, they feel it goes after the little guy too much and the agro-business farms not enough, but that otherwise it's more-or-less okay.
I haven't found any evidence that the bill does the scary things th
Forum: Other Health Related 14 years ago
frances
The organic consumers association has posted a few articles about this bill. If you go to organicconsumers.org and search for "875", you can see them all. In essence, they have some issues with some of the specifics in the bill, but are generally in favor of it. They are particularly concerned that some of the panic about the bill will make organic consumers appear to be opposed to food
Forum: Other Health Related 14 years ago
frances
I was thinking that the packaging on organic processed foods, and even the little origin stickers on organic produce don't need to be organic themselves, because they aren't "part of the food". I would hope that they would consider the peel to be part of the food, but I'm not sure.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
Do they use this on the organic oranges too? If they say the dye doesn't go through into the fruit, it seems like that might be a loophole in the organic rules.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
I did a fairly extensive write-up of another manual stainless steel model when I first got it. The short version is that I love the steel, but it's a lot more labor intensive than an automatic model, which discouraged me from using it as often, especially on weekday mornings.
Hurricane Stainless Steel Wheatgrass Juicer
(Incidentally, I bought mine from the same site WY just linked to.)
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
Hmm... at the prices WY quoted, his product costs $1/gallon of dilute solution. I don't know how dilute it is, so I don't know the answer to this, but given the relatively high price of the high-quality salts, I wonder which is more expensive. I imagine you want something pretty darn dilute though, since it doesn't take much salt to kill plants.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
frances
103. Re: salt in recipes
About a year ago, I got Matt Amsden's Rawvolution and made one of his recipes without thinking critically about it. The dish was so salty, I couldn't get anyone to help me eat it. I've enjoyed most of what I've made from his book, but I learned a lesson about following salt measurements in recipes uncritically.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
104. Re: banana smoothie
Hmmm... that sounds worth trying!
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
frances
It's hard to know how foods are dried unless you know who dried them and can quiz them about their process. Some of the raw companies have dried fruits, and if you trust them that's a good possibility. If you can dry your own fruit in the summer to store for the winter, then you can monitor the temperature and be sure what you're getting.
I don't eat a lot of dried fruits. When I buy dried fru
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
frances
106. Re: fresh vegetables
Hmm... Good compost is rich in the nutrients that plants need, but I think it has very few of the nutrients that animals need.
Minerals don't go anywhere; there should be just as much iron in composted spinach as there was in the fresh spinach. (I'm not sure about bioavailability changes.)
I don't think the vitamins survive. Could dirt possibly be a source of vitamin C?
Also, the macro-n
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
You can buy them truly raw directly from the farmer. This is tough if you don't happen to be in California.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Healthybun Wrote:
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> Am I wrong or isn't so that you get the same
> amount of chlorine absorbed if you drank 2 liters
> of tapwater and taking a shower for 30 minutes?
Maybe, but the amount of chlorine in municipal water varies wildly from none at all to tap-smells-like-a-swimming-pool. Similarly, the chlorine in pools varie
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
I wasn't as impressed by this video. It was gross, I agree, but I'm not sure what it proved.
Oil and salt are both preservatives. I wonder how her raw potato would have fared if it had been as oily and salty and the french fry. Also, I wasn't at all surprised about how the bun aged. Bread will usually only mold if it's in a sealed bag, preventing it from getting dried out. Dry foods don't mold
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Okay, here's a somewhat different juicer. This is the hurricane stainless steel manual wheatgrass juicer. It's almost entirely stainless steel inside and out.
(edit: In this photo I have been juicing spinach, turnip greens and celery, but not wheatgrass. This juicer works great for all kinds of greens despite the "wheatgrass" in the product name.)
I took a whole bunch of photo
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
If you soak a couple of sun-dried tomatoes, and blend them in with the fresh tomatoes, you'll end up with something a little thicker that you can use as a sauce. Thin is good for soup, but sometimes thicker is better.
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
frances
Jgunn Wrote:
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> one of my teachers in massage therapy , brought in
> one of these units with the *solution* and ran it
> for an hour with no feet, the results were swampy
> water
This is exactly what I had wondered. It seems like it should be easy to test if you have the equipment, and was hoping someone had tried it.
T
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
113. Re: spring rolls
I have the Bron mandoline too, and I agree that it is a great device. It isn't cheap, and you'll want to be careful not to abuse the blade, since it can't easily be replaced. You can adjust the width of the slices to get them just right for your purpose. There are two sets of optional cross blades that can cut each slice laterally into narrow matchstick/spaghetti widths, or wider carrot stick wid
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
frances
It's about both. When apples turn brown that is oxidation... the lemon juice slows that process. Many foods turn brown when they oxidize. It's just like when metal rusts; the rust is oxidized metal.
The good news is that it's easy to tell when most foods are oxidizing, and that if you have chunks of apple you can see how the oxidation starts on the outside leaving most of the apple in good con
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
Your biggest concern is probably oxidation. How much your food will oxidize depends on what specific fruits and veggies you're using, and how small you're cutting them. Oxidation is caused by exposure to air, and smaller pieces have more exposed sides on which to oxidize.
I would use your own perceptions as a guide. If your food seems fine, it probably is. Avocados oxidize very quickly, so I d
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
116. Re: Key lime pie
Hi VeganDiva,
Did you go to tinypic.com, or tinyurl.com? You can upload your photos to different sites, then you can link to the photos. Picasa and Flikr are famous services for uploading photos, but tinypic.com looks like the easiest one so far. You need to provide an image file, any tags you want to add, and after you upload the file it will give you code for using the image. The second code
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 15 years ago
frances
So... I got an email yesterday from EverythingKitchens saying that the Omega 8006 would be back in stock tomorrow, and did I still want it? Today, I go to their site, and the back-order notice has been taken down! The company site is still not mentioning the 8006, but either they're shipping again, or EverythingKitchens managed to find a bunch remaining from the first run.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
118. Re: GE 800 Blender
Cheap blenders get a bad rap. As a student, my sister used to make satisfactory green smoothies using a blender that seemed to have no more power than an electric pencil sharpener.
You won't be able to achieve the same results as a powerhouse like the Vitamix can achieve, but if you are careful with the machine you can do quite a lot. Remember not to overload the blender, make sure there is al
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 15 years ago
frances
You have lots of good options there.
A blueberry/banana smoothie with fresh squeezed orange juice?
A tomato/cucumber salad with minced onion and mint-avocado sauce?
I'm sure you'll get some other ideas too.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 15 years ago
frances
120. Re: HIV
You might try a book called "Wild Fermentation", written by a man who is HIV-positive, and credits the live-culture fermented foods with helping him to manage the side effects of the HIV drugs. The book includes recipes for fermenting a wide variety of foods. My favorite is probably the kimchee.
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