Showing posts with label healthy food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy food. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

SOYMILK

One of the health drinks that I usually take and luckily for me it is widely available in my country of residence but for those who have a hard time finding it in the local grocery store, here is how you can make it.

Ingredients:

2 cups fresh soybeans
water
salt to taste
sugar to taste

  • Soak soybeans in warm water for at least 6 hours.
  • Remove soybean skin and rinse thoroughly.
  • Grind soybeans or blend at high speed.
  • Extract soybean milk by squeezing through a cheese cloth.
  • Add water to soybean milk to make 8 cups.
  • Cook soymilk in a kettle over medium flame.Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
  • Lower fire and keep kettle uncovered.
  • Simmer for at least an hour.
  • Add sugar and salt. Let cool.
  • Serve hot or cold.

Friday, May 15, 2009

VEGETARIAN KEBABS

This is a simple recipe to be made for parties or even in your ordinary meal. Your kids will surely love this!

6 vegetarian sausages, cut into 4, slightly fried
1 cucumber, cubed
3 saba bananas, cubed, fried
Marshmallows for garnishing
Barbecue sticks
Barbecue sauce (bottled)

  • Thread alternately pieces of sausage, cucumber, saba, and marshmallow on a barbecue stick.
  • Repeat the procedure with the rest of ingredients.
  • Serve with barbecue sauce

(This recipe is from Cooking Smart by B.M. Varona and D.A. Varona)

Thursday, January 8, 2009

CORRECT WAY OF EATING FRUITS

(Got this one from a friend...and I think it's worth noting!)
We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it, and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how, and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?
* IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!
* FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss, and other life activities.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.
Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

In the meantime the whole meal rots, and ferments, and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach, and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.

So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining - every time I eat water-melon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat bananas, I feel like running to the toilet etc - actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach.

The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food, and produces gas, and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will not happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits like orange, and lemon are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did a research on this matter.

If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness, and normal weight.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT From the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits, because you don't get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste.

Cooking destroys all the vitamins.

But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.

You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body.

Just eat fruits, and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!

KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E & fiber. Its Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit.
Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessels-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE : Sweetest medicine.
Taking 2 -4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest
Thirst Quencher Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant > dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C & Potassium..

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for Vitamin C.
They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.

Drinking Cold water after meal = Cancer!
Can you believe this??

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down, and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats, and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup, HOT TEA or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks

HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE': (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)

Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Read > this ...It could save your life!!

Let's say its 6.15 pm and you're driving home. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm, and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

'HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE':

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly, and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly, and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, deep, and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath, and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart, and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.

In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

Monday, December 15, 2008

VEGETARIAN STROGANOFF

3/4 kilo vegemeat, cut into strips, slightly fried
2 potatoes, cut into strips slightly fried
1 small can cream of mushroom soup
4 tablespoons margarine
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sour cream
Salt to taste
Red pepper

  1. Melt margarine on a heated skillet over low fire.
  2. Add cream of mushroom soup.
  3. Gradually stir in milk and rest of ingredients.
  4. Season with salt.
  5. Simmer for 3 minutes.
  6. Serve hot.
Easy to prepare, huh? This one is good for the holidays!

(This recipe is from the book Cooking Smart by B.M. Varona and D.A. Varona. For book orders, please send me an email.)

Monday, December 1, 2008

HOT & SPICY ONION GLUTEN

3/4 kilo gluten, sliced to desired sizes
2 tablespoons soy sauce
3 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon Oriental sesame oil
1 teaspoon chili paste
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 onions, sliced lengthwise
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon water
Salt or seasoning to taste

  • Combine 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1 teaspoon cornstarch in a bowl.
  • Add gluten and mix well. Let stand for 30 minutes.
  • On a separate bowl, mix in remaining soy sauce, sesame oil, and chili paste.
  • Heat skillet and pour in vegetable oil.
  • Add onion and garlic. Stir until onion is tender.
  • Add gluten and stir-fry for 2 minutes or until lightly brown.
  • Stir in the soy sauce-chili paste mixture.
  • Stir in remaining cornstarch and the water.
  • Season with salt, then cook until sauce thickens, stirring constantly.
  • Serve hot.