Cluster-Soft drinks and Alcohol don't quench Thirst

I drank coke or was it pepsi today after almost four years..I just wanted to remind myself how bad it tastes..LOL
I mean seriously, i was shocked when some bloggers actually confessed that they never drink water..All they drink is soda or fizzed drinks..And I was like...whoa...Total liver and kidney torture..Seriously
I have noticed that people think that alchohol or soft fizzed drinks are drinks appropriate to quench thirst..The body is thirsty coz it needs water..It needs water coz it needs the water to dilute the toxins and remove them from the body ...So, water essentially is the medium to remove these toxins from the body..When the body is thirsty, it obviously doesn't have enough excess water to dissolve all the toxins waiting to be sent out from the body..Now, soft drinks have water with added toxins..so , all you are doing when you drink a fizzed soda when you are thirsty is increase the toxin levels further ..It is like using really dirty water to clean a dirty surface...YOu need to use clean water to clean a dirty surface, right?Also, infact, alchohol is a diuretic,, so it actually makes you lose the very little water that the body is hanging on to while it is on a toxin overload...
So the next time you are thirsty, please drink either warm or cold pure clean water..There is no place for fizz or alchohol when the body is drying for some real water.

Whole grains are better than processed cereals for breakfast

Use of whole cereals to make breakfast items is a far better idea than buying boxed cereals with too much of added colors and too much of processed foods and too much of added sugars.
A great vegan breakfast choice is whole grain muesli which yours so truly vegan aspirant doc made a week ago and has loved every day of breakfast since then .
I am not giving out any recipes on here on a blog..Afterall , there is already too many foodbloggers, stealing recipes off of other foodbloggers who are inturn stealing off the recipes from yet another foodblogger and there is absolutely no place for ORIGINAL RECIPE CREATERS ON THE FOOD BLOGGER SCENE HERE.You will feel robbed and your copyright clause repeatedly violated and abused if you are an original who creates recipes out of the blue.You can on the other hand take credits and accolades and never feel abused if you are yet another recipe stealer posing as an enterprising foodblogger.Ya know!.It is the time and day of people who consume and regurgitate recipes already out there written by some less known obscure food bloggers.It is the age of stealers and faking thugs.what can one say?
I would btw, suggest use of a variety of whole grain cereals, for making the meusli.Cereals are great sources of complex proteins and complex carbohydrates with tons of natural fiber thrown in , which essentially is what constitutes an ideal breakfast item.Many lesser knows and less frequently used cereals and millets are such rich sources of minerals that they would add nutritive value to this vegan diet.
All those packaged breakfast bars have so much of preservatives and additives that most of them end up giving me reflux esophagitis and gastritis and not to mention, the higher incidence of ADD in kids..I mean..they eat crap and chemicals each morning and they have tiny liv'ers which can't take the onslaught of such large amount of chemicals, NO wonder they have allergies and ADD and nutritional deficiencies.
Lazy ass parents who hate having to take care of kids just end up taking things out of packages and think they are doing their job.Come on, if you didn't have it in your to take care of kids, you should not have focked around to produce kids in the first place.But now that you have biologically done something to be responsible for their birth, do them a favor and give them some good food.Give then natural foods.
I have seen a lot of parents, who complain about how tough it is to be a parent and all i see them doing is , opening up packages and pour out the already prepared food onto the kids plates...And ofcourse these kids are going to end up with obesity problems not to mention ADD and psychiatric problems.What else can they expect ?HMmm

Homemade soy yogurt rocks

yeah, yeah, I made the soy yogurt myself from homemade soymilk..Yeah, yeah, i made the soymilk myself(didnt use a soymilk maker either--I did the original authentic muslin cloth technique)..
And then ofcourse, typical of my style..Made some rich cocoa flavored soyyogurt...It rocks..Tastier than any yogurt i have ever eaten so far..It is so soothing too.yay to me

primate hunting a flamingo and Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da vinci is one of those people who i think was the most talented man of his time.The heck, i think he IS the most talented man of all time.
It was gratifying to know that he was a vegetarian ..Great ! Smart people think alike and make their own smart decisions about what is the right matter to eat.
yours truly is finally trying to become vegan .I am kinda already vegan having given up eggs for two whole months now.
Either ways more about Leonardo Da vinci on my POETRY AND PROSE BLOG at a later point of time.
Meanwhile, i think, i saw on TV just yesterday, this primate agressively go after a flamingo's neck. I am trying hard to find out the name of the primate,not a gorilla, not a chimpanzee..perhaps a baboon? perhaps..It had the largest canine teeth that i had ever seen in any primate and it looked like it was in a drug induced maniacal frenzy..seriously! It scurried around this group of flamingo birds near the water(what the heck was this animal doing near water anyways?) and suddenly charged at the neck of one flamingo.
Gosh ! that was horrifying.Almost all primates are herbivores and fruitivores for 99% of times.It is only very rarely that they resort to killing another animal.You see, we are not naturally physically designed to hunt with bare hands.we don't have heavy paws and large claws like the real carnivores. Meat is a very acquired diet pattern of man which perhaps became a practice only after man learned to make instruments to hunt.
With the cute lil hands that man has, all he can do naturally is pluck fruit..seriously !

Tofu cravings

I know , I know, started off this cookblog saying all bad things about how chalky tasting tofu is and such..
But now,i rediscovered tofu...The trick is draining the water off, marinating it with different tastes and such..More than anything, I happened to eat stif fry tofu at a very very authentic chinese place and maaaan..that tofu stir fry sure had wonderful texture and great taste.
fried tofu changes the texture..the texture now is what got me hooked and from time to time, i end up having the fried tofu cravings..seriously..Somebody make me some very good hot fried tofu and gimme some saki flavored soy sauce to go with it..yum

Nutty Biscotti and Nutty coffee !

I like the concept of Biscotti.The nuttier the bisocotti the better.I would always choose a biscotti over a cookie..esp the American cookie coz they seem very undercooked to me.It almost always feels like they could have done with a lil bit more time in the oven so that they would go crispy and not so cookie doughish still.
Anyways, biscotti suits my palate in the texture and taste department coz it is rich and denser than a cracker but yet crunchy enough and yes, it is rustic in some way.
To me, the nuttier the biscotti the better.It adds an alternative bite , alternative type of crunch amidst that hardy crunch of the biscotti persay.
Having said that, now the deal in question here is, I made this hardy nutty rustic vegan biscotti(no soy involved-no earthbalance or other processed stuff involved)..I am slowly at drifting towards becoming a non soy, non fake meat vegan from a previously ovolactovegetarian-Never eaten any meat in my life thanks to my parents who never made meat at home except the accidental serving and chomping on calamari one time and another time, found chicken bits in my suppossedly mushroom mayo sandwich.I was so hungry too ,, but for a person who has never eaten meat, the texture of meat fibers comes out as bad and not natural(too soft ).Not to deliberately gross anyone out , but trust me, if some muscle of human body is adequately cooked and put in a mayo sandwich it might easily pass off as chicken or lamb, coz the muscle fibers are essentially the same.Which is exactly why, meat is not our natural diet at all.
Anyways coming back to this pleasant topic of biscotti, i made this rustic chocolate biscotti with no egg and no milk and no soy and no earthbalance( i am quite sceptic about using foods that utilize rarely found products coz we risk exhausting these commodities-we would rather choose readily available products to substitute butter rather than use something that is so less produced that if at all everyone on earth chose to eat it, we won't be able to keep up the production needs enough to match the needs-so sugar is just okay for me, oil too-we can do wonders with just oil and no earthbalance.I see this earthbalance craze amongst vegans nowadays and as a physician i have to insist that it is not a great idea.More about it on another blog , k?)
Gosh, why do i digress?
Biscotti, nutty, chocolate, vegan..and i made it at home .It was great.And i had nutty coffee with it.
NOw , now, what does nutty coffee mean?Well, if the coffee bean is roasted a lil bit more before it is grinded, it gives out a roasted coffee,,, a not so as much as burnt, but over roasted taste..That kinda taste sometimes works very well with biscotti.
So, i made the coffee, i made the biscotti, it was good.Happy times just after waking up .

The glory of Dark Chocolate/Bitter chocolate

What exactly is bitter chocolate?..Well ! It is cocoa nut paste in its purer form..where the butter it has got is the cocoa butter in more or less its natural percentage and with not that much of added sugar.You must understand that cocoa paste is very bitter, so, unless any sugar is added to it, It will remain bitter and may not be edible as a chocolate bar or a snack.Cocoa does have natural butters aka the cocoa butter.Natural cocoa paste has a different percentage of cocoa butter in it from what the actuall cooking chocolate has.Any chocolate bar irrespective of whether it is cooking chocolate bar or eating chocolate bar, essentially has a different percentage of butter and cocoa from natural cocoa bean paste.That is because, cocoa paste is first sepearated to its cocoa powder and cocoa butter components first and packaged off for seperate use.While making the chocolate bars, these ingredients are remixed again in a different proportion and packaged.Cooking chocolate has re added cocoa butter in a different percentage so that the chocolate bar is more stable at room temperature.
Now that i have given a simple insight into food chemistry and food technology, let us get back to bitter chocolate.
Pure cocoa has considerable amounts of caffeine which is deemed a stimulant.It also had a lil bit of other substances which are stimulant in some way too.Cocoa also is deemed to be cardioprotective too. It could be by virtue of the caffeine per say or by virtue of the other substances which are antioxidants .
Having said that, lot of people mistake milk chocolate to be beneficial to the heart and such.WEll, milk chocolate or the other commercially available edible not so dark chocolates have very high quantities of refined sugar in them, not to mention the added preservatives since milk has been added to make the milk chocolate and will go bad if there are no preservatives..The percentage of original cocoa butter is not as high as there is substitution with added animal milk butter instead of the cocoa butter in milk chocolate.So, milk chocolate is not healthy.
Bitter or dark chocolate in comparison is definitely healthier .Dark chocolate has a rather aquired taste appeal though.It is bitter and sometimes if it almost 80% cocoa, it is medicinal tasting to some palates ..LOL..but i am a great fan of Bitter chocolate,,Love it to death.

Rice and lentils cooked in a pressure cooker-Ultimate comfort food

Firstly, well made fluffed up rice with a bowl of cooked lentils with just a lil bit of salt ..That is all it takes to feel that comfort..It is soul food.
Never overspice your lentils.Ofcourse, if you are in a mood to spice up things, go ahead and do so , but if you are looking for soothing food on a rainy day, just good bowl of rice with a good smaller cup of semi thick semi mashed boiled lentils with just enough salt in it is the best.
The trick is to cook the lentils in pressure cookers.I know, I know, the concept of pressure inside a cooking pot scares the bonkers out of people who have never attempted cooking things in a pressure cooker.Pressure cookers are available for sale on Amazon and other places.Never open the pressure cooker till the steam settles down. Follow safety precautions and you have a very reliable gadget that not only cooks lentils and beans in a jiffy and here i mean, just ten min or fifteen tops...and it saves energy too.
When you choose lentils to go with rice, choose, red lentils or the yellow ones..These lentils are available dry at an African or Indian or Middle easter grocery store.It is dry packaged..All you need to do is rinse and pressure cook.No soaking required.there ya go.I actually gave you a whole recipe on my blog.I am deliberately trying not to post any of my own recipes on net coz every other stay at home person goes around fishing for recipes on the net and before you know..she is making adaptations of your recipes and then put it up on her foodblog and then the blog has ads on them too..Come on,,these people want to make money of someone else's recipes..Sharing recipes even if they are not your own is still acceptable , but making money off someone else's recipes is a bit too much.Anyways...there are always going to be mediocre followers who still want all the accolades an original would deserve..People are desperately greedy like that.

Bagel heaven and that winter morning deck

Wow... I had to think for a moment to realize what the right spelling of heavan is ..heaven..heavan..whao..some frontal injury acting up?
what ! freaks me out
Either ways.. I thought of po boys the other day.speaking of which( i secretely hope that not one single person is reading this blog at this moment ..i just want to update the blog each day without standing the danger of someone reading anything from here and yet though, i still want to have the blog public..LOL)
yeah, Bagels !..Very good breakfast for vegans...ofcourse some bagles use egg and such..but home made eggless bagels just are great and work great esp with the myriad of flavor variations, sweet and savoury that one can indulge in while making them and then freeze them and voila...each day.. a large cup of wonderfully aromatic cafe au lait(soy milk in this case) and a large bagel just warmed up and made into pieces by hands and dunked in the coffee and eaten..
Warmth is comforting in winters and soft warm bagels dunked in aromatic coffee and then straight into the mouth is absolutely worth it..worth it ,bigtime!
I made bagels..fourteen bagels ...or sixteen i think..or seventeen..seventeen..yes..9 savoury, 8 sweet ...yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaking of Bagel breakfasts,, I remember that one day, when i went in the earliest of one of the winter november days, and went to this starbucks that had an upstairs deck of sorts and it was so cold with the sunlight just starting to fall there and i dared to sit there outside while everyone else sat inside..Ofcourse, i had a black hoodie to help me out in the cold.. i sat there..dunked my warmed up onion bagel in my large pumpkin spice latte and looking onto the ever too familiar downtown streets...it was strangely calming, but well ! i hadn't slept all previous night..so it was not really all that fresh ..but that one breakfast was kinda gratifying and memorable...hmmmmmmm..SEriously ! i just went into an emotional tangential thought process just now..
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