Month: March 2019
~ 6 Servings ~ Time 30 min ~ Preheat oven 150C ~ 2 weeks in the fridge ~
Ingredients
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75g coconut flour
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3 tbsp Psyllium Husk
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3 tsp vanilla powder
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1,5 tsp baking powder
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80g coconut oil
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70ml boiling water
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1,5 tbsp coconut nectar
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75 g chocolate 70%
Steps
- Preheat the oven @ 15oC.
- Mix all dry ingredients coconut flour, psyllium husk, vanilla powder and baking powder.
- Melt the coconut oil in the boiling water add the coconut nectar. add to the dry ingredients, Mix well
- Place the dought on the silicon mat or parchment paper, roll till 1/4 cm thin. Place in the oven for 15/20 min or golden brown.
- Place the chocolate in a double boiler saucepan and melt it.
- remove from oven and brush with the melted chocolate.
- allow to cool down for 2h in the fridge, then cut in piece and keep 2 week in a airtight container. Serve with milk !
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Original recipe @ Keto Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal
-A keto diet blog recipe –
This recipe is a literal interpretation of the Low-Carb recipe from the keto diet blog. You can find the original recipe here.
Ingredients :
- 150gr Raspberries
- 1 tbsp Balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp coconut blossom nectar
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
Steps :
- Place all the ingredients in a pan over medium heat, mash the raspberries ’till smooth, let slowly simmer ’till all the juices are released.
- Cook ’till the consistency is not runny, firm and uniform.
- Pour in a glasse container, close when hot (air tight). Store in the fridge up to 1 week.
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-A Japanese Homestyle Cooking recipe –
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) mirin
- 125 ml soy sauce
- 500 g boneless chicken
- 200 g chicken livers
- 4 fresh shiitake mushrooms, stems discarded
- 1 leek, cut into pieces
- 2 green bell peppers, cut into squares
- 8 metal skewers 20 cm long
- Seven-spice chili mix
- Lemon wedges, to garnish
Steps
1- To prepare the sauce, combine the mirin and soy sauce in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes, reducing the sauce to 1 cup.
2- Cut the chicken and liver into cubes, then thread them through the skewers, alternating with pieces of the mushroom, leek and bell pepper.
3- Heat the grill and put sauce on the skewers
4- Grill the skewers for 2 to 3 minutes turning 3 or 4 times and put sauce on each time until the liver and chicken are cooked. Don’t overcook.
5- Remove from the heat, sprinkle with the 7 spice chilli mix and serve with lemon wedges.
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~ 4 Servings ~ Time 30 min ~ 2 – 3 days in the fridge ~
Ingredients
- 50g coconut flour
- 2 tbsp Psyllium husk
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 40 ml avocado oil
- 225 ml boiling water
Steps
- Mix all dry ingredients. Add oil and boiling water stir thoroughly.
- Allow to rise for 5 min. the dought should be firm (play-doh consistency) if too runny add psyllium husk if too firm add water.
- Divide in 4 pieces into balls that you flatten with hands (or rolling pin) on parchement paper.
- Fry in round pan over medium heat until it turn golden color.
- Keep warm or reheat.
If don’t keep in shape, pre-cooked it in oven 10 min at 180C.
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Earth in Human Hands is an optimistic book about our future, and the future of our planet. And in an unexpected way it touches upon a topic that has been of increasing interest to me these last few months: mind to mind communication. Well, not explicitly of course! It is a book about ecology and human and what to do with all of our power.
But the author revisited with insistance the “Gaia Hypothesis”, the idea that the planet is a single organism, with each elements interacting with all the others in endless feedback loops. And for the author, the humans could become a precursor to a planetary mind, the planet becoming self aware. No mind to mind communication here, but the idea is certainly a variation on the subject of integrating everything under a global and conscious entity. In a sense, it already is integrated, though we can’t say the planet is yet self-aware. Only by massively increasing the brain to brain bandwidth could we achieve that. But I disgress.
This book opened my eyes on just how tightly everything interacts with everything. For example, the CO2 in our atmosphere is absorbed into the ocean, integrated with organisms that die and fill up the bottom of the oceans, to finish in the Earth’s crust, then in its mantle, then back into the atmosphere when volcanoes erupt. This cycle keeps the climate under control, avoiding runaway greenhouse. That is until a species became so successful as to fill the whole planet with themselves and CO2 faster than the ocean can pull out. This just shows how fragile our planet is.
But no doomsday gloom here, no hatred of humanity, no wish to return to a pre-industrial state. David Grinspoon is not opposing human civilisation and ecology, on the contrary, he makes the case that only through our ingenuity, through moderation, through maturity, through worldwide cooperation, can we overcome the challenges that we created for the planet, and help it to enter a new eon he coined the “Sapiezoic”, an eon when the planet becomes self-aware.
This is a message for ecology we can all get behind!
Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future by David GrinspoonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a great read. There were so many powerful ideas crammed into it, though it certainly could have been written with a bit less anecdotes about who is who and did what etc
But all in all a very hopeful message for humanity.
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-A Yo! sushi recipe –
~ 4 Servings ~ Time 30 min ~ 3 Days in the fridge ~
Ingredients :
- 600 g a Savoy cabbage shredded
- 1 leek cut in half length way and thinly sliced
- 1 carrot peel and shredded
- 100 g beansprouts trimmed of their roots
- 20 g fresh root ginger peeled and grated
- 4 tbsp coconut flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp water
- 4 medium eggs
- 1 tbsp avocado oil or butter
- 200g cooked prawns
- 1/2 sheet of nori crushed to garnish.
Steps
- So prepare all the vegetables
- Put all the vegetable in a mixing bowl, add the flour, water salt and eggs, mix well.
- Heat a large non stick frying pan add the oil (or butter), cook the mixture on one side only, for 5 to 7 minutes or firm
- Lay the prawns on the uncooked top side then turn the pancake over, cook for another 4 to 6 minutes or until firm and lightly browned.
- Transfer the pancake on a chopping board cut in wedges, garnish with crushed nori. Serve hot and enjoy !
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-A Japanese Homestyle Cooking recipe –
~ 4 Servings ~ Time min ~ 3 days in the fridge ~
Ingredients :
- 500 g ground chicken
- 1 small leek, finely diced
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tbsp avocado oil or butter
- 2 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- Mustard Sauce to serve
Steps:
- Prepare all the ingredient, ground the chicken, cut all the vegetables.
- Combine the chicken, leek, ginger soy sauce and egg in a bowl mix well.
- Heat the oil (or butter), speed evenly the chicken mixture on it, cook at medium heat for 2 – 3 minutes or until the colour is brown.
- Cut the chicken mixture into quarters, and turn the wedges over to cook for another 2 to 3 minutes.
- Transfer the chicken wedges to a chopping board and slice into smaller pieces for serving.
- Sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds and serve with the Mustard Sauce.
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My review on Goodreads.com:
Artemis by Andy WeirMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I am not a fan of the vulgar comic relief style of Andy Weir. I don’t identify easily with this style of first person narration, probably cause I am a prude and don’t “think” like that. Still, I enjoyed the thrill The Martian and thought I would give this one a go.
It took me several pages to realize the hero was a girl, until the first pronoun in fact. As others more eloquently put it, putting Mark Watney’s style into a girl “mouth” seemed even less credible.
And yet, I went on and about half way through the book, I realized I was hooked. I love the realistic depiction of a lunar colony, with geek attention to technical, scientific and sociological details. The story was also very enjoyable, and I ended the book wishing for more.
A very good read.
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