#olive seed cracking machine

[suzieb-fit]

Hmm, just when I was starting to think I'd finally "cracked it" with the mucus solution. Yesterday was a really settled day. Still there throughout the day, but at a low level and no major flare ups.

Then this morning? Yep. Boom.... Back as bad as ever.

Ugh. Maybe that's how the detox works? Gradually eases with the occasional bad flare up, but less and less frequently til they die off altogether. Or am I just being delusional, lol?

Anyway, I'm weight training this morning. Upper body.

Woke up pretty tired, so started a little later.

Breakfast outside on a very dull, drizzly Monday morning before anything else.

I am all about fueling my body properly.

No more fasting. This is more technically "time restricted eating". Finishing eating sfter an early dinner, giving my digestive system a good break before breakfast.

I might occasionally go longer, but I night also occasionally go no longer than 12hrs.

My current training focus needs good quality feeding.

I took my usual half an hour walk straight after.

Upper body strength today. I hit those weights pretty hard.

Ended with a tuck jump sprint interval. Wow, total game changer!

Lunch was chicken salad with grapes and fake cheese. Coconut based. Actually pretty nice.

I decided to do something different for my afternoon fitness bout. Got on the rowing machine. Actually hate rowing, lol. Just feels like I'm on there for weeks! I put my earphones in and listened to a podcast. Made it slightly more tolerable.

Fresh fruit, walnuts, mixed seeds, ground coconut and a splash of olive oil after that.

Time to chill, now.

Today was a double chicken day. Had some for dinner too! Had that with avocado and veggies. Fresh ginger, herbs and spices.

I decided on an extra snack. Grapes and macadamia nuts.

Training hard and heavy has sent my "refeed" brain into overdrive!

And I might even make a second serving of my breakfast recipe tonight. Add some frozen blueberries.

That will add upto a whole lot of food, but meh, I can definitely add a few pounds without any worries. I'm lower than my normal maintenance goal right now.

Breakfast will be later tomorrow, so I'll also still get at least that 12hr digestive rest. No commitment either way. I'll just see how I feel later.

I feel fantastic at the moment. Yes, this morning's bad flare up knocked me sideways, but it was only maybe a couple of hours out of an otherwise excellent day!

[teamchamtravels]

DAY 66, OCT 6, Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

Today was the day of our cooking class! We slept in till the last possible moment then made our way to the meeting point for the class. We found a professional chef with his own cooking class company, Chef-in-a-Day. His name was Federico, and he turned out to be an exceptional teacher and chef!

We thought we were meeting the group at 9 (because of our Viator reservation), but everyone got there around 9:30. And it was pouring rain! We could have slept for 20 more minutes! Once the whole group arrived (there were about 6 of us), we went to the market in Campo d’Fiori (also the site of the Michelangelo Moses statue) and got supplies for our day: a bunch of different tomatoes, peaches, broccoli, and some Roman zucchini. After that, we needed a bit more from the super market (cheese, flour, wine, etc.) 

When we had all the ingredients, we walked to where we’d be cooking, which happened to be like 3 minutes walk away from our Airbnb. It was a beautiful space with a big table and a full kitchen. Chef Federico and his assistant Mildred got us all set up! We learned about the different types of tomatoes he had chosen, and how to make the best “mother” sauce for the pasta. It turns out that it all depends on the types of tomatoes! They’re rated based on their acidity (skin), bitterness (seeds), and sweetness (flesh). 

After we chopped up all the veggies for the sauces, we also prepared the potatoes for the gnocchi (so excited!). This part was also super interesting because you boil the potatoes in a TON of rock salt! (360g per liter). This dehydrates the potatoes as they cook which will help with the gnocchi dough later on. 

Then, we got to make the pasta! We made the dough in the traditional italian way by making a little volcano with the flour and cracking our eggs in the middle, beating them in the flour. Then, we kneaded it until it was fully combined and the gluten was developed, and we let it rest for a while (we enjoyed some wine while we waited). Chef Federico is also working on his own hotel business / cooking class combo in Umbria, and he produces olive oil from his property, so we got to try some of that with some bread and wine! So good!

Next, we had to prepare the stuffed pasta (Tortellini). The chef prepared and cut the dough for us, and then we stuffed it, really similarly to dumplings! The filling was ricotta, zuchini, parmesan, and some onion. Chels was really good at making them, she’s an expert already!

After the pasta had rested, we put it through the spahgetti machine, which each of us got to operate. When that pasta was ready, we cooked it up and had our first course! Angel hair spaghetti with tomato sauce & parmiggiano, basil, carmelized grape tomatoes, topped with Stracciatella cheese. Literally some of the best pasta we’ve ever had!

Then, we watched as the Chef prepared the tortellini, by cooking it al dente, then finishing it in a butter, water, and parmesan sauce. It was so creamy! He showed us how they actually use the starches in the pasta itself to help make the sauce creamy without adding a ton of extra stuff into it. This, of course was some of the best stuffed pasta we ever had too. This is ruining pasta for us people! We have been to the mountain top!

Last, but not least was the gnocchi! This was cool to cook as well, once you make the dough and roll it out and cut it, that’s all you need to do! Throw it in the boiling water, and once it floats, it’s ready to take out. The sauce for the gnocchi was based on the broccolis from earlier, with tons of olive oil, parmesan, and that’s all! But it was so creamy and delicious!

For dessert the chef had prepared some peaches in white wine, and it was the perfect ending to the perfect meal.

We cannot recommend this experience enough, it was worth EVERY PENNY.

At this point it was around 4pm, and we were finished for the day. We went back to the airbnb, and relaxed and then went to sleep! (btw Sam finished the entire season of Squid game in one day, it was so crazy!).

Such an amazing day and experience!

P.S. if anyone goes to Rome and wants to do this, here’s the link to the experience! https://www.viator.com/tours/Rome/An-educational-party-cooking-class-with-PROFESSIONAL-chef/d511-31090P1

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What’s the deal with palm oil?

You eat a plant-based diet. You never purchase or wear (advertise) clothing made from any animal. You don’t support businesses that pro-animal cruelty or anti-LGBTQ+ or pro-racism. You avoid aquariums & zoos like the plague and don’t buy fast fashion. You understand the false assumptions linking morality and distance travelled, morality and tradition/culture. morality and superiority. You wouldn’t dare purchase from Nestle or any of their smaller businesses. HOWEVER, you still eat palm oil.

So what’s the deal with palm oil?

I’m glad you asked.

Fundamentally, palm oil is the oil extracted from oil palms. Oil palm trees are native to West Africa. Today, however, the largest producers and exporters in the world are Malaysia and Indonesia. About 85% of the oil is used for food. It is found in over half of packaged foods at the grocery store, such as ice cream, shampoo, lipstick, detergent, bread, fast foods, and nut spreads, just to name a few.

Palm oil destroys the health of humans and non-human animals as well as the environment, and exploits workers and habitats every day.

Let’s start with the environment:

The tropical plants thrive in a wet, warm climate - the tropical rainforests. Unfortunately, these regions of rich biodiversity are being desimated at alarming rates in order to provide land for these huge plantations.

Palm plantations are the leading cause of rainforest destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia, and they produce 90% of the world’s palm oil (Rainforest Rescue).

Every hour, a rainforest acreage equivalent to about 300 soccer fields is cleared for palm oil plantations. At current rates, by 2032, 98% of Indonesia’s rainforests may be gone.

The loss of rainforests:

contributes to global warming emissions: the Indonesian rainforests grow on tropical peatlands, a major carbon sink. After clearing native trees, all remaining vegetation is burned and the land is drained. This process releases drastic amounts of CO2 into the environment. Clearing rainforests accounts for about 10% of TOTAL GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS.

Harms animals and their habitats - Rainforests used to produce palm oil are home to unique species of animals and plants, some found nowhere else in the world. Deforestation is destroying crucial habitat for endangered species including the orangutan, elephant, and tiger.

Pollutes the air - Burning rainforest lands to make way for oil palms creates significant air pollution. Exposure to the smoke from such fires is estimated to contribute to 339,000 deaths every year in Africa and Southeast Asia. Oil palm plantations also use copious amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In fact, fertilizer use in Asia increased by 1,900% in the last 40 years, primarily due to the growth of the palm oil industry. Damn.

Palm oil is also used for biofuel. Almost 50% of biofuel imported to the European Union is used for motor vehicles.

Okay, okay, so it’s terrible for the environment. And for human animals?

Palm oil ruins the lives of people who depend on rainforests for their livelihoods.

Up to 2 million Indonesians work in the palm oil industry. Laborers are subject to low wages for long hours of grueling work. Reports of forced labor and slavery are persistent and more than disturbing.

Child labor is another serious problem. The industry often compels children of palm workers to work, treat them poorly, and pay them dreadfully low wages (if they pay them at all).

The industry also violates the rights of indigenous peoples by seizing extensive tracts of their land (forced eviction).

The palm oil industry loves to remind everyone that it provides work for people. You know what else provides work for people? Prostitution. Three cheers for terrible arguments!!!

Health Impacts

Like all oils, palm oil is the extraction: what is left over. To make this analogy understandable, since most people aren’t eating palm trees anyway, let’s use the analogy of flax seed oil. Flax seeds, one of the world’s oldest crops, are loaded with omega 3 fatty acids, fiber, protein, and most importantly, carbohydrates (our primary form of energy!). The omega 3 fatty acids are crucial as the human body does not create its own ALA (alpha-linolenic acid). This nutrient helps to lower cholesterol, reduces artery inflammation, and even reduces the size of tumors. Flax seeds are also high in lignans, which have been shown to reduce the risk of cancer. Flax seeds contain up to 800x more lignans that other plant foods! The dietary fiber found in this seed are also incredibly important for digestion. People eating the government-backed diets (or worse) are at huge risk for Type 2 diabetes. Thankfully, flax seeds are effective at controlling blood sugar levels. Flax seeds are super versatile. Try sprinkling them on a salad, into a smoothie, on oats, mixing them into your favorite plant-based yogurt or ice cream, mixing them with water to replace an egg aka chicken period, use them to thicken anything you cook/bake. Lazy? You could even mix them into water to get that extra oomph in your day. ANYWAYS, back to the oil analogy! Despite the flax seeds amazing health benefits, that doesn’t mean it’s processing into oil keeps all these benefits. Imagine you have those beautiful flax seeds on your counter. They then go down an assembly line of underpaid, overworked laborers before entering a giant extraction machine. On the other end, after undergoing many different temperatures (oh yeah, real cave(wo)men stuff. just like our ancestors... sigh), and being exposed to various pesticides and pollutants along the way, the viscous material at the end is unrecognizable. Let’s start simple. During the extraction process (of all oils, bear in mind) nutrients are stripped away. The only macronutrient that remains is the fat (0g protein, 0g carbohydrates) and the sources of nutrients are low if not non-existant. Foods digest easier when they contain a balance of macronutrients. Oils also slow blood flow, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and has a negative impact on our immune systems. When these oils are heated, chemicals are released into the air; this increases our risk for lung diseases and other respiratory problems. Luckily, there are so many healthy sources of fat that are also loaded with other macronutrients and micronutrients (try a loaded sweet potato with plain peanut butter, banana coins, cinnamon, and sprinkle of seeds). Back to the point: this flax seed analogy is equal to the palm oil extraction process. Palm oil has about the same nutritional profile as olive oil and therefore is completely unnecessary. Palm oil contains large amounts of harmful fatty acid esters that are known to damage DNA and cause cancer.

Sustainable Palm Oil: Does it exist?

Good question.

Short answer? No.

Palm-oil forests certified as “sustainable” are being destroyed faster than non-certified land. Sustainability labels are leading to greater expansions of plantations, driving orangutans toward extinction and destroyed natural carbon-absorbing rainforests.

“The implication is that there is no reason for companies to claim sustainable palm oil and to use labels for certified products because, in terms of deforestation, there is no significant difference between a certified and a non-certified palm oil plantation. Both need (or needed in the recent past) the complete removal of the original tropical forest.” - Roberto Gatti, Agriculture Research Associate at Purdue University

Like most environmental issues, the products are pushed into the treadmill of production and facts are hidden, due to the power and riches of businesses and the government. Don’t fall for their destructive actions.

Alternatives

All oils are heavily processed and provide no health benefits (more information coming soon on my blog). However, palm oil is the worst of the bunch. If you must use oil, I recommend avocado oil as it has a high smoke point or coconut oil due to its mild taste and versatility. Coconut oil is great for skincare, haircare, and dental care! Lately I’ve been adding a step to my daily routine: Oil Pulling. This ayurvedic practice kills harmful bacteria in your mouth, reduces bad breath, helps to prevent cavities, reduces inflammation and improves gum health, and whitens teeth. How to oil pull? Put about a tablespoon of coconut oil in your mouth and swish around for 10-20 minutes. Then spit out the oil and brush your teeth. (Alternatively, keep a spoon with coconut oil in your mouth).

Anyways, back to palm oil.

Some final facts

More than 62 million metric tons of palm oil are produced globally on 20 million hectares of land, with projected growth of 5 percent per year until 2020.

Palm oil is sometimes hidden on the ingredient list. It may be: Palm oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm stearin, Palmolein, Palmitate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and many others. Sometimes it is simply “Vegetable oil.”

There’s nothing “natural” about the extraction of palm oil. After refining the flesh of the palm fruit and the kernel, the oil is modified for different uses. Milling involves the steaming and pressing of the palm fruit to separate oil from kernel and fibers. Crushing is performed by cracking the kernel to remove the shell and then crushing and pressing again. Refining is how impurities are removed from the oil. Fractionation is how oil is separated into liquids (oleins) and solids (stearing). Distillation is how oil is heated and cooled to extract fatty acids. Interesterification is how fatty acids are rearranged to change melting points. Glycerolysis is when chemical bonds are broken with glycerol to keep oil from separating with water.

How to recognize, avoid, and combat palm oil:

Enjoy a home cooked meal. Fresh ingredients good for your health, the humans, the non-humans, and the planet

Read labels! Know the equivalencies. Don’t forget cosmetics, food for your animal companions, and cleaning products

Google for alternatives! Hazelnut chocolate spreads are delicious, and they don’t have to contain any oil

Customer is king. Supply and demand! Reach out to retailers to create palm oil free products. So long as you keep buying them, you are driving production. As fewer people buy these products, businesses won’t keep producing it. This goes for all animal products as well of course

sign petitions and write your elected representatives! Online campaigns put pressure on policymakers responsible for biofuels and palm oil imports. Have you already signed all of Rainforest Rescue’s petitions?

Speak out & donate. Protest marches and street action are keys to change and threatens policymakers. People are also often hesitant to donate to charities, which is understandable - try The Oranguatan Project. After donating, you can see on an interactive map exactly where and how your money is helping stop palm oil production!

Leave your car at home. For more reasons than just palm oil!

Be informed and inform others. Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is also arguably the #1 reason why change doesn’t happen quicker. Big Business and governments would like us to believe that biofuels are good for the climate and that oil palm plantations are sustainable. Spread the word – share this information with your family and friends and encourage them to rethink their consumption habits.

**Use up the products already in your possession that contain palm oil to not create waste.

And remember, there is no Planet B.

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Sources

https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil#start

https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/palm-oil-the-hidden-truth-lurking-in-your-home

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/12/palm-oil-products-borneo-africa-environment-impact/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/12/palm-oil-products-borneo-africa-environment-impact/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/flaxseed/faq-20058354

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From @thesecret_kitchen 

"Fresh wholemeal pasta with turmeric & filled with lions Mane mushrooms ( vegan lobster )

...

I quickly fried my Lions lane mushrooms with garlic, savoury yeast flakes for extra cheesy flavour and hemp seeds- and a touch of salt. Then filled the dough which was pressed in pasta machine and created home made ravioli.

Then burnt a good amount of fresh sage leaves in a olive oil and fried my cooked ravioli in that oil. Finished with salt flakes, freshly cracked paper, splash of lemon and sprouts .

Recipe inspired by and adapted from @chef_guy_turland"

[the-coconut-asado]

Sand and Sandwiches

When I posted pictures of Clacton Pier from our road trip last month, alot of friends recalled fond memories of their childhood, whizzing down the helter skelter and eating whelks on the beach. How many of those friends returned to Clacton between puberty and the menopause? I’m guessing zero.

British seaside holidays - especially those on the bracing North Sea coastline - are freeze-framed in our consciousness as an ice cream in a 10-force gale, or a sandy mouthful of picnic behind a wind break. That’s if you ever got out of the car to eat. My own holiday memories involve that great British institution The Car Picnic: cold baked beans on crispbread, washed down with a thermos of tea, watching the rain lash the windscreen before going to queue for Les Dennis and Dustin Gee at the Winter Garden.

When I was very young we would follow my half-sister (a dancer) around the seaside panto circuit, performing variously alongside Danny la Rue (the ultimate drag queen), Dickie Henderson (a comedian I announced I wanted to marry, aged 5) and The Clitheroe Kid (there would have been no Crankies without him. You figure out if this was a good thing). Any dreams I had of a career in showbiz were quashed by seeing the leading lady in Robinson Crusoe sitting in her dressing room in a candlewick robe drinking soup out of a flask and puffing aggressively on a Malboro’ Light . Cold soup did not signal glamour, and no amount of gourmet gazpacho over the years has made me change my mind.

But back to Clacton. We had come for the day from our glamping site near Colchester (Covid has done nothing if not made us adventurous), hoping to build better seaside food memories in a post-Jamie Oliver era.

It didn’t bode well that we couldn’t get warm. Icy winds blew from the stall selling an irresistible if confusing combination of ice cream and chips, right through the rat run of Vegas-adjacent slot machine arcades, where you could win anything you wanted as long as it was a baby Yoda.

But nestling in the back streets was a cafe called Tracie’s which, unlike those around it, was teeming with people. Its fogged up windows promised warmth, so we snapped on our face masks and dived in.

And we were rewarded. While Adam couldn’t think past a burger and chips (no blame there) I noticed a chalkboard with their special of the day: goat curry. I figured that restaurant which stakes their reputation on a goat curry has to serve a good one - and I wasn’t wrong. Dark, glossy and caramelised from long, slow cooking, with just the right lick of habanero chilli pepper and meltingly tender potatoes, served with a flavourful jollof rice.

From the gleeful expressions of our fellow diners it seemed that Tracie, the owner-chef, is turning out plate after plate of delicious and consistent food - including Adam’s burger and crispiest fries. But that curry, over and above all else, banished all my dodgy seaside supper memories for good and replaced them with a whole bowl of yum.

I went straight home and experimented, and here is the result. You might feel like an ice cream to follow (with or without a side order of chips) so my choc chip sorbet ice cream should fill the bill nicely. And if, like me, your childhood is sprinked with the crumbs of a back seat picnic, then I hope that my Pork Cholas will change the course of your summer outdoor eating.

Goat Curry

Unlike Tracie, I have developed this as an off the bone curry. Still full of flavour but less fiddly to eat. Serve with jollof, coconut or plain basmati rice. Serves 6-8

Ingredients:

2kg goat leg, off the bone and chopped into generous chunks

4-5 garlic cloves, crushed

1 red pepper, cubed

1 scotch bonnet/ habanero pepper seeded and chopped finely

1 in piece of fresh ginger, grated

2 tsp kosher salt

2 onions chopped

1-2 tbsp. Sunflower oil

Few sprigs fresh thyme

1 tin cherry tomatoes

3 tbsp plain yoghurt

250 ml beef stock

1 small tin coconut cream

200g potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped

Curry Paste:

2 tsp allspice

3-4 tsp cumin powder

2 tsp. Turmeric

½ tsp. Cinnamon

1 tsp ground black pepper

1tbsp. Reloja powder (this is a Puerto Rican mix of toasted ground cinnamon sticks, dried chillis, cumin, pumpkin seeds, bay leavesm sesame seeds and cocoa powder)

3 tbsp sunflower oil

How to make

Marinate the goat in the garlic, ginger, salt, thyme and chopped scotch bonnet. Leave the flavours to develop over an hour or two.

Heat the oil in a large, deep casserole, then fry the onion and pepper until brown. Add the curry paste and fry until the oil starts to separate and the aromas hit you. Add the marinaded goat meat and stir until coated.

Add the tin of cherry tomatoes, the beef stock and the coconut cream, stir well to combine then reduce heat and simmer, covered for about 3.5 hours.

Add the chopped potatoes, then simmer, uncovered, for a further 30 mins until the potatoes are cooked but still holding together. Test the goat for tenderness - it should be meltingly tender - and serve.

Choc Chip Sorbet Ice Cream

How can you have an ice cream and a sorbet all in one? Simple - by using my friend Sam’s Chocolate Sorbet recipe (see my Last Kitchen Show blog) as a base, then adding whipped egg white, double cream and of course chocolate chips. An ice cream maker will make this effortless, but don’t despair if you don’t have one. Just remember to take the ice cream out of the freezer a couple of hours after freezing and whisk thoroughly before returning to the freezer. Serves 4-6

Ingredients For the sorbet mix:

200 g caster sugar

50g cocoa powder

50 g 70% dark chocolate, broken into pieces

1 tsp. Vanilla extract

600 ml water

To finish:

1 egg white

300 ml double cream

30g dark chocolate chips

How to make:

First, make the sorbet mix. Bring the water to the boil, then whisk in the sugar and cocoa powder. Simmer for 5 minutes, then take off the heat and stir in the chopped chocolate and vanilla extract until smooth. Cool (you can make this the day before and refrigerate over night)

Whisk the egg white to soft peaks, and in a separate bowl, whisk the double cream until just holding its shape. Fold the egg white and cream into the sorbet mix, then mix in the ice cream maker.

Five minutes before it is ready, add the chocolate chips to the ice cream as it mixes (or if you are not using a maching, add the choc chips after you have whisked the mix out of the freezer). Transfer to a plastic container, cover and freeze. Bring to room temperature for around 20 minutes before serving.

Pork Cholas

This is the national sandwich of Bolivia - probably getting its name from Cholitas, Bolivia’s indigenous women. You can just serve this with the traditional salsa verde but I also like to add a small dollop of Stokes Jalapeno Jelly for extra zing. I made my own crusty bread rolls for these photos, but sandwich making shouldn’t be a morning-long process, so just buy 6 of these and off you go. Makes 6 Cholas.

Ingredients:

1.5kg pork shoulder off the bone, skin removed and aside

1 tsp fennel seeds, crushed

1 tsp salt plus extra for salting the skin

1 tsp garlic salt

Freshly ground black pepper

1 tsp chilli flakes

2 tbsp. Olive oil

300ml cider

6 crusty white bread rolls

Lettuce

Salted butter

For the salsa verde:

3 tbsp. Flat parsley

1 tbsp. Mint leaves

3 tbsp. Capers

6 anchovy fillets

1 clove garlic

1 tbsp. Dijon mustard

Juice of ½ a lemon

120 ml extra virgin olive oil

How to make:

First, roast your pork (you can do this the day before). Mix the fennel seeds, salt, garlic salt, pepper and chilli flakes in a bowl. Add the olive oil and stir to combine, then rub this all over the pork shoulder. Set aside. Rub salt all over the skin (which should be scored) and then pop, uncovered, in the fridge.

Heat the oven to 240C. Put the pork shoulder into a roasting tin and pour the cider around it. Pop into the over, uncovered and immediately turn the oven down to 180C. Pat the skin dry, salt again and put onto a rimmed baking sheet. Slot into the top shelf of your oven and roast skin and shoulder for 2 - 2.½ hours. The pork should be tender and the crackling super crisp. Set both pork and cracking aside to cool.

To make the salsa verde: put all the ingredients except for the olive oil into a blended and pulse. You dont want this mix to be super smooth. Tip into a bowl, add the olive oil and whisk. Cover and chill until needed.

Split the rolls and butter, then layer with a lettuce leaf, slices of pork, a tbsp. Salsa verde and a dollop of jalapeno jelly (optional) before sandwiching with the crusty top. Serve with shards of crackling on the side.

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I want to share with you a recipe that I make often for myself and my family.  This recipe is full of veggies and proteins, and a great way to start eating healthily. This dish is easy to make too!

I love to eat falafal, which is a Middle Eastern chickpea fritter that’s been deep-fried and consumed with dipping sauces. It’s super delicious but I feel that it’s a bit messy to make due to the frying part and isn’t as healthy when consumed too much.  Therefore, I have created these rounds in place of that and it’s delicious and a lot healthier! I can make a vegetarian sandwich with any types of spreads I want in there, and boy or boy, they are delicious!

Cooking is an art and it requires all of your 5 senses. Use this to your own advantage to create a flatbread that you know you will eat. For example, if broccoli isn’t your thing then substitute it for some other greens or vegetables. If cauliflower is what you have on hand, use it! But do definitely add in carrots because it will make it sweet without adding any sugar.

Remember this: Once dried chickpeas are soaked it will bulk up in double or even a little more in size/volume.  You only need to soak 4 cups of dried chickpeas overnight, and you’ll be getting about, close to 10 cups of chickpeas for this dish.

I love it in sandwiches! If you wished to eat it in a sandwich, here are some great tips on spreads make it even more delicious. Although, you don’t have to take my words for it. Instead, you can experiment on your own dipping sauce or spreads. I love hummus and guacamole in there to help hold everything together. Also, sometimes I do use a horse-radish mayo that I make by adding a Tbsp or so of horse-radish to mayo (of your choice) and add in some fresh cracked black pepper and cayenne peppers. Again, use your own senses to build a sandwich to your liking!

Enjoy cooking guys!

Mai

My Homemade Chickpea Flatbread

Yield: 32 each/rounds

Ingredients

10 cups chickpeas, soaked overnight from 4 cups dried chickpeas, rinsed a few times 1 bunch broccoli florets, 3 heads, rinsed and chopped 4 medium carrots, peeled and chopped 1 large yellow onion, chopped 1 bunch kale leaves, rinsed and chopped 1 head garlic, peeled 5 cups all-purpose flour, or multigrain flour, more or less as needed 1 bunch Italian parsley leaves, stems removed water, as needed 2 Tablespoons kosher salt, to taste 1 Tablespoon black pepper, to taste 2 Tablespoons cumin powder 1 Tablespoon coriander powder 2 Tablespoons milled flax seeds, optional 2 Tablespoons chia seeds, optional Extra Virgin olive oil, as needed

Directions:

1. To make the chickpea mixture:  In a food processor; combine 2 cups chickpeas, 1 cup broccoli florets, 1 cup carrots, 1 cup onions, 1 cup kale leaves, 2 Tbsp parsley, and 2 garlic cloves; turn it on and slowly add in 1 cup water to help move mixture to blend easily. Stop and pulse a few times until mixture becomes a paste (stop the machine to scrape down the sides a few times before pulsing, and it will help process the mixture more easily). Remove the mixture to an extra large bowl, and repeat this process until all ingredients processed.

2. In the extra large bowl of chickpea paste add; flour, salt, black pepper, cumin, coriander, flax seeds, and chia seeds. Mix well; you may need to wear food gloves and use your hands to mix it. It should be a sticky paste, with no liquid remains. Cover it and allow the paste to rest for 15 to 20 minutes.

3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line two racks in the center of the oven.

4. Line two large sheet pans with parchment paper. Use a 1/3 cup to scoop the paste (I used 6 scoops per sheet pan and place evenly on the pan). Use a small off-set spatula or a butter knife, spread the mixture out to form a large thin round disk, about 1/4 in thickness. Drizzle 1 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil on each rounds and spread it evenly with the off-set spatula or a brush.

5. Bake for 15 minutes, then rotate the sheet pans from bottom to top and top to bottom and bake again for another 15 to 20 minutes or until the sides are golden brown. Remove from oven and cool the flatbread in pan for 5 minutes. Remove flatbread and cool completely before store away.

6. Using the same sheet pan and parchment paper; repeat step #4 again until all rounds are baked.

7. Ready to use for making sandwiches or enjoy it with dips or spreads, such as hummus and/or guacamole.  

8. To store in freezer: Wrap 6 rounds in parchment paper (the parchment is big enough to wrap it all around) to make 1 pack. Place two packs (12 each) in gallon Ziploc bag. Squeeze air out and seal the opening. Label bags and store in freezer and it's good for 1-2 month(s).

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AMAZING Handmade Goddess WITCHCRAFT KIT altar Set ~ potion making apothecary Lot

AMAZING Handmade Goddess WITCHCRAFT KIT altar Set ~ potion making apothecary Lot. Shipped with USPS Unique! Handmade moon protection witch bottle and more included in this set! *Item is handcrafted! 🌙 Included: 1 Handmade moon goddess statue - figure. The base is 4” x 4”. (You can put some sacred potpourri there). Like I did in some of the pics. 1 “protection” Black Loaded mega light candle taller than the regular tea light candle. - not scented but has scented elements such herbs, flowers, etc. Size: regular tea light candle. 4 “intent” Loaded Tea light candles as shown - scented. 1 bottle of sacred potpourri 2 chime bee wax candles 1 charm 1 large Moon goddess bottle - witch art bottle (Inspired by the intent of helping the connection with the moon Goddess). Over 3 inches tall. ( see my store I sell these for $21 alone). 1 bottle of casting salts 10ml 1 bottle of black salt 2ml 1 bottle of lavender 10ml 1 raw amethyst 1”- 2” 1 bottle of sage 10ml 1 charm bottle - ready for you to give it an intent 1 palo santo 1 white sage bottle - 10ml BEAUTIFUL WITCH ARTWORK Everything I create/craft is a piece of art to me. I put my heart and soul... I’m inspired by witchcraft, paganism, Wicca and more. 🌙🌙 Blessings 🌙🌙 🌙 Please feel free to ask me any question... if you have an idea, or request I will do my best to make it happen. I use a rustic art technique for the boxes body. The artwork I create is not mass produced. It won't have a store o machine made feel :) The artwork has a protective seal/varnish to keep it nice and protect it from UV light. The candles are unscented unless is specifically mention on the listing. I use flowers, resins, herbs and other to "load" the candles and those ingredients by their own have scents but won't make a candle scented. Please let me know if you need more pics or box dimensions. Pics are taken next to tea light candles to give you an idea of the sizes... but I am always happy to send more pics. The bottle sizes 2ml generally. the chubby short ones are 5ml and the tall ones that I use for casting salts are 10ml. I try to use as many organic products as possible. *Item is handcrafted or handmade - Ships within 2 days :) All the items are included: candles, art bottles with herb and stones. Many more! PS i always include gifts! By purchasing any item form my store you agree to this store terms and conditions Terms and Conditions: Seller’s items, art altars, art boxes, art bottles, art witch boxes, and any other items in this store are sold for entertainment purposes only.  The items are sold as art pieces. Herbs, candles, etc. are for entertainment purposes only, and I do not claim they are safe for consumption. Please do not ingest any items from my shop. These are art pieces. All items are sold as curiosity only. My items are not toys. Never leave burning herbs unattended and ensure you are using an appropriate fire-proof tool for burning. Items are NOT processed in an environment free of peanuts, nuts, feathers and seashells. All PRODUCTS, ALTARS, and ALL ITEMS ARE MEANT AS ART PIECES. Seller makes not promises or guarantees of any type. ANY Image of a Saint, God, symbol, mystical image, deity, stone, flowers or herbs or any other element used to make the pieces on this store provide NO promises or guarantee of any outcome. The products in this shop are not to be a substitute for any medical or professional advice or treatment. I make art pieces inspired by witchcraft, pegan, Wicca, voodoo and other cultures. Keep pets and children away from small items that could be a choking hazard. Products should never be ingested. Remember Items may vary slightly in details from the images provided in listings, since they are handcrafted. Again, By purchasing our products you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age, and that you are responsible for yourself, all of your actions and your results that may or not occur while and after using these products. which also includes that you agree to under no circumstances pursuit or take legal action against my shop, brand, myself, or any member, maker or affiliate of my store. As well you agree that if there is ever a problem you agree to never seek financial compensation larger than the amount you paid for your items in our store., And this shall be done via eBay. And you agree if an issue shall occur it will be resolved within Ebay. We are Not responsable for allergens of any kind. We use shells, oils, herbs and more. CANDLES: please be safe. You are responsable for the safe use of any item you purchase from this shop, including candles. Never burn items unattended. Remove labels, charms, herbs, flowers prior to burning. Remove any decoration that can catch fire. SOME PEOPLE ADVISE THE FOLLOWING - Please, when burning candles herbal loaded candles, never leave them unattended and use wide dish with sand or salt to hold the candle, or as you best see fit and safe. PLEASE NOTE: Loaded candles can create multiple herbal wicks and high torch flame with dancing and cracking flame. NEVER LEAVE A CANDLE, SMUDGE STICK OR CHARCOAL TABLET UNATTENDED. Seller and its affiliates, owner, crafters, makers, sellers WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY FROM THE USE OR MISUE OF OUR PRODUCTS. Please be very careful burning candles. Candle Safety Instructions Some people advise to… 1. Never leave a burning candle unattended. 2. Never use water to extinguish a candle; this is extremely dangerous as it can cause excess heat and steam, which may cause the container/glass to explode. 3. Ensure wicks are upright and trimmed during use and each time candle is relit. Look up your candle size to see how much you have to trim it. 4. Never move a burning candle. Ensure candle is extinguished, wax is solid and jar is cold before handling. 5. Candle tins may become hot. Burn candle on an appropriate flat heat-resistant surface. 6. Avoid using in drafty areas, near an open window, air duct or fan. 7. Keep away from children, pets and flammable materials. 8. Do not use lid to extinguish candle. 9. Don't burn a candle all the way down. Extinguish the flame if it comes too close to the holder or container. 10- remove charms, stones prior burning. Also using please check for any herb or flower that may catch on fire and make an additional wick. More info: http://candles.org/fire-safety-candles/candle-safety-rules/ Please use all herbs, oils, candles, and incense responsibly.  Seller and any member and affiliate are not responsible for any harm, damages, and loses resulting from the use of products from this shop. Purchasing my product signifies your acceptance of this statement and releases this shop, its owner, affiliates and any member from any and all liability. 🌙🌙 Blessings 🌙🌙 🌙 Please feel free to ask me any question... if you have an idea, or request I will do my best to make it happen. I use a rustic art technique for the boxes body. The artwork I create is not mass produced. It won't have a store o machine made feel :) The artwork has a protective seal/varnish to keep it nice and protect it from UV light. The candles are unscented unless is specifically mention on the listing. I use flowers, resins, herbs and other to "load" the candles and those ingredients by their own have scents but won't make a candle scented. Please let me know if you need more pics or box dimensions. Pics are taken next to tea light candles to give you an idea of the sizes... but I am always happy to send more pics. The bottle sizes 2ml generally. the chubby short ones are 5ml and the tall ones that I use for casting salts are 10ml. I try to use as many organic products as possible. Never leave burning herbs unattended and ensure you are using an appropriate fire-proof tool for burning.NOTE: please know I use herbs,flowers, there are shells in my craft station. So if you have any allergy my products are not for you. I ma not responsable for any allergic reaction or sensibility you encounter by using my products. Herbs, spices and flowers I use; Next to it is my personal spiritual believe of what each one symbolizes, just in case you are curious why I use them. Allspice -- Luck, Money, Healing 2. Agrimony -- Protection 3. Alfalfa Leaf -- Prosperity 4. Angelica Root -- Protection 5. Bay Leaf -- Psychic Powers 6. Basil -- Love 7. Benzoin Gum -- Purification 8. Black Tea — Strength 9. Blessed Thistle -- Spiritual Aid 10. Calendula (Marigold petals) —Psychic Powers 11. Cedar – Purification 12. Celery Seed – clearing bad vibes 13. Chamomile -- Centering 14. Piedra alumbre — banishing 15. Chickweed -- Fidelity 16. Cinnamon – Psychic Powers, Spirituality 17. Coltsfoot – Love, Visions 18. Copal -- Love, Purification 19. Coriander Seed -- Love 20. Damiana Leaf – Third eye 21. Dandelion Leaf-- Divination, Wishes 22. Dill Seed – Banishing 23. Elderberry — optimism 24. Elder Flower -- Protection 25. Fennel Seed – Purification 26. Fenugreek – Money 27. Frankincence -- Spirituality 28. Gotu Kola -- Meditations 29. Gum Arabic -- Protection, Psychic Powers - awareness 30. Ginger Root -- Love, Power 31. Horehound -- awareness to opportunities 32. Hibiscus Flower -- Lust, Love, Divination 33. Hyssop -- Purification, Protection 34. Lavender -- Love, Peace, Protection, Sleep 35. Licorice Root -- Lust, Love, 36. Lemon Balm -- Love, Success, 37. Marjoram -- Protection, Love, Happiness,Money 38. Meadowsweet -- Peace, Love, Divination, Happiness 39. Mugwort -- Strength, Psychic Powers, Prophetic Dreams 40. Mustard Seed -- Fidelity, Protection, Mental Powers 41. Nettle Leaf -- Lust 42. Oats -- Money Spells 43. Olive Leaf -- Peace, Protection, Lust 44. Passion Flower -- Peace, Sleep, Friendship 45. Pennyroyal -- Strength, Protection, Peace 46. Peppermint -- Sleep, Love, 47. Pine – Cleansing, Money, Protection 48. Poke Root -- Hex - Breaking, Courage 49. Poppy Seed -- Love, Sleep, Money, Luck, 50. Raspberry -- Protection, Love Magic 51. Red Clover -- Protection, Money, Love, Success 52. Rice -- Protection, Rain, Money, 53. Rose Hips -- Luck 54. Rosemary -- Protection, Love, Lust, Sleep 55. Sage -- Wisdom, Protection, Wishes 56. Sea Salt -- Protection, Purification 57. Senna -- Love Magic 58. Sesame Seed -- Money, Spells, Lust 59. Shave Grass -- good luck Spells 60. Shepard's Purse -- All Spells and Rituals 61. Spearmint -- Love, Mental Power 62. St John's Wort -- Health, Protection, Strength, Happiness 63. Strawberry Leaf -- Love, Luck 64. Thyme -- Health, Sleep, Love, Psychic Powers, Purification 65. UVA URSI Psychic Workings 66. Valerian Root -- Protection, Sleep 67. Vervain -- Love, Protection, Peace, Money, Sleep, 68. White Oak Bark -- Protection, Luck 69. White Willow Bark -- Love, Love Divination, Protection, 70. Wormwood -- Protection, Love, Calling Spirits, Psychic Powers 71. Yarrow -- Courage, Love, Psychic Power, 72. Yellow Dock Root -- Healing, Fertility, Money Spells 73. Castilla roses - harmony Keep in mind spiritual works are subjective and this is my own interpretation. Light, love and energy Read the full article

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Soulflower Cold Pressed Olive Oil for Hair Nourishment and Skin Care

 Soulflower promises quality in every drop and provides best, authentic pure and natural products infused with life-changing wellness benefits suitable for a healthy stress-free lifestyle.                         Soulflower  Olive oil is  made  from the fruit of the Olea europaea (olive tree) using cold press technique

What is Cold Pressed Oil? • Cold-pressed oil is made from special machines that crush and press the seeds to extract the oil. There is no spinning and blades involved.

• Cold pressed oil is very effective in retaining nutrients • Free from chemicals, synthetic color or fragrance

                                       Soulflower cold pressed Olive Oil  

This cold pressed olive oil is used in cosmetics, medicine and it beneficial to human health in a different aspect, it is used as hair nourishment oil, skin care oil.

Benefits of soulflower olive oil

Hair nourishment oil –  

   Gently massage the scalp with the pure olive oil extract to moisturize, soothe and condition the skin and watch your hair grow strong, shiny and luscious.  

The benefits for skin-

• Moisturizes Skin • Improves Skin Health • Helps Remove Makeup • Has Anti-Aging Properties • As A Lip Scrub • Cures Cracked Heels

Nail and cuticle care –  

Apply soul flower olive oil on your nails and cuticles if they are weak and easy to break before going to bed and wake up to shiny nails and soft, healthy cuticles.

Relax with a calming massage- 

Give in to a healing home spa experience using olive oil for body massage and feel blessed with peace and positive energy  

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The Cookie Book's Vanilla Bean Thumbprint Cookies with Dulce De Leche-Famous Fridays

Welcome to holiday happiness. Literally, how could you stare at a plateful of these Vanilla Bean Thumbprint Cookies with Dulce de Leche and not be filled with seasonal joy?!! Those snowy little disks with glistening caramel-like centers—you won’t be able to stop yourself from breaking out into song! I certainly can’t stop singing the praises of their creator, Rebecca Firth or of The Cookie Book, her wonderful new-ish cookbook. It’s Famous Friday 24/7 cookie time around here!!

If you love cookies (what a ridiculous statement, of course you do!) you are going to adore this book devoted entirely to the making of them—over 70 different kinds!! There’s even an entire chapter devoted just to chocolate chip versions! I’ve already made her Classic Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip cookies and if it weren’t almost Christmas and the fact that I’ve already got way too many chocolate chip cookies here on the site already, I’d be sharing it with you today—it’s cookie monster amazing!! Seriously! There’s also a brown butter one and an olive oil version I’ve got my eye on too. Then there are chapters for Classic cookies like Snickerdoodles and Oatmeal Raisin, Jazz Hands cookies (aka fancy-pants kinds (like these thumbprints), Dazzling Drop Cookies like Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl, Holiday Exchange Cookies, like Peppermint Bark Shortbread Bites, Get Stuffed Cookies, love the sound of the Holy Sh*t S’mores, and even a chapter on Bar Cookies—I really need an excuse to make these Chocolate Espresso Cream ones. ) If you’re looking for a holiday gift for that baker in your life, The Cookie Book is a guaranteed win!

Now let’s talk about homemade dulce de leche cause it’s what takes these simple butter cookies and elevates them into showstoppers. First off, in case you aren’t properly acquainted—dulce de leche is caramel’s Latin American cousin. And sure, while you could buy it readymade, it is so simple to prepare yourself and so much better tasting, that once you try it this way, there’s no going back. All you need is a can of sweetened, condensed milk and a big pot of water.

Basically, you just simmer a closed can of it for about 3 hours, let cool, pop off that top and tada! You’ve got yourself gobs of luscious, golden dulce de leche! It’s magic!

The cookies come together easily and get that added bit of crunch and flavor from a roll in vanilla sugar.

What’s that you ask? Vanilla sugar?? Yup, that’s right. Vanilla sugar is sugar that has been infused with vanilla beans so that whatever you use that sugar in or on, gets an intense shot of amazing vanilla flavor. You can make it quickly by whizzing vanilla bean seeds with sugar in a food processor, or you can be a nerd like me, who keeps a mason jar in the pantry with sugar and old vanilla bean pods in it so that I always have vanilla sugar at my fingertips! Lol!

Either way, once you’ve rolled the little dough balls in the vanilla sugar, you poke your thumb into the middle of them, one by one, so that each one gets a nice little well in the center. It’s sort of like food meets play dough art project!

After a short stint in the freezer or fridge, you bake ‘em up and then use the round end of a wooden spoon to deepen the holes a bit more, right after baking.

Once the cookies have cooled, you dust them with powdered sugar. So pretty and wintery but you’re not done yet.

No sir! Finally, you get to fill them with a little dollop of that sinfully good homemade dulce de leche! I won’t tell if you swipe a taste or two!

In every bite, you get the perfect mix of tender, buttery cookie, sweet powdered sugar and gooey, rich dulce de leche! It’s truly cookie heaven!

They’d be amazing on any holiday cookie platter—they’ve definitely got that ooh and aah factor. And judging by how these are disappearing around here, there won’t be many leftovers. My advice—make sure you put a few aside for yourself!

Okey-dokey, time to wrap things up. Hope you’ve got a fun and delicious weekend coming up. I have a room waiting to be painted and a weekend of house stuff and child collecting to be done (though not necessarily in that order and some holiday shopping to do too. Going to be a busy one for sure. Stay safe and warm and I’ll see you next week with some more seasonal favs and a few normal recipes too!xoxo

The Cookie Book’s Vanilla Bean Thumbprint Cookies with Dulce De Leche-Famous Fridays

Makes 35 cookies

Prep Time for Dulce De Leche: 3 hours, plus cooling time; Prep Time for dough: 15 minutes, plus 30 minutes chilling time; Bake Time: 15-18 minutes; Assembly Time: 10 minutes. The easiest way to do this all is to make the dulce de leche the day before (or even a week before) and then just shape, bake and fill the cookies whenever you’re ready.

Ingredients

For the Dulce De Leche

One 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk

For the Vanilla Sugar

½ cup sugar

½ vanilla bean

For the Cookies

16 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup sugar

1 large egg yolk, room temperature

1 tablespoon milk

½ vanilla bean, seeds scraped out, pod reserved and added to container with vanilla sugar

2 ⅓ unbleached, all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon sea salt

Powdered sugar for confectioners’ sugar

The Recipe

1. To make the Dulce de Leche: Take the label off the can of condensed milk and put the can in a large deep pot. Add enough cold water so that it cover the can by 2 inches and bring to a boil. Then turn down the heat so that the water is simmering and cook for another 3 hours. Check every 30 minutes and add more water as necessary to keep that 2 inch gap above the can. Use tongs to remove the can from the pot (it will be hot!!) and let it come to room temperature. When it’s fully cool (this will take several hours), open the can and you will have yourself perfectly rich and gooey dulce de leche! You can either use right away or store in an airtight container in the fridge for a few weeks.

2. To make the Vanilla Sugar: Place the sugar in the bowl of the food processor. Cut the vanilla bean down the middle and scrape out the seeds into it. Run the machine for about 20 seconds. Place half of the sugar in an airtight container with the pod (I recommend a glass mason jar) and store. This way you’ll have vanilla sugar whenever you want it—it lasts forever. Place the remaining sugar in a shallow bowl and set aside.

3. To make the Cookies: Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.

4. Use an electric mixer to beat the butter and sugar together on medium speed for about 4 minutes, until light and smooth, scraping down the bowl as needed. Add in the egg yolk, milk and vanilla bean seeds and beat well again, scraping down as needed. Don’t worry if the mixture appears curdled.

5. In a separate small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the butter mixture and beat on low speed until the dough comes together, about 1 minute. Then roll tablespoon-sized balls of dough out and place them on the prepared trays. Roll each of the balls into the vanilla sugar, coating well. Place back on the baking sheet and use your thumb to press down into the center of each one, to make a little well in each cookie. If there is any cracking, just pinch them together gently. Space the cookies out about 2 inches between each other cause these spread a little. Now place the trays in the freezer for 30 minutes or the fridge for 1 hour.

6. While the cookies are chilling, preheat oven to 350ºF. Bake one batch at a time for about 12-15 minutes, just until you see them getting golden brown around the bottom edges. As soon as you remove them from the oven, use the rounded end of a wooden spoon to press down in the centers and make the wells deeper as they spread out a bit when baking. Then transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack to finish cooling completely. Bake the other batch. When all the cookies have cooled, sift powdered sugar over them and put about 1 teaspoon of the dulce de leche in the center of each cookie.

7. Store cookies in an airtight container in a single layer as the dulce de leche will never entirely harden, but the cookies will last at least a week at room temperature. Also, you will definitely have leftover dulce de leche. Store in the fridge and drizzle over ice cream, yogurt or anything you can dream up!

Enjoy!

Note: Recipe adapted from The Cookie Book by Rebecca Firth. I needed to bake these for about 6 minutes longer.

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OMG! The Best Cold Pressed Oil Machine For Home Ever!

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Really do not scrub if you needn't end in way more irritation. There are a selection of different herbs that may work as dwelling remedies. Due to this fact, a combination of varied oils is often recommended. Whereas refined oils is perhaps more inexpensive, They may not provide the results you had been hoping for because the powerful antioxidants are stripped within the oil. there are literally an infinite collection of treatment creams you can select from, however seek for goods which comprise rose hip seed oil or snail serum. When it ought to do with suggestions on The only approach to make use of lavender oil for wellness, earache relief is simply Among the most beneficial recommendations that plenty of women and men apply. A small reminder, prior to deciding to try out an array of hair remedy or try any element on your scalp, it's healthier to proper an appointment with the well being practitioner to search out info. Massage executed via a skilled practitioner is an excellent and therapeutic encounter. similar to any oil, It really is Great necessary you know the way It's processed. The oil is extremely thick and somewhat would go a techniques. Maracuja oil is created from your seeds of your passionfruit flower. Walnut oil Walnut oil features a important amount of Omega-6, however Also a superb sum of Omega-three. when flaxseed isn't cereal, it has Just about the very same vary of minerals and nutritional vitamins. published here Furthermore, there are actually antioxidants within the form of polyphenols. Regardless that refined oils may be a lot cheaper, They could not provide the outcomes you ended up hoping for since the potent antioxidants are stripped from the oil. one of the apparent consequence of oil pulling is enhanced dental well-getting. lastly, depending on recent science, substitute feed substances usually tend to need to operate with one another to assist make up A much larger proportion of foreseeable future aquaculture feeds. Most oil manufactures use loads of completely different processing strategies to guarantee no residue could make its technique to the finished services or products, but it absolutely could nearly by no means assurance purity. Black seed oil also has fairly a number of practical pharmacological actions which allow it to be a fantastic all-natural choice for managing illnesses with the dermis. Quality olive oil will in all probability be more expensive than previously. right CBD Hemp Oil does not must get refrigerated, even though it is advisable to keep it from instant daylight and heat. very important lavender oil is Among the many many most applied oils and has many rewards. though flaxseed just isn't cereal, it is Just about the similar amount of minerals and pure vitamins. With that mentioned castor oil may be utilized for conditioning and hair growth. Sesame seeds and oils are severely beneficial issues which will be utilized for many different causes.

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‘FRISCO FOOD DECODED

There are times – desperate, self-loathing times - when Starbucks can be your best friend. San Francisco at 5.30am is one of those times.

When you sleep the sleep of the terminally insane after an eleven-hour flight, and the only thing that will stop the spiteful, insistent pumping in your head is a flat white and a toasted bagel, the Green Machine on Grant Street delivers when all around it are resolutely shut until way after sunrise.

Are you going to San Francisco? If so, you will need to plan your food because ‘Friscans breakfast late and dine early. Like, 5PM early. The rest of the time, many a working San Franciscan can be seen gliding purposefully, some on rollerblades, most in smart-casual, clutching their macrobiotic lunch boxes on their way to their fintech start-up/angel investor / power spin at Soul Cycle. All pencil slender, glowingly healthy slaves to the algorithm.  

After 9PM, when most of Europe and all of South America is just getting started, no one seems interested in rustling you up something tasty. Some restaurants start managing you out of the door after 8 in the evening. Room service grinds to a similar halt and good luck trying a delivery app if you don’t have a US phone. One evening recently, rabid with hunger after a full day at work and a lengthy late workout, the lady in my hotel reception took pity on me and surreptitiously shunted me a note with the name of a local pizza takeaway, which delivered until 2AM. The pizza was delicious – mushroom and feta on a crisp, sourdough crust – but I am sure I detected a hint of New York, not SF, sass when I made the phone order.

However, when you do succeed in squeezing your food into a 9-5 window, it’s worth the time management. I have my personal favourites, and there isn’t a spoonful of spirulina among them. Here are my top five:

Mr Holmes Bakehouse

If you spot badgers as a pastime, then you have the skills to catch Mr Holmes in the few hours they are open. To be fair, this Mr Holmes is an outpost of the Los Angeles original and their tiny premises serve up unctuous, matcha-iced croissants, doughnuts filled with chilli-lime crème pat and more, between 7AM and 2PM. Maybe go a little later if you are on your own: it’s more lower Nob Hill than Tenderloin  - the epicentre of the City’s crack problem -  but it still doesn’t feel like the safest district to walk around before daybreak.

Chinatown – Old and New

Aside from Sydney, no one does Chinatown like San Francisco. My first experience of it was eating Dim Sum at the City View Restaurant (which, by the way, has no view, of the City or otherwise). We went in intending to order sensibly. Half an hour later we’d gone rogue, stuffing succulent Duck Gyoza into our mouths like Animal the muppet. Newer to the area, China Live on Broadway is a multi-layered emporium of bistro, fine dining and shop. It’s also opposite that 50’s style homage to Psycho, the Royal Pacific Motel, which I intend to stay in someday just for the Instagram creds.

 Not something I normally say about a Chinese restaurant, China Live serves a number of delicious vegetarian dishes.  These include red dumplings stuffed with scallops and peas, together with some imaginative fish and seafood, heroing the Dungeness Crab (seems to be a thing in this City). 

The shop also sold a work of art masquerading as a frying pan which I have been tearing my hair out trying to track down online ever since.

The Food Trucks near Battery Street

If you like Viet, Thai, Indonesian or Malaysian food, then google map these trucks on a Wednesday. The tastiest of them all is The Chairman, serving baked or steamed Bao. Too cool to make an obvious pun of their name and speciality, they let you do the math. 

Their crispy pork belly baked Bao is like a luxe burger and the bao chips with seaweed salt (basically deep-fried wonton wrappers) are the fries you never knew you needed.

Boudin’s Sourdough Factory

Yes, it’s by Fisherman’s Wharf, yes, it’s a tourist trap, but damn it! I love their chewy sourdough. Hollowed out and filled with New England Clam Chowder and a basil and cucumber cocktail on the side, thank you please. I used to be able to buy a loaf at the airport in departures, and it was still tasty when toasted a week later in London.

Contigo

In need of some sophistication? Poor you! Well, rich you if you fancy heading to this delicious riff on a Spanish Tapas kitchen in the Castro District. Some lovely vegetarian options, but my hands down favourite dish was their beef cheeks. Not on the menu now as we head into summer, but their current menu is sporting some pretty compelling mechouli lamb.

Wherever you choose to leave your heart, honeymoon or get drunk in San Fran (all genuine songs about the City), try out any or all of these three nods to its cuisine. And eat them at whatever time of day you like.

Clam Sourdough Crostini

It’s the texture of Sourdough that I think is so wonderful – and the way it sponges up the juices of whatever you are cooking. This little number, inspired by a recipe from Harts in Brooklyn, could be served equally well without the clam shells, but the end result wouldn’t look as pretty and scooping out the clam meat at the table at the table is part of the fun. Serves 2-3

Ingredients:

4 tbsp. Olive oil

50g diced pancetta or lardons

4 garlic cloves, 2 sliced 2 left whole

2 banana shallots, finely chopped

½ a fennel bulb, chopped

2 strips lemon zest

1 bay leaf

½ tsp. ground fennel (or smash fennel seeds in a pestle and mortar)

1 glass dry white wine

500g clams

1 tsp chilli flakes

Small bunch parsley, torn

Drizzle of single cream (optional)

2-3 thick slices ideally San Francsico sourdough

How to Make

Heat half the oil in a large frying pan.  Add pancetta or lardons and cook, stirring occasionally, until brown and crisp (around 3-4 mins). Add sliced garlic and cook, stirring, until garlic is golden.  

Reduce heat and add the shopped shallots and fennel. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and onion is translucent. Add lemon zest, bay leaf, ground fennel, ½ cup wine and a pinch of salt. Increase heat, stirring occasionally, until wine is mostly reduced but mixture is still reasonably fluid (this should take about 2-3 minutes). Transfer mixture to a medium bowl; discard lemon zest and bay leaf.

Wipe out the frying pan and pop back on the heat. Heat 2 Tbsp. oil until sizzling. Add sourdough slices and griddle golden brown on both sides. Drain on kitchen towels, then cut 1 garlic clove in half and rub one side of each toast with cut side of garlic.

Back to the frying pan for one last time and heat 1 tbsp. oil.   Crush the remaining garlic clove and add to the oil, stirring, until it begins to turn golden. Add clams, the pancetta/ garlic mix and remaining ½ cup wine. Increase heat and bring to a boil. Cook, uncovered, until liquid is reduced by half and clams are open (discard any that do not open), which should take 5–7 minutes. Add a drizzle of cream if desired, together with the chilli flakes and parsley and cook 1 minute longer. Taste and season with kosher salt and more chilli flakes.

Place fried bread on plates and spoon clam mixture and cooking broth over. Drizzle with oil and serve.

Pork Belly Bao

Like I said, food orgasm meets coma once you have eaten a Mr Chairman Bao. Here is my version, using a marinade mix for the pork from China Doll in Sydney.

Makes 10 bao.

Ingredients:

For the Bao dough:

250g plain flour

2 tsp dry active yeast

1 tbsp. Caster sugar

1 tsp kosher salt

100ml tepid water

50ml milk

1 tbsp. sunflower oil

Chopped spring onions and coriander to serve.

For the char siu pork

2 tbsp. sunflower oil

1kilo pork belly, no rind and cut into thick slices

2 tbsp each   dark muscovado and 2 tbsp. light brown sugar

4 garlic cloves, finely chopped

Small piece of ginger, sliced

2 star anise

80 ml hoi sin sauce

100 ml Shaoxing wine

2 tbsp. dark soy sauce

100 ml water

¼ tsp five spice powder

Kosher salt and black pepper.

How to make

First, prepare the pork (you can do this ahead and re-heat).

Heat the oven to 160C, or Gas 3.

Season the pork belly generously, heat the oil and brown the pork in a large pot, in batches. Drain and put to one side.

Mix the hoi sin, Shaoxing wine and dark soy sauce in a jug. Drain the saucepan of oil, then put back on the heat, add the sugar and a little water, and watch closely until it starts to turn to caramel. Working quickly, add the chopped garlic, ginger and star anise, stir then add the soy, Shaoxing and hoi sin mix. Add the pork back to the pan, stir to coat, then add the water and the five-spice powder. Cover and pop into the oven for about 1.5 hours.

Take the pot out of the oven and remove the lid (take care to use oven gloves - don’t forget the lid is hot too). Put it on a hob ring and turn the heat up medium/ high, then stir the pork belly while the sauce bubbles down to a sticky mess. Cover and leave to one side.

If you want everything to be ready at the same time, start making the buns while the pork is in the oven. Tip the flour and sugar into a large mixing bowl, preferably in a free-standing mixer with a dough hook. Add the yeast to one side of the flour and the salt to the other (mixing the salt and yeast too soon prevents the yeast from activating). Then add the water, milk and oil and mix with a dough hook for about 10 minutes, until the mix is smooth and elastic.

Pop the ball of dough into a greased bowl, cover and leave for an hour in a warm place until it has doubled in size.

After an hour, tip the dough onto a floured board, and roll it into a sausage, then cut it into 10 equal portions. Have some squares of baking parchment cut and ready on a lightly oiled baking tray or two. Roll each portion of dough into an oval, lightly oil the flat surface, then lay a greased chopstick across it. 

Flip one side of the dough over the chopstick so you end up with a half-moon shape, then slide the chopstick out and lay the bun on a square of baking parchment. Repeat with the other 9 portions.

Leave the buns, lightly covered, to rise for another hour.

Heat the water in your steamer, and when coming to a rolling boil, add the buns (as many as will fit at a time) cover and steam for 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

If you cooked the pork much earlier, reheat by adding a cup of water to loosen up the sticky caramel mixture and simmer for about 10 minutes. Transfer the pork to a plate or board and slice up or shred. Chop the spring onions (green stalks included) and roughly chop the coriander.

Spit each bun, fill with sliced/ shredded pork, add some spring onions and coriander and serve.

Turmeric Cake

I have never eaten this in ‘Frisco, but I feel that I should have. It’s almost vegan (properly vegan if you swap the milk for almond milk), has the anti-inflammatory rhizome-du- jour, turmeric, as it’s hero ingredient, and has the taste and texture of a light fudge. This is originally a Syrian delicacy and you can find a version in the Almond Bar cookbook. They also sell a delicious version at Café Pera in Twickenham, which uses coconut oil as its fat. It is a combination of the two on which my recipe is based. Serves 10-12.

Ingredients:

440g fine semolina

100g chickpea flour

60g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 cm piece fresh turmeric, peeled and grated

250g coconut oil, melted then cooled.

385g unrefined caster sugar

375 milk or almond milk

2 tbsp. tahini

1 tsp vanilla essence

Whole blanched almonds, toasted.

How to make

Preheat the oven to 190C/ Gas mark 6.

Rub tahini over the base and sides of a 23cm springform cake tin and put to one side.

Combine the flour, chickpea flour, semolina and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.

In a separate bowl, combine the melted coconut oil, sugar, vanilla, milk, grated turmeric and 60ml water and whisk together. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix until smooth and golden yellow.

Pour the cake mix into the prepared tin and top with the lightly toasted whole almonds. 

Bake for 35-40 minutes, until the cake turns a golden brown, then remove from the oven and leave in the tin for about 10 minutes before turning out carefully onto a wire rack to cool completely. Transfer to a serving plate.

This tin will keep in a tin or wrapped in clingfilm for a week.

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Please let me know if you need more pics or box dimensions. Pics are taken next to tea light candles to give you an idea of the sizes... but I am always happy to send more pics. The bottle sizes 2ml generally. the chubby short ones are 5ml and the tall ones that I use for casting salts are 10ml. I try to use as many organic products as possible. *Item is handcrafted or handmade - Ships within 2 days :) All the items are included: candles, art bottles with herb and stones. Many more! PS i always include gifts! By purchasing any item form my store you agree to this store terms and conditions Terms and Conditions: Seller’s items, art altars, art boxes, art bottles, art witch boxes, and any other items in this store are sold for entertainment purposes only.  The items are sold as art pieces. Herbs, candles, etc. are for entertainment purposes only, and I do not claim they are safe for consumption. Please do not ingest any items from my shop. These are art pieces. All items are sold as curiosity only. My items are not toys. Never leave burning herbs unattended and ensure you are using an appropriate fire-proof tool for burning. Items are NOT processed in an environment free of peanuts, nuts, feathers and seashells. All PRODUCTS, ALTARS, and ALL ITEMS ARE MEANT AS ART PIECES. Seller makes not promises or guarantees of any type. ANY Image of a Saint, God, symbol, mystical image, deity, stone, flowers or herbs or any other element used to make the pieces on this store provide NO promises or guarantee of any outcome. The products in this shop are not to be a substitute for any medical or professional advice or treatment. I make art pieces inspired by witchcraft, pegan, Wicca, voodoo and other cultures. Keep pets and children away from small items that could be a choking hazard. Products should never be ingested. Remember Items may vary slightly in details from the images provided in listings, since they are handcrafted. Again, By purchasing our products you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age, and that you are responsible for yourself, all of your actions and your results that may or not occur while and after using these products. which also includes that you agree to under no circumstances pursuit or take legal action against my shop, brand, myself, or any member, maker or affiliate of my store. As well you agree that if there is ever a problem you agree to never seek financial compensation larger than the amount you paid for your items in our store., And this shall be done via eBay. And you agree if an issue shall occur it will be resolved within Ebay. We are Not responsable for allergens of any kind. We use shells, oils, herbs and more. CANDLES: please be safe. You are responsable for the safe use of any item you purchase from this shop, including candles. Never burn items unattended. Remove labels, charms, herbs, flowers prior to burning. Remove any decoration that can catch fire. SOME PEOPLE ADVISE THE FOLLOWING - Please, when burning candles herbal loaded candles, never leave them unattended and use wide dish with sand or salt to hold the candle, or as you best see fit and safe. PLEASE NOTE: Loaded candles can create multiple herbal wicks and high torch flame with dancing and cracking flame. NEVER LEAVE A CANDLE, SMUDGE STICK OR CHARCOAL TABLET UNATTENDED. Seller and its affiliates, owner, crafters, makers, sellers WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY FROM THE USE OR MISUE OF OUR PRODUCTS. Please be very careful burning candles. Candle Safety Instructions Some people advise to… 1. Never leave a burning candle unattended. 2. Never use water to extinguish a candle; this is extremely dangerous as it can cause excess heat and steam, which may cause the container/glass to explode. 3. Ensure wicks are upright and trimmed during use and each time candle is relit. Look up your candle size to see how much you have to trim it. 4. Never move a burning candle. Ensure candle is extinguished, wax is solid and jar is cold before handling. 5. Candle tins may become hot. Burn candle on an appropriate flat heat-resistant surface. 6. Avoid using in drafty areas, near an open window, air duct or fan. 7. Keep away from children, pets and flammable materials. 8. Do not use lid to extinguish candle. 9. Don't burn a candle all the way down. Extinguish the flame if it comes too close to the holder or container. 10- remove charms, stones prior burning. Also using please check for any herb or flower that may catch on fire and make an additional wick. More info: http://candles.org/fire-safety-candles/candle-safety-rules/ Please use all herbs, oils, candles, and incense responsibly.  Seller and any member and affiliate are not responsible for any harm, damages, and loses resulting from the use of products from this shop. Purchasing my product signifies your acceptance of this statement and releases this shop, its owner, affiliates and any member from any and all liability. 🌙🌙 Blessings 🌙🌙 🌙 Please feel free to ask me any question... if you have an idea, or request I will do my best to make it happen. I use a rustic art technique for the boxes body. The artwork I create is not mass produced. It won't have a store o machine made feel :) The artwork has a protective seal/varnish to keep it nice and protect it from UV light. The candles are unscented unless is specifically mention on the listing. I use flowers, resins, herbs and other to "load" the candles and those ingredients by their own have scents but won't make a candle scented. Please let me know if you need more pics or box dimensions. Pics are taken next to tea light candles to give you an idea of the sizes... but I am always happy to send more pics. The bottle sizes 2ml generally. the chubby short ones are 5ml and the tall ones that I use for casting salts are 10ml. I try to use as many organic products as possible. Never leave burning herbs unattended and ensure you are using an appropriate fire-proof tool for burning.NOTE: please know I use herbs,flowers, there are shells in my craft station. So if you have any allergy my products are not for you. I ma not responsable for any allergic reaction or sensibility you encounter by using my products. Herbs, spices and flowers I use; Next to it is my personal spiritual believe of what each one symbolizes, just in case you are curious why I use them. Allspice -- Luck, Money, Healing 2. Agrimony -- Protection 3. Alfalfa Leaf -- Prosperity 4. Angelica Root -- Protection 5. Bay Leaf -- Psychic Powers 6. Basil -- Love 7. Benzoin Gum -- Purification 8. Black Tea — Strength 9. Blessed Thistle -- Spiritual Aid 10. Calendula (Marigold petals) —Psychic Powers 11. Cedar – Purification 12. Celery Seed – clearing bad vibes 13. Chamomile -- Centering 14. Piedra alumbre — banishing 15. Chickweed -- Fidelity 16. Cinnamon – Psychic Powers, Spirituality 17. Coltsfoot – Love, Visions 18. Copal -- Love, Purification 19. Coriander Seed -- Love 20. Damiana Leaf – Third eye 21. Dandelion Leaf-- Divination, Wishes 22. Dill Seed – Banishing 23. Elderberry — optimism 24. Elder Flower -- Protection 25. Fennel Seed – Purification 26. Fenugreek – Money 27. Frankincence -- Spirituality 28. Gotu Kola -- Meditations 29. Gum Arabic -- Protection, Psychic Powers - awareness 30. Ginger Root -- Love, Power 31. Horehound -- awareness to opportunities 32. Hibiscus Flower -- Lust, Love, Divination 33. Hyssop -- Purification, Protection 34. Lavender -- Love, Peace, Protection, Sleep 35. Licorice Root -- Lust, Love, 36. Lemon Balm -- Love, Success, 37. Marjoram -- Protection, Love, Happiness,Money 38. Meadowsweet -- Peace, Love, Divination, Happiness 39. Mugwort -- Strength, Psychic Powers, Prophetic Dreams 40. Mustard Seed -- Fidelity, Protection, Mental Powers 41. Nettle Leaf -- Lust 42. Oats -- Money Spells 43. Olive Leaf -- Peace, Protection, Lust 44. Passion Flower -- Peace, Sleep, Friendship 45. Pennyroyal -- Strength, Protection, Peace 46. Peppermint -- Sleep, Love, 47. Pine – Cleansing, Money, Protection 48. Poke Root -- Hex - Breaking, Courage 49. Poppy Seed -- Love, Sleep, Money, Luck, 50. Raspberry -- Protection, Love Magic 51. Red Clover -- Protection, Money, Love, Success 52. Rice -- Protection, Rain, Money, 53. Rose Hips -- Luck 54. Rosemary -- Protection, Love, Lust, Sleep 55. Sage -- Wisdom, Protection, Wishes 56. Sea Salt -- Protection, Purification 57. Senna -- Love Magic 58. Sesame Seed -- Money, Spells, Lust 59. Shave Grass -- good luck Spells 60. Shepard's Purse -- All Spells and Rituals 61. Spearmint -- Love, Mental Power 62. St John's Wort -- Health, Protection, Strength, Happiness 63. Strawberry Leaf -- Love, Luck 64. Thyme -- Health, Sleep, Love, Psychic Powers, Purification 65. UVA URSI Psychic Workings 66. Valerian Root -- Protection, Sleep 67. Vervain -- Love, Protection, Peace, Money, Sleep, 68. White Oak Bark -- Protection, Luck 69. White Willow Bark -- Love, Love Divination, Protection, 70. Wormwood -- Protection, Love, Calling Spirits, Psychic Powers 71. Yarrow -- Courage, Love, Psychic Power, 72. Yellow Dock Root -- Healing, Fertility, Money Spells 73. Castilla roses - harmony Keep in mind spiritual works are subjective and this is my own interpretation. Light, love and energy Read the full article