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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2009-03-29 04:48 pm
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Macrobiotic food for the week

Completed:

Sweet veggie tea (Carrots, onions, butternut squash and green cabbage, diced fine and cooked down.) Toss the veggie matter, use the "tea" room temp or hot as something to help sweet cravings, or heat to use with miso or in a soup.

Toasted groats and sweet brown rice as a breakfast grain.

Lundberg's Wild and mixed brown rice for other meals.

Azuki beans with onion and butternut squash cubes.

Still to be made:

Chopped fresh kale.
An almond, basil and tangerine sauce for the kale.
Arame seaweed, carrots and onion sauteed in sesame oil as a condiment.
Baked sweet potato fries.
Temph sauteed in sesame oil (with a drop or two of toasted sesame oil) with pea pods and yellow squash.
Kukicha tea.

I'll pick up a rutabaga and/or turnip this week, to use with carrot and sweet potato to make a beef stew. And some berries or a plum to make a sweet bread or crisp (no, it would not be sweet for most of you) to keep me from the brownie box at the bottom of the stairs!

Oh -- [livejournal.com profile] cabin77 is correct, sniffing chocolate extract reduces that craving, at least for us.

And now...I think I will mix some of those grains in pancake batter, and make whole grain gingerbread cakes. After I rest a bit.

The place smells like heaven.

PS -- anyone remember packing the electric kettle? Theories on which box to look for?

UPDATE: Pancakes were thick, chewy and wonderful. I am now tired, so will bottle tea and sautee seaweed tomorrow.

[identity profile] apricot-tree.livejournal.com 2009-03-29 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has chocolate and foody perfumes that might work for you too.

Huh --

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2009-03-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder if smelling it on myself would make me hungry?

The whole grain pancakes turned out great, next time I'll freeze one. I won't be hungry late tonight! I'm tired, so I'll make the Kukicha tea tonight, but the rest can wait.

[identity profile] sheilagh.livejournal.com 2009-04-05 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
so you fully toss out the cooked-down veggies? could turn them into part of a soup to flavor up and take to Odd Friday, sometimes!

In theory, yes --

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2009-04-05 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Strict Macrobiotic practitioners believe that after dicing them so tiny you can barely see them, and boiling them 20 minutes, you have sucked all the essential nutrients out of the veggies. If I had a compost pile, I'd compost it -- but I don't here, and the friends who have compost piles all had compromised ones last I asked. When their heaps are active again, I'll probably bring all the stuff there.

Since I often cheat right now while still unpacking boxes, and warm things in a microwave, I adhere to all other macro beliefs. I figure if they're right, it's better for me, and if they're wrong, slowing down food prep, eating slowly and resting a few minutes after eating is good for me anyway.

THe few that don't get strained out of the drink/broth don't have much flavor, especially the onions. Just s shadow of their former selves!