Food and/or Gardening

[Neferti]

Monk is frustrated over at OzPol because nobody is talking about "food and gardening" on a POLITICAL FORUM.

Thought I would begin with an easy dessert recipe that I found, tried and sent to all my friends.

APPLE GALETTE



Yum, yum.

[mantra]

I rarely eat dessert, but make an exception for a home-made apple pie. That looks tasty Neferti - and an easy version of a Tarte Tatin.

[Neferti]

I rarely eat dessert, but make an exception for a home-made apple pie. That looks tasty Neferti - and an easy version of a Tarte Tatin.

It is one of the easiest desserts I have ever bothered with. I do not have a sweet tooth, but have been fiddling around with desserts of late. During Winter I experimented with a lot of French and Italian cookery books and recipes therein. Fortunately I never gain weight but I can eat a lot at times. LOL

[Super Nova]

Food should only be talked about if you are going to make fun of it.

Food hates that.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Even though i am married i do all my own cooking but the topic doesn't really interest me probably b/c i keep it simple: reasonable amounts of grassfed beef and lots of vegetables ... all cooked in virgin coconut oil. That is about it. and supplements. and i generally only eat one meal a day. so there isn't much to talk about... i have started taking 4 tablespoons of unmodified potato starch as a supplement b/c it contains something called "resistant starch" which is powerful prebiotic ... but none of this is really culinary, is it? What I am trying to say is that I am interested in food, real food, but not the culinary arts. I am, however, interested in gardening. Am raking lots of leaves right now ... but that isn't really gardening but dreaded yardwork.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Swedish couple finds long-lost wedding ring on carrot in their garden

'The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring'

Sixteen years of searching for a wedding ring culminated in an unlikely discovery for a Swedish couple. Ola and Lena Paahlsson found the ring on a carrot in their garden.

"The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring," Ola Paahlsson told Dagens Nyheter, a daily newspaper in Sweden. "It is quite incredible."

The ring, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen in 1995, Lena Paahlsson told the paper. The couple, who reside in central Sweden, believed Lena's ring fell into a sink and was lost in vegetable peelings that were turned into compost or fed to their sheep.

"I had given up hope," Lena Paahlsson told Dagens Nyheter.

They may have given up hope, but they never completely gave up the hunt. Many years after losing the ring, the couple even removed the tiling off the floor in the hope of finding it.

Their determination finally paid off. Recently as Lena Paahlsson was pulling out a carrot from their garden, she noticed it had something attached to it. It was the ring, relatively unscathed.

"Our daughter Anna was at home at the time and she heard an almighty scream from the garden," Ola Paahlsson told The Local website.

The couple will probably never know how this minor miracle occurred, but that won't stop them from guessing.

"We thought maybe it had fallen into the compostable food bin," Ola Paahlsson told The Local. "Perhaps it ended up in compost that was spread over the vegetable patch later. ... Maybe it had been eaten by the sheep and then ended up in the manure that we then spread over the vegetable patch."

"We're keeping it in a safe place," Lena Paahlsson tells the Dalarnas Tidningar newspaper in Sweden.

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[Neferti]

I presume this should go here .... it is about grains messing with our brains ... or that is what some neurologist has come up with.

IF you had cereal for breakfast or just scoffed a sandwich for lunch, maybe don't read this. Because grains are destroying your brain, according to this doctor.

David Perlmutter, a renowned neurologist and president of the Perlmutter Health Center in Naples, Florida, says there's a close relationship between lifestyle, our modern diet and dementia.

Dr Perlmutter, who has just released a New York Times best-selling book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers says it's not just unhealthy carbs that should be cut.

He says eating grains can lead to dementia, chronic headaches, depression, epilepsy and other health problems.

"Even healthy ones like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, and much more," his website says.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health ... 6762490985

I reckon I should be OK then. I never eat cereal for breakfast and usually eat white bread, although I tried Helgas for a while. Never get headaches, or depression and nobody in my family has suffered from dementia or Alzheimers.

Interesting what these American researchers come up with, hey? No doubt his book will make him a mint.

[AiA in Atlanta]

I seldom eat grains.

[mantra]

I love my two daily slices of multigrain toast - but that's about the only grain I eat. A couple of years ago when I broke my foot - I realised how weak I was and my son who's a health fanatic steered me onto the Caveman diet - otherwise called the Paleo diet, to build up some strength.

It mimics the diet of our hunter gatherer ancestors by only eating fresh meats (preferably grass-produced or free-ranging beef, pork, lamb, poultry, and game meat, if you can get it), fish, seafood, fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and healthful oils (olive, coconut, avocado, macadamia, walnut and flaxseed).

Sounds like you're familiar with it AiA.

No dairy products are allowed at all.

I followed this for a couple of months and did feel a lot better, but I like milk in my coffee and a bit of cheese and sugar. There is also too much meat for my liking, although I like a little red meat - don't think it's grain fed though, and I eat plenty of salads. Fish is a bit of a turnoff these days because of all the toxins. Dairy products and sugar would probably be the biggest drain on our health - but they're hard to give up.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Yeah, I am Paleo-ish in my eating. On the weekends I might indulge in a some rice or bread but that is about it for grains.