The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Gary thinks he would like chick pea soup. Thanks for the recipe Frank. Gary, Mary Liu and Cook have guests tonight. First time here so nothing 'experimental', Gary will smoke some Tri-Tip and toss a salmon on the charcoals. Most likely a flat bread, tomato salad, green salad w/grapes & apples, (maybe an avocado if they're ripe), homemade lemonade, and homemade sorbet for dessert.

 

[SquarePeg39 1]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

 

[limr32 1]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

Why we fell for clean eating

 

[Gary A.]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

Frank is taking some poetic license.

 

[SquarePeg39 1]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

Frank is taking some poetic license.

 

[Frank F.]

You remember I go through this Microbiome Diet? Currently I try to compose tasty food from the allowed ingredients.

My first recipe is chick pea soup with veggies and lamb. You need roughly one pound of lamb goulash meat cut to finger tip size. Two medium size red onions. One big can of chick peas or roughly one good pound after washing and peeling. Two handful of celery root. Three big tomatoes and two peppers of different colour.

Fry the meat in hot ghee. Add the washed and peeled chick peas. If you have enough time take dried ones and soak them in water over night. They will start to stick after a few minutes. Add water. Add cut veggies and stir cook until the soup is creamy soft after 15 or 20 minutes. Add salt and black pepper to your taste and the sap of a whole lemon to round it up.

Taste is comparable to the Northern African famous lentil soup called Taboulee

I think you're getting your foods mixed up. Tabouleh is a vegetarian salad made with bulgur (or cous cous) and tomatoes, onions, and herbs (mainly parsley) and spices. Not a lentil soup.

You are right. Let's all may recipe "Chick pea soup Northern African or Arabic style" ...

Now I remember I this style of soup first in a Lebanese Restaurant in Hannover, Germany.

The Lebanon is the cradle of our civilization, but the Levante is certainly not Afrika. I guess I could have the same style of soup in Tunis or Algier or Fez.

PS there is no problem leaving out the meat to make the soup vegan. I cooked it for my son and me and he loves to eat meat. Add some more olive oil or walnut oil to replace the fat from the meat...

 

[Gary A.]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

Why we fell for clean eating

Interesting read. Every now and then Gary and Mary Lou (sometimes Cook) would watch a food/documentary movie (a la 'Supersize Me'). Similar to the read above, most all declared that their way was the only route to salvation. In one of the movies a gentleman stated that the easiest way to healthy eating is to cook your own food. If you cook your cook, (as opposed to eating out or heating up pre-cook food), then 90% of what you eat will be healthy. Gary gave that some thought, it seems quite reasonable, fairly easy and a good graduate to measure healthy intake. After one starts cooking, it is easy to start selecting better choices ... like grapeseed or avocado oil is better to cook with than olive oil (low smoke point, et cetera). The next step is to recognize that pesticide free homegrown food is better with much more flavor than the much prettier looking stuff from corporate farms. Our cooking has improved to the point where we are reluctant to go out because our food at home, is at a minimum, equal to very good restaurant food. Now we have a steady flow of friends coming over because our food is soooo good ... an entire social circle/structure has evolved around Gary's BBQ's with guests popping in about three times a week.

 

[Frank F.]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

You got a fine sense of humour !!!

Peppers are good. They even allow eggplants generally considered bad by any nutritional advisory. I cannot eat eggplants, they bite my gums and foul my stomach.

As I read the list all veggies are ok.

The nono list mentions all grains, all dairy of any milk, all soy products, eggs, all processed meats and fabricated and canned foods, all sugary stuff including agave and others, only the listed fruits are allowed as a whole. So their recipees involve a heavy duty blender which I bought yesterday (you can use a peeled avocado with the pit), will arrive soon. All denatured fats are bad for the gut esp hydrogenated and trans fats.

Recipee to make trans fats: take a really good olive oil. Pour in a really hot frying pan!

Better to add your best oil later, when cooking is done. Use ghee for frying. It will not crack when you hear it.

 

[Frank F.]

I don't see peppers (of any color) on the approved ingredients list.

Why we fell for clean eating

This is the Extreme they are talking about. I just try to heal my gut to get away from the immune suppressors....

Will last 7 weeks. After that I am back to normal.

The nono list for the rest of my life is very short. It reads like: no soy, no processed and packaged and canned food with some exceptions, no denatured fats and be careful with gluten, use no more than twice a week.

 

[Gary A.]

@ Frank: What blender did you get. Gary thinks you should get a Molcajete.

Look Here

 

[jcdeboever]

@ Frank: What blender did you get. Gary thinks you should get a Molcajete.

Look Here

My great, great, great, great, great, grandmammy had one of those....

 

[terri37 8]

If you cook your cook, (as opposed to eating out or heating up pre-cook food), then 90% of what you eat will be healthy.

Sounds like Gary better watch out.

 

[jcdeboever]

Fellow TPF'r gift. What a beauty. So, easy to use. Love the sound and feel. Hope the images out of her first roll are as enjoyable as it's use. Smooth as silk, pure enjoyment.

 

[jcdeboever]

[emoji90] forgot to add the photo

 

[Frank F.]

@Gary: of course I use my mortar and pestle all the time:

but this is not the right thing for smoothies that will blend fresh fruit, frozen fruit and hard piecy spices like nutmeg and star anis with almonds and stuff in no time and very very smoothly. After a lot of research also into long term stability and blending efficiency I chose this blender:

Design Mixer Advanced Professional

The listing price is 550€ but I got mine as a demonstration unit for 400€. As most of these it's sound is as loud as a starting jetplane. So no midnight smoothie and no Sunday morning smoothie or I have to get a silencer / blimp for it or my neighbours will silence me ... Any ideas?

Gary is right. My own garden with my own cooking is the way to go. Local food homegrown and home cooking with friends. Southern California is a great place for that. Gary can grow most things all year round. But in my neighborhood I can buy a lot of stuff in great quality conventionally or organically grown all in walking distance!

For my own farm I am still working to bring the money together. Land is very expensive here and the prices are still increasing.