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This week it's grapefuit - antioxidant qualities and apparently per this piece to "heal gastirc ulcers"

I sometimes cut one in half - sprinkle with cinnamon and brown sugar - it's rather pleasant

I also cut up one yellow grapefruit, one pink grapefruit and three oranges. Remove the peel and pith and working over a bowl to catch the juice - carefully cut the membranes to obtain skinless segments . Mix all this together and place in fridge until required.


At this time of year - my wife sometimes add some cinnmon, nutmeg and pinch of ginger and couple of cloves and let the fruit marinate in some freshly squeezed juices. Makes a good starter on Christmas morning

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This week as Mad Doc posted already - turkey. He already pointed out its nuttritional values in terms of protein and zinc.

Last week it was Chicken Soup.

Now same applies to making a soup with carcas of turkey and chicken per my good wife Alice who say "no point in listing these wonder foods without a recipe )

OK take 3 large carrots... 2 large onions.. 4 ribs of celery.. 3 leeks.. 1 lettuce.. at least 43 sprigs of parsley and other herbs,,., and thyme

Use the giblets.. and the carcas.

Place 2.5 litres water in pan .. bring to boi
Add the giblets and carcas.


Shred the lettuce and chop the other ingredients and add. - bring to boil and then let simmer for a couple of hours. Skim the froth and fats.

This forms your stock basis for lots of soup ideas - and for a traditional chicken soup..

Soften leeks, onion, carrot, potatot and white cabbage in butter and olive oil - add the stock and cooked chicken pieces. Brink to boil - simmer ... and then add some single cream.... yum!

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A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week ist cranberries..

The cranberry has numerous properties und ist not just good for the plumbing problems

FKeep heart healthy und can help body regenerate healthy cells und stave off cancerous ones as ist anti-oxidant. Rich in Vit C und beta carotene which ist a form of Vit A which help reproduction of body cells, skin, stimulate bone density und growth.. und help respiratory tract.

So .. what to do with your cranberries...

I have various variations of cranberry relish to go with my meats und poultry.. the Christmas one .. I make with mulled wine which mean cooking the cranberries with a little sugar in red wine with teaspoon of brandy und pinches of ground cinammon, ginger, nutmeg und aniseed to make the wine mulled.

Or I use my more traditional one .. which ist using a base recipe for three cups of relish.. 750 g cranberries (fresh or frozen) ... one orange (large) unpeeled und cut into eighths und seeded und three quarter cup sugar.

I then put the cranberries und the orange into blender und chop them to mushy evenness. I do this in two halves und then stir in the sugar und if I have used fresh cranberries - I can freeze. If I used frozen then I leave in fridge until I serve.

I also add cranberries to muesli or hot breafast oats in hot creamy milk. und fill pancakes with the above mix or add to muffin to make cranberry muffins.

For muffin you need 6 oz self raising flour .. 2 oz wholemeal flour... pinch of ground cinnamon,, bicarb soda,.. beaten egg...about 2 oz marmelade... 6 fl oz milk... 5 oz sunflower oil... 4 oz cranberry (fresh or frozen) - 1 tbsp organic oats...diced desert apple

Preheat oven to 200 degree C or Gas Mark 4

Mix the flours und bicarb soda together thorougly

Blend the egg und the marmalade

Beat the milk und oil together und pour into the egg mixture -

Make well into the flour und add the mix to the driy ingredients. Stir lightly .. mix should be a bit lumpy. Add the diced apple und the cranberries und stir.

Spoon into paper cases - sprinkle the oats on top. Bake gor 20-25 minutues unitl risen und brown und do put skewer in middle to check it fully cooked

Leave to cool und serve with freshly squeezed orange juice...

We think we have to include a recipe when we mention these healthy foods und we hope we inspire cooking und healthy eating und lifestyle in this section as healthy driver ist also a safest one

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This week .. Kale.. rich in vitamin E, potassium, calcium and iron. Also an anti-oxidant.

Member of the cabbage family and can be served up as part of a green salad or as an an alternative to cabbage.

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This week - sweet potatoes.

High in fibre - which keep you "regular" as my Mum says and helps prevent that "bloated" feeling.

Bursting out with anti-xodants, Vits A, C and E and B1 and B6..CW reckons this tasty little number will help keep cholesterol levels down and even fight cancerous cells.

So what to do with one

Well I enjoy them baked and served up with a rocket and tomato salad, and have an orange for afters and milk to wash things down with . for my lunch sometimes.

When I asked one of the Swiss medics for his opinion on my quest to make all who post here, lurk here, browse here all the "healthier" - he went on a bit about something called "diverticular disorders" Diverticulosis apparently occurs with older people and is "responsible for constipation" . Apparently it's small pouches in the abdomen (divericuli in the wall of the colon - which occur when parts of the intestine bulge out wards through weak areas. He reckons



(Joachim used to work in a very busy London A&E .. but is now based in USA. He used to post to the Cumbrian site as and when. Still an avid PH--er though and gets "cross with Wildy's English" )

.. (yep .. .. these guys are colourful alright )

He reckons that if we include a decent amount of fibre in our diets - then we can avoid "diverticulitis" which is rather painful in terms of cramp, nausea and a high temperature. This occurs if a stool gets caught in the pouches and an infection occurs.

If this happens .. then you need a LOW fibre diet.. and you should eat more soft foods such as soup (preferably chicken broth) , pasta and bananas, omelettes, stewed or baked apples and juice.


A healthy motorist, biker or cyclist who does look after his health .. tends to be a safer and more skilled one

I do use CW as a platform.. and I very often ask around the family for their input on this thread - which I hope proves a useful reference point.

I do my bit to keep folk to the healhier lifestyle - and nothing is better than a decent meal anyway

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This week - Blue berries (we call 'em bilberries"

Falling into this category though.. cherries, cranberries, strawberries, rapsberries, blackberries, black or purple grapes (which go to make a decent "red"

Per this week's CW.. the blueberry fights off cancer and diabetes. The Swiss medical contigent as a unified body ..claim berries contain many essential nutrients -vitE/C and anti-oxidants.

Blueberries - per "peer reviewed" research apparently head off senile dementia. They have something identified as "anthocyans which help "boost the brain" and "ellagic acid" which encourages our healthy cells to regenerate and fights invading cancerous cells. (This info courtesy of the oncologist married to Kriss and backed up by "You Are What You Eat" magazine of last year .. in which he was a contributor )


OK .. so what to do with these berries...

I do have a wild blackberry patch at the bottom of the garden. I also do grow some blueberries, strawberries, loganberries and raspberries in my garden.

I do enjoy my berries in a mix of organic oats and yogurt for breakfast

I sometimes eat them with rice crispies or cornflakes and siver top milk

(Super with doughnuts )

My wife sometimes fills a pancake or serves on top of a Scotch pancake as pudding

She sometimes blends them with milk and honey on ice in the summer



She also makes bluebrry lollies.. Alice tells me to say that you need 12 lolly sticks, zest and jouce of one lemon, 2 cups plain yogurt , quarter to half cup of suar to your own taste, one pint of blueberries (You also need 12 paper baking cups for your baking tin)


My wife Alice tells me she blends the lemon zest, juice, yogurt and sugar until smooth and stirs in the blueberries, She then spoons inot the muffin cups and freezes until almost firm.. at which point she inserts the lolly stick and then freezes until solidly frozen

I can honestly say.. that the result is just pure bliss


By the way, Old American Red Indians viewed the blueberry as "Big Heap Medicine" to treat childbirth and the "runs".

Whatever... enjoy.

Healthy food = healthy cyclist = healthy driver It also stops obesity and it's very possible to have "fast food au naturel"

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A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

Watercress this week.

High in Vit A, B1, B6, C Calcium and Iron.

CW reckon great with pasta or in a sandwich. (My wife Alice makes a ham, mustard, tomato and watercress sandwich on wholemeal bread which is just divine.) My Alice does bake her own bread - wholegrain

Perhaps the staff at CW are "flies on wall chez nous" as they extol the virutes of wholegrain home produced BRITISH butties in the current edition

Alice also serves up a watercress sauce with fish and chicken sometimes. For this.. it's basic White sauce.. - plain flour .. (3 tablesppons to 300 ml milk, knob of butter or margarine .. pepper. My wife uses a balloon whisk and adds the milk to the flour gradually - till smooth .. then adds the butter and seasoning to our taste .. and cooks over moderate heat - whisking it until mix is thick and bubbling .. then lets it continue to froth away for a couple of minutes.

This sauce is the base for many a culinary delight.. one of which is her adding chopped watercress and a pinch of cayenne to make a Watercress sauce .

The Swiss Mob have an alternative .. Green Hollandaise .. which they pour over any grilled. poached or baked fish.

I asked the one called Jess for her recipe as I once had poached whiting at hers .. which was "memorable" - yummmmmmmm!

Her recipe for Hollandaise..

2 eggs. 30 ml lemon juice (PLJ or JiF will do if you are in an 'urry ) ..melted butter and pinch of cayenne.

She says to whisk the eggs with the lemon juice .. with a wire whisk. Gradually whisk in the melted butter in trickles. Whisk over a low heat until it thickens., Do NOT let it boil or it curdles .. urrgh!
Add the cayenne and whisk.

For her Green version // which is really outa this world .. you need a bunch of watercress, parsley, either marjoram or tarrogon. You simply chop and add to the Hollandaise Sauce and stir it in.

It really is divine with a white fish.

Alternatively.. watercress adds some zip to a green leaf side salad.

No point in saying "this is a wonder food" without trying to give a basic idea as to how to eat it

Besides .. healthy cyclist and driver .. mean a SAFE cyclist and motor vehicle driver. So long as "junk food" is balanced out with a "healthier food"... no reason why you cannot pig out on the odd dish from the chip shop So those medics across the family all tell me

I hope we do our bit on here to promote some healthy lifestyles anyway

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A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week - soya beans. CW says it helps maintain glucose tolerance and reduces the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol and blood pressure.

A quick conversation with one of the Swiss medics .. Klaril this time - informed me that the soya bean has loads of amino acids, Vit A and B, clacium, phosphorus, potassium and iron along with what she called "isoflavones" as mentioned by CW.

Products are Soya milk, and er.. tofu.

Well .. .. if tofu is acutally good for you.. what the hell do you do with it.. I mean .. am a red meat man and tofu was something I associated with the really hippy type veggie-vegan folk...

Klaril confessed to eating this stuff .. by the way... so .. I asked her for a recipe. After all.. all very well for CW to tell us about this stuff being "good for us" .. but I am more interested to know if I can eat it without "gagging on it"

OK .. so I have TOFU SOUP

Klaril says you need 2 pints vegetable stock.. 2 - 3 oz chopped tofu, carrot .. cut into julienne strips, 2- 3 spring onions - fine sliced lengthwise and some mushrooms.

Simmer the stock, tofu, mushrooms and carrot. Add seasoning to taste and garnish with the spring onions.

Or as variation (and I think I prefer this one


Use chinese dride mushrooms, 4 oz pork loin - cut into strips, 3 tbsp cornflour, chopped onion, 2 tsps olive oil, , 2 pints chicken stock, , 3 oz diced tofu, 4 tbsp rice vinegar, , 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 egg, black pepper and spring onions to garnish.

SOak the dried mushrooms for a half hour or so.. Drain but keep the water.. cut off the stems and slice the muchroom caps


Dust the pork with corn flour and mix the rest with water to a firm paste.

Heat the oil in a wok or pan.. fry the onion tilll soft but not burned or too brown.. and then fry the pork till it changes colour. Add the stock and the mushrooms. Bring to boil and let simmet for 15 minutes or so. Stir in the cornflour to thicken the soup.

Add the tofu, rice vinegar, soy sauce and salt and pepper.

Bring to almost boil again and drizzle in the beaten egg letting it form threads in the soup. Stir in the sesame oil. Serve garnished with the spring onions.

Ahhhh.. now that sounds less "hippy" and more "red blooded me"



Klaril also has a Pudding .. with this tofu soya stuff.

9 oz pitted dates... but she says you can use figs or oranges if you like.

2 cups apple juice.. . ground cinammon.. 10 oz tofu and quarter pint soya milk.

She says to soak the dates in just over half of the apple juice for a couple of hours and then bring this to the boil.. Leave it to cool and then remove some of the the dates and chop them. (If you used oranges.. then just marinate the oranges and chop them without heat)

Blend the rest of the mix and thenadd the cinnamon and the rest of the apple juice to make a smooth paste.

Add the tofu.. a bit at a time.. and blend each time you add some. Add moreapple juice and the soya milk.

Then pour the mix into a plastic tub and freeze. Before completely frozen stir in the chopped dates or orange - saving some for garnish.

When set.. scoop into glass and garnish with pieces of date and fruits.

Apparently Klaril reckons this ice cream is good for the old "plumbing works"

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This week RED PEPPERS!


No I love these. Versatile and so many things to do with them!

So healthwise .. what do they offer us?

B6, Vit C.. anti-oxidants.. wards off cancer per the medics in family who tell me of the "latest" in their BMJ ..

So .. what can you do with them besides "part of a salad - preferably on a bed of rocket, watercress and Cos lettuce


OK .. so I ask my wife and make a number of calls across the family.. but all very well to say CW and C+ etc say "eat this" .. but we are blokes.. and err.. well.. errr..

But anyway healthy person maketh decent cyclist and SAFE driver as well



Well .. have this one from Wildy...

Leek Terrine with Peppers

You need leeks . about 4lb, 4 red peppers ()seeeded) , 1 tbsp olive oil, 2 tblesp balsamic vinegar.. cummin seeds (or whatever similar you like :winK) , salt /pepper

for dressing.. 1 tsp olive oil, garlic clove, 1 tsp Dijon mustard, 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, ground nuteg or cummin seeds, chopped flat leaf parsley and basil


Line a loaf tin with cling film.. cut the leeks to length of tin.

Cook leeks in boiling water .. drain .. let them cool and drain more.

Grill or broil the peppers.. let skin blister or blacken . Let cool a little.. then peel the skin. Cut flesh to strips.. dress in the i=oil und vinegar

Layer leeks and pepper . green .. red.. white.. red .. green.. red.. white.. and season each layer of leek to taste.

Cover and leave to chill overnight.

Fot the dressing.. mix all ingredients thoroughly . let it stand and then drizzle over the slices of the terrine.

Wildy usually serves this with white meats and fish.. and it really is lovely. to my cousin for that !

Her other one.. stuffed red peppers and any minced meats will do.


But the one which I really enjoyed when visiting her home


the one with the couscous.. and whilst Wildy should post and take credit for herself.. she told me to feel free to post up her recipe as it's


I have to admit.. with some bias here .. she's a rum and colourful one

anyway.. for the hippy meal . you need

6 red peppers.. 2 tscp olive oil, 1 fine chopped onion, 1 tsp sunflower oil, 6 oz couscous, 2 tbsp raisins, , 2 tbs chopped fresh mint (or dill or coriander .. per taste) , egg yolk (make macaroon with white), pepper and herbs to garnish.


So.. remove the seeds from each pepper. Heat the oil .. cook onion till soft.. Cook the couscous per the packet's instruction.. usually in pan with a bit of oil and after bringing oil/water to boil .. ad couscous and let stand ...teh stir in onion, chopped herbs, seasoning and beaten egg yolk.

Fill peper to quarter full (mix expands) . Cook for 20 minutes. Serve hot of cold on bed of rocket/watercress salad or warm seasonal veggies and whatever meats or fish you like



My wife does fill her peppers with chopped lettuce (dressed in some heby sauce, chopped and softened red onions (in hot water, honey and sugr .. then drained), julienne carrot.. and sunflower seeds...


Mariannacat likes hers with the peppers sliced on a bed of watercress, herby leaf salad (but same recipe ,, not stuffed! orf in a chicken risotto... in which Marianna says to cook the rice with onion and some red pepper until translucent.,. at which point you add chicken stock until "absorbed by the rice" (ca 15 mins) .. then add spianch and chicken.. serve with a green salad or green veg of choice,



My wife and the Swiss wimmin tell me the red pepper is very very versatile and more or less the ultimate "fashion foodie accesory" as it goes with almost anything

All I can say is...

wife and self cook together when we can. I enjoy her food and I think she enjoys mine and we both seem to like the combined effort.

I enjoy "going to dinner chez les Suisses" - usually very tasyt, well presented and I do enjoy very much.

Whole point of this thread is to pass on advice from the mags and try to pass on some healty options and tasty recipes.

After all.. if we are healthy in mind and body,... we are better able to anticipate and be alert to any danger from whatever direction

To our lurks .. please join in to what I would like to see as a chatty and informative "hippy shake 'em to buzzin n burstin' healty thread"

Tis a way of getting to know folk ... and my mum used to tell me that the way to friendships was through the stomach!

I l have respect for my old parents. Feisty.. firm.. determined.. and sticking up the fingers in defiance of those "twilgiht years"

Yet secure enough to know when driving is a bit "more difficult than it was" and booking the taxi or phoning their children and grandchildren .. just as we did when aged 14-17 years

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This week - kiwi fruit. CW tells me this has more Vit C than any citrus. It also has potassium, magnesium, manganese, copper and Vit E. Per CW - this juicy little number is supposed to reduce cholesterol, reduce blood pressure and thus help the body protect itself from heart attacks, strokes and blood clots. It strenghtens blood vessels apparently.

So .. what can you do with these - apart from use as garnish as my wife sometimes does

Well.. quick phone call around the family for an to share and.. we have the kiwi and citrus "cooler cocktail"

OK .. so you need 8 oz sugar... but - we burn that off on the bike

You need one lemon, one lime, one orange, 500 ml orange juice, 60 ml lime juice (or mix of Robinsons lime cordial and PLJ .. but use a bit less sugar

Put the sugar in saucepan with one cup (9 fl oz water) and bring to boil .. stirring the sugar til it dissolves. Cool and put in fridge.

Segment the citurs fuits and freeze in ice cube moulds with a little water

Blend the juices and the sugar syrup with the kiwi fruit flesh. Place the fruity ice cubes into a glass and pour this pure indulgence over it all.

Pure heaven is how I could describe this drink on a hot summer evening Makes a great party drink too.. for those intending to drive home

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Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

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FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

Meanwhile .. down in the C+ abyss .. Chirs Fenn must have been lurking as the Mad Doc has always gone off on one about muesli munching and we have already mentioned the value of oats in the diet.

Please be aware that drivers also need to take care of their health .. and I think we should get back that interest in cooking good food, cooking slow food (see.. we are not all about speedy matters ) - and this thread is more about promoting and rekindling an interest in what really matters most in life.. our stomachs!

By the way .. slices of kiwi fruit do go well with cereals .. and oatmeal and bran based ones .. along with the odd strawberry and orange. (once had this fruit salad drizzled over oat flakes in a five star Swiss hotel in Luzern - was really rather nice)

C+ does advise against sugary cereals. You need the 'ard stuff .. like Shredded Wheat and Weetabix (and again a kiwi fruit or strawberry (also a wonder food goes really rather well with these cereals) Crunchy Nut is per C+ .. and I agree. Sweet and sickly. Yurrrgh!

They do recommend a "good quality muesli" Alpen?

.. bit too sugary. You can buy a fairly decent ready-made in a health shop.. but .. well why not make your own

Organic oats from the supermarket. some organic nuts (not roasted or salted.. ), pinch of ground almond, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, brown or demerara sugar to your own taste .. whatever your taste.. , organic dried fruits .. and my local health shop can offer dried cranberry, apricot, apple, sultana, raisin, prune, banana, and the beauty of muesli.. takes good whether served with milk or fruit juices ..


I do start my day with one of the above.. plus a round of toast (wholemeal bread of course) and strong black coffee.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. If you "cannot face food that early" .. then do as I do.. wake when the alarm goes.. have a lethragic "lie in bed" whilst you listen to either the radio or whatever CD you have in the alarm clock device .. then get out of bed.. have a stretch.. a shower... a potter to the kitchen.. a quick read of the paper .. either a quick bike ride around the block or a brisk walk with the family pet or even a run around the garden - and then break the fast properly. Not kidding.... you do feel the benefit of all this whether you ride a bike or drive to work and sit at a computer all day.. (or in my case.. go catch some real criminals (and - er - I do mean real criminals and not blipping commuters )

So.. have you all had your Weetabix? I hear Wildy usually has her THREE Shredded Wheat

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week - almonds.

A handful of almonds provides Vit E and magnesium - and calcium.

But what can you do with almonds besides eat them by the handful.


Well.. my Mum uses them in her flapjacks

(Makes a dozen)

8 0z margarine , 5 tablespoons runny honey, 7 oz oats. 1 oz sunflower seeds, 4 oz chopped Brazil nuts and 2 0z flaked almonds.

Preheat oven to 180 C/ Gas mark 4.

Lightly oil a bkaing tin

Heat the margarine and honey i a saucepan .. stirring occasionally until the margaine has melted.

Remove from heat .. stir in the oats etc until all is thouroughly "combined"

Put into the baking tray .. level the surface and cook for 20 minutes until gold at the edge but soft in the middle.

Leave to cool.. but cut into pieces whilse still warm.

I used to love these when a boy .. and I still do


My wife sometimes makes me this drink: milk, banana , tablespoon of runny honey and 1 oz ground almonds .. blended together ...


My Aunt (mother of Wildy :nkeo: and Krissi) serves up this one:

Baked trout with almonds and lime.

(2 chillies, 2 limes, 4 trout, 4 garlic cloves, 2 tsp dried oregano, 2 0z almond flakes, salt /black pepper)

She roasts two chillies in a fryiong pan until the skins blister but not burn - then puts them in a plastic back to steam and leaves them for 15 minutes or so.

She then rubs a bit of salt into the trout to ensure the trouts are clean and rinses in cold water - drying with kitchen roll. She then deseeds the chillie and chops and mashes the flesh until it's a paste and then puts it into a dish which will hold all four trout - along with a lengthwise cut clove of garlic. She then adds two teaspoons dried oregano and a pinch of salt - stirs in the juice of two limes . Then coats the fish in this mixture and then places in fridge for a half hour to marinate .. turning halfway through.

Preheat oven to 200 C/Gasmark 6. Have 4 pieces of foil plus waxed greasproof of the same size .. large enough to wrap the fish.

Place the fish on each sheet and moisten with the marinade and sprinkle the almonds on top. Fold the foil over to make a neat parcel and then place side by side in a roasting tin, Bake for 25 minutes .. and either serve in the wrapping with seasonal veggies or serve unwrapped.

This dish combines citrus Vit C, oily fish and Vit E .. and I can say .. one memorable meal.

By the way.. easy enough for me to actually cook

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week .. bananas! Rich in B6 and magesium..

Low in calories, fat and sodium.. the ideal health taste good health snack!

But check out the above drink with the almonds. Can honestly say "gorgeous and by'eck"

For your cake stop

My mum used to bake a banana and walnut loaf.

3 fl oz sunflour oil, 2 eggs, 60 ml soyal milk, 8 oz flour, pinch of baking powder, 3 large ripe bananas and 3 oz chopped walnuts.

Preheat oven to 180 C/Gasmark 4. Lighly oil a loaf tin.

In mixing bowl - beat the egss and oil until fluffy. Fold in the flour

Mash the bananas and add to the mixture with the walnuts. Bake for an hour or so until the skewer comes out clean in the middle . Leave to cool and wolf down after a bike ride

Or

Banana and lime or lemon cake

(Marianna - aka Frenzied Feline bakes this one.. mmmmmm!)


10 oz plain flour, tsp salt // tsp baking powder, 6 oz light muscovado sugar, grated lime or lemon rind, 1 beaten egg, 1 medium mashed banana mashed with either lemon or lime juice, 5 fl oz fromage frais, 4 oz sultanas, and dried banana chips and lemon or lime rind to decorate

(Juice of the lemon or lime for the "topping"

(You can also use orange and dried apricots .. this is quite a nice cake.

Preheat oven to 180 C Gas MArk 4. Grease and line a 7 inch cake tin. with baking parchment

Sieve the flour, salt baking powder into bowl. Stir inthe sugar and rind.

Make well in centre.. .. add the egg, banana, fromage frais and sultanas. Mix well.

Spoon into tin and smooth the surface. Bake for 40 minutes or so until firm to touch or skewer comes clean in centre. Leave to cool and then place on wire rack after 10 minutes cooling off.

For the topping.. sift the icing sugar into small bowl and mix with the juice to make a soft but not runny icing. Stir in the grated rind. Drizzle over the cake.. let it run down the sides. Decorate with the dried banana chips and jut let the icing set.

Almost as good as a doughnut! Apparently an "Appenzell" special so the Swiss girls all tell me.

10 oz plain flour

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

I have to smile at my cousin IG. He read his CW. We get agitated call - asking for a recipe to go with his CW. In fairness to my cousin.. I will acknowledge he can cook .. und will try to cook


But back to almonds.. ground almonds work well in any sponge mix .. und you can use this base to make fruit flans. Ist very versatile und a home made cake.. chewed und savoured properly boost energy but not the weight

I make this macaroon cake. Boost energy.

You need two eggs whites ( use yolk in omelette )

8 oz castor sugar... 8 oz ground almond.. vanilla extract . passion fruit und icing sugar.


Preheat oven 180 c /Gas 4.

Whisk egg whites und sugar till fluffy ,, add almond und vanilla

Spoon to baking tray .. lined with greaseproof papers. Bake for 1 mins till browned/light tan

Cool und serve dusted with icing sugar und pulp from passion fruit or any other preference

Have lots of easy to cook recipes und all therapeutic too

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This week - onions. Apparently something called "quercetin" makes you weep .. and the more of this inion contains.. the better it makes your heart beat .. apparently .


OK .. so apart from frying them, pickling them .. making onion gravy to pour ovwer Yorkshire Puds .. what else can you do?

Well// my wife sometimes adds a handful of grated cheese and a copped fried onion to the bread dough to make a very tasty savoury loaf

And she has served up roasted red onions, leeks, shallots, dressed in garlic and olive oil as complement to Sudnay Roast.


Klaril serves up white fish .. dressed in chjopped onions (red and white.. drizzled with lime juice and marinated for a while. She then steams sweet potatoes and cuts into wedges. Then whisks up olive oil, rice or balsamic vinegar, toasted cumin seeds or almond flakes, with dried or powdered chilli flakes, and coriander.. into which she tosses the fish , the sweet potatoes and some wedges of avocado and then serves up .. garnished with slivers of red onions.

Tis rather pleasant

Krissie goes for salads Orange and red onion. I must admit to being a bit surprised by this the first time she served it up for tea on a visit down there.

But basically .. this simply requires slicing the oranges into chopped segments .. cutting the red onion and separating into rings - arranging in a dish and dressing each layer with mint. olive oil, black pepper and salt to taste... leave to maranate for a couple of hours. Serve - garnished with sprigs of mint and black olives.

Suprisingly pleasant

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week shiitake mushroom which are - per CW - siupposed to ward off all nasty infections.

OK .. so what to do wioth them?

I love all mushrooms served up in an onion gravy sauce or witth grilled tomatoes and pepers on toast.

My wife sometimes stir fries with tofu and serves with either lemon or ginger chicken.

Or serves up with some tender fried or grilled steak or salmon

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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week .. aparagus.

Per CW.. Vit B and it promotes healthy probitoic bacteria in the gut

So what to do with it?

I do like it steamed and served "al dente" in galrlic butter sauce.

My wife does steam it .. lets it cool and the chops and serves up an oven baked salmon or rainbow trotu or fillet of chick on a bede of baby new potaotoes , cheeryy tomatoes, rocket and sliced steamed and cooled asparagus

The Swiss use in a soup as well or serve up steamed to dip into a fondue.


I am a keen cook.. I quite enjoy cooking and helping my wife in the kitchen. I do use CW as a base to promote my other enjoyment - tasty food and by doing so .. I think I help keep folk fit

A healthy persom is a good cyclist and a good driver and also very productive on the work front and stiill finds ttiem to enjoy family and personal life after all

Tis a steamed veggie which goes well with fish/chicken/quron products as abedding compote of various greens

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FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

C W also promotes "slow food" as endorsed by Krissi, Willi and Rob (LLS) two years ago on the "for cyclists only fora"

Please visti Ludlow for the ultimate foody experience or the "Slow Fooids" wenbsite.

This is REAL: food


www.slowfood.com


I know we all lead busy lives. It;s easy to put a processed pizza in the moicrowave after all.

I do chop a root veg.. herbs.. bake potatoes and other stuff in the microwave


We do make some meat and other dishes and freexe them and heat up later

We buy from farm shops and famerr's markets too. and seek to buy ethically produced stuff as far as we can.

I think as a family unit we are as ethical as can be realistically expected and we are still able - we think- to enjoy a car without compromising our environment adversly

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This week .. blackcurrants.. high in Vit C and good for the "plumbing"


OK .. what to do with them..

My wife does a mousse.

You need 14oz blacurrants, 8 oz castor sugar, 3 eggs (separated) 1 tbsp gelatine, 3 tbsp water, 5 fl oz whipped double cream and 1 tbsp icing sugar. Mint leaves to garnish

Place the fruit and 4 oz castor sugar in a pan to a rich syrup - puree through a sieve.

Whisk the egg yolks with the remaining casotr sugar till thick and light.

Soak the gelatine in the cold waterin a bowl. Place this bowl in a pan with enough hot water to come halfway up this bowl. Heat gently to dissolve the gelatine. When warm and clear .. stir into the puree. Fold in the egg mix and the cream


Whick the egg whites till stiff and fold this into your mix.

Put in dish.. covr with clingfilm and chill till firm.

Serve with sifted icing sugar and mint leaves to garnish and some pouring cream .. yum!


Or.. make some ice cream and fold the puree into this to make some blackcurrant ice cream.


Or.. leave the fruit to cool.. and place in a pie .. or

My Aunt (Wildy's Mum) does this one..


Make some pancakes... Place some ovenproof bowls or moulds on a baking sheet and place your pancakes over them. Bake in the oven until they crisp up. Lift of the moulds.

Then put the cooled but warm cooked blackcurrants and perhaps some orange segments and chopped ginger into these "baskets" Serve with yogurt or craime fraiche.


Or make some jam.

About 1lb, one apple, granulated sugar.

Put all the fruit only (including the peel of the apple) into a pan.. cover with enough water and heat to meium heat. (You place a suacer in the fridge to chill )

Let the fruit simmer till pulpy and tehn sieve through a muslin cloth and just let the juice drip through. Do not push or it goes a bit cloudy.


Put you juice into a measuring jug. You need 225g sugar for each 250 ml juice. Pour this juice into the pan and add the correct amount of sugar.

Strat on low heat and stir till the sugar dissolves. THEN bring to boil for a minute. Take the saucer out of the fridge .. if a drop of the mix goes "wrinkly" - then your jam/jelly has set and remove from heat immediately. (Your mix should reach 105 degrees C by the way in its boil!)

Let the mix cool.. put into sterilised jars and store in a cool place. It should keep for a year

(I should join the WI - but I like cooking ... it's fun!

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

This week - it's whey protein. which they recommend to snack on post-exercise. This is something to be found in a health shop.

It is a powder .. and nope .. I have not tried it Not to be confused with Little Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey :


I recall getting told off at junior school by suggesting it was not so much the spider who sat down beside her who made her run away.. but that she was going to be sick! from eating that stuff. (We were being taught about cheese. In those days .. they taught you where food came from and there were no stories in the Waily about kids thinking cheese came from chickens or whatever the story was )

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.