Category: Food and Drink
How to Taste Coffee — Jessica Easto
The Little Book of Chocolat — Joanne Harris
Ninja Foodi — Mixed Beans
How to make the perfect mixed beans in a Ninja Foodi
There is no need to pre-soak the beans or change the water. The slow cooker takes care of the soaking bit and this is all the water the beans need, they’ll absorb it all. When you’ve finished cooking these you will notice that the adzuki beans will have turned to mush and absorbed all the leftover, nutritious, bean cooking water, this is supposed to happen, it’s nice like that – mixed beans in pure bean sauce.
The following recipe is for a 7.5 lt Foodi. If you’re using a 6 lt Foodi use 200 g of each bean and reduce the water to 2 lt)
This will make about 3500 g of cooked beans so you’ll need some containers to freeze a whole bunch down. I freeze them in 450 g batches and add them to everything i eat — super duper banging healthy.
250 g Chick Peas
2.4 lt Boiling Water
Start “Slow Cook” 4:00 on Hi
When countdown gets to 3:30 add:
250 g Soy Beans
250 g Black(Turtle) Beans
250 g Pinto Beans
When countdown gets to 2:55 give the beans a stir.
Continue slow cooking on Hi until timer reaches 2:20, turn off the Foodi, the slow cooking is done.
Add:
250 g Adzuki Beans
Stir to mix in with other beans
Turn off slow cooker and start pressure cooker on Lo set for 10 minutes.
When the pressure cooker beeps, do not release pressure. Just leave it until the count up timer reaches 35 minutes and then release any left over pressure.
Stir beans well and place in a sink full of cold water to cool them with a lid on. Continue to replace the cold water as the beans cool and the water warms.
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The End of Meat
Great new film putting out the truth about animal agriculture.
Please watch wherever you can, and then have a good long think before buying supporting animal agriculture ever again.
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The Blue Zones, Second Edition — Dan Buettner
There’s a lot of interesting stuff contained within this book. Good luck if you can find yourself in a situation where you have all the support and society around you that allows you to achieve these things.
Sadly, most of us simply don’t have the land available to farm our own organic vegetables and fruit for every meal, most people don’t live in places where they can drink pure water that isn’t some other town’s poorly-treated sewage dumped upstream into the river that fills the local reservoir, and most people don’t get to live in places free of all the traffic, and industrial, produced noise and air pollution.
Most people won’t ever be surrounded by family and friends their whole lives that would support, share and help them in achieving the same organic wholefood, stress free, pollution free, clean living lifestyle that is espoused in these stories.
I’d heard a lot of good things about this book and i really was looking forward to reading it. Having read it, i just find most of it disingenuous, in that it is utterly ridiculous to suggest that most people could have a lifestyle like this even if they wanted to. But hey, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, maybe you can find some things within to help you.
It’s even suggested at the end of the book that you build your own blue zone. Good luck with that, i sincerely hope you can find yourself some space in this ever more overpopulated world that leaves less and less space free from air pollution, light pollution, noise, junk food, bad people, traffic, noise, industry, habitat destruction and all the rest of modern society’s garbage: because that’s what you need to do. Maybe when Antarctica finally melts you’ll find some nice, free, unpolluted land, but i reckon the corporations will have beaten you to it with massive military, mining and construction projects.
My biggest gripe with this book is that there are far better ways for people to be thinking about improving their health and longevity in today’s modern societies. This book suggests 10 extra years of healthy life, but consider, when it’s becoming more and more common that people are sick and diseased and reliant upon medication to survive in their 30’s and 40’s, is 10 extra years all you really want? I want 40 or 50 years of extra healthy life and this book isn’t offering that at all.
Dan’s Page
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Tomato Ketchup Recipe
Whatever you may use tomato ketchup for, stop using the shite you buy in bottles. It’s not healthy or good for you and tastes crap because it’s made with crap.
Try a super delicious, super healthy, tomato ketchup instead . . .
You’ll need a good strong blender, i suggest at least 1500 watts: this is not some watery smoothie, it’s a thick sauce.
Into a 750ml blender cup . . .
400g Tomatoes (for a more tomato-ey taste, swap out some — or all — of this weight with tinned tomatoes)
30g Apple Cider Vinegar
50g Currants
100g Apple (use all the skin of the apple and then make up the rest of the 100g with the flesh)
25g Celery
25g Onion
11g Fresh Ginger
11g Garlic
35g Orange
0.8g Black Peppercorns
0.8g Whole Dried Chilli
2g Coriander Seeds
1g Cumin Seeds
2g Dried Sage or Oregano
0.5g Dried Thyme
1.2g Star Anise
1.2g Fennel Seeds
2.5g Smoked Paprika
2.5g Paprika
10g Whole Flax/Chia Seeds
25g Dried Tamarind
Add some water if you think your blender needs it.
If you do use tinned tomatoes, find ones that are vine ripened and tinned in concentrated tomato juice as they’re much tastier and richer. Like these ones.
For making good home-mixed herb and spice recipes you’ll need something to weigh 0.1g increments.
Wherever possible always use whole spices as they’re living seeds, super healthy and much tastier. The blender will take care of them, if your blender doesn’t deal with the whole spices then buy a better blender.
Give it all a good blendy whizz bang.
Sooooo much nicer tasting and infinitely more healthy than bottled junk-food ketchup.
Keep in the fridge and use quickly, there’s no preservatives and other garbage in this, it will go bad in a few days. If you don’t plan using it all in a couple of days then store some in the freezer for later use.
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Custard Coffee
Custard Coffee.
Into a big mug that holds at least 350ml place…
20ml Lavazza Prontissimo Espresso or your favourite instant coffee
15ml Billingtons Demerara or some other good raw cane demerara sugar (be aware that some shops sell Demerara sugar that’s made from beet sugar: check the package for “raw cane” stated on the label)
70ml Alpro Vanilla Soya cold from the fridge…stir well then add…
250ml boiling filtered or spring water.
If you use standard mains water it’s not gonna taste as good. Seriously people, stop drinking mains water and using it in cooking, it isn’t healthy and tastes shite.
…stir well again and enjoy.
It’s a rather strange taste at first because one isn’t really used to having ones coffee taste of vanilla custard, but once you get through that first mug it becomes a very enjoyable way to enjoy coffee.
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Arrrgh!!! — and a Coffee Recipe
Too many websites, not enough life.
Too much everything and not enough life. 
Still, i discovered the most delicious coffee today…
Get a 400ml+ mug, we’re having coffee so no pissy little thimble things: this ain’t France!!!
17.5ml Lavazza Prontissimo Intenso
12.5ml Dr Oetker cocoa
10ml Demerara sugar
Pour on refrigerated and shaken 100g Alpro original cashew juice
Pour on 260g Boiling water
Stir really well and enjoy.
Hint… Buy a proper set of stainless steel teaspoon measures. 1tsp = 5ml & 1/2tsp = 2.5ml
Guestimating with various sized, common garden teaspoons will never lead to anything tasting consistent and if it isn’t consistent then it won’t taste as nice as it should, because all human brains are hardwired to like consistency: the more consistent something we normally consume is the more our brains register that it is safe to consume. This is why people clamour for those corporate clone coffee shops so much, it’s not that their coffee is actually better than anyone else’s, it’s because it’s always made exactly the same in every shop, it’s the consistency of taste, temperature, and even how it’s served.
Remember, it’s consistency and how often you consume the consistent that makes things taste nice: mcfilth — and other crappy junk food pushers — have been exploiting this hardwiring towards consistency for decades. You can use the same hard wiring to make good things taste better for yourself in your own home: weigh and measure things with accurate measuring utensils.
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Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
If you have seen Cowspiracy yet then it’s about time you sat down and watched it.
‘Click here’ to watch on line.
Probably the most important film of our age.