The basic 5 recipes

I'm trying to make a collection of recipes that use the basic 5 ingredients of long term food storage, ie.  wheat, beans, salt, oil and water.  If you have any recipes that fit this criteria, please post them.  Thanks.

Cooking website

I found a fun cooking website that I thought you'd like:  www.everdaydish.tv    It has a lot of fun recipe ideas with video demos on how to make each recipe.  I'm going to try to adapt a few of them to make them all natural (it's a vegan website, not chemical free).  Have fun cooking. 

Candice

Baked Potato Soup

Soup Base:

3 cups warm water

1/2 cup cashew mayo or hummus

2 tsp dried dill weed

1 tsp salt, or to taste

plenty of black pepper

1 roasted garlic clove

1 small baked potato

In a high speed blender, add all ingredients for base and blend on high until steaming.  Reduce speed to chop, and add 4 more small baked potato's.  Pour into serving bowl and stir in corn and lightly steamed broccoli.  I also added crumbled toasted wheat tortilla's.  It was delicious!

My Favorite Breakfast Cereal

1/2 cup 1 day wheat sprouts

1/2 cup frozen organic blueberries, defrosted

1/2 cup almond milk

Put it in a bowl and enjoy!  I love it.  You could add 1/4 cup rolled oats if you want, just let it sit a few minutes so the oats soak up a little of the milk.

Note: Trader Joes has the best organic blueberries that I've found. 

Vanilla and Blueberry Swirl Ice Cream

1 cup almonds

1 cup pitted dates

5 cups water

Soak almonds and dates in water for 1 hour.  Place in a blender and blend on high for 2 to 3 minutes.  Strain through a cheese cloth and chill for 1 hour.  Return to blender and add:

1/4 cup pure maple syrup

1 tsp Vanilla or 1 vanilla bean, ground

1/4 tsp almond extract

a pinch of sea salt

Blend a few seconds.  Pour into ice cream freezer and begin freezing.  Add to the blender:

1 cup frozen organic blueberries, unsweetened

1/4 cup honey

enough water to blend

Blend until smooth and creamy.  As the vanilla cream begins to thicken, slowly pour in the blueberry mixture to make lovely purple and white swirls.   This is a new family favorite and is particularly good with chocolate cake.

Creamy Rice and Broccoli Casserole

1 1/2 cups brown rice

3 3/4 cups water

2 cups chopped broccoli

2 Tbs Olive oil

1 tsp sea Salt

Heat oven to 375.  Place above ingredients in a large glass baking dish.  Bake for 1 hour.  In a high speed blender, place:

1/2 cup raw cashews

1 cup roasted butternut squash

2 roasted garlic cloves

1/2-3/4 cups water

1/2 tsp salt

1 Tbs Olive oil

Plenty of black pepper

Blend on high until steaming.  Remove rice from the oven, stir in the creamy sauce and serve.  I loved this.  The squash gave it a slightly sweet taste, and the cashew and oil made it rich and creamy.  Yum, Yum.

1 Year

It's official! I have agreed to join Leslie and Kristina in their "one year without refined sugar" adventure!! I joined a day late, but I figured it was better late than making up excuses for the next 364 days as to why I couldn't do it. Of course I can do it! I am trying to be more in control of my life by making healthy decisions that help me feel and live better. This was a pretty big one for me, the self proclaimed sweet tooth of the family, but I figured that the thought of losing the $100 that was required to join would be sufficient motivation (along with the desire to be healthy and prove that I can accomplish difficult tasks...not to mention that I now belong to a club! Yay!!) I am excited to start this new adventure, but I hope that you will all help us by contributing more sugar free recipes and lifestyle tips. Hopefully we can all be as good at this as Shylah has been. :)

Love you all!