Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Holiday Recipes

Keeping with the red and green holiday theme, I thought I'd post some recipes I've been enjoying lately.

Granted, they look like something the bilge pump might barf up, but I am rather devoted to them both. I was reading an informal study where people raised their alkalinity just by drinking greens powder twice a day so I decided to do the same and suddenly I have a lot of extra energy. I don't crash in the afternoon and I never need naps anymore which is remarkable here at the nadir of the arctic winter.

I also "stopped" drinking coffee and diet Pepsi, meaning I still drink them, but I don't make them a regular necessary part of my day. Now I get sort of groggy if I have coffee in the morning so I'm not really sure if it's the lack of coffee or the sludge that gives me all this energy.

Anyway, the first is an oldie but goodie:

Otter's Famous Swamp Thing:
  • 1 scoop greens powder
  • 1t Frank's Red Hot hot pepper sauce
  • 1t soy sauce
  • 1T fresh lime juice
  • 8oz water
Greens powder is slightly less disgusting tasting if treated as a savory flavor. Otherwise it's like putting sugar or chocolate on your broccoli, blech!

and the new recipe

Otter's Chunky-Style Swamp Thing:
  • 1 scoop chia seeds (they're good for you!)
  • 1T flax meal (lignans!)
  • 1t kelp granules (superfood!)
  • colloidal minerals (why not?)
  • greens powder (alkalinizing!)
  • reds powder (ORAC!)
  • 8oz water
Stir, let set, stir, repeat until the chia seeds release their gelatinous goodness and everything stays in suspension. Enjoy!

See, now normal people would run screaming if I offered them a big ol' frosty glass of Chunky-Style, but you are tempted are you not? Mmmmmmm...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would you believe I did have chocolate on broccoli the other day?

Well, sorta...

I was fixing this big turkey, broccoli, cabbage, green pepper, zucchini (all the odds and ends veggies), mushroom stir fry with a little peanut sauce and I tossed in some cacao nibs (raw chocolate) at the end.

Actually quite tasty! Who knew you could stir fry chocolate, LOL?!

Keiko said...

Oooh.... cacao nibs and peanut sauce! Of course, I would eat cardboard if it were covered in peanut sauce... that sounds good, tho, I have some nibs languishing in the pantry so I'll have to give it a try