AWeber - FOHAC Crostini #352

Published: Sun, 05/01/16

Fair Oaks Health News

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May 1, 2016

Crostini

Hi ,

I made a mistake the other day. I wanted to make a loaf of my Miracle Bread so I could make sandwiches. I dumped the ingredients into my mixing bowl then added the water to mix into the dough. I didn’t have the instructions, but figured I knew how much water to put in since I had made it so many times in the past. Well I dumped in a cup of water and mixed it up. The dough seemed stiffer then I remembered, but I was able to scrape it out into the loaf pan and toss it into the preheated oven.

Forty minutes later the loaf should have been done, so I checked it with a cooking thermometer. It read 150 degrees, so I knew it was done, but it had not risen at all. It was a brick…heavy and solid and not the nice sandwich bread I was hoping for at all. I had forgotten the instructions after all – it should have been two cups of water, not one.

I tried a slice anyway and it was good – just small and solid. I left it to cool and wandered off to do other things. Later that evening I took to cleaning up the kitchen and had to decide what to do with the brick of bread. I tried to slice it very thinly and it did well. That gave me an idea - Crostini!

Crostini means “little toast” and can refer to either just the toast itself or an appetizer made with the little piece of toast. Crostini is similar to Bruschetta, except that Bruschetta is a little toast that is first rubbed with garlic cloves and olive oil, salted and peppered, and then toasted. I didn’t want to go to the effort of preparing garlic cloves and olive oil right then, but I was willing to thinly slice the entire loaf of bread and lay them out on

my dehydrator trays. For a touch of extra flavor I lightly dusted the slices with a touch of garlic salt before popping the trays into the dehydrator and switching on the heat.

The alternative was to simply toss out the bread “brick,” but I am reluctant to waste good food just because it does not turn out the way I want. So I re-purposed the bread into something else. The next day the slices were crispy crunchy and ready to eat. I put a spoonful of vegetable stew on one slice to get a tasty crunch to my stew. I tried bit of meat on another slice to get a tiny snack sandwich. I can imagine many different uses for this creation.

Ellen especially likes to have something crunchy with her meals. Lately I have been making the tomato sauce flax crackers to keep her crunch cravings at bay. But now the cracker jar on the eating table is filled with cute little Crostini. We will see how long they last.

Eating gluten free, dairy free, grain free, seed oil free, and low carb makes creating fun foods a challenge. Every so often we indulge in carbs for a few days with fruit, sweet potatoes, and even some sugar, but the rest of the avoidances stay in place because those foods are poison to us. They kick up autoimmune inflammation and attack, and so are not worth the price.

So we get to be creative. Miracle bread is a great base to start from to get creative with. I make blondies and brownies, lemon poppyseed cake, chocolate bundt cake, cupcakes, pancakes, waffles, garlic bread, and now Crostini.

If I want to tweak the recipe for a more savory flavor to the bread, I put in a couple teaspoons of Braggs aminos and coconut aminos or possibly some chicken bullion. I have even used A-1 sauce and wasabi mustard. Herbs of most any sort make a fine addition to the bread mix. Let your imagination go wild.

For breakfast this morning, in fact, we put wild caught sardines on the Crostini with a squirt of yellow mustard – yum… breakfast of champions. Not the usual Sunday morning breakfast, but we chased it down with some ice

cold Zevia root beer, so it was all good. Off to a second trip to Costco now. I was undecided on buying some raspberry plants yesterday, and have decided to go for it.

Have a good day,

David

Ellen update:

Ellen's two latest artworks "Whats in/on your path?" and "Its darkest before the dawn" reflect the healing path she has been on this last year. They demonstrate that no matter what obstacles may obstruct your path, you are still on your path at every moment. You don't ever know what is going to show up on your path.

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We got in a new product two weeks ago that I have

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Researchers at McMaster University have found that a single minute of very intense exercise does as much for you as hours of traditional moderate exercise. Three bouts of 20 seconds of extreme effort in exercises like sprinting or rowing or bicycling with a few minutes of casual movement between bouts produces as much strength and cardiac improvement as hours of treadmill or moderate cycling. Even better gains can be made with extreme super slow weight lifting pushing, pulling, and squatting for 90 seconds each one time every 7 to 10 days. So the old excuse of “not enough time to work out is gone.”

Exercise

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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"

~ Scott Adams

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NSAIDs attack the heart and increase strokes

Chronic use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, Naproxen, Motrin, and the like have been found to attack the energy producing factories (mitochondria) in heart cells making them weaker.
They also create damaging reactive oxygen species which burns the cells and impairs the cells ability to break down internal poisons, eventually causing the cells to die. They have also been found to increase stroke risk.

NSAIDs

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"I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do."

~ Martin Lawrence
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Friends 'better than morphine

Having friends increases the level of endorphins in your brain. The more friends you have the greater your level of endorphins. Endorphins are part of the pleasure response in your brain, but additionally they also block pain better than morphine. The research looked at pain tolerance and size of a person’s social network. As expected, the more friends a person had the greater their pain tolerance was. Being lonely not only is painful to your soul, but your body feels the pain more acutely as well.

Friends

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~ Mary Tyler Moore

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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