Salad Recipe

Mango Salad
Red Cabbage sliced
Mango
Cilantro
Lime
Cider Vinegar
Sugar
Pepper


Kale Salad

* 1 bunch kale (ribs removed), chopped
* 4 scallions, chopped
* 3 carrots, shredded
* 1/2 cup toasted almonds
* 1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
* 1 red bell pepper, diced
* 1 cup cubed baked firm tofu or fried tempeh
* 1/4 cup Veganaise
* 1/4 cup nut butter (I like almond)
* 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
* 2 tablespoon soy sauce
* 1-2 tablespoon rice vinegar
* several tablespoon water

Directions:
Combine Veganaise, nut butter, sesame oil, soy sauce, and rice vinegar. Thin to dressing consistency with water. Toss with vegetables. This is a very versatile recipe, and you can add any additional veggies, fruit, or nuts that you like.

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Zucchini patties

5 - 7 cup peeled, grated, drained zucchini or
mixed zucchini (green, yellow, any shape)
1/2 Cup flour
1/2 cup bread crumbs or flour
1/2 Tsp salt
1 beaten egg
5 - 7 tbsp. olive or salad oil

1. Grate zucchini very finely and pour off the juice.
2. In a bowl, combine together flour, grated, drained
zucchini, salt, beaten egg.

3. Make patties from this mixture. Roll them in the bread
crumbs or flour coating them completely.

4. Add oil to skillet; Heat oil in skillet over medium heat,
rotate skillet to coat with oil. Add patties. Place over a
medium- high heat and when hot fry the patties for approx.
5-6 minutes per side or until done to suit your taste, or
until zucchini begins to brown and is tender-crisp. When
all patties will be fried, return zucchini patties to
skillet, heat through.

5. Serve with Tomato sauce, or Soy sauce. Very good with
sour cream on each patty.

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Refreshing Fruit Salad

* 1 green apple
* 1 red apple
* 1 orange
* a bowl of grapes
* raisins
* peanuts
Directions:

Peel the green apple and grate it into a bowl. Peel the red apple and chop it up. Peel the grapes and chop them up. Mix all of them together. Squeeze the orange juice onto the mixture. Crush the peanuts and add them into the mixture with the raisins. VERY refreshing.

Green Salad

* 1 carrot, finely diced or grated
* 2 cucumber, finely diced
* 2 onion, finely chopped
* 3 green chillies(depends on u), finely chopped
* 1 tomato, finely diced
* coriander leaves, a small bunch-finely chopped
* mint leaves (optional)
* ginger, optional
* a few lettuce leaves, finely cut
* a few cabbage leaves, finely cut
* juice of one lemon
* sea salt to taste

Directions:
Mix all the chopped items with salt and lemon and use as a good salad.

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Cucumber Salad

* 3 medium cucumbers, peeled if waxy, and thinly sliced
* sea salt
* 5 tablespoon (or less) vegetable oil
* 1/4 cup raw vinegar
* freshly ground pepper

Directions:
Toss cucumber slices with salt and set aside to "sweat" for an hour or two. Drain liquid. Combine oil and vinegar, and add to cucumbers. Grind black pepper over top, toss, and serve.

This goes well as a side dish on the rijstaffel.

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 15 minutes


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Italian Recipe

SALAD "DEL PREVOSTO"

Boil in their skins three good-sized potatoes, peel them and slice
them, then put them into a salad bowl, and pour over them one-half a
glass of white wine. Do this about two or three hours before they are
wanted, so the potatoes will have time thoroughly to absorb the wine.
From time to time mix them with a fork and spoon to let the wine
permeate. A few minutes before the meal make a good French salad
dressing, add some pickled peppers cut up, some capers, and some
chopped-up parsley, pour on the French dressing, mix up well, and
serve.

"ALLA POLLASTRA" SALAD

Chop up six lettuce-leaves and three stalks of celery, cut up the
remains of a cold fowl in small pieces, and mix with one tablespoon of
vinegar and salt and pepper in a salad bowl. Pour a cup of mayonnaise
sauce over, and garnish with quarters of hard-boiled egg, one
tablespoon of capers, six stoned olives, and some small, tender
lettuce-leaves.

Recipe!

DONNA HAY
SPICED COCONUT PRAWNS


Cheemy Chewy Argentinian & Fresh Oregano
Sherry Wine
Cloves
Salt
Lemon
Red Pepper
Unsalted butter (room temp)

soda lime & tequila
grapefruit, oranges, lime (all quartered)

Shivani's Recipe! Yellow Daal

Boil 2 cups yellow daal with about 4 cups water. Cook in pressure cooker – after first whistle, turn down fire. Ready after another 3 whistles. (about 10 mins)

Put mustard seed (abt 2 teaspoon) in hot oil till it starts popping, then add cumin seeds (abt 2 tspn)
Add chilli
Turn down fire and add asafoetida (this burns easily)

Pour in cooked daal
Add mango powder (1 tspn), salt
Add water for desired consistency
Turn off fire

Add coriander leaves.


Brinjal and potato dish

Put mustard seed (abt 2 teaspoon) in hot oil till it starts popping, then add cumin seeds (abt 2 tspn)
Turn down fire and add asafoetida (this burns easily)

Pound the following together and then add to the hot oil above:
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Coriander
• Chilli


Then add large portion of chopped onions to the above

Add diced tomato

Add dry mango (1 tspn)

1 tspn garam masala

add salt

Pour in potato and bringal pices

Add water and simmer for about 15 mins.

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Naked Chef's Recipe!

Coriander Dip

To blend:

Natural Yoghurt
garlic
ginger
green chilli (de-seed)
coriander
salt


Lemon Zesty Dip

To stir fry in order:
Oil
Mustard seed
Curry leaves
Lemons (small quarters)
Chilli powder
Black dhal (some)
White vinegar
salt

(lemon becomes sweet when heated)


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Pineapple with Sweet Mint Sauce

Sliced thin ripe pineapple
Mint leaves pounced with sugar (to dehydrate)
Sprinkle over pineapple to serve!


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Curry

Oil
1 tsp Mustard seed
Curry leaves
* garlic bits
onion (finely diced)
ginger (2 thumbs)
6 tomatoes (diced)
1 tsp turmeric
1 cup water
coconut milk
salt to taste


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Sauce for Basmati Rice

Oil
Mustard seed
Black dhal
curry leaves
lemon skin (scrapped in slices)

Squeeze lemon juice on steamed basmati rice
salt to taste
coriander


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Green Mango & Beans Salad


Garlic
Dried shrimps
Green chilli (de-seed)
Lime juice
Fish sauce
raw Green Mango thinly sliced
Palm sugar
raw long Beans (in 1 inches)
raw Tomato

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Thai Recipe!

THAI STIR FRY RICE NOODLES - very quick dish

Fry together in order:

Dried prawns
Shallots
Beancurd (strips)
Preserved radish
Egg
Rice Noodles
Stock Water
Lime Juice
Fish Sauce
Sweet Tamarind
Spring Onions
Bean Sprouts
Crush peanuts
Dried Coconut
Coriander Leaves

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Thai SPICY CRAB

Stir fry in order:

Shallots & Onions (pounced and crushed for juice)
Crab pieces
Roasted chilli paste & eggs & light soya sauce & chilli oil
Chillipadis
Chinese celery
Spring onion

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Refreshing Beans

Stir fry In order hot Peanut oil:

Garlic & Chilli chopped & Fish sauce & paste (pounced)
Green Beans 1 inch
Prawns (de-shelled) (optional)

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My Lesson In This Life

I have asked myself this question off and on. Ad hoc. I check up. See if its real. See if its influenced by fear whatsoever. If its ego self centered. If its solid. If its true to me.

At this moment, i'm repeatedly told that my lesson in this life is to remember that Change is the Only Permanence.
I'm here to remember that attachment can come in every form.

Sense emotions
Family ties
Friendships
Relationships
Opinions
Beliefs
Superstitions
Dislikes
Wanting to live
Worry Thinking
Things Stuffs
Knowledge
In control
Security
Love
Joy
Fear

When death comes knocking, it seems only then, I will truly breath, truly live, truly love, truly have urgency.
So i must remember that the death bird is sitting on my shoulder, anytime, anytime, anytime. I may even be living on borrowed time.

When I die, my wish is that my breath pace, my mind focus, my heartbeat, is all at peace and unshakable within. No fear.
I need to maintain my practice to gain this peace.

N.