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Skriven 2012-01-22 15:47:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av NANCY BACKUS
Ärende: good diet
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-=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> she is 52 and looks 40 with a slim, athletic body that girls in
 JW> their 20s would kill for. I think we can trust what she has to say
 JW> on diet.

 NB> That COULD be genetics, rather than diet... ;)

She is blessed with good genes and a propensity to exercise as well as
a taste for healthy foods.

She has good taste in food and is an excellent cook. Lately she has
been experimenting with gluten free foods to learn first hand how
Celiac sufferers can eat better and checking out vegan and raw foods.
We visited her and her husband last night for a dinner party which
was exclusively raw, gluten free vegan fare and guess what...
everything was delicious to my complete amazement.

There were several courses. We had a salsa-like relish fortified
with pumpkin seeds served in little Belgian endive leaf boats as
appetizer.

Then a spinach salad with a lemony white creamy dressing.

The "pasta" course consisted of a ground nut and rice white sauce
over strands of zucchini and carrots.

For the main, half avocados stuffed with a spicy ground sprouted
lentil and nut pate that was as tasty as any pork based pate I've
ever had. This was garnished with a ground seed and nut mole sauce,
then topped with a cashew nut crema and sprinkled with a yeast based
vegan "Parmesan cheese". I even liked the so-called cheese.

Desserts included a ground walnut flourless brownie with a frosting
made from rice milk thickened with hot liquid coconut oil. As the
oil chilled and solidified it set up the agave sweetened rice milk
into a thick spreadable icing. We also had (my contribution) a riff
on ambrosia, a fruit salad of grapefruit, oranges, pineapple and
kiwi fruit macerating in their own juices plus agave nectar and
sprinkled with coconut and hemp seeds. I added a splash of Grand
Marnier, which technically isn't raw food, but sure does improve the
dish.

We had an excellent Chilean semi-dry Muscat with most of the dishes
and a Bordeaux-like Chilean blend with the pate and mole thing,
followed by Kona coffee (which is also not a raw food, but we aren't
purists.)

The whole dinner except for the Muscat and the brownies was also very
diabetic friendly. Roslind managed a small frosted brownie and two
glasses of wine without any ill effects.
 
I thought I might walk away craving meat but I didn't as many of the
dishes were rich in protein from nuts and/or oily and calorie dense.

I did however develop a craving for bread and had a huge peanut
butter and sesame seed sandwich made with one inch slabs of homemade
bread back at home as a bed time snack!

The event was a bit of an eye opener for me. I will post some of her
recipes if she remembers to e-mail them to me as promised. I will
not be foregoing my old favourites entirely though; tonight we are
having a nicely marbled standing rib roast with a generous fat cap.
I figure because I was so virtuous last night that I can have twice
as much roast and gravy tonight.

Cheers

YK Jim

... Beyond Veganism: Lithivores live off sand and soil, no plants.

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