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a purrfect breakfast
The Breakfast:
Spelt cake, with honey, flax, & baked apples with cinnamon
The Recipe (from Hildegard of Bingen):
Spelt Cake: Mix together 1 C Stone ground Spelt Flour, 1 C water or milk or mixture ( i use 1/2 and 1/2), 1 tsp non aluminum baking powder, 3 T oil ( i use grapeseed but will use olive oil in a pinch) & 1 egg. Hildegard’s recipe adds a T of sugar but i prefer to alleviate it and get the sweetness from the honey and apples. Let the mixture stand for a few.
Chop apples (1 or more per person), coat with cinnamon, put in baking dish with a little butter on top, and bake at about 350 for 1/2 hour or so. Try to use all organic ingredients and leave skin on the apples.
Timing wise; I prepare the apples first and get them in the oven then the spelt mixture and let it stand.
Prepare spelt cakes as you would a pancake. Smother with honey and ground flax seeds (grind in coffee grinder and keep in a mason jar) and top with the apples.
Excellent and Ideal nutritionally!
Have it with a cup of Organo Gold black coffee with heated and frothed milk and a dash of sugar. YUM!!!! If you have never tried it and love coffee, you really must. I feel the difference when I run out.
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emerging with butterfly wings
more living among the flowering…
face scrub & body scrub
Face Scrub: Mix together finely ground oats, honey, and coconut oil. Start with small amounts of each and get to the consistency you want. You decide how much of each. Equal parts may work fine. Gently work into your skin, let it set a few moments, then with a soft wash cloth, cotton pad, or simply hands and warm water remove. May not even have to put anything else on.
Body Scrub: Take one part sugar to 2 parts olive oil. Since I use raw sugar I must grind it in a coffee grinder to make it more powdery or else it’s too coarse. I can use a T olive oil and a half T sugar to cover my body. I often put drops of lavender oil. Use whatever oils you fancy or need at the time, then shower and voile you are ready to go with a slight protection on your skin!
Invisible Zinc
This is the best sunscreen, which is a barrier not a skin absorbed chemical. It uses zinc oxide, and is called Invisible Zinc, You can order it on line, direct from Australia, or I live in the New York area and there is one pharmacy which sells it. To the health of your skin! The tinted moisturizer is fab!
quips for ecards
the little i
slow cookin in the oven of the soul ..
a time to chant
Ammachi has asked that we all chant OM NAMAH SHIVAYA as often as possible, and to visualize a radiant blue light around the nuclear reactors in Japan. If you feel the pressure of your own difficult situation this mantra is a good way to get through the inertia and shadow.
Stopping by
Let me know how you got here.
Did you drink out of a mug at Beebs?
Something else…….
A post is like a flower
e merging from the seeds of my site…..
our own myth..our voice
Aren’t we myths? Aren’t we cosmic masterpieces unique and vast? Our journey however exciting or not is simply that…our journey. My personal myth seems to be calling me, giving me a new vantage point, a perspective to watch everything unfold. I feel more sovereign, responsible and grateful. I don’t make as much trouble anymore!!! My voice is getting my attention clearer, but am I listening? It actually told me to back up my computer the other day. I took the signal, or at least i thought i paid attention to and decided, “Yeah, I’ll do it tomorrow”, and 2 hours later my computer died! So instant, on the wire. Little voice..act on it..