Eating to destroy harmful germs...

Garlic is known as “the poor person’s” antibiotic. I call it the smart person’s adaptogen. Not only will it help you live young, but it will also protect against a whole host of biological “nasties” including TB. A new infection of TB occurs at a rate of one per second! Western Medicine contributes to this by yielding drug-resistant strains.
Garlic is different. Thanks to its adaptogenic effects, the active ingredients provide super powers to the whole immune system, allowing us to eradicate “nasties” as they enter our system — and before they can replicate into resistant strains.
And garlic can be made even more potent when it is enhanced with the adaptogenic herb, andrographis.

Citrus Magic

An apple keeps the doctor away, but an orange a day may keep fine lines and flaky skin at bay. Researchers discovered that women 40 and older who had great amounts of C were 11% less likely to develop wrinkles. The recommended dosage amount is 75 milligrams, which is the equivalent of a glass of grapefruit juice.

Eat More Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Don't just slap anything with fins onto your plate: You want fatty fish, such as salmon, sardines, and lake trout. They contain the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA, which many studies show help prevent sudden death from heart attack. Omega-3s may also help ward off depression, Alzheimer's disease, and age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness—and maybe some cancers. For better skin take 1,000 mg of omega-3 oils a day—this is also the recommended dosage to keep your heart in tip-top shape.

Eat to stay young!!!

Did you know that yams have a natural estrogen that helps keep skin firm, and that green tea is not only high in the powerful antioxidant EGCG, but those who drink it on a consistent basis have less sun-related skin damage? Turn back the clock with these supermarket finds to keep you feeling and looking younger.

Protect Your Heart Like The Mediterraneans

Just three months of Mediterranean-style eating in one recent study improved blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol in people at high risk of heart disease. Olive Oil, leafy greens, nuts, tomatoes and red wine are just a few common ingredients in Mediterranean food that are rich in antioxidants, phytochemicals and vitamins that keep you looking good from the inside out.

Vegies for the table

I went to the 2008 trade show with the aim of finding out if there were some nice stuff in the Agriculture Department, here are a few of the same stuff that has been around for some time....



Some recepies can be added, if your one of those ladies who just love to cook up a real beautiful, tasty dish you better share some of those ideas, I know there are tons of you ladies out there, lets get togather and add all our little secret ingredients togather to make one nice blog of recipies for health, style, taste and diet.......

Cheers

Sandwich Fillings with Honey

Mix Honey with chopped dates, cream cheese or mashed bananas or mix creamed honey with diced fruit and nuts.

YUMMY!!!!

Tropical Recipies

To all my lady friends AROUND the world....if you have a simple and cheap recipe that you would like to share with the rest of the world, why not place it here?!!..its a nice way to start a network ladies...come now...



this fish was taken in one of the many WWII wrecks here in Solomon Islands

My Blessed Island ......

has an abundance of food....and water and all the nutritious foods that life would desire.......for I believe that my island was Greatly bessed by our Heavenly Father...and I want to ask in prayer that my heavenly father will soon end the suffereing that I can see in many other countries of the world....dear friends it is so heart wrenching to see a malnourish child..crying because they are hungry ....when I know that here in my islands ....our children have all the nutritious foods that they need.........................Oh Lord I am so sorry that I have witnessed starvation and sickness at its worst........forgive me......

Tapioca Cream (Casava Cream/Manioka Cream)

1/2 cup quick cooking Tapioka
1/3 cup honey
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
4 cups milk, scalded
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine tapioka, honey, salt and egg yolks in top of double boiler. Add milk and mix thoroughly. Cook until Tapioca is transparent, stirring often.
remove from the heat and fold into the stiffly beaten egg whites.
Add the Vanilla. This may be served either warm or cold
with cream.

Enjoy!!!!

Fish in Coconut Milk.

This dish is a very common islanders dish, it is very simple to follow and easy to prepare.

You will need:

1 medium snapper
1 dried coconut
a scraper
and a dish
1 cup water
ginger (2cm)
Juice of one lemon.

1. - fillet the snapper and cut into nice sizes
2. - scrape coconut and pour in one cup of water, sqeeze all the milk out of the coconut sheds and place in a bowl.
3. - heat pan and cook what ever spices you want (onion, garlic, ginger) with salt until tender.
4 - place fishinto pan and heat up for 3 minutes.
5 - pour in coconut milk and simmer for 10 - 15 minuts....


and Walah!!!! your dish is ready!!!!!

Enjoy!!

Coconut Milk

Coconut milk is the cream that is extracted from the grated nut inside a dried coconut, you must be able able to distinguish the juice and the cream, if you asked for coconut cream, for sure you will see somebody scrape a coconut for you, but if you were thirsty you could ask for coconut "water" or juice.

In the islands this a very common food, and is used in many ways, in asian cooking coconut is also used.

this recipe here I want to share with you this afternoon is called Creamed Curry Fish...stay tuned and I will tell you how to cook it fresh from the see and off the coconut palm.....mmmmmmm delicious!!! but before we do that why dont you go and cook some rice first ok?... :)

Introduction

Island Dishes are very simple and easy to prepare - welcome to the island recipe blog, I am from the islands and in the islands we have our seafood, root crops and paultry, as well as the piggery and beef.........how very luck and blessed we are to have such an abundance and variety to choose from, as we go along I will introduce some of the root crops and the sea food as well as the vegetables.

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