It’s that time of year! Cold and Flu Season Natural remedies

Jenny’s Flu Soup:
2 onions
2 bulbs of garlic (about 20 cloves)
2 tablespoons sea salt
½ cup olive oil
¼ cup oatstraw tea (you may need to go to a health food store to get this)
2 tablespoons flax seed
¼ c Red Raspberry leaf tea
½ cup quinoa
1 cup brown lentils
½ cup sprouted brown lentils
2 potatoes
10 large carrots
1 tsp cumin
10 whole coriander seeds
Essential oils of Thyme and Oregano
Dried herbs of Thyme, Oregano, and Parsley
Directions for soup:
Cook onions, garlic, and olive oil in a pot. Add in chopped potatoes, carrots, and one Tablespoon of the sea salt. Let this cook for a few minutes, then add in the Quinoa, and sprouted lentils. (Sprouted lentils have the highest concentration of vitamin C of any food). To sprout lentils just cover a half cup of them with water over night. Drain in the morning and keep them wet until a ¼ inch tendril of sprout is detected. (This takes about 35 hours)
Fill a separate pot with two quarts of water to make soup stock. Add in the peels from the garlic, flaxseed, the oatstraw, raspberry leaf tea, and the peels from the carrots and potatoes. Bring the stock up to a hard boil for twenty minutes.
Cover the cup of brown lentils with water in a bowl. After soaking them for a few minutes, add the lentils and the water to the soup.
After the stock is finished boiling, strain the liquid into the soup pot. Recover the stock vegetables with another 2 quarts of water, and bring to a boil. Once again, strain the stock vegetables and add that liquid to the pot of soup. This ensures that the maximum amount of nutrients from the herbs will be included in the stock. This stock is chock full of essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Add in the ten whole Coriander seeds. Cover the pot and let simmer for three hours.
To finish the soup, add in the drops of Essential oils of Thyme and Oregano (one or two drops of each) – Therapeutic grade oils are best, and then toss in the dried herbs.

Here is a video I put together this morning to share the steps of making the soup, it took about 25 minutes to put the ingredients together, with about three hours simmer time.
You Tube Version


My Young Living Essential Oils Web Site It is a great time of year to put in a supply of Oregano and Thyme Essential Oils to use for family wellness. I use these oils (one or two drops each on the feet of my children) when they are threatening a cold or flu. I just massage the oil into the childs feet and then cover it with Olive Oil. This has an amazing effect on just about any seasonal illness that we are struggling with.
Jenny Hatch

Mercola: What’s so BAD about Tofu?

Have you switched to soy milk and veggie burgers because you’ve been told they are better for you?
Have you heard that people in Asian cultures live longer than Americans because they eat more soy?
If you believe soy is a healthy alternative to dairy and meat products, then you’ve got a lot of company. Millions of Americans believe they are making a healthy choice by opting for soy milk and other soy-based products.
But consuming soy may be more harmful than healthy.
In this month’s Inner Circle interview, you’ll discover the truth about soy, the mistaken health food. Uncover what’s fact and what’s fiction — so you can make more informed and nutritional eating decisions.
Dr. Kaayla Daniel, an expert on soy and nutritional health, delves into how much soy in your diet is too much, what forms of soy are healthy (and which are not), and how best to add soy to your diet for your best health yet.
Dr. Daniel is the author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food. Her nutritional training and expertise includes digestive disorders, and uncovering problems associated with soy-based diets.
Dr. Daniel has appeared on such notable mediums as NPR’s People’s Pharmacy and Discovery Channel’s Medical Hotseat. She has been quoted in major publications such as the Washington Post, Oxygen, London Observer and the San Francisco Chronicle.
In 2005, she was honored with the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Integrity in Science Award.
Soy Alert!
During my vegan years I ate so much soy food. I fed it to my family in huge quantities; soy milk, tofu, textured vegetable protein TVP (Which I used in copious amounts as a meat alternative in my cooking), and was always whipping up soy milk shakes and adding in huge globs of powdered soy protein.
When I began to transition back to traditional foods after the birth of my son Andy in 1996, I marvel that we spent so much money on Soy. Literally eating it three times a day in one form or another.
I don’t know what sort of a lasting impact this will have on my health or my children’s health. All I know is that eating meat, milk, and eggs these past ten or so years has felt right for my body. I do hope someday to get back to a more raw diet, but while I am still in my child bearing years, we will continue to eat a grain based diet greatly enhanced by animal proteins and Fats. My teens just crave high protein foods, and chow down all of the roasts, stews, and casseroles I create every day.
Nutrient Dense foods make sense to me at a time when my childrens bodies are developing and growing so quickly.
Jenny Hatch

Kamut Muffins

This video is hosted on My Share Page at One True Media:
Go Here to view it
And the You Tube Version:


Recipe:
Raspberry Cinnamon Kamut Muffin Recipe:
4 C Freshly Gound Whole Organic Kamut Grain
1/4 C Freshly Ground Whole Golden and Brown Flax Seeds
2 C Brown Sugar
1 C White Sugar
2 tsp Sea Salt
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
6 Organic Eggs
1 C Whole Organic Milk
3/4 C Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Grease 24 Muffin Tins
Fill the tins 3/4 with muffin batter
Drop 2 raspberries and a dollop of organic butter on the muffins, then add 1 tsp of cinnamon sugar mix onto the raspberries. Cover with a little cap of dough and bake for thirty minutes in a 350 degree oven.
These yummy muffins are a crowd pleaser!

 

Kamut Mini Muffins

Jenny Hatch
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Kamut Grain! Pancakes, Bread, Cinnamon Rolls, and Pie!

I love Kamut. It is my favorite grain in terms of flavor, how I feel after I eat it, and ease of use when baking.
Here are the recipes from this mornings baking adventures!

Continue reading “Kamut Grain! Pancakes, Bread, Cinnamon Rolls, and Pie!”

Whole Wheat, Flax, and Fennel Waffles

This morning I made a video demonstrating how to make Whole Wheat Waffles.

Here is the recipe:
2 Cups FG (Fresh Ground) Whole Red Wheat
2 tsp (FG) Brown Flax
1/2 tsp Whole (FG) Fennel
1 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
3 tsp brown sugar
1 cup milk
4 eggs (seperate the whites from the yolks)
1/4 C Extra Virgin Olive Oil
After everyone ate, I asked for testimonials about this new recipe with ground fennel. Allison spoke up while we were eating and said, “Mom, did you put fennel in the waffles?” Then like dominos falling, the boys all started moaning about fennel in the waffles. Frankly, I could not even taste the fennel, and Paul gave his two cents at the end of the video. Shelly liked them, and so did Andy, but I felt basically, like it was not a good idea. I like to have everyone rave about my food when I put so much effort into it, and sometimes, even one naysayer is enough to make me pull back and not experiment with recipes. I know the tried and true meals that my family loves and everyone will eat, and they number at about five. Mac and Cheese, Pizza, cold cereal, potato chips, and bagels with cream cheese. Oh, and ice cream.
Anything else, and somebody is complaining. I guess this is just part of motherhood in 21st century, manna from heaven, never been hungry a day in their lives, Americana.
It would be nice to have a little more appreciation and a little less complaining.
Brats.
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Here is a picture of the plates after everyone was finished. Wasted food just sickens me.
But I’ll keep plugging along.
Jenny Hatch