Jenny and Andrew Hatch with Kamut "Goodie Basket"
I won the Faces of Kamut Contest and they asked me to take a picture of the goodie basket they sent along as the prize. Â So here I am with Andrew and all of the Kamut foods and Cook Book.
The Kamut Growers Association has a web site here. Â Go check it out to learn more about this amazing grain!
And the Kamut Catagory on my Blog has much more information about my favorite food!
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Kamut Mini Muffins
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The burrs on my first roller mill dulled after many years of almost daily use, and recently we purchased a second mill HERE!
The main reason to roll your own oats is simply for the freshness factor. You can purchase Whole Oat Groats from any health food store and then use the mill to roll the oats and cook them up fresh. The difference in taste and nutrition level is markedly improved when the grains are freshly ground.
To make our morning oats I prepare the water by putting about 6 cups of water in our cooking pot.
Then I add in one teaspoon of sea salt, three whole cloves, three whole cardamon pods, and a cinnamon stick. I throw the spices into the pot in threes so I can remember to fish them out before serving. Nobody like to chomp down on a cardamon pod. I bring this up to a hard boil and then add in a sprinkling of whole flax seeds.
After the water has hard boiled for about twenty mintues I add in the rolled oats. About two cups of whole oats will feed my family of seven. What you will notice is that with the oats freshly ground, they are more filling than if you just purchase oatmeal at the store. A small bowl of these oats fills everyone up.
Turn the heat down to a low simmer and stir the oats into the pot. Let them simmer on low for twenty minutes.
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You can tell the oatmeal is not finished cooking because the oats still look a little crunchy. At this point they have been simmering for about ten minutes. About ten more minutes of cooking in the pot and then this pot of porridge is ready for bowls. The oats will continue cooking in the bowls for another five minutes or so until they are cooled enough to eat with whatever topping your family likes best. Plain brown sugar is favorite at our house, but also milk, cream, butter, honey, and my favorite is agave.
This mill also works great to crack wheat, kamut, spelt, and barley, and it is also powerful enough to make whole grain flour, but takes much physical effort to do so.
Whole grain tip: If you are just introducing your family to whole grains, you can make this breakfast much more digestible by letting the oats soak overnight in some water. Then cook them up with a pot of spices/flax seeds that have been boiled in one cup of water. You can also add in a thumb size piece of peeled ginger to the spice pot to make the oats more digestible.
For those who are into raw eating, this whole meal can be served after soaking oats with spices and herbs over night and just eating it raw in the morning.
Jenny with her nephew Jonah right after his birth (and first baby massage!)
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I won’t be able to attend, but will be with these great people in spirit! Praying it will help the truth to come out more fully!
Quote from article:
“The Prozac Survivors group points to Magdalena Lopez as an example of violence caused by SSRIs. The 30-year-old Indiana mother recently murdered her two young sons while on one of the drugs.
At least 80,000 women each year in this country are being prescribed these drugs during pregnancy, according to researchers estimates. SSRIs are still being prescribed to pregnant women even though a May 2005 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that pregnant women who take SSRIs late in pregnancy raise the risk that their babies will suffer jitteriness, irritability and serious respiratory problems during their first couple of weeks.
Leitsch finds it unacceptable that pregnant women and new mothers are still being prescribed drugs that have been known to induce violence and suicide for more than a decade. “In 1991, there was evidence of 500 deaths associated with antidepressants presented to an FDA Advisory Committee hearing investigating Prozac,” she said.”
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Quote:
“Doctors say they began prescribing books due to their concern that many patients were either being medicated too hastily or going untreated, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The program, called “bibliotherapy,” is also a cost-saving measure. The state-run health care system in the UK can’t afford one-to-one counseling for everyone, and patients can wait as long as 18 months for an appointment.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, a British health agency, endorsed bibliotherapy in December, recommending that physicians try self-help books or other kinds of counseling before medication.
“Concerns about overuse of antidepressants – and about how to treat the growing depression burden in general – have been voiced in many countries, including the U.S., making the British experiment a test case for others to watch,” the Post reports.”
Reading self help books is great – I wrote one – A Mother’s Journey contains all of my tips for helping prevent depression.
But for me the most effective thing I do every day to prevent Depression is to eat Flax seeds. I put a half teaspoon of them into my oatmeal water every morning, and let them boil along with the oats, and then eat them along with the cereal. Flax oil contains ingredients which have helped alleviate my depression. I’m sitting here eating a big bowl of it even as I blog.
Here is the recipe:
Put one quart of water in a pot, add in:
1/2 tsp whole flax seeds
1 tsp sea salt
1 cinnamon stick
3 whole cloves
1/2 c dried cherries
1/8 tsp each of whole anise and fennel seeds
3 whole cardomon pods
Hard boil this for twenty minutes to saturate the water with the oils, herbs, and spices (which all contain powerful anti-oxidents and make the oats taste great). These spices aid digestion, especially the fennel, and really up the nutrition of your breakfast.
Then I fish the cardamon pods, cinnamon stick, and cloves out of the water (it’s no fun to chomp down on a whole clove!) And then I add 1 and 1/2 cups old fashioned oatmeal to the pot. Hard boil for a minute and then turn the heat down to a simmer (low) for about twenty minutes.
I let my kids put as much sugar, cream, and butter on as they want as this helps them chow it down. We polished off a whole pot of Oats this morning, as well as a dozen rye muffins, and a huge hunk of watermelon.
Cost to feed my family breakfast from scratch? About $4.00.
Cost for me to take one Prozac pill back in 1989? $3.00.
Do the math, I’ll keep eating my flax…
UPDATE August 12, 2005
Another great article.
Let’s get the truth out!
QUOTE:
“August 24 DC Protest Against the FDA- What’s Everybody Mad About?
Approving and marketing lethal drugs, while concealing the results of studies that reveal deadly side affects, should be a jailable offense.
by Evelyn Pringle”
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