Chewing a small handful of apricot kernels with mulberries can taste like sweet almond butter, there is almond extract flavor, and can even seem more 'almondy' than almonds.
-- protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins (such as B1, B6, and B17 which is called Laetrile/Amygdalin, etc.) minerals and other trace elements --
a simple Fig (Anjeer) Cake recipe: * coconut butter or cream in place of ghee? * and how about a little anise, ginger, lucuma, asafoetida etc?
Also remind yourself that apricot kernels are slightly "controversial" and also remember apricot kernels are unpasteurized (GOOD!) and delicious for you. (Shazzie)
Pasteurized, which many California almonds are, is fancy word for irradiation.
a video about Vitamin B17 "Laetrile" aka "Amygdalin" --> HERE
Brown foods have been making themselves KNOWN to me the past few weeks. One of my best friends is his last name and UPS is proud of being brown. Brown in foods I could not think of many (chocolate is purple but turns to brown) But it's has been a different story lately.
So one day I saw some new fruit called Black Sapote which I'd heard about before, it was heavy for its size with green skin and a green star on top. Like a ribbon. I had a few of them to finish the day and right away felt a wave of great energy. They were ripe [easy to squeeze] and inside was total pudding. Smooth texture almost like mousse when really ripe. And as you eat, you might think about Bill Cosby, or maybe even Tootsie Rolls? Black Sapote is chocolatey. As it is, you could mix cacao in, or even eat with almonds. There's no debate over its chemical content either. "Better than Cosby"
Then I heard from a guy that Carob Pods is an amazing way to get ...protein? I can't find carob yet, but studies (out of France) are beginning to support the protein benefits of carob. They look high in glutamic acid, which is a great muscle builder. Glutamic acid [glutamate, msg] is in a lot of foods to make us feel good and vital, so let's go for the real glutamic acid, and work on finding carob pods I say.
Then, growing all over the place I saw Cassia pods, from the Cassia fistula tree. The pods grow green on the tree, just like Carob, then turn brown and end up on the ground. There are seed chambers inside, separated by discs, you just suck the coffee flavored coated discs and wait a few hours and there you go. Instant toilet explosiveness (the processed powder has been known to cause cramping). The Doctrine of Signatures says that the way a food looks helps you know what it does in the body. Cassia pods look like the large intestine (colon), some REALLY DO, and when you get the effects, the plant simply backs up that theory. (maybe better than any!)
Now this is Prince Fleaswallow and Parappa the Rapper (the game with a subtle poop theme)
My latest craving is organic cucumbers. A cucumber is A MEAL! It's a low-sugar (glycemic) fruit, and tastes incredible with hot sauce. I amped up with chocolate first thing this morning, was still hungry, so I grabbed an organic cucumber. And ate each bite with hot sauce, I finished and it was so filling and satisfying.
...is here now, just in time to save the WORLD. You can literally live on this food, and when in combination with superherbs and superfoods, you have something truly magical. Cacao pods and plants are appearing on eBay and can be grown at home (plant, pod). Combine ormus and superstar planting techniques, and you will have a fruiting cacao tree in just a few short years. I would suggest that we start growing. Cacao is an unadulterated, untampered, sustainable food source.
I made it to the Frida Kahlo show (Minneapolis). It's coming to San Francisco next, then Philadelphia. Kahlo is a visceral and very "earthy" painter. She remained brutally honest with herself in her work. And she is controversial, less nowadays, and even considered inappropriate. What I notice is a compelling love and respect for Mother Earth. I think what fans like is her endurance, and her rebellion, and in the end, she saw love.
She was placed on a high-animal diet, as she depicts here: Without Hope. 1945
The last room of the exhibit made a lasting impression... her final works.
The Love Embrace ... 1949
CURIOUSLY, her last four paintings were of fruit, and their energy and embrace from the Sun:
WHAT do you do when your car is under eight inches of fresh snow in Milwaukee, WI?
ANSWER: You go to Pick 'N Save and pick up 17 green coconuts. That's what ya do!
By some freak "synchronicity?" (freak-o-nicity) I went with my brother to the supermarket, and, literally walked right into them, a neatly arranged display of green "water" coconuts, just screaming for me! Stupified and in total shock, we grabbed most of them up (this IS...Pick 'N Save, folks) and then bumped into the manager (future orders can be placed on Monday to ensure Thursday store delivery, the only Pick 'N Save in the area who does this, as the manager proudly stated)
They are coming from Florida, not certified organic, but green coconuts go through a RIGOROUS filtration "on the vine" I gotta think they are mighty kosher.
Then I cruised over to Mercado El Rey before I left Milwaukee, and scored another 29 green coconuts, and supercool manager Eddie (I didn't even ask) quoted me "box price" which is $1.81 each (normally $2.68-2.88 each)! I gave him a Sammy Sosa chest salute, actually just a big wave and a huge thanks, and was on my way back NORTH.
ONCE HOME: I carefully popped 9 coconuts for (3 quarts) water, which will take (3) packets of kefir grains, for one WHOPPING glass jar of coconut water kefir. CAN'T WAIT for it to ferment and bubble up...
ALSO while in Milwaukee, Outpost Foods, Saturday free-sample day, the few guys from BURGIES ORGANICS were there pouring samples of their..... line of homemade coconut water kefirs. I mean think about that, a couple guys from a little farm in Wisconsin, making coconut water kefir, for sale next to the organic milk, in glass bottles, at Outpost Foods. Totally bizarre, a coconut weekend in Wisconsin - who'd have ever possibly thunk
It almost seems too easy sometimes, or as if it was ordered ahead in advance. Or at least the Coconut Gods must seriously love me .....I know I love them.
FUNNY RELEVANCE: As we were picking them up one by one, a funny old lady in red pulled up "Those are coconuts aren't they," and was pleased when I affirmed "Yep, these are the young coconuts, these ones are just full of water" and she buttoned-up-the-scene "Oh, they're all the same" and tried to leave-the-room-on-that-note like they do on TV (except she was pushing a cart in this instance), and before I got out a "OH NO, IT JUST AIN'T SO" I kept clamtrapped and remembered the recent article about older people being disagreeable because they are actually "smarter." Yes, yes.
