Why try to extend our lifespan?

A close friend and family have asked me
why go to that length and be bothered
with all those avant garde healthy diets choices,
avoiding harmful food/chemicals/pollution. ヽ(ˇヘˇ)ノ
Many people mistakenly thought that life is tough.
Why extend lifespan?
    
1. 💰 MONEY $ € £ ¥  $ £ ¥ € $ £ ¥ $
    Health is part of our wealth,
    reduce our medical expenses.
  
2. 😌 Good to avoid, or minimise,
    physical  pain / discomfort.
    Enjoy longer active life.
 
3. Responsible & Love  ❤
     maximise health
    = prevent illness
    = minimise the 😓troubles & emotional pain
       caused to family & friends.

4. 📢⚠ There are greedy & ignorant
    corporations & gov't officials
    (whose priority is financial profits).
   💢 The use of
  cheap harmful chemical ingredients,
   materials & processes,
   jeopodising people's health,
   & polluting our biosphere,
   food chains & food supplies.
  💢 No effective monitoring, control,
   labelling or prevention yet.
   So  💪  It is up to us
   to protect ourselves & our loved ones.  ❤
   Some awareness, alertness, sense of crisis
   are needed to do so.

5. We are civilized well-educated people
    with ability to learn 📝.
   Not to be misled or fooled
   by corporations, propagandas, etc.
   Let's try to be smart consumers.  (⌒_⌒)
   We can try to live the best.
 
6. ⭕ We can rectify / re-balance: 
   (I confess  my weakness
   with dessert & chocolate)
   Have you been eating...
   junk food, too much sugar or salt?
   Too much alcohol or cigarretts chemicals?
   Defrosted frozen food deep fried in week-old bad oil?
   We can un-learn wrong info,
   wrong eating habits & bad lifestyle,
   We can balancing the book
   with more healthier choices
   eg, learning real correct info,
   establishing better eating habits,
   & living better life style.
 
7. Respect our 🌟 design director 🎨,
    creator of our universe, ur God :
    eat, drink, live properly;
    be healthy, stay healthy
    physically & psychologically,

    Ever fancy the user manual of our bodies?

    A) Try search this verse: Genesis 1:29
    (HINT: food = plants which bear seeds) 🌱

   B) Try search this verse : 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
    (HINT: rejoyce, pray, be thankful)  ♬♪♫

    And the Old Testament: 
    Back then, living 200 years is not a dream.
    Even given our heavily polluted food chains & food supply,
    if we try our best, 100 should be easy.
  
8) 💎 Rationally, scientific evidence🔎
  💡Our whole biological designs are not for eating meat.
  💡Release ourselves from the brainwashing propagandas
     of the meat industries/ food corporations.

9. 🐾 Tried path, revived  O:)
    Around the world
    throughout the past few millenniums, 
    the typical way of life or path
  ~ to improve the ☆ well-being 
      of our bodies, minds & souls;
  ~ to increase "energy"☆ levels,
  ~ to be more sensitive and receptive :
   easier to receive enlightenment & spiritual wisdom
   // to be more spiritual ☆
   💋 eating real unprocessed food like
    eating more raw vegan,
   💋 stop eating corpses
    (which have antibiotics, medicine, GMO feed,
    growth hormons, puses, corpse toxin),
   💋 fasting occasionally,
   💋 simplicity/stillness/quietness/calmness,
   💋 joy, thankfulness, pray/faith/hope, etc,
              
10. We want  ❤
  more healthy happy time
  with our 👫 loved ones💑,
    don't we?
     
11.    :)  🎺📷🎱🎤🎡♨✈🍸🐬✌
Get more out of life living healthier longer!
   
 

baking experiment cookie 1

This is just a note📝 to jot down my learning process.
This was the first attempt with cookies, using half of a cookie kit.

I saw a lovely cookie kit
from Portland, Oregon, USA,
which use organic ingredients.
All ingredients are packed in
 individual well-labeled transparent bags.

User only needs to add egg & butter.
Straight forward. Easy.

But since it is my first attempt,
I did not want to eat a full load of stuff myself.
I went by half.

 However, I didn't measure but go by proximity.
 So, I used a little more egg & butter than needed.

The result is imaginable, softer than cookie.
The thin parts are like cookies.
The thicker parts are like... soft cookies.

No proper cookie tray.
I use a glass tray.

No baking sheet or parchment paper.
I notice that many have synthetic materials.
I just oiled the tray well.

 It was meant to be a quick experiment.
I did not use or do the icing part.
I just sprinkle those naturally coloured sugar crystals on top.

I use a fork to add perforation.

Break them apart along the dotted line before cooling.
 

I learnt 2 lessons:

1.  when the batch is small,
   the exact quantity of ingredients is important.
   
2. where  the tray is placed inside an oven matters.
   Not just upper, middle or lower rack,
   but also nearer the source of heat,
   nearer to the door, or
   in between.
   
   Temperature affect baking time;
    and both affects
   the colour & texture.
   
3.  Using coconut butter makes the cookies coconut cookies. 

Okay.
Wisdom increased.
o(^.^)o

Fish lemon sole

Lemon sole

I usually remove all those "paper" bag and wrapings,
just boil the piece of fish...

Today I served
half with the butter,
half with a bit of corrianda,
soy sauce, e.v. olive oil, sesame oil.

I am trying to choose as careful as I can.
This is not farmed.
Not from PRC or Vietnam or Pacific ocean.
Line-caught.

Do the management or
people in catering or
food production/retail
know about
endocrine disruptive chemicals?

Baking7 GlutenFree Banana Cake

I like banana & cake.
My sister insisted me to try the recipe she found in pots & pans website.

I am making a smaller batch. So, I reduce some of the ingredients.
For some, I use alternatives. I did not follow the original video*.
(recipe below)

Soaked the flax seeds with hemp milk.
Crushed some mixed nuts.
Melted the butter and added in the sugar.
Whisk the eggs.
Meshed the banana. Then mixed.
Sieved in the flour & sodium bicarbonate.
Sour cream, vanilla extract, salt.
(if you use yeast, add salt later in the process)
(here, doesn't matter)

I use half the flour & sugar. Still so much!
I need two baking containers.
My first time trying a ciruclar stoneware bowl.
Well, it is just a relatively low temperature this time.

 Actually I checked from time tot time.
After 20 minutes the whole house
is already full of lovely smell.
The cake has grown in size.

The colour is partly because of the sugar
and partly because I start with slightly higher temperature.

The bottom view of them...
Some websites recommend cooling some type of cakes upside-down.
I will try, though it doesn't matter for this cake.

 I have made with a higher proportion of butter & extra hemp milk.
The rectangular one come out like this.

I stored the other half in sealed bag in fridge.
Still moist the next day.

I eat the round one the day after (middle slice)
Just stored in kitchen in a stoneware pot.

Recipe of my gluten free sour cream banana cake/bread

Ingredients	P&P original	Some I use less & some I use alternative
Butter, melted	0.5 cup	Coconut Butter 4 tbsp aprox.
Sugar	1 cup	Demerara Sugar 8 tbsp
Egg *	2	2 medium/small, whisked well.
Flour, sieved	1.5 cup	13 tbsp Gluten free flour, sieved
Baking soda	1 tsp	1 tsp
Banana, ripe	2	2
Sour cream	0.5 cup	8 tbsp
Vanilla extract	1 tsp	1 tsp
Nuts (chopped/crushed)	0.5 cup Walnut	0.2 cup mixed nuts & 2 tbsp of flax seeds soaked with 3 tbsp of hemp milk
Salt	0.5 tsp	0.5 tsp
Mixing	Mix all with electric mixer	Mix with folk & spoon manually; in separate bowls, in particular sequence.
Oven	Preheated. 375F bake for 60 minutes	Preheated. Gas Mark 6 for 10 min, Gas Mark 5 for 30 minutes, Gas Mark 4 for 20 minutes, Turn off. Leave it there for 10 minutes. So the top is a bit  dark. Next time I shall just use Gas Mark 5.

I googled the conversions of
measurements & temperature/settings.
Not pasting here.
But basically...
1 cup =16 table spoons.
I use half = 8 tbsp .

1.5 cup = 24 tbsp
0.75 cup = 12-13 tbsp.

tbsp = table spoon
tsp   = tea spoon.

I mixed butter & sugar,
added meshed banana,
Then, I kept mixing while i added:
the seived flours, baking power, nuts,
sour cream, salt....

After baking, cool off on metal rack.

The rectangular one,
I ate half on the day, and half the next day.
The circular one,
I ate half the next day and hlaf on the day after.
 
Why I use gluten-free flour?
-- try it for yourself to reduce or cut wheat & gluten  :)

Why I use coconut butter?
-- reduce the use of animal products
and dislike artificial synthetic butter.

Why I use demerara sugar?
-- two friends who studied biology & chemistry,
a translation PhD, a doctor... at least 4 persons told me not to eat white sugar.
Brown sugar is also 95 % white sugar bathed in molass solution.
Demerara sugar is less refined. Not the top range but good enough here.
Try get the organic raw sugar whenever you can.
I also have coconut sugar at home, but that is not sweet enough for this recipe.

Why not yeast?
-- I could have. There are other recipes with yeast.
Yeast need a very warm temperature and time to work the magic.
I want a faster process for this bread/cake.
 
Eggs?
-- I rarely buy any eggs for many seasons.
Ideally the best eggs should come from hens a family raised in backyard with organic feed, and provide good welfare and environment for hens to roam about. No medicine, hormones or anti-biotics. No injections of vaccines.
Sorry this time they are no available.
I could only get Happy Egg's good welfare free-range eggs this time.


Sour Cream?
-- Thick & creamy indulgence.
I think there are also non-dairy sour cream
available on www or make your own.

*IMHO: though I am not a good chef, I know that
good chef should know the special combinations,
reasons & sequence of adding ingredients.
Whether it is seasoning, baking,
or other type of cooking.
The sequence/order of doing things make a difference. )

real sprouts salad

This is mixed seeds sprouts.
To reduce the use of seasoning,
I use ripe pineapple and juice, 
dried raisins & mixed nuts.

The above was from commercially mass produced.

Real sprouts from seeds
are very good for health,
especially eaten raw.

If interested, there are various organic mixed seeds that
we can sprout at home...
Note: need frequent rinsing if you live in hot humid area.
To make life easier,
there are also specialist sprouting kit & tools on www.

Gluten free quick snack salad wrap

Just use scissors to cut some vegetables.
Salt & pepper, paprika. Ginger.
A tiny dash of soy source.
Sesame oil. E.V. Olive oil.

This interesting wrap is gluten free
and use ancient grains like
Quinoa, Teff, Sorghum, brown rice & maize.
Well, it is a commercial production,
so it still has some chemicals.
Ideally do it yourself is more healthy...

At this stage, it is not too easy or economical
to get hold of those flours. 

Keep looking for even better choices ...
as more and more good food are made available.

The determined have started making their flour from
organic pulses, gluten-free grains & ancient grains.