The fish market at the Rialto Bridge in Venice a long time ago
Fresh Foods # Raw Foods # Wholefoods
You want a healthy diet, an energetic life, a feeling that you are invincible, yes? Then stop eating processed foods and packaged foods and food cooked into oblivion, unless it is a natural process, like the production of sauces and stocks, which most of us don’t appreciate enough because we are confused by the process.
Eat food that is fresh, food that is raw and food that is whole.
Here are the foods and some recipes that will keep you healthy.
Fish
Fish is an essential component in any diet. Ideally fresh fish should always be on the menu whereas there is no excuse with tinned fish always available.
Mackerel and Potatoes + Fish Sandwich
Fruit
Fruit is also essential because it is a raw food. A daily diet that does not feature apple, banana / plantain, citrus fruit, vine fruit and choice of an exotic fruit must be challenged.
Autumn Harvest Buffet with Chestnuts, Cheese, Fruit and Wine
Banana with Yoghurt and Red Currant Jelly + Berries Recipes
Bircher Müesli (Bircher berry, flake, fruit, nut and seed breakfast)
Puréed Potatoes with Fruit, Eggs, Herbs and Spices
Grains
Grains have never been easier to obtain because barley, flax, millet, oat, rye, soy, spelt and wheat are now easily available as flakes. Barley, spelt and wheat berries are commonplace. Then there is rice, the savour of the universe!
Fruit and Nut Müesli with Soya Milk
Toast Bread with Spelt Berries + Spelt, Einkorn, Rye Bread with Walnuts and Barley Leaven
Plov (lentils, rice, fruit and meat with rice-yoghurt-saffron base) + Vialone Nano Rice with Seasoned Ground Pork, Parmigiano, Rosemary, Cinnamon in Beef Broth and White Wine)
Herbs
Herbs are easy to dismiss because there is a widely held belief that knowledge of their usage is required. Forget haute cuisine and its pathetic rules, herbs can be used with everything whichever way you want. If you can grow your own, even if you live in an erratic temperate climate, try to grow basil, melissa, chamomile, chive, cilantro or coriander, fenugreek, lovage, marjoram, mint, parsley, rosemary, sage, sorrel, tarragon and thyme. If you have a garden or a farm grow the herbs that attract the pollinators, especially borage and comfrey. And if you can’t grow your own avail yourself of the myriad dried herbs that are now available, put them in sauces, soups, stews and stocks, use them as dressings and as flavourings.
Burning Love! Potato Mash with Bacon and Onions, Herbs and Local Specialities
Herbs and Vegetables in Tomato-Wine Sauce
Spinach Dumplings with Butter, Cheese and Sage
Vine Leaves Stuffed with Meat and Rice
Nuts
Unless you live in the countries where the consumption of nuts and seeds is reflected in the aspic of ancient foods, like almonds encased in dates or figs wrapped around walnuts, or in countries where nuts are an essential ingredient in breads and cakes, you can be forgiven for not knowing what to do with them. Obviously you can eat them dressed, salted and roasted, but you can also eat them raw.
Cantuccini (almond or pistachio biscuits)
Fish with Rice, Onions, Almonds, Pine Nuts and Saffron
Steamed Rice with Chicken / Lamb / Vegetable, Fruit, Nuts and Spices
Seeds
Your larder should be full of seeds, from the seeds that are used as spices, the seeds that are used in baking and the seeds that are an essential aspect of breakfast.
Chicken Rice with Cranberries and Pomegranate Seeds
Peshwari Naan (aromatic flatbread)
Spinach with Sesame and Soy Sauce
Spices
Of all the aromatics in the world, including garlic and ginger and onion, the one you want is turmeric in its fresh form as a root, failing that turmeric powder. Every spice cupboard should contain allspice, aniseed, caraway, cardamon, chilli, cinnamon, clove, coriander, cumin, fennel, fenugreek, garlic, ginger, mango, mustard, nutmeg, onion, onion seed aka nigella, paprika, peppercorn (black, green, pink), pomegranate, saffron, sesame, star anise, sumac, Sichuan red pepper, tamarind and turmeric.
Pepper Soup (aromatic spiced soup)
Special Fried Rice + Spice Pastes and Spice Mixtures
Fried Potatoes with Bacon and Onion and Spice Mixture
Vegetables
Here are some preparations that utilise the full flavour of vegetables
Apple and Potato Mash vegan version
Fish, Rice and Vegetables in Spicy Sauce
Kale with Bacon, Onions and Sausages
Orecchiette Pasta with Broccoli and Anchovy + Fresh Ear Pasta with Herbs, Olives and Seasonal Vegetables
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