Good VS. the Ugly (Bread)

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Homemade Chocolate Ice-Cream

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Waffles with Strawberries

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Chilean Empanada's

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Chilean Empanada's!!

Up coming Bosch Classes

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March--Homemade marshmallows covered in naturally sweetened chocolate! YUM!
April--Homemade buckwheat, semolina pasta with 2 different sauces. Pesto and tomato. Simple and delicious!
May--Chilean pancakes (crepe like) freezer jam and homemade soaked granola! So good for you!
June--Chicken salad with whole grain pasta and Quinoa tabouli salad! Light and refreshing!

What I Had for Dinner/Bread Pizza with Homemade Pesto

I LOVE pesto! I often times add fresh spinach to it, and less basil. This one is all basil because I didn't have any fresh spinach. Darn! That's okay--it is delicious either way!!

I just used my homemade bread. This is actually the mistake bread I made the other day, the mistake that turned out good that is.

I put pesto, artichoke hearts, shredded carrot (just thought I'd try it) chopped red bell pepper, onion, mushrooms, chopped tomato. Then a mixture of mozzarella, monterrey jack cheese, and fresh parmesan cheese. YUMMY!

Quick and easy! My kind of meal sometimes!

Tonight I think I am just having popcorn for dinner.

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What I Had for Dinner/Beans, Brown Rice and Broccoli

This is what I had for dinner. Pinto beans, with jalapeno's and sour cream on top. Brown rice with sauteed onion and garlic. Some red pepper flakes on top and cooked broccoli. The rest of the family had beef short ribs as well. I am really liking the no meat at dinner time. I sleep much better!

I later realized what I had done, beans, meat and broccoli fed to my husband all at once. Bad idea!

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Apple Pie with Sprouted Wheat Crust

This is the sprouted, dehydrated, wheat flour. 3 cups with 2 tbsp evaporated cane juice, and 1 tsp sea salt. Just your typical pie crust--right?

Now for the fun part! You are going to add 1 1/4 CUPS of butter!! YES!! Am I telling you to eat this everyday of your life? No--Do I think butter is bad--NO!

We have been lied to about fats. Saturated fats in particular. Saturated fat is quickly absorbed into the body for a boost of energy and helps in healing. The evil of all evils is not butter, it is hydrogenated oils, otherwise known as trans-fat. Even the beloved canola oil falls into this category. I know, I know it says right on the side of the canola oil bottle 0% trans-fat. The inside of the human body does not know how to read. All it sees is some foreign substance that it doesn't know what to do with, so it STORES it somewhere.

You can read more about fats on my website www.tiffanystable.com under the Food Facts section. Or if you need more scientific proof go to www.mercola.com and look up saturated fats or canola oil.

Sorry--I tend to get a "little" passionate about butter! Back to the recipe at hand.

You are going to cut in half of the butter until it is very fine, like the above picture. Then you will cut in the remaining butter until it is about pea size or so. Like the picture below. This technique will make the crust nice and light and flaky.

Then you will add milk until it all comes together. I would keep it a little on the moist side. This crust tends to be quite crumbly--especially when rolling it out. That is something I will have to play around with and tweak it a little. This recipe is definitely not a finished product.
(At this point you do not want to work the dough too much, or the crust will turn out hard!)

Just press the dough together into 2 disks. I covered them and put them in the refrigerator, while I got the apples ready.

Sliced the apples, put in some cinnamon, fresh nutmeg, fresh lemon juice, raw honey, sprouted-dehydrated flour, and sea salt. The inside of the recipe is not perfected yet either, so I will not be giving any measurements yet. Besides--I didn't measure anything when I made it.

I rolled out the dough on a floured surface, it really crumbled when I tried to pick it up and put it into the pie dish. There are 2 alternatives to this problem; 1-You could just place the disk of dough into the bottom of the pie dish and press it into the pan. 2-You could add more milk to the dough, hoping that will keep it together a little more.

I'll have to try it and let you know.

Poured in the apples. You can see a big blob of honey in the middle.

Again--when I put the lattice work on the top it was falling apart. Ugh!

AND .......yes I do know how to do lattice the right way. I was in a hurry trying to make pie AND get dinner on the table. Plus the dang lattice stuff kept falling apart!! Frustrating.

So this is the finished product. The crust is light and flaky (maybe too flaky?) The apples needed to be a little more soft, and I put too much flour into the apples. The bottom crust turned out a little soggy, and the top crust was too thick.

Other than that---it was perfect! (Sarcasm intended)

You know I really hate it when I work so hard on a recipe and it doesn't turn out perfectly!
I guess that's part of the fun in creating--right?

When I have the guts to try again---I'll let you know.

P.S. We are still eating the pie anyway!

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Bread Mistake that turned out Good

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The mistake was not letting it rise too long.

This bread has 2 parts. 1 part you let sit overnight, then you add the rest of the ingredients the next day.

Well.....I doubled the part that you let sit overnight, but not the other part. Whoops---I thought! But it actually turned out to be one of the best breads I have made.

Next time I will egg wash the tops so it browns up a little more, but other than that. The texture is awesome, the taste is great. That's what really counts anyway, right?

Oh and make sure you have your kids toys in the background, that always helps!

Do you want the recipe?............................okay......

Soaked Whole Wheat Bread 2

Starter:
6 cups fresh-ground whole wheat flour
1 cup raw milk or water
3 cups water
3 tsp instant yeast


Mix all of the ingredients together in a large glass bowl. Cover and leave at room temperature for 8-12 hours.

Dough:
1½ cups warm water
2 tbsp instant yeast
½ cup raw honey
1 tbsp sea salt
5-6 cups fresh-ground whole wheat flour

Glaze:
1 egg
1 tbsp water

In a large mixing bowl pour in the water, yeast and honey then allow this to sit for 5 minutes. Add 3 cups of the flour and the sea salt then add in the starter. Mix and continue to add flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Knead for 8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, cover, and allow the dough to rise until double.
Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces. Place in bread pans, cut diagonal slits across the tops of the bread with a very sharp knife. Cover and allow the bread to rise again until almost double. At this point pre-heat the oven to 350°F. Brush the bread with the glaze. Bake for 20-24 minutes, or until hollow sounding when tapped. Remove the bread from the pans and place on cooling racks.

**I divided them into six loaves.

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By Tiffany Perez
Tiffany’s Table L.L.C.
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This recipe will be in my second book.

And yet another good way to use all that wheat you have in your food storage!!

What I Had for Dinner/ Roast and Potato Tacos with Refried Beans

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I LOVE leftovers! It is so great when you make a meal one day, then make it into something totally different another day!

We had Beef Roast and baked potatoes for dinner on Sunday. Then monday I made these tacos. Shredded beef, with onions, and I had 1 baked potato left over so that went into the pot. I made homemade refried beans, and topped it all off with guacamole, sour cream, cilantro and jalapeno's.

Man I have been on a jalapeno kick lately. (I couldn't eat spicy foods when I was sick.)

These were very good--and it took me about 10 minutes to put together. Gotta love it!

What I Had for Dinner/ Salsa, Tabouli, and Beans

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I am still not eating meat for dinner. I think I like it! I feel like I am waking up more rested!

This is my first attempt at Tabouli, a middle eastern dish. It is VERY simple to make, but I realized I made a mistake. I should have chopped the parsley more fine. The taste is very good --it has a light refreshing quality. YUM!

Quinoa Tabouli

3 cups cooked quinoa
½ cup sweet onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
Juice from 1 lemon
½ bunch of parsley
Sea salt to taste
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a sauté pan. Cook the onion and garlic on low heat, until the onions are transparent. Stir in the quinoa. Pour this mixture into a bowl. Add the parsley, lemon juice and sea salt to taste. Add 2 more tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, and mix until blended. Can be served warm or cold.

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By Tiffany Perez
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Multi Grain Bread

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I made this recipe the other day. I used hard red and spring wheat, rye, oats, spelt, and lentils. The bread turned out REALLY good--and no one will ever know I put all of the other grains AND lentils in it.

Multi Grain Bread

(this is a rough recipe)

I ground all of these grains together first:

2 cups hard spring wheat

2 cups hard red wheat

2 cups spelt

2 cups rye

1 cup lentils

In a mixing bowl I added the following:

6 cups warm water

1/2 cup raw honey

1/2 cup olive oil or grape seed oil

I poured 8 cups of the flour over the water, then added the following:

3 tbsp instant yeast

2 tbsp gluten

2 tbsp sea salt (don't let the salt touch the yeast)

3 cups whole oats

Mix together until blended. Then add 5-6 more cups of flour. You want the dough to be a little sticky, not too heavy. Knead for 8 minutes.

Place in a greased bowl, cover and allow it to rise until double. Punch down the dough, divide it into 6 loaves and place in bread pans. Allow it to rise again until almost double.

Bake in a pre-heated 350°F oven for about 22-24 minutes. Remove from the pans, place and cooling racks to cool.

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By Tiffany Perez
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Kristina's Apple Pudding Cake

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This is a recipe from my book. A good friend of mine (Kristina) gave it to me. I tweaked it to meet my needs and here is the finished product. It is a VERY RICH dessert, and tastes even better with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

Kristina’s Apple Pudding Cake

1 cup fresh-ground whole wheat or spelt flour
½ cup plain yogurt
¾ cup raw honey
½ cup butter
1 egg
3 medium apples shredded (peeled if not organic)
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp sea salt
1 tsp baking soda

Pre-heat oven to 350°F. In a mixing bowl cream honey, butter and egg. Add yogurt, apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and baking soda. Blend in flour. Pour into a greased, square baking dish. Bake for 45 minutes. Serve hot with Vanilla Ice Cream, (page ) or at room temperature with Sweetened Whip Cream (page ).

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By Tiffany Perez
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What I Had for Dinner--Which was my lunch--Roasted Chicken with Onions, Black Beans and Spinach

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That's one thing I love about making roasted chicken. There is always leftovers. YUM!

So this is my lunch since I am trying the "no meat at dinner time" for awhile. So far I like it.

Roasted chicken, sauteed onions, black beans, and spinach. Topped with a dolop of sour cream and a warmed corn tortilla on the side.

This was a great lunch and took me about 5 minutes to prepare.

What I Had for Dinner/ Brown Rice with Black Beans and Vegetables

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Since I have been doing this experiment of not eating meat at dinner---this is what I had for dinner 2 days ago. Sorry I am behind on my posting.
It is just brown rice with parsley, butter and red pepper flakes, peas, baked sweet potato and sauteed green beans.
My family had roasted chicken with this. I had the chicken the next day at lunch which I will show on my next post.

Dessert/ Everything Bars

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I made this dessert the other night. It has a cookie crust base made with fresh ground whole wheat and honey. Then on top I put naturally sweetened chocolate and peanutbutter chips, soaked and dried almonds, unsweetened coconut, and raisins.

It tasted VERY good--I just need to tweak the crust a little, the texture wasn't quite right. I will post the recipe when it's perfected!

I just want to post things like this to show people that you DON'T need sugar to get sweets!!

Food Coach

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I am in the process (almost finished) of writing a coaching program to help people change their diets. I will give them ideas-and direction-help them "convert" to a healthier lifestyle-go shopping with them-be their cheerleader! etc etc.

If you were looking for a food coach what would you want from them?
What would you want THEM to do for you?

Remember I will be approaching this from my "soul-purpose."

"As I walk with Christ, as a luminary; I stand in humility and confidence in helping others to AWAKEN the VITALITY their souls ALREADY possess."

What I Had for Dinner/ Brown Rice and Ground Beef

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This is what we had for dinner last night. Although I saved my meat portion for today--because I am experimenting with not eating meat after 3pm.

Ground beef with onions, salt and pepper. Cooked carrots--sauteed in butter and olive oil. I LOVE THESE they turn out so SWEET! And raw spinach--which we threw some dressing on. Fresh lemon juice, salt, pepper, olive oil, a drop of raw honey, garlic powder. Whatever?

I made extra brown rice to use throughout the week. I will end up making Simple Rice Pudding for sure, and probably some other dish as well.

Simple Rice Pudding:Raw milk, raw honey, cinnamon and rice. Great breakfast food!! Quick and easy. You can also make this with cooked barley, soak them overnight first--they are even better.

Brown rice is VERY GOOD! It did take me a few tries to get used to it. What REALLY got me hooked is brown rice with sweet and sour chicken and teriyaki sauce. Not together of course.

So....................if you are not a fan of brown rice--try it in some really great dishes that have a lot of sauce. Soon you will like brown rice more than white rice. Which I do!!