Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Greek gyros with cacik and green beans

Hello all,
Today you get a lovely SCD legal greek dinner, which is also highly effective against parasites!


You need:
2-3 chicken breasts
4-6 cloves of garlic
2-3 medium onions
fresh green beans
1 big tomato
1 piece of cucumber
yoghurt
salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, paprika
lemon juice
Olive oil


-Cut chicken breasts in small slices, slice 1-2 onions, 2 garlic into slices as well. Put into a bowl with olive oil and lemon juice, salt, pepper, paprika, oregano and thyme, marinade for a few hours (or overnight)
-For the cacik , grate cucmber, press 1 garlic and mix with yoghurt and some salt.
-Peel the tomato, clean up the beans.
-Heat olive oil in a pan, add the last cut garlic and onions to it, as well as the beans, and fry on low heat for 20 minutes (until the beans are done, evt add some water). Add cut tomato, thyme, oregano, salt and pepper, let it simmer for 5 more minutes.
-Heat another big pan with oil, add the marinated meat and fry. Serve with the warm gren bean salad and the cacik.


Remember: garlic is the problem of the other people ;)

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Charlotte's spinach pie

Hello all,
I want to share this awesome recipe I have found on SCD recipe.

you need:
lots of spinach (i halved my ingredients, I took 1/2 package fresh spinach. you can also use silverbeet)
1-2 eggs
dripped yoghurt of 1/2 liter yoghurt
basil, rosmary, thyme, garlic
Salt and pepper
some almond flour
some butter
some grated parmesan and/or cheddar

wash the spinach, blanch it, dran the water away, chop it up.
Beat the eggs in a bowl, mash with the dripped yoghurt, add the spinach, herbs, a Tblsp of almond flour.
Spread onto a buttered pie pan, or a baking tray. I used a bread loaf baking tray.
Springle some butterflakes, almond flour and cheese over it.
Bake at 200°C until golden.
Serve with carrot salad.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Yummy spring veggie pan with eggs

Spring is here (okay, autumn on the northern hemisphere, sorry), and what is better to springclean your body than Asparagus?

You need:
1 bunch of aspargus
1-2 big carrots
1-2 courgettes
some green beans or peas
1 egg per person
garlic and some fresh chives
salt and pepper

Boil eggs until hard, peel and put aside.
Wash asparagus, cut off the bottom and peel  the lower 1/3. Peel and grate the carrots, wash and grate the courgettes. Peel the garlic.
Heat oil in a pan, and add the asparagus and the beans (if you chose fresh ones), fry them gently for 5 minutes. Add garlic and other veggies, fry until golden.
Add salt and pepper, and serve with egg halves and sprinkle with chives.
Dig in!

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Muesli to kill for

I have a great new breakfast! I love it!

You need:

yoghurt
some blanched almonds
some pepitas
some diced papaya
some fresh coconut
cinnamon, cloves


Mix and enjoy! if you are too lazy to chew, you can throw it into a blender until it is like porridge. I you are not strictly scd, throw in some freshly ground linseeds or psyllium husks.
Exchange the papaya with pomegranate or other fruit, if you want. Just remember to drink enough, since it is very rich in fibre!

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Turkish mince meat with pomegranate seeds

You need:

some fresh pomegranate seeds (careful, use silicone gloves , the color stains like hell)
mince meat (beef, or better, lamb)
1 clove of garlic
oreganum and rosmary
courgette or eggplant
yoghurt
olive or coconut oil

Fry meat with rosmary in a pan, then add diced courgette. Add oreganum, salt and pepper. Put onto a dish.
Press the garlic into the joghurt, add the pomegranate seeds, and pour over meat, serve.
If you can eat walnuts, please add. I had it with pepitas, but they are not a great exchange. This dish needs walnuts, if tolerated. You can also use this as a topping for a pizza, if you cannot have cheese or tomatoes.

Pepita and courgette tortilla

You need:
2 eggs
a handful of pepitas
1/2 courgette
1 slice bell pepper
thyme
1 small clove garlic
salt

Throw everything into a blender, and then fry in coconut oil. Hmmm. I also added some cheddar as a topping, tasted a bit like a pizza.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

De-worm food

Hello again.

After I finally found out that the blastos are not the main culprit for my problems, I found a way to deal with Mr. Enterobius.

Mr. Enterobius is a highly infectious parasite, and can get really, really nasty, since you can get new eggs into yourself by inhaling (they cling to dust), chewing fingernails, preparing food, and retro-infection.
Besides becoming a cleaning nazi and treating your whole family, including your pet with dewormers, there are some foods that he hates, and here is a list. For those who can stomach  raw facts, I will include some other tips at the bottom.

Foods that Enterobius hates:

Raw pumpkin seeds
Blanched almonds
Raw, fresh coconut
Stuns them and you might be able to purge some of them out, once you eat huge amounts of them.

Raw grated carrots and carrot juice.
Rich in fiber and vitamin A, and apprently, it works, don't ask me why. Can also be used before a purge.

Pomegranate seeds and pomegranate juice (no sugar)
Drink 200ml, twice or 4 times daily. Expensive, though.

Papaya and papaya seeds, pineapple
Have the enzymes papain and bromelaine, that can digest the skin of them.
Papaya seeds taste peppery.

Yoghurt: rich in good probiotics, and worms hate probiotics.
Cloves: best fresh, non-irradiated, freshly ground. Consume however you can around 1 tsp a day, to kill eggs. I make a shot with orange juice, so I dont have to taste it.
Cayenne pepper: powerful, can even slice up a tapeworm. consume at least 1/2 tsp a day. I mix it with the cloves into the shot. I drink two of those shots daily (split the amounts) , one before breakfast and one before dinner, and cool down with some yoghurt.
Thyme: some people like to drink tea from fresh thyme, but not me. I just add it to my dishes anyway.
Turmeric, asafoetada, garlic, cinnamon, black pepper: all very nice and spicy, and they hate it. Make more curries, more often ;)
Diatomaceous earth, food grade: some people say it cuts them into pieces, other say it will force the worms into other organs. I take it anyway, I think it helps, and vets use it for animals regularly. Do not inhale!!!!! I drink a tablespoon in either my pomegranate juice or in milk, 1-2 times daily

Other helpful advice to kill enterobius:

The pregant ladyworms carry tons of eggs, so get rid of them. They lay eggs preffered around full moon, at night, on your skin around the anus. they can even acidentally get into your female bits, so make sure to kep them out, else it will turn really, really nasty. To keep them from wandering: Put a garlic clove into a jar of vaseline. spread this over your anus, every night. Remove carefully first thing in the morning. In some very bad cases, cover a clove of garlic with vaseline, use as suspensorium.

If they have laid eggs, it will itch. Do not scratch. You will spread them. To keep yourself  or kids from scratching overnight, wear gloves.
Shower immediately after waking up. They hate warm soapy water.
Change undies daily, and treat as hazardous material. Wash at 50 degrees, use dryer if possible. If not possible, hang them outside to dry in the sun. Eggs die in sunlight. Else they keep viable for 3 weeks :(

Wash bedsheets and Pjs as often as you can, vacuum regularly every 2-3 days, desinfect the loo, and clean doorknobs, lightswitches with alcohol or bleach.
Keep fingernails short. Wash hands too often. Do not pick your nose, they can grow there, too.

Medications: 
There are lots available.
Mebendazole and pyrentel pamoate/embonate are the most common ones. Take them but do not expect wonders. If you have a lot worms, this can hurt as hell. Take them, but one dose won't be enough, so make sure to take it regularly, every two weeks, and mix them up! I had 2x mebendazole, the next turn I will use pyrentel pamoate. And then...either I go back to mebendazole, or try a commercial available de-worm tincture for a while (cloves, wormwood, cayenne, golden seal...). Or mybe I can get my GP to give me albendazole or thiabendazole or whatever else.
If symptoms lessen, do not think it is over! They can be still there, so it doesnt hurt if you take de-worm medications once a month before full moon for 6 months. This is what I will do. Never again.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

De-worm Lassi 1

Hello again,
today I want to tell you how I make my latest favourite food of the day (scd legal, even!)

You need: 
SCD legal yoghurt
Fresh papaya
For tasty variations: fresh ginger, fresh mint, honey...

I simply throw 1/4 peeled papaya inclusive seeds (yes, leave them in!) and the yoghurt with a tad filtered water into a blender. 

The lassi will not be smooth or sweet (unless you add honey), but will have a refreshing and peppery taste.
You can also use this as a yummy salad dressing.
The seeds have an enzyme called papain in them, they are able to digest the for us undigestable wormskin. Aditionally, they have a mild laxative ability. The important thing is that you drink it daily, on the long term, to get rid of the bugs. Some people recommend a three to four day papaya and pineapple only fast, but I cannot do that yet. Pineapple is still too strong for me, but I will post recipes as soon as I will add it in bigger amounts.