I haven’t changed the way I eat, but I have introduced herbs, enemas and various other items that are specifically focused on bowel care. You know something? I always found it a bit strange that bowel health wasn’t talked about openly. The primary function of the colon is to reabsorb nutrients, along with water, into our bodies. Ever wonder what happens if our digestive system isn’t working correctly? If we aren’t experiencing proper elimination, an impacted bowl can lead to a variety of issues such as constipation, hemorrhoids, ulcerative colitis and colon cancer.
I can’t help but think that a lot of the bowel issues that many experience could be avoided if more would just be open about it. Proper bowel care is a topic discussed in our household armed with the information I’m hoping, as my daughter gets older, she will continue to make choices that will improve her bowel health.
Hopefully later this week, I’ll have a chance to write about using enemas/colonics to improve your overall health…
Bowel health isn’t an embarrassing topic for me. I learned about it’s importance from my own mother and my grandmother (father’s mom.)
As I’ve mentioned numerous times on this site, I’m not a fan of canned beans. In my opinion, they don’t taste as good as cooking them myself. My first preference, is cooking freshly shelled beans from our garden, but if that’s not an option, I’ll always choose dried beans. Since I don’t always have time for the preparation that can sometimes go into cooking dried beans, I usually cook my beans in large batches.
Personally, the cooking time, is the only part that I’m not always thrilled about when cooking my dried beans. A pressure cooker would speed things up significantly, since it drastically reduces the cooking time of a variety of foods, but I don’t want to be lugging out my heavy 23 qt. stainless steel pressure cooker every time I want to cook my dried beans or some other dish! That pressure cooker’s only job is to can the produce I gather from the garden.
You know what? I’ve been saying, I was going to purchase a small sized pressure cooker for years, but I never got around to purchasing one until now…
Presto 8 qt. Pressure Cooker
A few moments ago, I (finally) ordered a much smaller sized pressure cooker which makes it more suitable for preparing a typical meal. I decided on the Presto 8 quart stainless steel pressure cooker.
What I do like about this pressure cooker is that it’s not too small (such as a 4 qt.) since I prefer cooking a large amount of dried beans at a time, but still much smaller than my regular 23 qt. pressure cooker. Based on the reviews, The Presto 8 qt. pressure cooker is a “no-frills” pressure cooker; but it still gets the job done.
I’m looking forward to using it, and reducing the cooking time for some of the foods I prepare by 60 – 70%.
Tomorrow, my daughter and will be stopping by the store so I can purchase a variety of bulk dried beans. It seems I’m running out of most of my favorite beans; black beans, black eyed peas, garbanzo beans, pinto beans, etc.,
Satisfied with my purchase?
Is the purchase worth it? I would think so, since it’ll drastically reduce the cook time needed for grains, legumes, beans and many other types of foods that take a long time to process. Which means saving me money since I won’t be using the stove for longer periods of time. For example, garbanzo beans normally take me over an hour to cook. In a pressure cooker, it takes about fifteen minutes.
A few minutes ago, I stumbled upon this vintage ad for Presto Pressure Cookers.
Several months ago, I stumbled upon this cartoon. It was during my yarn buying adventures and I could relate.
To be fair, with the majority of the yarn I purchased I had an idea of what I wanted to make with each one of them.
I’m happy to say that I’m slowly working through those lovely skeins of yarn. The past few days, I’ve been knitting a matching scarf to accompany the stockinette stitch hat I made with the seed stitch brim. I used some of the lovely single ply Malabrigo yarn that I’d purchased for cancer patients. When I’d made that hat, I’d taken a break from knitting hats for cancer patients and actually made that hat for myself.
Nope, I definitely don’t have as much yarn as this lady has, but I can’t help being a tad envious. 😉
The poor girl knew something was up and shivered the entire time we were in the SUV. Once we arrived at the facility, we waited for a few moments while they got her paperwork ready. Because of the slight delay, I opened up her kennel and started petting her to calm her down. It worked, and she flopped down in her endearing, “I really like this, please don’t stop position.” She became so relaxed, that by the time the technician came to get her, she was fine and let the vet tech pick her up without struggling.
Recycled picture of Oreo
I Peter 5:7
Casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
New American Standard Bible
My daughter is worried about her little playmate, hoping that she’ll be fine. I told her that spaying is a standard procedure, barring unforeseen complications, she’d have her fur bunny back in no time.
Luke 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two [a]cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
New American Standard Bible
I also told her we could pray that the surgery would go smoothly. If God doesn’t forget sparrows, he’s surely watching over bunnies too.
Mahalia Jackson: His Eye Is On The Sparrow
His Eye Is On The Sparrow
Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
(alternative first verse) Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows fall
Why should my heart be troubled, When all but hope is gone?
when Jesus is my fortress. My constant friend is He.
His eye is on the Sparrow, and I know He watches me.
His eye is on the Sparrow, and I know He watches me!
Refrain
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Refrain
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
The awesome thing about this award, is there really aren’t too many “rules.” I tend to deviate from them anyway…
The rules are simple:
The person receiving the award is someone who has “made” you spend money. It could be that you bought a pattern, a book, a magazine, a item, a yarn, a fiber, etc.; or joined a KAL, or signed up for a class on Craftsy, etc. Remember, this is in good natured fun. A positive expenditure. Explain to the person what they “made”, “enabled”, or “tempted” you to purchase.
You may give the award to as many or as few people as you like. We hate it went we’ve been given a set number to dole out an award to.
Copy and past the blog award on your blog. Display it with pride. Remember that “Imitation is the best form of flattery“. I’m out here totally imitating you!
Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.
Thank the award presenter
Again, I cannot stress enough that this is all in fun. I have been so enamored with everything I’ve spent my $$$ on due to blogger recommendations, it has enriched my life. I hope you feel that way too.
Here’s what Q wrote about me…
Opal from Celebrate Life! Everytime I use my Hiya Hiya needles I think of Opal. I LOVE the needles and needed them as I need another hole in my head. They are just so darn sweet to knit with. Because of her bee adventures I keep buying honey. Now, I’m the only one that uses honey at this home, so what the heck? Who really needs six jars of honey?
I’m a bit slow on posting about it here, but it’s not because I’m slacking. I have a post in draft mode, but my issue is I have so many awesome things to write about those who’ve inspired me to purchase or try a technique that one post devoted to those people would be much too long. Take for example my recent post aboutstir fried ramen noodles with garlic curried chicken, my inspiration came from suituapui.
So instead, I’ll be dedicating a post to each individual that has been an inspiration. Stay tuned…
I decided to use one of my daughter’s instant noodle packs and prepare her a quick heat & serve meal that she could eat when she wanted something savory.
I don’t use the enclosed seasoning packet. It was immediately tossed into the trash.
Cooking yellow onion and seasoned eggs
In a stainless steel skillet I chopped up yellow onion and added the seasoned egg mixture to the skillet. I cooked everything until the onions were almost clear. Right beside the skillet, was a small pot filled with boiling water, and of course the ramen noodles!
Rinsing the ramen noodles
Once the noodles were finished cooking…
I rinsed them off thoroughly with water. I do this too all my purchased noodles.
Stir fry ramen noodles with garlic curried chicken
And now is where the fun began; combining everything!
The noodles were tossed into a serving dish with the ingredients from the skillet. And here’s where I added something extra…
I remembered that ( a few days before) I’d prepared some honey roasted garlic chicken thighs for my daughter. I took one of the thighs and shredded the meat, tossed into the skillet with extra virgin olive oil, garlic, curry and some other seasonings. I then tossed that into the ramen noodle dish. I set aside a portion to keep it vegan (for me.) I served a portion to my daughter, while setting aside the rest to be eaten, by her, at a later date.
The results, my daughter seemed to really like this dish. I know I liked my portion. She was thrilled that there were leftovers for when I don’t feel like preparing a meal.
And there you go… a quick meal, that was made more delicious (and healthier) by adding my own additions.
I didn’t actually make the burgers that day, I made them the day before (Saturday.) I’d baked them in the oven. I don’t do canned beans, I will only use dry beans. Why? I find them to be much more flavorful than canned beans.
I added all sorts of seasonings and fixings to make my bean burgers and made an amazing veggie burger. I don’t use “veggie burger mixes”.. blech! And you most certainly won’t see me reheating store bought veggie burgers. In my humble opinion they simply don’t taste good at all. Besides, if you know what you’re doing you can easily prepare a better burger than some premade stuff.
But back to the burgers…
There weren’t too many similarities to these burgers and the curried lentil burgers I made over a week ago, but I must say the baked red bean burgers still were very nice.They turned out firm, moist and bursting with flavor. When I make baked veggie burgers, I prepare about twenty of them at a time, what’s not eaten is frozen.
Red bean burgers
Since I do enjoy stove top veggie burgers. I decided to reheat these veggie burgers in my stainless steel skillet. The baked burgers shape/consistency reminds me of pork sausage. Interesting…
Homemade Red Bean Burgers; vegan
I added a splash of extra virgin olive oil and chopped up some onions and heated the burgers for a few moments. I wanted to add some Sweet peppers but none were ready to be picked off the vine.
No worries, the simple addition of the olive oil and cooked onions added additional flavor to my red bean burgers and made an already tasty burger even better. 🙂
Thus far, I must say that I’m pleased with my cleansing process...
