Kale Greens from "Forks Over Knives" book

Fresh Kale & other Greens from the Square Foot Garden.

I am so delighted that "Forks Over Knives" is reaching a lot of people.  I am sure that it helps that Dr. Oz  even wrote a little snippet on the back cover.  This book is great because it explains all of the reasons that Plant based is the way to go.  It gives examples of people who have changed their lives by changing their diet and it provides recipes from many different "styles" of veganism.  But they are all healthy.  You won't find any cup of sugar here or extra oil there.  Most recipes have zero added oil, some have a small amount of cold pressed.  Many recipes have zero nuts while others include small portions.  There are also several easy raw recipes included as well.  

Forks Over Knives Book

Forks Over Knives DVD now available.

                      

Simple basics.  I almost always have the ingredients for this at home.  And have made this recipe a half dozen times already!!  We love greens!

You just put a little water with all the ingredients and a few minutes later your Kale is ready.

More posts about Forks Over Knives.....Forks Over Knives on Dr. Oz. 

More Forks Over Knives authors/people behind/plant based healing.

Green Goddess Dressing post from "Forks Over Knives" book.

Check out Nigella, in East St. Louis.  Nigella, Nigel & Nina have lived on the streets their whole lives.  Nina has puppies now and they are in this building that is set to be condemned any day now.  Pj wants to go in there & rescue the pups and the dogs, if possible.  But we need fosters.  A never ending story.  Gateway Pet Guardians finally bought a property!  But it will awhile before we can use it as a shelter.  If you are in the St. Louis area & want to "ride along" to see what Pj does every single day of the year, please follow the link for Gateway Pet Guardians.  We have a "Pet Adventures" rescue tab at the top as well so you can follow along.  And if you are a St. Louis area blogger (or will be in this area visiting, etc...) and want to ride along & blog-please contact us!  Please.  Please come and get the word out about these kids on the street.  East St. Louis is a very underserved area for people & animals.  We are working on trying to help spay/neuter, educate, and rescue these dogs & cats.  We would love fellow bloggers to "ride along"!!

Here's the video of Nigella in the abandoned building.  Pj is the beautiful redhead that feeds the dogs every single morning.  She hasn't missed a morning in over a decade.

And this is video of them from 2010.  Help spread the word!!

And if it's Kale you want to spread the word about, heck, that saves our planet too!

Advertise it!  Check out my Blatant Kale Propaganda post with lots of styles of Kale Tee Shirts!!

These are the Kale and Beet Shirts at Candle Cafe.

Vegan Healthy Homemade Hummus from Rip Esselstyn's "Engine 2 Diet" book. Colin Campbell (The China Study) on Real Time with Bill Maher.

Vegan Standby.  Hummus from Rip Esselstyn's "Engine 2 Diet" Book.

While I have a zillion and a half books, do love the addition of Engine 2.  There's no junky food in it & that's refreshing because usually I have to sift through recipes to avoid stuff that has sugar or flour (tend to avoid both a bit for daily eating) to find the healthy stuff.  Rip's recipes are also made for "real people" so he doesn't have you going to buy kilos of Goji Berries from the Mountains of China or Argentine Mesquite Powder (although I did just buy this one on sale!).  The food tends to be normal for people who don't eat an eccentric diet.  After all, he got his fellow firefighters in Texas (gasp) to eat this way & it probably saved some of their lives.  Rip not only wrote "The Engine 2 Diet" book, but was also featured in the "Forks Over Knives" movie & book.  His father, of course, is Caldwell Esselstyn, uber important Heart Doctor.  He has his own website, Heart Attack Proof.

Engine 2 Diet.  Rip Esselstyn.

Talk about recession food.  I used DRIED chickpeas & cooked them in the slow cooker.  Which works out great in this disgusting sweltering heatwave in the Midwest.  Also, organic chickpeas cost pennies and a tub of Whole Foods brand hummus (I don't even think it's organic), costs 4.69, as of today.  So I am thinking I can get over 2 lbs. dried chickpeas for 4.69.  Organic at that.  My  hubby is the guilty verdict of the tubs of hummus.  It's easy.  No mess, no fuss.  But, their Hummus does actually  have tahini in it also, which if you are avoiding oil, doesn't work so well.  So the Engine 2 Diet Hummus has no nut/seed butters.  Just chickpeas & flavors.

Of course the amount of garlic is always a "suggestion" as some people are garlic whores (me), and others meditate daily & avoid garlic & onions because it disturbs the stillness of the mind.  I think my Yerba Mate & my Speed Freak Smoothies (recipe to come) probably already do that, so garlic & onions are not going to further f**k up my monkey mind.

Make sure you use Gluten Free Tamari if you have a GF guest eating!  Lots of people forget that there is gluten in regular soy sauces.  They usually have wheat ingredients.  However, it is pretty standard to find GL soy/Coconut Aminos/et.... substitutes easily.

You just put in your almighty food processor & go until it is your desired texture.  I like to leave a few beans just slightly chunky.  I actually loved this hummus recipe and could not stop eating it which resulted in a stomachache shortly after.  The rest of you probably aren't addicted to beans, so you will most likely avoid that problem.  :)


Rip is featured in this post also, "More Forks Over Knives" Dr. Oz show & how plants may help cure cancer, diabetes, heart disease & more.  There is a video of him on "The Today Show" on this post.



Why Americans are Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. And why Politicians are Douchebags.
Another post featuring Rip.  This time there is video of him on "Good Morning America".



And on the "Forks Over Knives" Movie Post.  Rumor (the "news") has it that he & CEO John Mackey (Whole Foods) are going to come out with a line of foods that meets the "Forks Over Knives", "Fire Engine 2", "China Study" kinds of diet principles.  Should be interesting.  And of course if you don't eat "cooked" hummus, check out the Raw Vegan Hummus I made from Zucchinis from the "Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 people book".



Raw Vegan Hummus.


Super easy "Raw Food made Easy for 1 or 2 people"!  Great for virgins. (ha.)


And a little treat.  Bill Maher (my friend's future ex-boyfriend as although he is witty & wise, he may not be a chic's best pick for a man!)   But Mr. Bill did have Colin Campbell, author of "The China Study" on his "Real Time with Bill Maher" show!!  Yeah!







Just wondering how many of you are familiar with all of these books.  Is there anyone reading that doesn't know the ideas behind the "Engine 2 Diet" or are not familiar with "Forks Over Knives" or "The China Study"??  Also, please keep a Mother & Daughter in your thoughts.  Jess & her mom are fighting cancer & going au natural (standard treatment quit working on Jess, well, they would have done more, by chopping her arm off).  She has a donation link on her blog & all money donated goes to helping pay for the materials they need to do "The Gerson Therapy".  Please read my post about "The Groovy Gerson Girls"  & then go to Jess's blog, "The Wellness Warrior" to keep up with them.  Jess writes inspirational & honest posts about what this whole experience has been like.  Jess is in her twenties, not when ya expect to have to being doing this sort of thing.



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Green Goddess Garlic Dressing from "Forks Over Knives" Book

 The "Forks Over Knives" book has arrived!! Remember the "Forks Over Knives" movie that was featured on the Dr. Oz show (see end of posts for links). Yeah, I have A LOT of health/cook/raw uncook books.  It's a hobby.  I pre-ordered the "Forks Over Knives" book from Amazon, thinking, it's cheap & fun entertainment, not expecting it would be a great cookbook!!  Although "The China Study" is a much more thorough book on health, casein, animal proteins, etc....the "Forks Over Knives" book is a short, to the point version of that information & a compilation of some of the information from the movie.  The beginning part has a page or two from many of the people profiled in the movie, and then the rest of it?  Lots of recipes!!  Mostly zero fat, whole grain, uber healthy plant based goodness.  Some of the recipes have some nuts, some have tempeh, but all of the recipes using unrefined type of ingredients.  A must have Vegan Book for those of you who don't just live on "Vegan Cupcakes take over the World" (yummy but not super healthy!).  Also a great introduction to clean, plant based eating for health reasons.  Recipes are easy to make & fairly cheap.  No crazy vegan Tofutti here (yummy too, but still processed!).  So even though my life is self inundated with the latest & greatest cookbooks, this book is a super amazing addition to my kitchen.  I am so over gluten, sugar, refined anything, and these recipes take you back to the "basics" of healthy cooking with the preparation made for peeps living in the real world.  Lots of easy snacky foods too.  You could even do your own experiment for 1 or 2 months and get your bloodwork done before & after.  You might be surprised!!  

"Forks Over Knives" Book.  Colin Campbell & Caldwell Esselstyn.   Only $7.00 on Amazon today.  And if you don't already know this stuff, $7.00 is a steal for potentially life saving information.  What is so cool about this is that the recipes included are from all sorts of cool veg-heads.

 So the first recipe I made was the "Green Goddess Garlic" Salad dressing which is actually a recipe from Isa Chandra Moskowitz's "Appetite for Reduction" book.  You just take your Garlic, Chives, Parsley (I didn't have any), Tahini, Nutritional Yeast, Miso, Lemon Juice & a pinch of Salt.  Hello Vita-Mix or blender.  And you have awesome, pretty much oil free dressing.  So Zero "Oil" but it does have some tahini, which is sesame seed butter.  Well, tahini is loaded with calcium & other goodies where Olive Oil is just straight fat.  What I love about this book is that the emphasis is on eating real food and not adding processed oils (in general) to your diet.  Everyone says, "Yeah, but you need oil".  Well, maybe your body needs good fats, but why wouldn't you get those fats from foods?  What is the benefit of eating olive oil over adding olives to your salad?  Nuts, Avocados, & Olives are all great ways of adding some healthy fats to your diet while still getting nutrients & fiber.

 "Green Goddess Garlic" Dressing from "Forks Over Knives" book.

 Recipes in this book are from people in Colin Campbell's family, Jo Stepaniak, Neal Barnard, Rip Esselstyn, Julieanna Hever the "Plant Based Dietician", Brian Wendel the producer of "Forks Over Knives", Gene Bauer from the Farm Sanctuary, Chef AJ from "Unprocessed", Joey Aucoin who was featured in "Forks Over Knives", Mary McDougall from "The McDougall Program", Matt Lederman & Alona Pulde from "Keep it Simple, Keep it Whole", Alan Goldhamer & Doug Lisle from "The Health Promoting Cookbook", Chef Del Sroufe from "Wellness Forum Foods", Moira Nordholt the "Feel Good Guru", Leanne Campbell Disla from "Whole Plants Cookbook", Anastasia St. John a Compassionate Diet & Lifestyle Coach, Isa Chandra Moskowitz author of "Appetite for Reduction", Rip Esselstyn author of "The Engine 2 Diet", Darshana Thacher the Ayurvedic Vegan Chef, & LOTS more!!  This book will suit anyone's needs!  Primarily low fat, mostly gluten free, some recipes have tofu or tempeh but the book isn't "heavy" on these items, no refined sugars & no pricey foods.  

And more posts about the "Forks Over Knives" as seen on Dr. Oz & other related posts!

Forks Over Knives on Dr. Oz.

Other "Forks Over Knives", Gerson, Esselstyn, Colin Campbell.

Anupy's Book & Forks Over Knives.