Macrobiotics and Me

Hey!

Can you believe it’s October tomorrow? Eeek! So, it’s autumn and we move into the metal transformation time. That means we must begin eating more of the metal ingredients, using more metal cooking styles and changing to a lifestyle that will be supportive and healing for metal energy.

I know one of my real weaknesses is my large intestine especially so I am kind of excited about focusing on healing that over the next few months. It’s good to remember that we always have a choice; we can eat and live in a way that will heal and support, or we can eat and live in a way that will not heal or support. As the seasons change it feels like a new opportunity each year.

Breakfast

Miso soup and miso porridge of oat groats and something else…hmm, I should really know what other grain it was mixed with but I’m not 100% sure…maybe brown rice…and sunflower seeds

Lunch

Spelt pasta, white bean sauce, roasted carrot, salad leaves & pressed red onion, parsley & hazelnut salad

Bancha tea

A baby slice of tofu cheesecake

Oat crumble with custard

Dinner

Brown rice balls, nori condiment, stuffed mushroom (which was just absolutely amazing!), fried kidney beans & salad

Grain coffee and rice syrup

:O)

Mmmmm!

I couldn’t take photos today but I will try tomorrow…:O)

Love & light

Sharlene

Good greetings to you!

How’s it going?

I am now with my fellow macrotarian students (who are like soul sisters and brothers…due to the nature of the course I am studying we have had a chance to get to know one another on a fairly deep level) and feeling good! yay!

Breakfast

A hot chocolate made with cocoa, grain coffee, rice syrup and soya milk

Lunch

Cod, millet balls, tempeh, mixed salad leaves, pressed red cabbage and onion salad, roasted almonds and walnuts, squash, hummous. Mmmm, this was a really delicious lunch :O)

A beautiful afternoon dessert of amazake with fruit jam/sauce

Grain coffee

Dinner

Celery soup

Brown rice and chestnuts, kale with corn, red lentil bake with shiitake sauce & squash mash…mmm another delicious meal.

I think I can now upload photos again so I’m going to take lots of photos so I can show you some of the wonderful things I’m eating :O)

Love & freshness!!! ahhh!

Sharlene

Hello!

I’m a little late at updating today after dancing the night away!

Breakfast

Breakfastlessness….

Lunch

Millet with cauliflower, mixed salad leaves with olives, seitan, pumpkin, guacamole, almond & walnuts, pressed red cabbage and red onion salad with fennel seeds

A delicious mocha style amazake pudding

Bancha tea

Dinner

Pretty much the same as lunch with the addition of some tempeh :O)

Love & light

Sharlene

Here’s the tofu pie as promised. I’ll try to get a few more recipes on here in due course…

Ingredients

For the base:

Flour, sesame seeds, salt, sesame oil & sparkling water

For topping:

Onions, red pepper, mushrooms, sweetcorn, ume vinegar, tahini, mustard & shoyu

Make the base:

Put flour (as much as you think you’ll need…) into a bowl, add a pinch of salt, the sesame seeds and then add a little bit of sesame oil. Rub oil into the flour (you want to add just a little bit), make a well int the flour and pour in enough sparkling water to form a springy dough. Don’t worry if it isn’t springy though (as with all recipes, sometimes you have to play with it until you get it right and it also depends on the type of flour and how much oil you use. For a lighter dough make sure you use less oil).

Roll out the pastry and bake in the oven for about ten minutes.

Meanwhile, slice the onions and saute in a little oil, add the mushrooms and red pepper. Cook for about ten minutes until they are soft. Next, crumble the tofu into the pan and the sweetcorn and give it a good stir. Cook for a few more minutes. Now it’s time to add your flavouring.

Add a bit of ume vingerar, a bit of mustard, a bit of shoyu, a bit of tahini and then taste it. Then try to work out how you’d like the flavour to be. What does it need more of? Add more of whatever you think it needs until the flavour is how you want it. If you want it saltier add more ume vinegear or more shoyu, or if  you want it a bit more tangy then add more mustard. Play around with it, don’t worry, have fun & trust that you are going to get it right. Just make sure you don’t add too much of any of the flavours, add little by little, taste and then see. When you reach a point where you go ‘mmm, that is lovely’ then the flavour is right! Trust yourself!

Bake in the oven on medium temperature for about 10 minutes (just keep checking to make sure it doesn’t burn) and then voila voila. You should have a very delicious, beautiful looking tofu pie.

Hello :O)

Breakfast

I didn’t have breakfast this morning as I wasn’t hungry after too much tofu pie last night!

Lunch

Polenta with a tomato, red pepper & courgette soup type sauce with a tonne of tekka (ok, perhaps not a tonne but alot!!) & shoyu

Apple crumble

Dinner

A dinnerless day!

Grain coffee with rice syrup

Love & light

Sharlene

Bonjour!

Another fun filled macro day passes by…ahhh!

Breakfast

Mixed grain porridge with miso

Lunch

Carrot and cabbage soup with spelt bread

Grain coffee with soya milk and rice syrup

Dinner

Roasted squash and turnip, tofu pie (I will post a recipe for this tomorrow), kale

Snack/other

Rice crackers and jam Malt biscuits The sweet stuff seems to be creeping back into my diet…oh la la!

Ale

Yin alert!!!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

I’ve had a really incredible few days learning lots (about macro food) and tasting lots (maybe a little too much!) of wonderful dishes. Ahh, so much to learn: theory, cooking, healing, healing myself, healing others…it seems a lifetime will not be enough!

Breakfast

I couldn’t face breakfast this morning after lots of food last night so I skipped it (apart from a little bit of gomasio and some ume concentrate!)

Bancha tea with a shot of shoyu!

Lunch

Lentil soup with carrot, celery & onion

Penne pasta with tempeh, baked vegetables, blanched kale with a tahini dressing, pizza (mmm, macro pizzas are soooo yummy!!…I’ll have to post a recipe (eeek, I really must sort it out and post some recipes soon…) & sauerkraut and pickled onion

Macro muffins (hazelnut, cinnamon & apple) with strawberry mousse

Women’s tea

Dinner

Grain coffee

A couple of tofu croquettes (I was sampling some delights from the cooking class today!). I didn’t eat anything else as I wasn’t hungry and felt very full from lunch.

Love & healing

Sharlene

Hello!!

I’ve just got home after a really lovely potluck supper hosted by a fellow macrotarian, and what a night! I had dessert tonight and not long after eating it I felt completely high and spaced out (maybe someone laced the dessert with sugar or something…he he!!). It feels pretty incredible that food can have such an effect and that I could actually feel that. wow!

Breakfast

Brown rice with miso & tekka

Lunch

Brown rice with sesame seeds, black beans, pressed daikon and cucumber salad, falafel, stir fried veg…maybe there was something else but I’m struggling to remember at the moment as I’m in the land of yin!

A small amount of amazake drink with red sauce

Twig tea

Dinner

OK, I really can’t tell you everything I had but it goes something like this: brown rice croquettes, tofu sour cream, sauerkraut, blackbeans, tempeh, kale, flagelot bean & chicory salad, hiziki and carrots…amongst other things! (yeah, it was a proper feast this evening!!)

The most deliciously deluxe macro trifle,  plum crumble with amazake cream, raspberry kanten

Bancha tea

I ate more than I should have tonight so tomorrow I won’t have breakfast and see how I feel at lunchtime.

Land of nod time!

Sweet dreams!

Sharlene

Howdy!

I woke up this morning feeling like it would be good not to have breakfast so I decided to wait for lunch instead. Do you ever find yourself eating just because it’s time to eat?

Lunch

Couscous, tempura & boiled vegetables

Dinner

Noodle soup

Millet mash (with cauliflower), the most delicious plaice with carrot & leeks, steamed daikon & pumpkin (mmm steamed pumpkin is amazing, it was so velvety and smooth & now I can’t believe i’ve never made that at home before!!), mixed salad leaves with olives & red onion

A delicious blueberry macro muffin with red sauce

Nectarine with cashew cream & red sauce (I was tasting from a cooking class!)

Grain coffee

Yin love!

Sharlene

p.s. I was talking with a fellow macrotarian today and we discussed having more yang breakfasts and how this can make you feel more focused and ready for the day ahead. So, if you have yin breakfasts (porridge with fruit, rice syrup etc) try to have a more yang breakfast one day (with shoyu, miso etc) and they see how you feel. Do this for a week if you want to begin to really feel it. Ahhh! It works so well for me. But of course. we are all different and it depends on your constitution (whether you are more yin or yang) and your condition also (because you might have a yin constitution but your condition could be yang or vice versa). If in doubt, just try it and listen!

Mmmm I’m already looking forward to a savoury brown rice porridge tomorrow :O)

Greetings!

Breakfast

Sweet rice & aduki beans & some homemade Ohsawa bread

Grain coffee

Lunch

Millet with cauliflower and gomasio, black beans & carrot & onion

Dinner

Soup made with wakame, green beans, onion & black beans & Ohsawa bread

Apple & blueberry puree

Women’s Energy tea

I think I over did it on the bread front today…oops.

Healing light & vibrations

Sharlene