Every month I have a day when I eat only fruit and drink fruit
juice or a fruit smoothie (no dairy products – just fruit). I believe that
helps me clean my body from the toxins because the next day I feel like new.
Try it.
Simple Fish Soup
Ingredients:
- Fish
- Carrot
- Celery
- Black Pepper
- Spring onion
- Parsley
- Salt
Preparation:
Cut the vegetables (carrot, potato and celery) into pieces
and boil with the fish in pot for about 20 minutes. Add the spring onion and boil
for another 5 minutes. Add the black pepper, salt and parsley and cut off the
heat.
Lamb soup for the soul
Lamb soup
Ingredients:
500 – 600 gr Lamb
(neck)
100 gr Vermicelli
1 tablespoon Paprika
1 tablespoon Thyme
1 tablespoon Parsley
Salt depending on taste
Preparation
Boil the meat until it separates from the bones.
When it is ready take the meat out of the pot and put the vermicelli
in the broth.
While the vermicelli is simmering separate the meat from the
bones, cut it into small pieces and return to the pot. Add salt to taste.
Take the paprika and infuse it with the broth (see the video
on how to do that).
At the end add the finely chopped thyme and parsley, put the
lid back on the pot and switch off the heat.
Ingredients:
500 – 600 gr Lamb
(neck)
100 gr Vermicelli
1 tablespoon Paprika
1 tablespoon Thyme
1 tablespoon Parsley
Salt depending on taste
Preparation
Boil the meat until it separates from the bones.
When it is ready take the meat out of the pot and put the vermicelli
in the broth.
While the vermicelli is simmering separate the meat from the
bones, cut it into small pieces and return to the pot. Add salt to taste.
Take the paprika and infuse it with the broth (see the video
on how to do that).
At the end add the finely chopped thyme and parsley, put the
lid back on the pot and switch off the heat.
Bon appetite
Pumpkin (or apples) stuffed with dried fruit.
Pumpkin (or apples) stuffed with dried fruit
Ingredients:
1 pumpkin (or if you don’t like pumpkin – 5 apples)
2 – 3 tablespoons of
dried apricots, blueberries and cranberries (each)
2 – 3 tablespoons of various nuts
3 – 4 tablespoons of honey – depends on the size of the
pumpkin – if you chose apples – one tablespoon per each apple
3 – 4 tablespoons of butter – again one tablespoon per apple
if that is the case
Instructions:
Cut a lid from the pumpkin with the handle (the same for the
apples)
Clean the seed from the pumpkin (or the apples)
Put all dried fruit in a bowl and pour then into the pumpkin
(distribute evenly for the apples)
Spread the crushed nuts on top
Last put the butter (for the apples 1 tablespoon per apple)
Put the lid back on the pumpkin and put it in a baking tray
(or arrange the apples) with half a cup of water.
Bake on moderate around 30 – 40 minutes – depending on the
oven.
Take out of the oven and after it has cooled down cut as you
would a cake and serve (the apples can be served whole).
Bon appetite
I'm back!
I want to apologize to the followers of my blog for my long absence.
The reason is that in the beginning of September 2019 we decided that we have
to change something in our lives and that something was to move to another
country. We chose Australia to be closer to our boys who live there. That’s when
the chaos started – quitting jobs, buying tickets, sorting out our stuff in
three unmanageable piles – one to be sent by ship, another to be with us on the
plane and a third to be donated or thrown away. We made the move at the end of September.
Ultimately, it appeared that we have organised our move quite well and my
former super boss also helped as much as he could. Our younger son met us at
the airport, we bought sim cards for the phones and went to his apartment to
leave our luggage and then to a restaurant with the boys and their partners for
a welcome celebration.
I was very happy when we came back from the restaurant and enthusiastically
opened the laptop to look for a place to stay – the best solution being us in
the same town but not under the same roof. I liked an apartment and entered the
address in my phone for directions. The next morning, I woke up before everyone
else showered and go ready to go and see the place. The phone said we had to go
to La Trobe St and take tram number 30. We got out on the street and turned
left. We walked for some time – my phone lost connection to the internet perhaps
the new sim wasn’t working but be believed the other phone might still connect
and take us to the place. We walked till our feet ached but saw neither the street
nor tram number 30. We stopped to order Uber but unfortunately the other phone
had no connection too. Desperate we decided
to turn left and try to return home – we have missed the appointment to see the
apartment. As some say – desperation leads to success. After a block or two we
saw a tram – a different number – 1 and reckoned that it may take us home. The map
in the tram assured us that will be the case. When we told our kids about our adventures,
they laughed a lot and said that we should have turned right from the time we
came out of the building and the tram stop was just a minute away. Now, three
months after that, we still live near La Trobe St and every time I pass through
that street, I remember with a smile our initial confusion. But that how life
is – it sometimes serves you something you didn’t want but will later turn into
a happy memory.
Happy New 2020! I wish you all peace, happiness, health. Let it be
bountiful like the autumn and you be strong and unstoppable like the sea in winter!
To sweeten your soul, I start publishing recipes.
Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients:
Pastry
Grated pumpkin
Sugar
Chopped walnuts
Olive oil or butter
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees C
2. Take a sheet of pastry and roll in it 3 spoons of grated pumpkin, 1
spoon of sugar, 1 spoon of chopped walnuts and one spoon of butter or olive
oil.
3. Arrange the rolls in a buttered or oiled baking pan. Spray the rolls
with olive oil and bake in an oven until golden.
4. After that cut the rolls in rectangular pieces and sprinkle with
icing sugar.
Enjoy!
Remedy for Sinusitis
Prepare
an infusion of chamomile by dropping a soup spoon of the flowers. After boiling
it for 2 – 3 minutes take it off the heat. When it cools snort some of it into
your nose with the aim of washing it from the inside.
Do
that every morning and evening for ten days. After that – take a break for ten
days.
Repeat
this cycle three times and take a two months break.
Repeat
again if needed.
My husband tried it and it works.
More advice on how to deal with sinusitis.
Rash
If you have rash – here are eight remedies:
- You will feel better after bathing
in sea water. If that is impossible due to weather or other reasons but
you have access to sea water dab the skin with a piece of cotton soaked in
seawater.
- You can also cover it with slices
of cucumber or smother it in cucumber juice.
- Try one teaspoonful of vinegar
mixed with one soup spoonful of warm water.
- You can get some relief from the
itching if you add three spoonfuls of baking soda to your bath and spend
at least 10-15 minutes soaking in it.
- You can also use the following – mix a
teaspoonful of lemon juice with some coconut oil and leave on the affected
place for an hour. After that rinse it with warm water.
- A similar to the above remedy is
to mix a teaspoonful of ground poppy seed with some lime juice.
- Creased almond leaves also help. Apply to the affected places twice a day
- Vitamin C helps strengthen the
immune system and any way to get more natural vitamin C may alleviate the
symptoms of rash and allergies. A glass of freshly squeezed orange juice
in the morning or the juice of a lemon diluted in a glass of water can
help achieve that.
How to tell?
If your kids get rash!
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