Feel Better FAST with Pesto Presto!

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25 Nisan, 5776

I spent Passover/Pesakh with loved ones and lots of food. By the end of the holiday I was tired of chewing!

Here's a recipe that pleased my palate, kept the calorie count low but packed lots of nutritional power. I made it in a food processor, which I regard as a gift from heaven to people with limited hand strength or dexterity. 

If you're enduring a bland menu due to hands that don't work so well, I strongly suggest that you buy a quality chef's knife plus a food processor. They can help you to prepare many types of foods rather easily.

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I quickly prepared this yummy pesto 

with fennel greens!

Ingredients

5 to 6 ounces greens (2 healthy bunches or about 6 cups gently packed basil leaves, or any other green. 3 bunches of very fluffy fennel greens are wonderful for pesto to feed a small crowd!)
1/2 cup pine nuts, or any other nut (3 pre-soaked, soft Brazil nuts are fine for smaller recipes)
1 to 2 garlic cloves (3 for larger recipes)
1/4 teaspoon salt (use Guerande, Himalayan or Mexican salt for more flavor and nutrition)
1/4 to 1/2 cup sesame, grape seed or extra-virgin olive oil 

Equipment

Blender or food processor

Instructions

1. Blend half the greens with the nuts and garlic: Combine the other half of the greens with the nuts, garlic cloves, and salt in a blender or food processor. Blend continuously until the ingredients are finely chopped. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Blend everything until a uniform paste has formed (if you prefer a rough texture, that's fine). 
2. Add the oil: With the blender running, you can slowly add the oil (I work with all the ingredients added at once, though). Less oil will make a paste good for spreading on sandwiches, rice cakes and crackers; more will make a sauce better for pastas and stirring into soup. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and continue blending as needed until the oil is totally absorbed into the greens and the pesto looks uniform.
3. Taste and adjust: Taste the pesto and add more salt, garlic, or nuts, as needed al dente/to taste.
4. Storing pesto: Pesto darkens and browns quickly, but it can remain delicious and fresh for several days IF you keep it in a sealed glass jar sized to suit the amount made. For best appearances, use it right away. If you store your freshly made pesto, use the smallest container possible, thoroughly pressing the pesto to eliminate air pockets. Pour a little oil over the surface (that's how it looks when you open the store-bought version!), cover the jar, and refrigerate your creation for no more than a week. 

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your plate with easily prepared, nutritious food.

FOOD-FEST!

B'SD

3 Shvat, 5773

The Jewish month of Shvat celebrates food and beneficial eating behavior. I'd like to celebrate that with you.

Here's a heads-up on why I keep insisting that people know simple facts about the commercial food supply that undermines human and environmental health.

1) Read BREAKTHROUGH: Block the Effects of Aging with the Right Food

2) Watch

Folks, I used to consider a candy bar in each hand to be a balanced meal.

When the conventional medical world held no hope for me to ever see again after my life-saving brain surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, I only had one chance to find a solution. I needed it to work.

I consulted expert naturopaths in the alternative healing world. They demonstrated the benefits of natural, organic food meals to me as my eye wear prescriptions kept going lower, 
                             lower 
                                      and lower. 

My sight has improved so much that just today I was asked to contribute to the learning curve at a local university's neurological rehabilitation clinic.

The students and professors are in for 

a heck of a wake-up call.

Learn about it before they do. 

Help yourself to heal from things 

that might have been called "Hopeless" 

by your doctors.

Improve your point of view, 

GOD willing your physical health, too.

READ 

• Buy  a book that clergy of different faiths plus medical and mental health professionals recommend: It’s MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

• The E-book and print edition are filled with soothing content, can-do exercises and tips for organizing a hectic medical or disability life. 

• There's even an entire Global Resources section to clue you in to charitable organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical bills. 

Get your grin back when you EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical (and/or disability and mental health) Challenge!

   

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. 
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Feed your health with a nourishing, body- and mind-building food-fest. It's cheaper than hospital bills and heartaches.


 

Why Kitchens are Important for People with Cancer

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One of the worrisome - and dangerous - problems for people with cancer is loss of appetite from chemotherapy. That causes an ever-lowering calorie count. Not a good side-effect!

Cancer upsets metabolism. Chemotherapy traumatizes the human body, creating the need for superb nutrition. Side-effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and physical weakness from chemotherapy make food most unappetizing. Both problems combined mean the affected peson keeps losing weight, mostly from muscle loss.

Read about a delightful solution to the problems here:


A Taste of Help to Keep Cancer Patients' Pounds Up

Now, put some thought, family and friendship energy into preparing highly nutritious and visually appealing meals for a person with cancer. Imagine the good that can do for someone who desperately needs body-building food.


Guess which book addresses the need for nutrition no matter who is facing a medical crisis or why?

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To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life