Three Beautiful Meals and a big Breakthrough

Prickly Pear*
Papaya* [Note: I like using the papayas when the outside is mostly green, with a little yellow. If You're shopping at an Indian Store where they sell green papayas, they don't usually ripen, at least for me, and aren't sweet; they are, however, very high in enzymes, which is good. In A Radiant Life (our book)there's a 'pizza' crust recipe using the pulp from making green papaya juice. We kneaded it with tahini (before finding out that commercial tahini isn't really raw), and it actually looked like a white dough pizza. It was pretty funny. We topped it with sun-dried tomato sauce and I think sliced summer squash.]
Bok Choy
Dandelion greens
Dandelion flowers
Avocado or walnuts

Although I didn't notice Sarah reading what I wrote above, as she is doing cross-pattern exercise right now, she just asked me if it could be made with macadamia nuts ground to a butter, instead of tahini. I'm wondering how she read this from the angle she's at? She's right though.


Golden beets*
Lentil sprouts* homegrown always, easy and inexpensive
Avocado (nuts or sunflower seeds would work well too)
Curry powder*
Spring mix
Rejuvelac

Dandelion Flowers
Papaya*
Prickly pear*
Avocado
Cherry tomatoes
Rhubarb chard*
Spring mix (I think I mentioned this was on the sale table at Stop and Shop: Organic Spring Mix, 1 lb. boxes, for $1.99 I'm so grateful for bargains.

I find the more I check in with God, the more harmonious things become. (That isn't always obvious when dealing with an autism meltdowns! ... Wow. ... Something is working here. Sarah, who has been over the top difficult, suddenly stopped her exercise to hug and kiss me and repeat over and over "I love You"; that's a first. Sitting here stunned. The occasional hug and I love You, but kisses?? Wow.
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Is it my fasting, the a-i food and juice, the supplements that the cactus juice biochemist suggested yesterday? (methyl B12 [in the past the shots made no difference], methyfolate, P5P pyridoxal 5 phosphate or active B6, and methionine.

We've had a giant breakthrough before while I was fasting and praying ... and we just took the supplements last night for the first time. Wow ... (I tend to say that over and over when I'm stunned by something really good.

One of Sarah's junior high teachers said years ago: "There are no false highs." So any glimpse of good can become a permanent fact.

Wow.

Beautiful Promises of Healing

Before more meal pictures and recipes, I want to share these two verses with anyone who might be having a hard day (as yesterday was here) and extra-specially for parents of people with autism. We are not alone, ever. Our help is ever-present. As parents most of us have certainly felt we needed help, where humanly there seemed to be none. And yet, look below. The Love of God is always present. If we're here, so is Love.

Just look at the rose above, resting gently on the hydrangea. You are more beautiful to Love than even that rose, and so cherished.

Isaiah 41:17 "The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;

p.s. I inadvertently added myself as a follower, and can't seem to get it off, so if anyone has any suggestions, please email me or post here. I will get the hang of this!

Hempseed Curry and Dandelions and Aloe and Lambsquarters

HEMPSEED CURRY

First comment: hemp does not get You high! And it is just delicious. We make the seed into hemp butter, and it's this interesting green color.

Rhubarb chard*
Golden chard*
Cauliflower*
Rejuvelac*
Sprouts, light ones, alfalfa etc.
Hemp butter, homemade
Curry powder*, Frontier

DANDELIONS



This morning, bringing out the yard trimmings, I inspected the dandelions up close, and look at those magenta stems. Think they've got betalains? I do! Computer research time.

ALOE

And thank You to Stephanie, who is a fountain of useful information, on Jean Genet's autism list for pointing out that aloe is anti-inflammatory. Interestingly Sarah's been asking for it, so today I'm adding a shot of cactus juice and some aloe to her water.

LAMBSQUARTERS


Our favorite wild green any way. Look at all those beautiful baby plants!

Fed by prayer and fasting.

This fast has already brought forth some gifts, and I thought I would share one that just happened a few minutes ago. A new and dear friend just commented on the Bible passage "The King's Daughter is all glorious within." I love those words, and went to look up some other translations of them, and found the New King James which says: "The Royal Daughter is all glorious within the palace" the italics indicating that the words were not in the original language.

At first I went to dismiss them, and then Guidance said: "No. Listen. You are all glorious as long as You stay within the palace! And what is the palace but the Consciousness of God, the mind keeping itself constantly with its Divinity.

"This is when One is glorious; the passage is used superficially if You see it only in terms of health, clean within. It is where your thought is placed that heals, bringing forth the fact that You are, indeed, glorious. And not just You, but "All are glorious. This is what has healed Sarah in the past, and it is what will heal her now.

"Hold to what I said to You last night about My saying that "this kind comes forth only by prayer and fasting." You had assumed that the fasting intensified the efficacy of the prayer. No. As You fast, your consciousness is changed, and that new view is what heals.

"As usual, self-discipline of consciousness is the healer. Allow Me to "walk the rounds with You".* We will do this together. A mother (or father) is the most potent healer on the globe, if they will hold their thought "in the palace" with and for their child."

*From a poem and hymn by Whittier: "The Healer from Gennessaret will walk the rounds with You. "You are not doing this alone. I am always with You."

AVO-GOBI RAW CURRY (memory of our former favorite Indian food: alu gobi, potatoes and cauliflower)(east directions for growing lentil sprouts below)




Zucchini, medium, shredded
Spring Mix
Cauliflower*
Lentil sprouts*
Curry Powder*, Frontier
Ginger*, Shredded
Garlic*, thinly sliced, paper thin
Super light sprouts, from the Sproutman
Avocado
Rejuvelac

LENTIL SPROUTS

I use ball canning jars

Fill a quart jar about 1/4 full with dried lentils
(You may use the brown, which are called green, or the little French green lentils, which are really green. The latter are less starchy.)

Add filtered or distilled or spring water about twice as much as the lentils. Let sit several hours till they look larger and fatter. Drain off water using an old clean stocking, cheesecloth, a screen, or your clean hand, letting the water drip through your fingers. Let the jar sit in a warm place and the sprouts will grow. You can cover, using cheesecloth, stocking, clear paper towel, and a rubber band to hold it on, and lay jar on its side, rolling it every so often, as the top one sprout faster.

You can water a little and drain well, or just drain off the little water that always stays in the jar. They shouldn't be wet. That's it. Eat when You see them sprouting. Mungs are sprouted the same way.

Dandelions are blooming beautifully, matching the kerria japonica and the last of the yellow daffodils.

I don't know if I mentioned that I've been fasting since April 10th for Sarah specifically, our country, and for all of us all over our world. I'm having so much fun making these lovely meals that I don't mind not eating. I will put up some juice recipes too.

Here's the dandelion dinner. And by the way, don't eat daffodils! They are poisonous. A daffodil seller told me the gladiators used to have them in their pockets in case the lions got the best of them.

Bok Choy
Rhubarb chard*
Dandelion greens
Broccoli
Papaya*
Dandelion flowers
Clementine sections*
Flaxseed oil (we use Barlean's)

[Since we use organic citrus, Sarah likes some of the sweeter peels found in tangelos and clementines. I wash them, even though they're organic. Citrus peel are a great source of the rest of the c-complex.]

Golden Dinner and where to get the best dates and macadamias

Without and with Rejuvelac

For the most wonderful dates: Bautista Family Organic Date Ranch 760 396-2337 and leave your name and number for Alicia. Really nice people. If you don't mind, please tell Alicia I sent You, so she knows how much I appreciate them.

For wonderful unsprayed macadamias: South Kona Macadamias http://www.southkonamacs.com/ 808-323-3696 (Between the hours of 12:00 pm and 12:00 am CST) They're in Hawaii, and ship priority, and I swear the nuts were here the next day the first time.

Golden Girl dinner

This has not been the best autism day, although we did get to church and to rollerblade on the town dock, for which I am grateful.

This is an especially beautiful dinner, to which I'd planned to add walnuts. Sarah's wanting avocado again, and either would work well.

Golden beets*, shredded
Red onions, sliced thin
Broccoli, chopped
Celery, chopped
Papaya*, Maridol

I'd planned the walnuts, since the papain in papaya is great for digesting nuts, and probably is the anti-inflammatory agent.

Papaya reminds me of one of our oldest favorite recipes, originated in California before we were vegan, and where they actually sold raw cream. The cream has been replaced by the much kinder and more delicious macadamia cream or yoghurt (recipes coming soon along with where we get the dates and nuts).

Papaya*
Fresh dates
Macadamia Cream, although sunflower seed cream would do well and is much less expensive.