Discussion Of The Varieties Of The Food And Drinks Prescribed In The Nilamat Purana

The Nilamat Purana is a very important book for the Hindus living in the Kashmir Valley. They follow various instructions prescribed in it very religiously. I was too anxious to read the contents of the book and learnt a lot from it. One of the themes that really attracted me in the book is the description of the different kinds of food to be consumed essentially during the important religious ceremonies and rituals. In this article, I would be focusing exclusively on the varieties of food discussed in it.

One important fact to be noted is that the living beings are classified into different kinds and they are the following:

a) Gods and Goddesses

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Aloo Bhindi – Punjabi Style Fried Potatoes and Okra

Aloo Bhindi – “A gravy recipe made from Potato (Aloo) and Lady’s Finger (Bhindi/Okra)”.

“What shall I make for dinner tonight? If that is a reeling question you are with at the moment, I have a solution for you.”

If you have some left over potatoes and some okra/ladies finger in your fridge, then tonight lets toss them together with some Indian masala’s and make Aloo aur Bhindi ki sabji.

To give you a small introduction, aloo bhindi is a gravy dish where we prepare the gravy and add fried potatoes and lady’s finger into it. The gravy for this dish is a mix of onions, tomatoes and cumin seeds. This dish is prepared in punjabi style, so I have used ghee for frying the vegetables and garam masala for giving the spicy flavor. Continue reading “Aloo Bhindi – Punjabi Style Fried Potatoes and Okra”

I’ve Never Seen a Fat Vegetarian – To Be Or Not to Be

Well okay……sometimes it’s hard to change your eating habits. What made sense to me was that meat eating animals have a very short intestine system. This is because big piles of meat & potatoes or just meat takes an incredibly long time to digest. Humans have an incredibly long intestine system. Feel tired after a big meal? You should because you will use more energy in life digesting food than anything else you do! No kidding! Cut out the meat & live like the ‘long intestine animals – the vegetarian animals’.

I know it’s easier said than done and despite out best intentions change can be hard. Just do tiny changes, gradually. Decide, for example, okay, I want to eat more salads and less meat. Don’t set yourself up for failure! Maybe add salad once more a week and meat once less a week. Do that for a month or so until it’s just part of your life. Then it’s easy to add another good intention that becomes a habit.

PS. Take Vitamin B12 as a supplement if you rarely eat red meat and lack abundant energy with adequate sleep! I will add lots of tips about going veggie. Note: I am into eating fish cause it’s so damn good for you and eat some poultry when I’m craving a change from beans or tofu…lotsa good recipes coming to this site! Be Healthy – Have Incredible Energy – Feel Young – Save $$$$$$$ – Save Time on Cooking!

PS – I love my Dad’s Steak – Won’t say NO to that once or twice a year. He’s a master bar-b-cuer!

PPS – For any of you that went to Kaslo School & had the pleasure of Mrs. Higashi, she’s the one that said, “have you ever seen a fat vegetarian?”

Source by Laurie Meers

How Can You Choose the Best Juicer?

For vegetarians, a juicer is a must have appliance. There are very many brands which are available in the market with different capacity and capability; different sizes and designs etc. It is prudent to select one which will suit your needs. To get the best juicer, you must evaluate the following key parameters:

Working efficiency
Juicing is a labor intensive exercise though the entire process has been automated by juicers. To juice all your fruits and vegetables effortlessly, it is important that you go for an efficient juicer. A juicer which does not eject pulp or introduces either heat or oxygen to the juice is considered highly inefficient. You must avoid such appliances. Before you buy any juicer read customer reviews about the juicer. If possible, you can consult a friend who loves juicing for whatever reason. Continue reading “How Can You Choose the Best Juicer?”

Marathon Running and Vegan Diets For Beginners

Perhaps you’re considering going on a vegan diet, but can’t see how you’ll ever get there. Maybe you’ve dreamed about running a marathon, too, but abandoned it as impossible?

If so, just ponder the expression by William Arthur Ward:

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”

Five short years ago, I had not begun a vegan diet, nor had I run more than an occasional 1-2 miles on the running machine (staring at the wall at the fitness club, it felt like a death sentence). Growing up, I had been a miserable athlete, skipping all PE classes from 9th grade onward to avoid humiliation.

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Vegetarian Pastitsou

When I met my American Greek husband he loved eating meat, fish and shellfish. He also loved the Greek food he grew up on. I am vegetarian and John showed me that, since meat used to be an expensive commodity, a lot of Greek recipes are meat-free and based on beans, grains, goats’ cheese and yoghurt, fruit, vegetables and olive oil. We ate very well and John surprised us both by deciding to become vegetarian. However, he wanted me to taste his favourite food that his Mom and Yia Yia made for him. It is pastitsou, traditionally made from minced beef, onions, Greek pasta, Greek parmesan cheese, béchamel sauce and delicious herbs and spices. We experimented and eventually came up with courgettes (zucchini) and broccoli as a replacement for the meat. We later added Quorn (a great vegetarian mycoprotein) which can easily be used in recipes to replace meat. Our resulting meat-free pastitsou is so delicious that our meat eating friends ask us to make it for them. Here is the recipe: Continue reading “Vegetarian Pastitsou”

“Crazy Sexy Kitchen” Produces Plant Based Excitement

Several years ago, there were only a handful of vegan cookbooks. Today, there are dozens, and I recently learned there are 200 new vegan cookbooks on the way!

Great news, unless you are deciding which cookbook to add to your library. Fortunately for me, I did not have to choose, as I received a hardcopy version of Crazy Sexy Kitchen as a gift. With the subtitle “150 Plant-Empowered recipes to ignite a mouthwatering revolution”–and avoiding the word “vegan”–Crazy Sexy Kitchen educates us about the many benefits of plant-based diets (for animals, the environment, and health) and declares that any step toward a “plant-passionate diet” and away from the Standard American Diet is a positive one.

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Tara Stiles – Teaching Us About The Yoga Lifestyle

Some may not realise that yoga is not just the practice of asana, but a whole lifestyle. The Yoga life includes the asana which is usually practiced to stretch the body before meditation, the meditation itself that is a whole new world and many other things. Part of this lifestyle is that we do not harm others which incorporates not eating meat or flesh. A vegetarian lifestyle can be very fulfilling and rewarding, but we do need to be sure that we get all the nutrients we need.

When I first tried vegetarian foods, I was bored with baked or steamed vegetables, but there is a lot more out there. There are some ideas in here that I would never have thought of, but they really work.

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Lose Weight, Lower Blood Pressure and Cholesterol with the Show-Me! Diet

If you would like to find out whether you are one of the 80 percent of people who can control high blood pressure or cholesterol with diet alone, have your doctor give you your current numbers. Follow my Show-Me! Diet for just two weeks, then have your doctor re-check your cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure.

The only foods you eat on the SHOW ME! diet are oatmeal for breakfast, and whole-meal salads for lunch and dinner (see the recipe below). You won’t need to go hungry, because you decide on the portion size. Don’t stuff yourself, but eat until you are comfortably full and satisfied. If you prefer frequent small meals and snacks, that’s fine, too; just divide your salads up and eat as often as you like. You can also have oatmeal at other times of the day if you wish. Continue reading “Lose Weight, Lower Blood Pressure and Cholesterol with the Show-Me! Diet”

Do I Have a Choice?

Do I have a choice?

Man, there’s a question that’s been bugging me for years. And I know it’s been bugging many of you, as well.

It’s a question closely related to the matter of confidence. Because confident people have a mindset of abundance, possibilities and proactivity. Whereas non-fident people have a mindset of scarcity, limitations, and re-activity.

Confident people not only see a variety of options to choose from when making choices. So they rarely, if ever, pick the wrong option; and they always find a way back out if they do. Continue reading “Do I Have a Choice?”