Good for You! Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees
Mix together:
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or white)
1teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups dry oatmeal
Mix together:
2 eggs
½ cup fresh maple syrup (honey can be substituted)
½ cup corn oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix well wet and dry ingredients above and add:
1 cup of chopped walnuts
½ package or 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
Drop heaping tablespoons full of batter onto lightly oiled baking try. Press cookies down to flatten and bake 20 minutes till lightly browned.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
cookies!
Congratulations to all 40 dayers- at our closing pot luck folks asked for the recipe of the cookies.
here are two (I did not bring the walnut ones- but they are worth trying) I will post the chocolate chip one tomorrow. Joan
Raspberry Jam Dot Cookies
Ingredients
raspberry jam ( any flavor can be substituted)
Dry: 1 cup almonds
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
a pinch of salt
Wet: ½ cup maple syrup
½ cup canola oil
Procedure
1. Process almonds in food processor into a coarse nut flour.
2. Process oats in food processor into a coarse oat flour.
3. Combine all dry ingredients together.
4. Mix oil and maple syrup together.
5. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well.
6. Form walnut size balls, flatten a bit, and put a thumb print in middle.
7. Fill each thumb print with ½ teaspoon of raspberry jam.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until golden colored.
Natural Gourmet Cook School/ All That Matters 99
Maple Walnut Cookies
Ingredients
1 ¼ cup of walnuts
¾ cup of rolled oats
½ cup of flour ( try brown rice or ww pastry)
¼ cup oil
1/3 cup maple syrup
Procedure
1.Place the walnuts, oats and flour in the food processor. Grind till coarse flour texture.
2. Pour in oil blend- pour in syrup blend. Dough will be thick.
3. Oil a cookie tray- drop the dough by the teaspoons full on tray.
4. Flatten with a wet fork.
5. Bake at 375 for about 15 minutes or until golden.
6. They will become crisp as they cool. Cooking with the Right Side of Your Brain
Raspberry Vinaigrette
Ingredients:
3 Tablespoons red wine vinegar / 5 Tablespoons olive oil / 1 teaspoon whole grain mustard
1 Tablespoon raspberry jelly / salt and ground pepper to taste
Procedure: Mix all ingredients together and add salt and pepper to taste
here are two (I did not bring the walnut ones- but they are worth trying) I will post the chocolate chip one tomorrow. Joan
Raspberry Jam Dot Cookies
Ingredients
raspberry jam ( any flavor can be substituted)
Dry: 1 cup almonds
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
a pinch of salt
Wet: ½ cup maple syrup
½ cup canola oil
Procedure
1. Process almonds in food processor into a coarse nut flour.
2. Process oats in food processor into a coarse oat flour.
3. Combine all dry ingredients together.
4. Mix oil and maple syrup together.
5. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well.
6. Form walnut size balls, flatten a bit, and put a thumb print in middle.
7. Fill each thumb print with ½ teaspoon of raspberry jam.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until golden colored.
Natural Gourmet Cook School/ All That Matters 99
Maple Walnut Cookies
Ingredients
1 ¼ cup of walnuts
¾ cup of rolled oats
½ cup of flour ( try brown rice or ww pastry)
¼ cup oil
1/3 cup maple syrup
Procedure
1.Place the walnuts, oats and flour in the food processor. Grind till coarse flour texture.
2. Pour in oil blend- pour in syrup blend. Dough will be thick.
3. Oil a cookie tray- drop the dough by the teaspoons full on tray.
4. Flatten with a wet fork.
5. Bake at 375 for about 15 minutes or until golden.
6. They will become crisp as they cool. Cooking with the Right Side of Your Brain
Raspberry Vinaigrette
Ingredients:
3 Tablespoons red wine vinegar / 5 Tablespoons olive oil / 1 teaspoon whole grain mustard
1 Tablespoon raspberry jelly / salt and ground pepper to taste
Procedure: Mix all ingredients together and add salt and pepper to taste
Thursday, November 1, 2007
So- some of you are starting to wonder about how to keep this up after the 40 days.
Here are two things we can suggest...
Nov 14th at 7:15(after yoga) we will have a closing celebration (pot luck optional) Please join us!
ATM will offer all 40 day folks an unlimited yoga pass for $99 a month. This pass does not include yoga immersion and has to be purchased by the first of each month.
Here are two things we can suggest...
Nov 14th at 7:15(after yoga) we will have a closing celebration (pot luck optional) Please join us!
ATM will offer all 40 day folks an unlimited yoga pass for $99 a month. This pass does not include yoga immersion and has to be purchased by the first of each month.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Week Six: TRIUMPH
Congratulations! 5 more days. I hope you feel fabulous. You gave yourself these 40 days, and hopefully you are realizing that you have in fact chosen to change your life! A regular practice of yoga, meditation, and conscious eating makes you younger, lighter, brighter, natural, whole. You are remembering who you are and where you belong. That is no small gift.
"Our personal victory here in these final five days is about becoming more childlike and letting go of any childish ways that stop us from entering the kingdom of heaven in our own hearts."
"Our willingness to be reinvented is precisely how we let go of our childish ways."
"Your completion of the forty days is not the end of anything. It is only the beginning of a flexible life, where you can find triumph in staying open to growing and transforming."
For these final 5 days, just observe the little successes, triumphs you are experiencing. This may mean going a little deeper in a pose, finding a relationship has gotten easier, realizing how easily you can change habitual thinking and action. Whatever it is, know that these changes, small and large, collect and bring you home. You created this, so you deserve a triumphant HURRAH!
1. Week Six Yoga: Keep up with your glorious practice!
2. Week Six Balancing Diet:
It is time to "gather up all the fruits of your efforts and reap the bounty of all you have learned, revealed and come to appreciate in terms of how you nourish your body."
Week Six Diet To-Do:
Take the time to look back over the past five weeks' worth of eating habits and ask yourself:
From which did I most benefit?
Which habits and practices yielded the greatest results for me?
Which do I want to incorporate into my lifelong eating habits?
Write down your answers to these questions. This will help you remember your responses, and how good you felt when your diet was in balance. It will be easier to get back on track if you notice negative habits creeping back in.
I hope that you have shifted your beliefs about food. You can enjoy any food, without guilt! You have learned how your body feels when you nourish it with all-natural, whole foods. When your overall diet is healthy you can nourish yourself with your old favorites...simply by listening to your intuition, you will know.
Week Six Triumph Meditation
30 minutes morning, 30 minutes evening.
"As you become more skillful in not getting involved with your thoughts, you realize that all of your thoughts have a natural cycled of rising, lingering, and then melting away. You may notice how the thoughts create strong feelings or bodily sensations: appetites, cravings, sexual excitement, physical pain. But as you sit this week, just watch and see how these seemingly powerful sensations rise, swell, and then dissolve and disappear." This, too, shall pass. Realizing this will help to loosen the hold of outside forces.
Watch the ebb and flow of your thoughts this week. Avoid the voice-over you add to them, the meaning you assign them. It is with a sense of triumph that you realize that your thoughts are not you!
Congratulations! 5 more days. I hope you feel fabulous. You gave yourself these 40 days, and hopefully you are realizing that you have in fact chosen to change your life! A regular practice of yoga, meditation, and conscious eating makes you younger, lighter, brighter, natural, whole. You are remembering who you are and where you belong. That is no small gift.
"Our personal victory here in these final five days is about becoming more childlike and letting go of any childish ways that stop us from entering the kingdom of heaven in our own hearts."
"Our willingness to be reinvented is precisely how we let go of our childish ways."
"Your completion of the forty days is not the end of anything. It is only the beginning of a flexible life, where you can find triumph in staying open to growing and transforming."
For these final 5 days, just observe the little successes, triumphs you are experiencing. This may mean going a little deeper in a pose, finding a relationship has gotten easier, realizing how easily you can change habitual thinking and action. Whatever it is, know that these changes, small and large, collect and bring you home. You created this, so you deserve a triumphant HURRAH!
1. Week Six Yoga: Keep up with your glorious practice!
2. Week Six Balancing Diet:
It is time to "gather up all the fruits of your efforts and reap the bounty of all you have learned, revealed and come to appreciate in terms of how you nourish your body."
Week Six Diet To-Do:
Take the time to look back over the past five weeks' worth of eating habits and ask yourself:
From which did I most benefit?
Which habits and practices yielded the greatest results for me?
Which do I want to incorporate into my lifelong eating habits?
Write down your answers to these questions. This will help you remember your responses, and how good you felt when your diet was in balance. It will be easier to get back on track if you notice negative habits creeping back in.
I hope that you have shifted your beliefs about food. You can enjoy any food, without guilt! You have learned how your body feels when you nourish it with all-natural, whole foods. When your overall diet is healthy you can nourish yourself with your old favorites...simply by listening to your intuition, you will know.
Week Six Triumph Meditation
30 minutes morning, 30 minutes evening.
"As you become more skillful in not getting involved with your thoughts, you realize that all of your thoughts have a natural cycled of rising, lingering, and then melting away. You may notice how the thoughts create strong feelings or bodily sensations: appetites, cravings, sexual excitement, physical pain. But as you sit this week, just watch and see how these seemingly powerful sensations rise, swell, and then dissolve and disappear." This, too, shall pass. Realizing this will help to loosen the hold of outside forces.
Watch the ebb and flow of your thoughts this week. Avoid the voice-over you add to them, the meaning you assign them. It is with a sense of triumph that you realize that your thoughts are not you!
Friday, October 26, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Week 5 Centering
When we find ourselves full of "if only" complaints, "If only he or she did this or that, then I'd be happy", we are not centered. We are not living intuitively and present. We are loyal to the victim within. It's our excuse for failed relationships and self-pity. We've learned to externalize control of our lives. Are we the cause or effect? Most of us believe that our world created us, and external events continue to cause our suffering. Guess what? We ARE the cause of our lives, and all it's ups and downs. It is our beliefs about ourselves, about our essence, that lead us to see a happy world or a fearful one. Hopefully, these weeks of yoga and meditation have shown us extended moments of peace and presence. We are learning that it is our thoughts alone that cause us to suffer. So how do we change our thoughts?
"By saying, 'I will become centered', we become responsible people; we own our lives from the inside. We don't have to wait for others to set us free. As we practice staying centered we discover that we have the capacity to be aware of the little gremlin voices in our heads and that we don't have to get caught up in the illusions of our own story."
"This week is about learning to stay intuitively grounded...It is learning to relax and be present with everything in your life, both big and small...When you eat, really eat. Really chew, really taste, really smell, really feel the food dissolve into and nourish your being."
"Make everything you do a practice of meditative awareness. If you can do this, you will see that your meditation practice is not separate from your life. We think that life is a distraction from meditation, but really life is an occasion for meditation."
1. Week Five Yoga Practice: Continue with your practice!
2. Week Five Balancing Diet:
The fruit fast is over. We feel light, clean. Now we need to get grounded. Time for some healthy rebuilding. Baron suggests that we need to give our body minerals this week. He tells us that minerals are from the earth, and therefore grounding. They strengthen our bones--they are our structure and foundation.
Week Five Diet To-Do:
Begin to include some of these mineral-rich foods into your diet:
3. Week Five Centering Meditation
"As we meditate this week our focus is to connect to the symbolic anchors of our hands, body, and breath, thus experiencing the truth that our center is always there, steady and waiting, no matter what swirls up around us."
Week Five Meditation To-Do:
"By saying, 'I will become centered', we become responsible people; we own our lives from the inside. We don't have to wait for others to set us free. As we practice staying centered we discover that we have the capacity to be aware of the little gremlin voices in our heads and that we don't have to get caught up in the illusions of our own story."
"This week is about learning to stay intuitively grounded...It is learning to relax and be present with everything in your life, both big and small...When you eat, really eat. Really chew, really taste, really smell, really feel the food dissolve into and nourish your being."
"Make everything you do a practice of meditative awareness. If you can do this, you will see that your meditation practice is not separate from your life. We think that life is a distraction from meditation, but really life is an occasion for meditation."
1. Week Five Yoga Practice: Continue with your practice!
2. Week Five Balancing Diet:
The fruit fast is over. We feel light, clean. Now we need to get grounded. Time for some healthy rebuilding. Baron suggests that we need to give our body minerals this week. He tells us that minerals are from the earth, and therefore grounding. They strengthen our bones--they are our structure and foundation.
Week Five Diet To-Do:
Begin to include some of these mineral-rich foods into your diet:
- Whey protein
- Seaweed (hijiki or nori)
- Leafy greens (organic greens have more minerals)
- Nuts
- Fish (especially halibut, mackeral, sardines)
- Root vegetables
- Tofu
- Broths (chicken or vegetable)
- Fresh vegetable or fruit juice
- Coffee
- Refined sugar
- Soda and other soft drinks
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Too much salt
- Too much protein
- Anger
- Fear
- Reactivity
3. Week Five Centering Meditation
"As we meditate this week our focus is to connect to the symbolic anchors of our hands, body, and breath, thus experiencing the truth that our center is always there, steady and waiting, no matter what swirls up around us."
Week Five Meditation To-Do:
- 25 minutes morning and evening
- Close eyes and bring attention to hands
- Observe gently and anchor attention to them
- Notice sensations, ignore them
- Do not strain...right aim and right energy
- If thoughts arise, don't analyze them...let them go gently
- Each time you get lost, simply pull back into gap between you and your thoughts
- Re-anchor to your hands, body and breath.
- How much do I believe in myself, and how much does this play out in my everyday life? Do I trust my intuition? If so or if not, what results does that produce?
- When, where, and with whom do I feel the most grounded? With my friends? When I am by myself? With my spouse?
- How mindful am I of even the the smallest details of my life? Am I present enough to notice all actions I take? Do I remember what I said to the salesperson at the store, what route I took to get to work, how and where I hung my coat, what I told my kids when they asked me a question? Am I truly there in all these moments?
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Invitation
Someone gave me this poem today, and again, it's everything we've been talking about. This is the same person who recommended What the Bleep do We Know, which was mentioned in A Crash Course in Miracles last night, so it's funny how everything seems to be coming together...
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
© Mountaindreaming, from the book The Invitation published by HarperSanFrancisco, 1999
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
© Mountaindreaming, from the book The Invitation published by HarperSanFrancisco, 1999
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