What's Cooking?

There are a few of you out there that know I love food :-).
I appreciate a well-seasoned dish, and also love discovering new food items that I can mix and match for a pleasant surprise :-D

 

Both my husband and I experiment with our meal planning. As vegetarians, some might be tempted to think we only survive on salads, but that is far from the truth. We have created some really exciting and wondering items in the last few months I cannot wait to share them with you! I will be posting some pictures soon, but here are a few things we had a lot of fun creating:

 

• Breakfast: Whole Wheat Pancakes topped with Cranberries and Peanuts.
• Lunch: Whole Wheat Chickpea Pizza (yes, I made the crush from scratch).
• Starter/Appetizer: Bruschetta with Mixed Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Braggs Amino Acids on Multigrain Bread.
• Dinner: Curried Potatoes, Butter Beans and Kale, with a side of cherry tomatoes and Pita bread.

 

 

I know, I know, pictures would  have been more interesting (and colorful) than this menu, but just wanted to give you some quick/fast ideas to add to your food repertoire. Sure, it's not too fancy (I like to create quick/easy meals when time is against me - which is always the case on the weeknights), but looking forward to making more complex meals especially oh the weekends.


Stay tuned!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Counsels on Diet and Foods (Chpt 2)

I am still reading through ''Counsels on Diet and Foods'' and I am in chapter 2 right now. It is not a book you speed through, but a book you read and reform as the Holy Spirit convicts your eating habits.

 

Here are some quotes that woke me up:

 

I call this one ''Sabbath Meal Reform''

We should not provide for the Sabbath a more liberal supply or a greater variety of food than for other days. Instead of this, the food should be more simple, and less should be eaten, in order that the mind may be clear and vigorous to comprehend spiritual things. A clogged stomach means a clogged brain. The most precious words may be heard and not appreciated, because the mind is confused by an improper diet. By overeating on the Sabbath, many do more than they think, to unfit themselves for receiving the benefit of its sacred opportunities.

 

On preparation of food for Camp Meetings:

I have been shown that some of our camp meetings are far from being what the Lord designed they should be. The people come unprepared for the visitation of God's Holy Spirit. Generally the sisters devote considerable time before the meeting to the preparation of garments for the outward adorning, while they entirely forget the inward adorning, which is in the sight of God of great price. There is also much time spent in needless cooking, in the preparation of rich pies and cakes and other articles of food that do positive injury to those who partake of them. Should our sisters provide good bread and some other healthful kinds of food, both they and their families would be better prepared to appreciate the words of life, and far more susceptible to the influence of the Holy Spirit.

 

On moderation on good foods:

Even if you are strict in the quality of your food, do you glorify God in your bodies and spirits which are His, by partaking of such a quantity of food? Those who place so much food upon the stomach, and thus load down nature, could not appreciate the truth should they hear it dwelt upon.

 

Bad eating leads to bad attitudes at church!

The abuses of the stomach by the gratification of appetite, are the fruitful source of most church trials. Those who eat and work intemperately and irrationally, talk and act irrationally. An intemperate man cannot be a patient man. It is not necessary to drink alcoholic liquors in order to be intemperate. The sin of intemperate eating, eating too frequently, too much, and of rich, unwholesome food, destroys the healthy action of the digestive organs, affects the brain, and perverts the judgment, preventing rational, calm, healthy thinking and acting. And this is a fruitful source of church trials.

 

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I am still on chapter two, but wanted to just highlight these on here. I will be posting those that speak the loudest to me in my blog with little to no comment; I will let the words speak for themselves.

 

*** To read ''Counsels on Diets and Foods'' online, go to  The EGW Estate or Words of Truth (with this site, you can download in PDF and/or print out).

Counsels on Diet and Foods

I have started reading the book, "Counsels on Diet and Foods" by Ellen G. White. I am just in the second chapter, and already, this book is FILLED with reproof, rebuke, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is not enough to keep the laws The LORD gave us on Mt. Sinai, we have to keep the laws the governs God's property; our bodily temples.

 

Here are quotes that got to me in chapter 1:

 

"The living organism is God's property. It belongs to Him by creation and by redemption; and by a misuse of any of our powers we rob God of the honor due to Him."

 

"A failure to care for the living machinery is an insult to the Creator. There are divinely appointed rules which if observed will keep human beings from disease and premature death."

 

"It is as truly a sin to violate the laws of our being as it is to break the ten commandments. To do either is to break God's laws. Those who transgress the law of God in their physical organism, will be inclined to violate the law of God spoken from Sinai."

 

"In the ancient Jewish service it was required that every sacrifice should be without blemish. In the text we are told to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. We are God's workmanship. The psalmist, meditating upon the marvelous work of God in the human frame, exclaimed, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. There are many who are educated in the sciences and are familiar with the theory of the truth, who do not understand the laws that govern their own being. God has given us faculties and talents; and it is our duty, as His sons and daughters, to make the best use of them. If we weaken these powers of mind or body by wrong habits or indulgence of perverted appetite, it will be impossible for us to honor God as we should."

 

"God requires the body to be rendered a living sacrifice to Him, not a dead or a dying sacrifice. The offerings of the ancient Hebrews were to be without blemish, and will it be pleasing to God to accept a human offering that is filled with disease and corruption? He tells us that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost; and He requires us to take care of this temple, that it may be a fit habitation for His Spirit."

 

"God will not work a miracle to keep those from sickness who have no care for themselves, but are continually violating the laws of health, and make no efforts to prevent disease. When we do all we can on our part to have health, then may we expect that the blessed results will follow, and we can ask God in faith to bless our efforts for the preservation of health. He will then answer our prayer, if His name can be glorified thereby."

 

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I have a work of reform to do in my own diet. I pray you may read this book in it's entirety. It will greatly enrich your soul and will encourage you to do a diet reform in your life! You can read it for free online at The EGW Estate or Words of Truth (with this site, you can download in PDF and/or print out).