Ice cream, a heavenly dessert... I am sure almost everyone likes it.
One of the most important ingredients of the yummy ice cream is milk/cream. Recently, I have tried my hands (or rather my thermomix) in making homemade ice cream and discover the extend of the cream's role in making a delicious ice cream... Hence, I started to crack my head for replacement for the cream in my homemade ice cream.
Bought a big pineapple last week. The original plan was to make pineapple sorbet.
When the ripen avocado on my counter-top came into my eye-sight just before I blended my pineapple, I knew the solution to the milk-less ice cream. Avocado!!
So here's the results:
Pineapple milk-less Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 big Pineapple, 1 ripen avocado, cane sugar
Method: Cut the pineapple into cubes and freeze in the freezer beforehand. Put everything in the TM bowl and blend at speed 10 for 3 minutes, using the spatula to stir while it blend. *Freeze the end results for a few hours, then take out and blend again at speed 10 for 2 minute. Repeat * for as many times as needed to reach the desired smooth texture of ice cream, or serve immediately if you are not too particular on the texture.
You can omit the cane sugar if the pineapple is sweet enough, or substitute with rock sugar (need to grind into powder before adding in) or other natural sweetener.
My son and my husband love it! Now I finally have homemade ice cream that I can feed my family without the worry of consuming too much dairy products or other unknown ingredients from the store-bought ones.
Hope you like it too!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Common Hair Treatment Kills School Teacher in Kazakhstan
Read from one of the newsletter from The Raw Family, Victoria Boutenko, about a news on hair coloring... I extracted the paragraph as below:
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Common Hair Treatment Kills School Teacher in Kazakhstan
During my visit in Moscow, another shocking episode occurred. I was surprised to hear from several women, that they will, "Never ever again color their hair!" My sister, Marina, explained to me that a few months ago, one tragic event made the headlines of every major paper and TV news channel. Apparently, a 31-year old school teacher applied a routine color treatment to her hair, as she had done for many years on a regular basis. Only this time, she has developed an allergic reaction, she felt burning and the skin on her skull quickly began to swell. The young woman attempted to wash the color off without any success. Her heart stopped in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Official expertise concluded that the chemicals in the coloring treatment killed her. To the shock of the nation, this hair coloring treatment was very common and widely used. Here is one of the links to this information: http://eg.ru/daily/otbor/15742 I so much appreciate that I was able to reverse my graying hair by regularly consuming green smoothies and never had to use any hair coloring.
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I have always have my natural hair color and never did any dye before. I love my black hair and am very proud of it. However, coloring hair is so common that many people dye their hair as common habit. Even when I go for my haircut, they will ask me to dye my hair, saying that the color will highlight my overall look and make it more prominent. However, I would just smile and say thank you but no I don't want to dye my hair.
More and more people found that they have gray or white hair at younger age... and coloring their hair would help them hide those ugly gray/white hair. Especially ladies above forties, dyeing hair becomes a routine in order to cover up the newly grown white hairs.
I am more supportive to the natural color made from plants that you can usually buy from the indian shop. Its in powder form and its a lot cheaper (last that I heard was about RM2) and safer. That is if coloring hair is a must.
From nutritional point of view, gray/white hair is usually an indicator of minerals lacking in our body. Many people find that consuming lots of greens actually helps to reduce white hair growth. Dr. Ann Wigmore actually had her hair reverted back to its natural color after she turned to raw food diet.
So for our own health's sake, everyone should try to eat more raw greens, be it for beautiful young skin, for natural hair color, or for health. There is definitely more gain than lose.
As a last note, please don't forget to choose organic greens for higher nutritional value.
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Common Hair Treatment Kills School Teacher in Kazakhstan
During my visit in Moscow, another shocking episode occurred. I was surprised to hear from several women, that they will, "Never ever again color their hair!" My sister, Marina, explained to me that a few months ago, one tragic event made the headlines of every major paper and TV news channel. Apparently, a 31-year old school teacher applied a routine color treatment to her hair, as she had done for many years on a regular basis. Only this time, she has developed an allergic reaction, she felt burning and the skin on her skull quickly began to swell. The young woman attempted to wash the color off without any success. Her heart stopped in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Official expertise concluded that the chemicals in the coloring treatment killed her. To the shock of the nation, this hair coloring treatment was very common and widely used. Here is one of the links to this information: http://eg.ru/daily/otbor/15742 I so much appreciate that I was able to reverse my graying hair by regularly consuming green smoothies and never had to use any hair coloring.
****************************
I have always have my natural hair color and never did any dye before. I love my black hair and am very proud of it. However, coloring hair is so common that many people dye their hair as common habit. Even when I go for my haircut, they will ask me to dye my hair, saying that the color will highlight my overall look and make it more prominent. However, I would just smile and say thank you but no I don't want to dye my hair.
More and more people found that they have gray or white hair at younger age... and coloring their hair would help them hide those ugly gray/white hair. Especially ladies above forties, dyeing hair becomes a routine in order to cover up the newly grown white hairs.
I am more supportive to the natural color made from plants that you can usually buy from the indian shop. Its in powder form and its a lot cheaper (last that I heard was about RM2) and safer. That is if coloring hair is a must.
From nutritional point of view, gray/white hair is usually an indicator of minerals lacking in our body. Many people find that consuming lots of greens actually helps to reduce white hair growth. Dr. Ann Wigmore actually had her hair reverted back to its natural color after she turned to raw food diet.
So for our own health's sake, everyone should try to eat more raw greens, be it for beautiful young skin, for natural hair color, or for health. There is definitely more gain than lose.
As a last note, please don't forget to choose organic greens for higher nutritional value.
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