The menus
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Receipts : Method of non-method :
It is in the name of the practicality of those who would like to cook in community that I have tried the last time to the grammage so that they only have to multiply the base unit but this process is really not joyful and I tried to understand why. Rationalizing the kitchen with mathematical formulas is a nad track, of course we need the right proportions but which in my opinion should be always in connection with the body, sensuality. Recipes translated into mathematical terms don't seem to me not the right way to relate to ingredients mainly because they force us to use counterproductive tools ( compared to joy). . It is as if we had a scientific filter (the balance) implying in fact a good and a bad measurement and this is completely the opposite of alchemical reality food. If you are centered, if you have taken care to put yourself in your axis, if you feel with your body and trust it, with practice you create a weight database and we become the balance.
Also these practices at home being also a working process I propose to you this time, to count by unit for the fruits or vegetables, by the glass for the flours, in spoons (soup and coffee) for spices . And in moon or half moon (a quick and delicate gesture above the dish) for the sauces and oils. lThe idea is therefore to forget this scale which makes us seek perfection and distracts us from the essential.
Everyone can then retranslate this way of counting according to what suits them best. (the glass chosen here is 15 cl.)
And to finish the suggestions are for 4 people which seems fair to me there too because even alone it allows you to have something to recycle for the rest of the meals.
Once again and I insist these are directions to be interpreted and not recipes to be followed to the letter, it's up to you to do with what you have, with what makes you want on the market, in your garden or in the shops. It is the adaptation that will make these suggestions alive, not the copy-paste.
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Renewal
February 8 and 9: se wake
7 and 8 march: lighten up
Menu for Saturday February 8
Breakfast
Atmosphere of fog, cold and nostalgia. We stay on the white tone of renewal and metal. With a little red for joy in the heart of the cold. Acid and a little spice to wake up from hibernation and tradition to reassure yourself.
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Cereal : bulgur or quinoa if you are gluten-free
Flat : sautéed vegetables with fresh herbs and chickpeas
Raw vegetables : celeriac raw vegetables grated with horseradish sauce or mayonnaise
½ celeriac + horseradish cream or mayonnaise
1/ Quinoa to be cooked in 2 times its volume of water sprinkled with sesame seeds or other
2/ 4 carrots (of colors if we have) + 1 parsnip + 1 large yellow turnip (that's what I had) + aromatic bouquet + the rest of the celeriac + 1 glass of Chickpeas cooked.
½ red cabbage + 4 canadian type apples + 1 glass of cider vinegar + a little coarse salt.
Cut the cabbage into strips. Cook it with salt and vinegar covered. Cut the peeled apples and add them. Cook over low heat and covered.
Cut the vegetables and sauté them over low/medium heat in a pan and covered with a little salt and a fresh bouquet garni of bay leaf, thyme, rosemary, sage) or dehydrated herbs until tender but crunchy. Remove the bouquet. To book. Sauté the chickpeas over high heat in a little soy sauce and olive oil. Mix everything. Place some red cabbage and the hotpot on top.
3/ ¼ celeriac or ½ grated so small + 1 tbsp horseradish puree + ½ tsp sugar + vinegar + ¼ brick soy cream / mayonnaise sauce with 1/3 glass of soy milk + 2/3 sunflower oil + ¼ lemon juice and salt mixer arm. Mix the chosen sauce with the grated celery
To taste :
Frucandie with orange :
7.5 tbsp hot water + 2.5 tbsp chia seeds (ground) + 2 X ¾ glass of orange jam (not very sweet) + ½ glass of sunflower oil + 1.5 glass of T55 wheat flour + 1 sachet of baking powder + a little icing sugar + mold 16 to 18 cm
Soak the chia seeds in hot water for 10 minutes. Add the jam and oil and whisk well. Put the flour without too much to mix together. Pour into an oiled mold in the oven at 170 degrees.
Unmold the still warm cake. Once cooled, slice it in half lengthwise and garnish with remaining jam. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
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lemon cake :
¾ glass of hot water + 4 tbsp of ground chia seeds + 1.5 glass of lemon marmalade for cakes *
+ 1/3 glass of golden cane sugar + ½ grated tonka bean + ¾ glass of neutral oil + 1 glass and a quarter of T55 flour + 1 sachet of yeast or 1 tsp baking soda + 1 tsp vinegar to lather in 1 tbsp before pouring
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Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
In a bowl, mix the water and the chia powder for 15 minutes. In a salad bowl pour the marmalade, the tonka, the sugar, the oil then incorporate chia gel. Mix vigorously. Then add the flour with the yeast and stir without overworking the dough.
Pour into a mold and bake for 40 minutes. Leave to rest for 10 minutes and unmold.
*2 lemons + 1 glass of water + 1 and 1/3 sugar glass
Poach the lemons for 15 minutes in boiling water. Remove the pips and the white skin then blend them, add the sugar and water and cook for another 20 minutes.
Having dinner
Softness and energy with the warm depth of orange, the revival of green . the sweet bitterness of pink peppercorns and a little acid.
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Semi brown rice sprinkled with pink berries
Kabocha velouté (green pumpkin) with orange and coral lentils
mesclun salad
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1/ cereal: Stewing : Measure the volume of dry rice. Wash the rice several times carefully. Leave it to soak for ½ hour. Rinse it and add a volume of water . Cook covered over high heat until boiling then without uncovering put at least for 15 minutes (check). Turn off the heat and leave covered for another 10 minutes.
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2/soup: ½ pumpkin (the greens are the sweetest but it's the same) + 2 orange juice + ½ glass of red lentils + salt
remove the seeds from the pumpkin (if organic keep the seeds to replant). Massage the olive oil. Cook ½ hour at 190 degrees the half and whole pumpkin in the oven . Remove the green skin or keep the orange (put it back in a salad or other soup) to preserve the orange color. Mix with the orange juice and a little salt. Like this is good. If you want something more substantial, you will have cooked the lentils for 10 minutes and add them.
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3/ Raw vegetables: mesclun salad or lamb’s lettuce (small leaf or cut) +5 tbsp olive oil + 1 tbsp vinegar balsamic vinegar+ 1 tsp soy sauce+ 2 pinches of salt
Wash the salad, drain and mix with the vinaigrette.
Menus for Sunday February 9
Breakfast
Always in the mind of a sweet wake up , this Indian inspiration that preserves the heat thanks to the spices of turmeric and ginger while offering us to slip into the comfort of the deep green of spinach.
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Pointed Cabbage Pulao
Palak paneer shoujin
Raita
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1/ Cereal mix: 800g brown rice , 1.5 Water Vol, 1 Pointed Cabbage+ 4 tbsp almond or cashew nuts, 4 tbsp raisins, 2 tsp mustard seeds, 2 tsp turmeric powder, Neutral oil.
Wash and dry the cabbage. Cut it into strips. Wash the rice until clear water is obtained, then drain well. Heat a little oil in a heavy-bottomed casserole and throw in the mustard seeds When they start to burst then add the cabbage. Add the turmeric , salt . Mix. Finish with the rice and mix to brown it a little too. Moisten with water – 1.5 parts water to 1 part rice – and add the almonds and raisins. Bring to the boil then cover and reduce the heat to low. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, without opening the lid. Once this time has elapsed, quickly lift the lid to check that all the water has been absorbed. Turn off the heat and let sit for another ten minutes. Then mix gently.
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2/ dish: 600g fresh spinach, 240g tempeh, 1 cm grated ginger, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 3 tbsp tomato purée, 100 ml of liquid soy cream, Salt, pepper, Olive oil.
Preperation
Cut out the tempeh into small rectangles and brown them in the pan, set aside.
Prepare all your ingredients. Wash the spinach. Cook the spinach for 5 minutes covered in a saucepan. Peel (with a teaspoon) the ginger and grate - the roughly. Place the cooked spinach in the bowl of a mixer with, according to your taste, a pinch of Espelette pepper, tomato puree and ginger puree. Reduce to a thick puree. Pour into a casserole dish and add the cream then the cubes of tempeh. Let cook for a few minutes over medium heat and mix well.
3/ raw vegetables
Sojami (fermented soy cream) or 2 soy yogurts + 1 carrot grated;+1 branch of coriander + a hint of cumin + 1/4 ciron
Mix everything, adjust the seasoning and serve
To taste :
Bourdaloue pear tart
(I lost my translation glass » )
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300g sweet shortcrust pastry : 150 g spelled flour + 30 g powdered almonds, a pinch of salt, 3 tbsp neutral oil, 5 tbsp vegetable milk
300g almond cream : 1 tbsp of cornstarch + ½ glass of golden sugar + ¾ glass of vanilla soy milk + 3.5 tbsp of neutral oil + 1 glass of ground almonds
6 half pears + 1 handful of slivered almonds
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Make the dough by mixing the ingredients, knead well by hand and make a ball to rest for at least 15 minutes.
Take 2 baking papers and roll out the dough with a rolling pin and place it in a pie dish approximately 22 cm.
Prepare the almond cream by mixing the cornflour, milk, sugar and oil when cold then make it consistent when cooked. Add the powder and mix well.
Place the almond cream in the bottom of the pie and cut the pears crosswise then place them on the cream. Sprinkle with slivered almonds and cook for about 40 minutes at 180°.
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Having dinner
The porridge with 7 herbs to go out gently from this deep connection weekend otherwise a meal of your improvisation guided by zazen and leftovers..
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Nanakusa
Simply take new vegetable tops and herbs that you find such as
7 herbs (Dandelion + Nipples of Venus + 1 turnip new with tops + wild garlic + parsley + 1/2 daikon with tops + 1/8 celery with tops + 1/2 glass rice white round + 4 tbsp sesame salt + 4 tsp hemp oil (umeboshi)
Rinse the rice as if it were your blood at least ten times and let it rest for 1/2 hour in the last water. empty it then count 8 times its volume of water.
Cover and cook for about 20 minutes with the daikon, turnip and celery in parts. Mince the tops and chop the herbs and add them to the cooked rice (okaku). Cook another 5 min. Off the heat, add the sesame salt ( blond sesame sautéed stove 2 mins + 10 percent suribashi-powdered salt) and hemp oil. You can also add an umeboshi plum.
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The drinks :
In winter the hot turmeric rice milk is a real caress.
Otherwise, in macrobiotics we recommend hojicha tea in which you put an umeboshi plum with a drop of soy sauce. Personally I love it.
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The breakfasts:
To be prepared the day before or before zazen.
Breakfast is eaten in a single bowl, however, serving it in 3 bowls allows you to always start by contemplating the beauty of simplicity and then tasting 3 bites of unseasoned subtle flavor bowl for then pour everything into the first bowl.
suggestions are mainly to keep warm from the first as the cold sets in. Then on this cereal base improvise for compote and granola.
(I didn't have time to translate them into glass!)
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1/ porridge: 240 g Pre-cooked rice / chestnut / lupine / buckwheat cream ... + 800 ml Rice / soy / almond / oat milk ... + 1 tbsp cashew puree
Dilute the starch with rice milk and cashew nut puree*, let thicken and add starch or milk according to the desired consistency (turn like a béchamel)
2 / Nuts and dried fruits :
120 g crushed walnuts or and pumpkin seeds or and others + 60 g raisins, figs, prunes...
Always sauté nuts to revive their flavor.
3/ Compote:
2 pears, or 2 apples, or 2 persimmon or 2 oranges...+ salt
Peel and cut fruit into pieces and cook for 15 minutes with 2 pinches of salt.
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Renewal March 8 and 9: Lighten up
Follow the rhythm of the coming spring with a frugal program allowing to clean the excesses of the winter. With the weather clear so we can prepare lactofermentations with a view to eating balkan borscht and sauerkraut within 3 weeks and gently return to the acid flavor of spring.
The menus are designed according to the principles Yakuzen in order to answer In this appeal of lightening the known and winter comfort in accordance with the needs of the body .
Finally in order to perform intermittent fasting we will only take a fruit juice in the morning.
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Menus for Saturday March 7
Lunch: Nerone rice with pink peppercorns / vegetables with seagulls / purple radish and lemony branch celery
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- Nerone rice: be careful, Nerone rice is cooked longer, count 1 hour on low heat after having boiled it at the start of cooking and add water if necessary gradually. Serve it drizzle with hemp oil to accentuate the hazelnut side and a few pink peppercorns for the bitterness and sweetness.
- Baked vegetables and mogettes (ingots white of Vendée)
Take a few carrots, rutabaga and potatoes to cut into 2 cm triangles then put them in the oven drizzled with a little olive oil and some herbs such thyme and laurel. Bake for 45 minutes at 190 degrees.
Soak the ingots whites (or take them in a jar) one night and the next day cook them for at least 45 minutes with a sheet of konbu seaweed. season with a little olive oil and salt. Mix the vegetables and skunks in the bowl
- Purple radish raw vegetables and celery
Rap a little large red radish with a mandolin then salt and press for 1 hour. Cut a few slices of celery. mix season with a little lemon.
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Frugal dinners fit into the spirit of yakuseki, the medicinal meal because according to the ancient monastic tradition we did not eat in the evening.
Having dinner :
watercress soup
1 bunch of watercress, 2 potatoes, salt, 1 tsp of white miso, liquid soy cream, salt.
Cut the bunch of watercress under the leaves, peel potatoes and cut into pieces. Wash the vegetables and cook over high heat until boiling then over low heat, covered, for 20 minutes. At the end of cooking add the miso, salt with sesame salt and pour a dash of soy cream.
Menus for Sunday March 8
Breakfast: Semi-complete basmati rice / orange tagine / beetroot lemony
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1st bowl: basmati rice
cook basmati rice according to the instructions and sprinkle with raisins previously soaked in lemon water for 1 hour.
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2nd bowl: orange tagine
1 pod of saffron, 3 untreated oranges, 3 sesame seeds, 1 tbsp of honey, 1 tsp ginger, 1 tsp brown miso, 80g large protein of soy (2 cups), 3 rutabagas, 3 carrots, 3 turnips, 1 tsp cinnamon
For the harissa paste: 1 red pepper, cumin, caraway, coriander seeds, dried mint, salt and olive oil.
Prepare the chilli paste by removing the head and seeds from the chilli and letting it soak for 1 hour in lukewarm water. Drain and mix. Adjust the spices.
Make an orange juice and mix it with the miso then water lukewarm to rehydrate the soy proteins. drain them (keep the juice) after 15 minutes then sauté them in a pan with a lot of oil and soy sauce until they become tasty. When they have absorbed everything, add half of the soybeans. To book
Cut the vegetables into small cubes and cook 1 hour in the oven in a completely covered oven at 190° with the proteins, the juice and the spices.
At the end of cooking add the sesame seeds and the oranges cut into thin strips as well as the honey. Cook another 20 minutes.
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3rd bowl: raw vegetables
Beets, lemon, parsley:
grate a beetroot, add a little salt, mix then squeeze. season with lemon zest, lemon juice, salt and parsley.
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Dinner: March nanakusa (7 herb soup)
Nanakusa
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Simply take new vegetable tops and herbs that you find such as
7 herbs (Dandelion + Nipples of Venus + 1 turnip new with tops + parsley + 1/2 daikon with tops + 1/8 celery stalk with tops + 1/2 glass rice white round + 4 tbsp sesame salt + 4 tsp hemp oil + (umeboshi)
Rinse the rice like it's your blood at least ten times and let it rest for 1/2 hour in the last water. empty it then count 8 times its volume of water.
Cook for about 20 minutes covered with daikon, turnip and celery. Mince the tops and chop the herbs and add them to the cooked rice (okaku). Cook another 5 min. Off the heat, add the sesame salt ( blond sesame sautéed stove 2 mins + 10 percent suribashi-powdered salt) and hemp oil. You can also add an umeboshi plum.
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Drinks :
In the morning, a lemon juice in hot water is conducive to a benevolent start. And for the full of citrus fruits: after morning zazen grapefruit juice and instead of a snack Orange juice. Infusion day thyme (fresh if you have).
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Snacks / desserts :
- macha and orange cream:
300g soy milk, 25g rice flour, 50g water, 8g macha green tea, 50g maltitol type sugar (if you want to avoid sugar for 2 days) .1 orange
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Dilute the rice flour in the soy milk (I didn't have time to translate my recipe into a glass), add the water and chew it. flour take this cream over medium heat, stirring well. Lift fillets of oranges by removing the skin (the sole knife works very well). Place the cream in small cups and the fillets on top.
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- rice cream with cashew puree and raisins to which you can add a dash of maple syrup. Dilute pre-cooked rice flour (organic) with rice milk until it becomes creamy. Adjust with milk. Off the heat, add 1 kosher of cashew nut puree, some raisins, some lemon zest and a dash of maple syrup.
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And if you feel like it, here is a lacto fermentation to test with beets with the recipe for borscht to be made in 2 weeks!
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Peel your beets and grate them. Add a tenth of salt then massage well.
Sterilize jars and pack them by pouring the juice over them and leaving 2 cm under the lid. close the lid and leave the jars at home for 24 hours (20 degrees) then 6 days at less than 17 degrees (I put them on the veranda). Then another week in the fridge. For other ideas, I recommend the blog Ni cru Ni cooked where you will also find the brine method and the borscht recipe to be adapted as a vegan.
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A video on the 3rd contemplation will be communicated the 6th in the evening on the general practice page .
The zoom links for the Zazens sessions will be integrated into the schedule on the 6th as well.
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