Imitation Syrniki Breakfast Parfait
Preparation Time: About 15 minutes
No marinating required.
This is an Americanized version of a popular Russian breakfast and/or dessert.
Ingredient and Shopping List:
2 Buttermilk Pancakes
1/2 cup of flavored Cream Cheese; any sweet flavor; low fat or non-fat if possible
1 cup of Vanilla Yogurt
1/2 cup of Raisins
½ cup of All Fruit Apple Jam
½ cup of applesauce
Equipment:
1 or 2 Parfait Glasses, Parfait-like Glasses, or any kind of tall glass
Microwave
Spread the flavored cream cheese over the frozen buttermilk pancakes. Microwave for about 2 minutes, until the cream cheese is slightly melted. Careful the pancakes will be hot. Carefully roll them up, and cut the rolls into smaller rolls. Set aside.
For this recipe, you don't have to measure the ingredients out first, the amounts are just to give you an idea of how much to use. You can spoon the ingredients directly into the parfait glass (or whatever kind of glass you are using) without first measuring them out. Spoon in about 3 tablespoons of vanilla yogurt, followed by one small hot pancake rolls, followed by 3 tablespoons of all fruit apple jam, followed by 3 tablespoons of applesauce, followed by 1 tablespoon of raisins, then start over with the vanilla yogurt again, and keep making layers until you are filled to the top.
Eat.
Note: The brain food in this meal is yogurt.
Note: If you can find them, whole wheat pancakes are healthier than white flour pancakes.
Note: Buttermilk pancakes and vanilla yogurt both may contain sugar. Stevia is healthier, but yogurt made with stevia is not yet available in America.
Note: Its true that syrniki is quark cheese pancakes, which is more like American cottage cheese than buttermilk, but American cottage cheese has been kicked off of the healthy food list for often being made with genetically modified organisms (or GMO's)(and you can't buy cottage cheese pancakes in America anyway). Healthy food cooks consider foods made with GMO's to be guinea pig food because they have been unleashed upon the unsuspecting public without first being tested to find out what effect they will have on our health. They include foods like soybean genes spliced with bacteria genes in order to reduce the need for pesticides to kill corn crop pests. In China, the public policy is that GMO's can only be used in plants that is to be worn, not eaten, like cotton.
Currently, there is no American law requiring companies to notify the public that they are selling genetically modified foods. The list of foods that are genetically modified include foods like Roundup Ready sugar beets, Honey Sweet plums, cheap canola oil, and Ovaltine. In fact, there is a huge controversy going on right now about GMO salmon which could become the permanent bane of all salmon. Truely a tragedy since wild salmon is one of the most amazingly nutritional foods on earth. It is an excellent source of Omega fats, which can prevent, heart attack, stroke, joint pain, and mental illness. So an outcome of infusing GMO salmon with all of the other salmon on the planet may be a much higher incident of physical and mental illnesses. Once all of the salmon on earth has been infected with the GMO DNA it will be too late to do anything about it. US politicians are currently trying to pass a law preventing this tragedy. But, the vote is close, so they need citizens to let them know what they want. You can contact your or sign the protest at the link under Link To Join the Protest of GMO Salmon Protest on this blog.
Lunch
Kombucha Tea
Sausage Borscht
Preparation Time: About 15 minutes.
No marinating required.
1 cup of Beets (regular or pickled, whichever you prefer)
1 cup of Already Shredded Cabbage
2 Turkey Sausages of any kind; breakfast, or otherwise
2 cups of meat or vegetable broth of any kind
1 teabag or bottle of Kombucha Tea
Equipment:
Blender
Microwave
Paper towels or wax paper to cover microwaving food
Pour the can of beets, with the beet juice and the cabbage into a blender. Blend for about 2-3 minutes. Pour the mixture into a bowl, filling it about half way. Add broth. Cover with paper towel or wax paper. Microwave for about 4 minutes. Can be seasoned with hot sauce, Tabasco sauce, mayonnaise, or sour cream. Set it aside.
Cover sauage with paper towel or wax paper.
Microwave sausage.
Prepare or open kombucha tea.
Eat.
Note: The brain food in this meal are beets and kombucha tea.
Note: Meat that include nitrates, such as bacon and lunch meats are not as healthy as meats that don't include nitrates. Eating a small amount of nitrates once and a week of less is OK. Eating nitrates daily is not a good idea.
Note: You may always marinate raw meat if you choose. Its healthier for the brain, immune system, and intestines.
Note: Kombucha tea in the tea bag form does not contain sugar.
Dinner
Kombucha Tea
Turkey Burger Pirozhki
Carrot Sticks
Vanilla Ice Cream and Imitation Kissel
Preparation Time: About 20 minutes.
No marinating required.
Photo by Evilmonkey003@en.wikipedia
Ingredients and Shopping List:
Pirozhki:
1 tube of Pillsbury Roll Dough
¼ pound of Turkey Burger
¼ cup of Mushroom Soup
Carrots:
1 package of Pre-cut Carrot Sticks
Ice Cream and Kissel:
2 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream
¼ cup of Fruit Juice, preferably berry or cranberry
2 tablespoons of Matching All Fruit Jam or Cranberry Sauce (matching the juice)
Tea:
1 Tea bag, or bottle, or a cup from a carton of Kombucha Tea,
Equipment:
Microwave
Paper towel or wax paper for microwaving food
Oven or Toaster Oven
Cover turkey burger with paper towel or wax paper. Microwave turkey burger for about 3 minutes until it is done. Mix in the mushroom soup. Open roll dough. Spread out dough in little circles. Put a little meat into each circle. Fold the dough and pinch the edges together so that you can't see the meat, and it won't fall out. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Mix the fruit juice and the matching jam or sauce together. You can mix cranberry juice, and cranberry sauce or raspberry juice and all fruit raspberry jam. Stir until the jam or sauce dissolves into the juice as much as possible. This will make an approximation of the Russian dessert sauce called kissel.
Prepare kombucha tea.
Put a couple of scoops of ice cream on a plate. Put the imitation kissel over the ice cream.
Add pirozhki, carrot sticks, onto the plate.
Eat.
Picture of Polish Kissel by Ludek
Note: The brain foods in this meal are cranberries, and kombucha tea.
Note: Button mushrooms aren't very healthy. They are what is now used in the typical mushroom soup. Portabella, crimini, shiitake, or maitake mushrooms are much healthier, and shiitake mushrooms are particularly healthy for the brain.
Note: Whole wheat bread dough is healthier than white bread dough, but I have never ever been able to buy whole wheat bread dough.
Note: You may always marinate raw meat if you choose. Its healthier for the brain, immune system, and intestines.
Note: Vanilla ice cream contains sugar, most bread doughs contains a small amount of sugar especially because it is part of the bread rising process. Again, stevia is healthier, but its impossible to buy bread dough already made that way. There are some already cooked breads made without any sugar for diabetics, but they are very hard to find. I have seen loaves at Target.
http://www.russianlegacy.com/en/go_to/culture/humor/students.htm
"Onions cure seven ailment."
Russian Proverbs
Shipwreck with lots of Treasure Lost at Sea, Found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrouw_Maria
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Human+Rights+court+rules+against+iVrouw+Mariai+divers/1135254411352
Treasure Never Found
http://cruises.about.com/od/northerneuropeancruises/ss/pushkin_6.htm
In Russian, during the Soviet era, many women had to make home made beauty care products. Here is a brief article about some of the basics of making your own skin care products.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/67208-kitchen-solutions-skin-care/
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