Super Natural Cooking
Five Ways to Incorporate Whole & Natural
Ingredients into your cooking
By Heidi Swanson
A review by Marty Martindale
Super Natural Cooking contains hundreds of Swanson’s own
pictures; front cover and certain selections by Wayne Bremser. This book is a
very beautiful way to learn a self nutrition plan, one suitable for a better
life, the rest of your life.
Basically, the book builds on five different ways to eat
for better health and tips for everyday cooking of same:
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Expand your pantry with whole and natural flours, oils,
fats, sweeteners and spices. (Build a Natural Foods Pantry)
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Experiment with alternative grains like quinoa, teff
and amaranth. (Explore a wide Range of Grains)
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Understand the importance of eating from a colorful
food plate. (Cook for Color)
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Get acquainted with powerful, nutrient-rich superfoods.
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Branch out from white to natural sugars.
Here’s some random recipes in the book:
GRAINS --
DO-It-Yourself Power Bars:
Contain coconut oil, rolled oats, walnuts oat bran, brown rice cereal, dried
cranberries, crystallized ginger, rice syrup, natural cane sugar and vanilla.
Wheat Berry Salad:
(dressing for the berries) orange zest, lemon juice, shallot, olive oil, spinach
leaves, toasted pine nuts and feta cheese
COLOR –
Straw and Hay Fettuccini Tangle:
Asparagus spears, spinach leaves, garlic, Parmesan cheese, toasted pine nuts,
olive oil, lemon juice and egg fettuccine
Sweet Potato Spoon Bread: sweet potatoes, butter,
shallots, goat cheese, wheat flour, onion powder, eggs and Parmesan cheese.
SUPER FOODS --
Crunchy Slaw Salad: cider vinegar, lemon juice, black pepper, olive oil, cream,
apple, savoy cabbage and walnuts
Sushi Bowl with Toasted Nori, Avocado and Brown Rice: Nori
sheets, firm tofu, orange zest, lemon juice and zest, natural cane sugar, shoyu
sauce, brown rice vinegar, green onions, avocado and toasted sesame seeds
Lime-Bathed Peanut Salad: raw peanuts, roma tomatoes,
jalapeno pepper, cilantro, lime juice and olive oil.
NATURAL SWEETENERS --
Fig Spread with Black Pepper and Toasted Sesame Seeds: black mission figs,
lemon juice, honey, blackpepper and toasted, unhulled sesame seeds
Dairyless Chocolate Mousse: Soy milk, semisweet chocolate
chips, silken soft tofu, amaretto and almond extract.
At the end of the book is a section, Basic Recipes and
Techniques, which explains the earlier preparation of many ingredients. It is
followed by a Sources list of email/mail order houses for some not-so-easy to
buy ingredients.
Swanson offers excellent pointers at the end of each
recipe. Your body shouts your nutritional smarts your whole life long.
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