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[mccoy]

More variations of the same big bowl of mixed salad: this time avocados and chickpeas added. Summertime is great for fresh salads.

[drewab]

Those are some nutrient dense salads Mccoy - delicious! 

[mccoy]

Drewab, we probably all agree that summertime is for salads, wintertime for soups!

But I also enjoy cooked vegetables in the summer, I just have to wait they cool down.

This has been today's colorful cooked serving, red cabbage, tomatoes and leeks, exceedingly tasty! I had to exercise self-control not to eat an inordinate amount.

 

 

[mccoy]

Another tasty dish of vegetables (purple cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes, onions), eating vast amounts of'em presently.

[mccoy]

Yesterday I loved this simple, minimalistic but chromatically appealing dish: yellow cauliflowers and raw tomatoes. The picture may not make justice to the real colors, yellow and red, in a strangely appeasing combination.

[mccoy]

A vegan Hawaiian poke bowl being eaten by my son; sooner or later I'm going to have a stab at it.

[Saul]

Yum

[mccoy]

I like some chromatic tricks when eating. This recipe is called 'Black & White': black of black beans, which make the dish crunchy, and white of cauliflowers, with a sprinkle of green parsley which makes the color contrast milder.

[Gordo]

That may look like chicken but it's "chicken of the woods"! If I misidentified it, this may be my last post 😉

 

[Saul]

Hope not Gordo -- you're posts are usually interesting.

  --  Saul

[Dean Pomerleau]

Nice 'shroom Gordo! Looks tasty.

--Dean

[Ron Put]

Just soaking a beautiful white fungus that I bought dried.

I have loved wood-ear mushrooms for a few years now, but just recently discovered white fungus. I just soak it and eat it raw as an appetizer or a snack. I find it delicious.

 

[mccoy]

It looks like a work of art

[Ron Put]

On 3/23/2023 at 4:39 AM, mccoy said:

It looks like a work of art

It is rather beautiful, indeed. If you haven't tasted it, I highly recommend trying it.

 

[mccoy]

8 hours ago, Ron Put said:

It is rather beautiful, indeed. If you haven't tasted it, I highly recommend trying it.

I've never seen it in Italy, I'll try and search some health food stores.

[Ron Put]

On 3/25/2023 at 4:17 AM, mccoy said:

I've never seen it in Italy, I'll try and search some health food stores.

Take a look at Asian markets, much more likely to find it there, in dried form.

Edited March 26, 2023 by Ron Put

[mccoy]

On 3/26/2023 at 9:46 AM, Ron Put said:

Take a look at Asian markets, much more likely to find it there, in dried form.

Thanks Ron, but here Asian markets are founds only in big cities, like Rome, Milan, or maybe where there are Chinese communities, like Prato in Tuscany. I'll ask around anyway, very curious about that mushroom!

[Ron Put]

On 3/27/2023 at 4:37 PM, mccoy said:

Thanks Ron, but here Asian markets are founds only in big cities, like Rome, Milan, or maybe where there are Chinese communities

Amazon should sell it there, do they deliver in Italy?

I am currently in Asia for a couple of weeks, here is what I bought today from the local health market:

Black fungus (wood-ear) and white fungus 🙂 



 

[mccoy]

Ron, thanks for the amazon suggestion, they only offer this product, which maybe is the same mushroom

 

[mccoy]

This is a FMD meal (used for Valter Longo's fast-mimicking diet): 300 gr steamed red cabbage, 200 gr raw tomato, 1 tbsp EVOO, salt, pepper and oregano. As a dessert, one tbsp peanut butter and 4 cashew nuts, a total of 375 kcals, which constitutes about one half of the daily energy allowance of days 2 to 5 of the FMD.

 

[mccoy]

 

This was yesterday's FMD dinner, green peppers plus tomato. Similar to lunch

 

And this is today's FMD lunch, green cabbage and tomato (+EVOO), plus a tbsp of peanut butter. All at about 350 kcal, it is just enough to fill up a body where ketones substituted carbs, but it solicits a fasting signal which triggers autophagy and other beneficial mechanisms. Even though I don't agree with everything he says, I consider Valter Longo worth of a Nobel Prize just for this intuition of the FMD.

[mccoy]

I just love this chain of self-service restaurants, cafeteria style, located in a mall. They have a wide choice of vegetables and plant-based foods and sometimes I have lunch there with the family on weekends.

 

 

[manuel5]

I see that there is little activity in this thread, here is my first meal of the day after a 20h fast 🙂

Meal-03.04.24.jfif

[mccoy]

Very good dish, I had a similar one today :