[AGL] Erehwon crimes, note adjusted spelling

[Wayne Johnson]

Nonsense, Frances.  Nothing gets a real Texan up and ready for a days work like some hot pork snouts, penises, eyes, ears, toes, tails, anuses all encased in some stout and yummy piece of intestine!   Why it just makes my eyes tear thinking about the gastronomic possibilities - frying, frying in butter, frying in lard, mmmm  mmmmm.  Can't you just feel those little teensy bits of fat racing through your arteries.  Why with some hominy and beer and good onions, a guy could easily expect to live until he is..oh... twenty six or twenty seven.

I love beans, love butter beans, love white beans, love fava beans (oh, yes!), love legumes of any length, width or size.  Love chinese peas, green peas and black-eyed peas.  Much prefer red lentils over the brown stuff.  Especially good with things curry-ish.  I like tofu...sometimes, depends upon how it is prepared.  Smoked tofu is even better.  We eat a lot of "grillers" made by Morningstar farms.

Sadly, I still must consume red meat on a near daily basis or my metabolism simply plummets and my diabetes puts me on the couch.  So I go for the 98% stuff and lots of seasoning.    Often beans.  Love red beans and rice.....except, of course, that there are few worse things for me than rice.  Oh well.

San Francisco had such great three-bean salads!  And what is ratatouille (sp?) without beans?

wgJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] Erehwon crimes, note adjusted spelling


  Beans, Wayne,
  Think beans, there are so many varieties that you can eat a different kind every day for a month of Sundays. I love 'em and had a delicious soup for supper made with those huge butter beans. Dr. Red Duke recommends that we eat four servings of beans per day. Lentils are also good unless you have gout. I love the "fake" meat that can now be found in the produce section at the grocery store. I even found a vegetarian cheese that melts when used on my fake "cheese" enchiladas. This morning I had an egg with my vegetarian chorizo. There are other avenues for meatless choices. Vegetarian sausage is even more appetizing than "real" sausage when you consider what goes into it.
  Best,
  Frances


  Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
    Yeah, and it makes lousy paint medium too.

    Gawd, boiled chicken get soooo boring.....


    wgJ
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Frances Morey 
      To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
      Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:55 PM
      Subject: Re: [AGL] Erewhon crimes


      Gerry,
      I heard a talk by a professor emeritus in nutrition, Cornell U., and he said that research had found that a favorite protein food for cancer cells is casein. That is the protein found in dairy products. I'm trying to reduce my dairy consumption and it is harder to do than to avoid meat.

      Best,
      Frances

      Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote:
        Ashwaganda is from India, a little plant with a potent root. Grows very well
        hereabouts. It is called "the ginseng of India", very common in Ayurvedic
        medicine. Yes, I love some of the names of plants, local and foreign.

        My approach is to ward off the inevitable for a time by trying to keep the
        immune system in good shape. Thus my "prescriptions" are not reactive but
        preventative, the daily tonic. Aside from Ly mphoma I have no diagnosed
        medical "conditions", have hardly ever had any. The L is very quiet and
        hardly noticeable, if I had not been diagnosed with it I would not have know
        I have it. Regular blood checks reveal no abnormalities.

        Hawthorne is for the circulatory system and heart. Gotu Kola works with it.
        Ho Shou Wu, an incredible Chinese root, lubricates the joints and, according
        to the Chinese, slows down the aging process which may account for my hair
        still being dark. Ginkgo is for the brain, also take L-Phenylalanine which
        is a free form Amino Acid which is supposed to increase the dopamine levels
        in the brain. I swear it improves the memory. American Ginseng balances, I
        can no longer afford the pure wild plant so I buy fr esh, cultivated root
        from a farm in Wisconsin, tastes the same. Any male who has not started
        using Saw Palmetto berry deserves the inevitable incontinence which will
        catch you sooner or later. I've been taking all th ese for some time, over 10
        years, since beginning my study of herbal medicine in the early '90's. A
        little daily tonic keeps it all in tune. Cholesterol? Never had any problems
        with it since I have been anti-grease, fat, and red meat free for a long
        time. Now not doing any meat at all for a couple of years.

        I am a believer in the power of plants, the less they are cooked the better.
        Takes a lot of time but worth the effort (sprouts, soaked seeds and grains,
        etc.) Food prep becomes what you do, all the other is low priority. If you
        don't eat right all the scripts in the world won't do you much good. Very
        fortunate to have good place to grow veggies and a great health food coop
        less than an hour away which stocks fresh produce trucked in from
        California.
        G





        ----- Original Message -----
        From: "Michael Eisenstadt" 
        To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

        Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:33 AM
        Subject: Re: [AGL] Erewhon crimes


        > > Mike,
        > > I guess this would qualify you as a druggie. What on earth are all these
        > > scripts for?
        >
        > blood pressure lowering (3), cholesterol lowering, thyroid supplement,
        skin
        > ointment, blood thinning (aspirin)
        >
        > Gerry, if i counted aright you take 13. The names of yours are ever so
        much
        > more attractive that hydrochlorothiazide for example. You could be taking
        > them for the poetry and the rhythm of their names alone. ashwaganda,
        > ashwaganda, ashwaganda . . .
        >
        > > I take an herbal cocktail I make up containing: Hawthorne Berry,
        American
        &g t; > Ginseng, Gotu Kola, Ho Shou wu, Ginkgo, and Ashwaganda. Also a male
        tonic
        > > featuring Saw Palmetto and Wild Oats. For the lymph system I take
        > > Dandelion
        > &g t; Root, Red Root, and Ocotillo. Half and hour before big meals a squirt of
        > > Gentian Root to get the stomach acids rolling. And for general immune
        > > system
        > > support I take Echinacea. All these in the alcohol tincture
        form...equates
        > > to maybe a quarter ounce of alcohol daily.
        > >
        > > Prescription and over the counter drugs? Zero. For pleasure and
        > > relaxation?
        > > Occasional tokes of the ***** varieties.
        >
        >
        >
        >






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