Oh where to begin, where to begin.
I saw this recipe on the TV and began foaming at the mouth.
I love fritters and cakes. These were extremely easy to prepare, very tasty and actually healthy if cooked the right way. I usually fry mine in coconut oil as it's very good for you for many reasons but mainly because it's the only oil that doesn't turn into naughty trans fats when heated up.
Don't worry, it doesn't add a coconutty taste to your food.
For more benefits of coconut oil read here
Cooking time is no longer than 30 mins
Bon appetit!
Serves 3-4 For the cakes
5 coarsely grated zucchini
5 medium sized boiled potatoes
200g feta cheese
Maldon salt
A cup of flour
2 eggs beaten
Coconut oil
For the side salad
4 vine tomatoes
Half a cucumber
1 large finely grated carrot
Olive oil
Maldon salt
Apple cider vinegar
1. Boil the potatoes and let cool down.
After 30 minutes peel and grate.
2. Grate the raw zucchini and let sit at least 30 minutes to drain. After 30 mins, squeeze zucchini out.
3. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and salt. Add the drained zucchini, crumbled feta cheese and grated boiled potatoes.
4. Add couple of pinches of dried oregano .
5. Leave the mixture in refrigerator to marinate for an hour.
6. Melt 2 tablespoons of coconut oil in a frying pan.
7. Fry cakes, 4-5minutes a side, until golden brown. Make sure you roll each cake patty in plain flour. It take the moisture away and makes them extra crispy.
I like my cakes with a fresh salad on the side. I had mine with chopped tomato, cucumber and grated carrot salad.
Alternatively you can serve them with home made tzatziki (recipe coming shortly)
Please watch this amazing short film and recommend to your friends and family. Education and publicity on nutrition is needed now more than ever.
The film is about Dr.Weston Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the "Charles Darwin of Nutrition." In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them- the isolated "primitives."
The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected-nutritional deficiencies.
Price traveled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.
When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples he found that they provided at least four times the calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats.
The importance of good nutrition for mothers during pregnancy has long been recognized, but Dr. Price's investigation showed that primitives understood and practiced preconception nutritional programs for both parents. Many tribes required a period of premarital nutrition, and children were spaced to permit the mother to maintain her full health and strength, thus assuring subsequent offspring of physical excellence. Special foods were often given to pregnant and lactating women, as well as to the maturing boys and girls in preparation for future parenthood. Dr. Price found these foods to be very rich in fat soluble vitamins A and D.
These primitives with their fine bodies, homogeneous reproduction, emotional stability and freedom from degenerative ills stand forth in sharp contrast to those subsisting on the impoverished foods of civilization-sugar, white flour, pasteurized milk and convenience foods filled with extenders and additives.
The photographs of Dr. Weston Price illustrate the difference in facial structure between those on native diets and those whose parents had adopted the "civilized" diets of devitalized processed foods.
The discoveries and conclusion of Dr. Price are presented in his classic volume Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. The book contains striking photographs of handsome, healthy primitives and illustrates in an unforgettable way the physical degeneration that occurs when human groups abandon nourishing traditional diets in favor of modern convenience foods.
In addition to his work on nutrition, Dr. Price conducted extensive research into the destructive effects of root canals, detailed in his two-volume work Dental Infections Oral & Systemic and Dental Infections & the Degenerative Diseases. His conclusions, ignored by the orthodox dental establishment for over 50 years, are gaining renewed acceptance as holistic practitioners are discovering that the first step to recovery from degenerative disease often involves removal of all root canals in the patient's mouth.
The principles of holistic dentistry, based on the research of Weston Price and Francis Pottenger, are as follows:
Eat nutrient-dense whole foods, properly grown and prepared.
Avoid root canals. If you have root canals that you suspect are causing disease, have them removed by a knowledgable dentist.
Avoid mercury (amalgam) fillings. If you have amalgam fillings, have them removed by a holistic dentist who specializes in mercury filling replacement.
Orthodontics should include measures to widen the palate.
Extract teeth only when necessary, and then in such a way as to avoid leaving the jaw bone with cavitations, which can be focal points of infection.
Freedom is a dangerous thing, at least for us office workers. When you get to taste a bit of it (maybe not that little as I was free for most of the summer) going back to work is tough and routine seems totally absurd.
Lost between my TO DO list and piles of laundry no surprise I'm feeling a bit down.
I'm sure I'll feel much better in a week or two. Unfortunately right now all I want to do is sleep and watch telly.
....reminiscing with my pup on my last holiday in Portugal in pictures...
