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Tag: Heart Health
Oatmeal Molasses Bread
Baking your own oatmeal molasses bread is a delightful and rewarding experience, offering several benefits:
- Control Over Ingredients: You can choose high-quality, organic ingredients, avoid preservatives, and adjust the recipe to suit dietary preferences or restrictions.
- Freshness: There’s nothing quite like the taste and aroma of freshly baked bread. Home-baked bread is free from the additives and preservatives found in store-bought versions.
- Nutritional Value: Homemade bread can be more nutritious. Oatmeal is rich in fiber and essential nutrients, while molasses adds iron, calcium, and magnesium.
- Customization: You can experiment with different flours, add nuts, seeds, or dried fruits, and adjust the sweetness or texture to your liking.
- Cost-Effective: Baking at home can be more economical in the long run, especially if you bake regularly.
- Therapeutic Activity: Baking can be a relaxing and enjoyable activity, offering a sense of accomplishment and creativity.
And hey, it’s a wonderful way to fill your home with the comforting, inviting scent of freshly baked bread.
Oatmeal Molasses Bread
Simple oatmeal and molasses bread.Equipment
- 2 Large Bowls one for mixing and one for letting the dough rise in
- 2 Loaf Pans 2 large loaf pans(13X5) or 3 smaller ones (9X5)
Ingredients
- 4 Cups Water Boil
- 2 Cups Quick or cut oats
- 3/4 tsp Cinnamin opt
- 1/4 Cup Sugar
- 3 tbsp coconut oil Can substitute
- 3 tsp Salt
- 1 Tbsp Flax Seed
- 1 Cup Molasses Can cut with maple syrup if using less sugar
- 8-9 Cups Bread Flour Organic non-bleached
- 2 1/8 tsp dry yeast
Instructions
- Add oats, cinnamon, sugar, oil, salt, flax seed, molasses and or maple syrup in a large bowl.
- Bring 4 cups of water to a full boil and add to dry ingredients. Mix well.
- Allow mixture to cool to 109-115, (no higher) before adding yeast.
- After yeast is well mixed in, add flour and kneed for 5 to 10 minutes creating a soft ball. Put dough in large slightly oiled bowl and allow to rise for 90 minutes.Keep warm 98-105F or place in bread proofer. Dough should almost double in size.
- After 90 minutes, take dough out of the proofer and spread out on a board roughly the length of the pans. Split in two halves, (or thirds) and place into pans lined with parchment paper.
- Place bread pans in a warm place and once again allow it to rise. 60 minutes.
- After the bread has risen, put a small amount of whole oats on the top of the loaves and gently press in.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, once up to temperature bake for 46 minutes or until the center of the loaf is 200F.
- Take bread out of the pans and place on a wire rack and allow to cool.
- ~ENJOY~
Maple Syrup
100% locally sourced and harvested maple syrup. Tasty dark
$12.00 – $22.00
Good Health Through Natural Foods
Doesn’t Matter Where You Start From
It being the first of the year it’s a logical time to start eating healthy and being more active but if you’re reading this in July for instance, July works as well.
On this blog the goal isn’t to sell anyone anything really, the hope is to spread a little bit of awareness, hope or inspiration.The Doctor Appointment
Towards the end of December, I had my annual physical and I was asked a surprising question by the doctor: Are you on any special diet? I answered “no, not really”. It wasn’t until a few days later that I recalled that question and thought about it. Being about as close to 60 as you can be and not having to take any medications puts me in the minority of Americans. Hmmm, genetics certainly play a role but what about my diet? I thought a bit more and looked at what I eat normally- Lots of oats, fresh chicken, home grown or at least fresh vegetables, black coffee, lots of chaga, turkey tail tea and not much in the way of red meat. I also make my own bread and yogurt. So, I guess in comparison to many Americans I am on a special diet.
Started Watching a Few Documentaries
After a while you start seeing the parallels between personal health and soil and forest health, a healthy personal biome and a healthy forest biome. Where everything big and small play an intricate part of the whole. In order for a forest to be healthy it has to have diversity as do people pertaining to diet. If you can “see” the overall trend of your diet, you can almost anticipate certain outcomes.
We sat and watched a documentary about diet as it pertains to heart health and learned many things. I’ll try and recap a few points here.
Heart disease and cancers are epidemic in the United States and is a growing problem worldwide. As we all speed through our daily lives everyone feels the pressure of having limited time for our health, especially when it comes to eating. So in many cases we grab what we can on the go, many times that means we are offered worst choices. Over time those choices have consequence, and our bodies will no longer be able to perform their functions without fault.
In one documentary they looked at data from China. Why China? Because the data offered a view at millions of data points from millions of people over a large geographic area and lifestyles.
As China grows into the new millennium and their urban areas and population habits begin to mimic American population eating habits it’s no surprise that their cardiovascular disease and cancer rates should increase to mirror our own.
Interesting enough, in the more rural areas and the poorer populations cardiovascular disease and cancers and almost unheard of. The main difference in the two groups is diet and exercise. Poorer communities eat more vegetables and little or no red meat and are generally more active.The doctors and scientists touched on other interesting things like how ineffective big pharma is at treating our ailments. Installing stints to bypass or clean out plaque that has grown in the artier walls of the heart has become almost routine in the U.S. Most of those efforts are a temporary fix and cost thousands, (big pharma must love them). Now, these doctors and scientists in the documentary showed where not only can plaque buildup be avoided but can also be reversed without surgery through diet and exercise.
The human body is amazing, and you can affect how it looks and behaves through diet and exercise.
Check out this video to start your own personal journey to living a healthier life. Short clip from documentary Rip Esselstyn’s Scenes in Forks Over Knives Documentary
