Friday, May 25, 2007

White Bean Spread - Dr. Weil's Ways

White Bean Spread

Description
When thinking of great taste accompaniments to bread, challenge the butter and olive oil and balsamic vinegar routine with this herby spread. What you have here is a versatile accompaniment for toasted baguettes or warm crepes. You can also use it as a dip made for thick chunks of French bread or pita sandwiches. Plan one day in advance in order to soak the beans overnight. Of course, you always have the option of using canned beans if you're really pressed for time.

Ingredients
2 cups Great Northern or cannellini beans, soaked overnight in 6 cups of water to cover and 1 teaspoon baking soda
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon dried basil or pesto
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice
1 clove garlic, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 whole grain baguette

Instructions
Dr Weil Suggests:
I much prefer the pesto to the dried basil.

Note: Do not drain the water that the beans have been soaking in overnight. Bring it to a boil and cook for 45 minutes. The beans should be easily pierced with a fork.

1. Preheat the broiler.

2. Drain and transfer the cooked beans to a food processor or blender. Add the basil or pesto, lime juice, garlic, cumin, salt, Parmesan cheese, and 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and process or blend until smooth.

3. Cut the baguette into 1-inch slices and brush the remaining tablespoons of olive oil over them, then broil on the lower rack until lightly browned.

4. Put the toasted baguette slices on a platter. Scrape the spread into a nice bowl and set it in the middle of the platter and serve.

Tip from Rosie's Kitchen:
As long as you are preparing beans from scratch, you could double the amount and reserve half to make White Beans and Fusilli.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Solar Shine! :)


Solar Power Set to Shine Brightly

Solar panels in a city
Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells turn sunlight directly into carbon-free electricity.

The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years,according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Friday, May 11, 2007

Beautiful Soul!



And this is how it is for all of us now. We are being catapulted into the higher realms. Great and awesome doors and being opened to realities we have never experienced before in these particular human bodies. We have been re-incarnated and are being reborn into what a wonderful woman just described to me as a “very new dream.”

The days of suffering and pain are over. The days of struggle are over. The days of darkness and negativity are over. We have truly arrived in a new reality of new ways of living and being, and we need only seize the day.

What will be your reality? What will you allow to be revealed to you? What path will you follow? What excitement will you experience?
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Wishing you Heaven in your heart, starlight in your soul, and miracles in your life in these miraculous times.

Until next time,

Karen Evolution glyph swirl

Monday, May 7, 2007

Thursday, May 3, 2007


Hummingbird Dance

The Mother's Song

It is so still in the house.
There is a calm in the house;
The snowstorm wails out there,
And the dogs are rolled up with snouts under the tail.
My little boy is sleeping on the ledge,
On his back he lies, breathing through his open mouth.
His little stomach is bulging round...
Is it strange if I start to cry with joy?

—Peter Freuchen excerpted from Book of the Eskimos

from a pause for beauty (Rod McIver)