The last few months have not been great months for me healthwise. I’ve been to specialist after specialist with no definitive findings and relatively little concern from the providers. Empathy fatigue is a real thing out there. However, I will not vent about that any further. Just riles me up more, and I need to be less stressed out.
I’m here to write about two things I love eating: broccoli and blueberries. And, guess what! They are supetfoods. They are nutrient rich and fairly good for a person’s health. In particular, blueberries.
I woke up this morning hungry, craving broccoli and blueberries. Now you don’t normally think of combining these two foods in a dish. Or at least I don’t. However, I’m not a chef nor really much of a cook.
I did go and search out recipes, and lo and behold, there were several, many being that of salads. I know I haven’t seen such a combination in the restaurants I tend to frequent. Thus, I’ll have to see if I can motivate myself to make one of these recipes. Bearing in mind, I’m a bit skeptical on how the two would taste together.
I found a broccoli bluebbery salad that may address my skepticism. I found it at cooknourishbliss website
FOR THE SALAD:
8 cups bite-sized broccoli florets (that are roasted in the oven)
2 tablespoons olive oil
¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
½ cup raw almonds, roughly chopped
½ cup thinly sliced green onion
1 cup fresh blueberries
FOR THE DRESSING:
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons pure maple syrup
2 teaspoons dijon mustard
¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
pinch of pepper
I’m hoping before I give it a go, if anyone out there has tried, that they can let me know their thoughts on it.
I’m of the belief that more often than not, if your body is craving something, it is because your body needs it. Hence, I’ll have to make it a B and B day somehow.
Categories: Fitness, food, Health, Psychology
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Lulu: “One time our Dada made a recipe involving Brussels sprouts and kumquats! Our Mama was pretty dubious but apparently it turned out delicious. I wouldn’t know, though, since I wasn’t invited to try any of it …”
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Raw Broccoli And Blue Berries Sounds Great
With A Bit of Homestyle Ranch Dressing
For A Mix of Other Raw Vegetables With
Other Fruits too Hmm Maybe A
Smoothie That Way Too
Yet i Tested The Water
And There is No Way my
Wife is Gonna Cook Broccoli
With Blue Berries Perhaps Raw
Though That
Really Sounds
Like A
Great
Cold
Fresh
Salad to me
Dear Miriam
Yet i Don’t Do that
Raw Sushi Fish That
Would Spoil The Sweet it Seems…
Before i Met my Wife i Told Her i Experimented
With Soy Sauce And Oatmeal And Ham Does Sound
A Bit Like
‘Green
Eggs
And Ham’
too And Of Course
i Am An ‘Eggman’ And
i Don’t LiVE iN A ‘Yellow Submarine’
Yes That Changed Now To A Platinum
White Pearl Color True of A New Sport
Touring 2023 Honda CRV Last Saturday
Just Installing The Rest of The Accessories
On Back-Order Today Dear Lord Stuff Has
Changed Hardly Anything on the Lot Still Yet
You May Get Precisely
What You Want
With Enough
Patience Yet of
Course i Digress Hehe..:)
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That’s the kind of question I might ask an AI expert system: what’s wrong when I crave broccoli AND blueberries?
Lots of things come to mind, but if the expert system could include other stuff going on in your life, maybe that information would be key. Off the top of my head: are you getting enough Vitamin C? Or enough sunlight?
Do you have too much cortisol – after the stress you’ve been through and still have to negotiate – and is there something these brightly-colored vegetable/fruit ingredients have (phytochemicals?)? Or something that could make your sleep – which all this has stressed out – better?
I don’t know if there is an answer, but maybe your body’s wisdom knows. We still don’t know everything, but bodies have the survival accumulation of eons.
Give in – and eat the stuff.
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