Cayenne. Hope to see more dishes made w/o frying/sauteeing, also dishes from the Phillippines.

[Guest guest]

I'd like to see any recipes Susan might send from the Philippines (her

post is copied in below), and to my mind a dish containing cayenne sure

counts as spicy.

 

Something else that I'm hoping to see more of: recipes for tasty vegan

dishes that are prepared without frying or sautéing.

 

The reason is that fairly recent research indicates that whenever you cook

at high heat you damage fats, carbohydrates, and proteins--so when you eat

the prepared dish you're putting less than optimal nutrition into your

body and thus setting yourself up for poorer health as you age.

 

Raw foods aren't heat-damaged at all, foods that have been boiled or

steamed (212 degrees F) are damaged somewhat, foods that have been baked

have encountered much higher temperatures and are badly damaged, and

frying causes the most damage.

 

For example, governments regulate the amount of acrylamide in drinking

water because acrylamide is carcinogenic, but surprising research

published a year or two ago shows that French fries, chips, and even

breadcrust contain a great deal of acrylamide, many times more than a

person would get from drinking water. Breadcrust is cooked at oven

temperature--maybe 350 degrees F--while the interior of a loaf of bread

tends to be steamed and thus doesn't encounter heat as high. High

temperature also creates warped proteins called AGEs (Advanced Glycation

Endproducts), which also aren't good things to be putting into a human

body.

 

Unfortunately, the wonderful tastes of Indian food, which I always loved,

depend in very large part on enhancing the flavor of spices by sautéing

them in hot oil. And I see that lots of the recipes posted here use that

technique.

 

Maybe someday we'll learn cooking techniques that maximize seasonings'

flavors without rendering the food less healthful. (Maybe, for example,

there'd be a way to extract flavor by whirring spices at high speed?)

Meanwhile, often I just add cayenne, the way Susan says her daughter does

in the Philippines.

 

By the way, according to /The Green Pharmacy/ by David Duke, Ph.D.,

cayenne has a number of special health *benefits.* I'm taking time out

from moving house to write this, and my copy of Duke's book is at my new

place, 175 miles away, while I'm here taking care of things at the old

place. But if anyone is interested in hearing the specific benefits of

cayenne, please let me know either on-list or off, and I'll look up the

information and send it in a future post.

 

Lynn

 

 

-

Susan Baylon <sansunick2004

 

Re: spice butternut squash soup

Jan 9, 2006 5:25 AM

 

i just felt ashame i cant contribute but surely am collecting the recpes

you are sewnding,probably i can get from my vagan daughters recipes from

the philippines that might be of help but surely not spicy ,all i know is

they just add

cayenne to mahe the recipe hot

Susan

[Guest guest]

Hi there Lynn - nice to have you write in at long last. Yes, yes, I know - Lynn

is one of our

first members from way back in mid-2004 :-) All the more welcome for that!

 

Yup, cayenne is hot and spicy all right! I too would like to have some of

Susan's recipes

here.

 

You say:

 

> Something else that I'm hoping to see more of: recipes for tasty vegan

> dishes that are prepared without frying or sautéing.

 

Many of our dishes are prepared, by those wanting to avoid frying or sauteing,

by using a

little vegetable stock in lieu of oil to soften onion, etc., prior to adding the

rest of the

ingredients. For a fat-free recipe list, however, you should go to my

vegetarianslimming

(which has both vegetarian and vegan low-fat recipes) or to Susan V's

. I

recommend both. Neither is a hot and spicy recipe list per se, although spicy

recipes do

occur. That is not to tell you you don't belong here, of course - just to

suggest a couple of

other options for you in addition to this list.

 

> The reason is that fairly recent research indicates that . . .

 

I have heard of that research.

 

> Unfortunately, the wonderful tastes of Indian food, which I always loved,

> depend in very large part on enhancing the flavor of spices by sautéing

> them in hot oil. And I see that lots of the recipes posted here use that

> technique.

 

Yes, it's traditional. Of course. But as I say, you can choose to cook any of

the recipes in

your own way if you are overly concerned about the health aspects of high

temperatures.

 

About the cayenne - other spices are also most beneficial, eg. cinnamon - and

all can be

added, as you say, even to meals prepared in a non-traditional manner. I do not,

however,

feel that Indian food is unhealthy once the butter ghee has been replaced by

vegetable oil.

Everything in moderatiion, I always say :-)

 

Thanks for writing in! Let's chat again onlist soon.

 

Best love, Pat

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for giving me what you wanted,me along with my two daughters

who are both health lecturers are very much inclined in healty foods and we

really preferred eating raw or if not halfly cooked vegetables which are mostly

organics.I am a post stroke person,who was under medical treatment for 12 years

when i had mild stroke and had my right foot and hand paralize,with the help of

my children applying the alternative medicine and emphasized vagan food in a

mater of three month i started to feel alright,loosing weitht from 68 kgs to 53

kgs,cholesterol level totally went normal,and blood pressure was wel controlled

and that was an incident that happened almost three years ago.Also i observed

that cancer patients who deals on healthy food especially on raw organic food

gets great chance in recovery and i dnt see them cry in pain,thats why am

thankful when i was invited to join this group.first to know more and also to

share.Just give me certain time to gather the recipes and

am willing to share with anyone who is interested.I would really incourage my

daughters to join and share their knowledge,believe me am a living witness of

recovery from just healthy food.

 

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[Guest guest]

Yes thank you all for making interest in our Philippine vegan dishes and we

really emphasize fat free dishes and raw or halfly cooked organic food,and we

just add virgin olive oil on our food before serving,Just give me time because I

dnt live with them and they are very busy people being invited to give lectures

on placies like universities,associations and communities wherein leaders are

interested on healthy lifestyle.We use cayenne,ginger,garlic,union to make our

food spicy.Am thankful getting to know more on vegan life all over the world.

Love,

Susan

 

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[Guest guest]

Hello there, Susan!

 

>. . . me along with my two daughters who are both health lecturers are very

much

inclined in healty foods and we really preferred eating raw or if not halfly

cooked

vegetables which are mostly organics.

 

Have you checked out our Salads etc. in the Files? We have wonderful recipes for

raw

vegetables there. You might also have a quick look in the OT section of the

Files too.

There have been (and perhaps still are) rawfoodists on this list, and we have

some rawfood

recipes also. Also, as I might have mentioned, many 'stir-fries' can be done by

steaming

the vegetables lightly (leaving them with lots of 'crunch') rather than using

oil, and then

the rest of the recipe can be followed.

 

I appreciate what you are saying about the health benefits of a vegan diet. We

have many

vegans on this list as well as vegetarians, and many members are

vegetarian/vegan for

health reasons (about half, I would estimate, on average). On the list, as it

happens, we

have agreed to concentrate on cooking and recipes.

 

>Just give me certain time to gather the recipes and am willing to share with

anyone who

is interested.

 

Please feel free to post your recipes to the entire group - we all love spicy

hot food or we

wouldn't be here LOL and I imagine we all incorporaate some raw foods in some

form or

other into our diets. Just remember that we ask that *all* recipes are ones

which have

been tested/cooked by the member who posts them - 'tried and true' recipes.

 

>I would really incourage my daughters to join and share their knowledge.

 

We'd welcome your daughters too of course! If you'd like me to send them an

invitation,

just send me their email addresses privately to my own non-list address:

veggiehound and I'd be happy to do so.

 

> . . . believe me am a living witness of recovery from just healthy food.

 

That's wonderful. But you're preaching to the choir here - we all believe in

healthy food.

It's just that we might differ a little from one another or from you in what we

each consider

to be 'healthy' and necessary for health. No problem there!

 

Thanks for writing in.

 

Best love, Pat

[Guest guest]

Thanks Pat,certainly ill let them know that they are welcme to join the

group,and also thanks for the recipes that are posted i wsould like to try them

too.

Love,

Susan

 

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