My Energy Cookbook E-Book

Martine Fallon

• Herausgeber: Martine Fallon
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 95

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

100 delicious recipes that will help you become beautiful, tall, strong, funny, thin, young, intelligent and audacious (or remain so)!No dieting and no calorie counts! My Energy Cookbook is an original concept, alive and enticing based on natural, light, refined, fast and fused cooking. Give your cells a boost, reinforce your immune system, shed extra pounds and even rimples by using rigorously selected ingredients full of essential nutrients, cooked the right way, in associations chosen to respect your digestion.It’s heaven for our taste buds and for us a source of fabulous driving energy. Beautiful skin, trim waistline, a happy body and balanced moods, all fueled by food prepared with love and respect.Citizens of the world, present forks!In this book, you will discover: • breakfast, dessert and snack recipes• soups• sauces, coulis, mayonnaise and dressings• vegetables as starters or on the side• cereals and legumes• animal proteins as starter or main dish• the perks of the dehydrator• spice mixesABOUT THE AUTHORMARTINE FALLON is a natural nutrition consultant. Buoyed by her enthusiasm and her convictions, she organizes conferences, coaching and team building sessions, cooking classes and tasty detox courses around the world. This new edition of My Energy Cookbook explains how she maintains her surprising vitality

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DELICIOUS LIFE ENHANCING OFFERINGS WITH ALL MY LOVE

To my daughters, for what they are and what they’ll become.

Thank you Hippocrates, the first physician, for your moral support and for having written, such a long time ago: “May your food be your medicine”.

A little test, just for fun and to check whether you already are-or still are - smart: born in 460 BC and passed away in 356 BC. How old was he when he died?*

*104! Age has nothing to do with good health. Our ancestors knew how to age gracefully.

An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

I fell into energy cooking pots 21 years ago already, in what may seem like quite ordinary circumstances. Six months after giving birth to my first daughter, I felt I had lost all my energy. Of course, I had stupidly decided to work right up to the day before I was due (I was running my own clothing business) and wanted to get back to my professional life and “my previous life” as soon as possible, i.e. eight days after returning triumphantly from the maternity ward. I was in for a surprise…

In those (not so wonderful) days, I led a life not unlike that of many other women: I ran all over the place, quite convinced that I absolutely had to lead a double hyperactive life. I felt compelled, although I paid dearly for it, to lead a geisha-like private life (and I have changed my ways since then, but have always loved men and they have never stopped loving me too, so I must have been just scaring myself), a “people” style social life and an executive woman’s professional life.

My wellbeing criteria were much more wardrobe than refrigerator centered. The style of my hair mattered more than that of my leeks. My soft top Maserati’s profile was more important than that of my convertible spleen.

Totally wasted, I turned to an energy diet, and discovered the austere magic of whole grain rice and steamed fish, the earthy taste of beetroot juice, the sad pleasures of turnips and sliced kohlrabi while drowning my sorrows in baths of anti-acid herbal teas to avoid lusting after prohibited foods.

I then entered a period of doubt, having discovered a new and unhoped for energy. My moods swung between several contradictory states of mind, all the while trying to combine my previous lifestyle, work, home, husband, baby, with my new doubts and hunting down organic zucchini and chicken.

I hadn’t understood much. Rather than reconsidering my lifestyle, I decided to use this new-found firepower to bolster my appearance, my need to convince, to seduce and to manage.

And then I had an accident.

Two taxis racing each other on the back roads of Turkey. A second pregnancy barely started.

My face like a squashed marshmallow. All dials back to zero. No more stories I could lull myself with, no more rushing between planes, cocktails and secretaries, help, this was war!

First and for all, start living again with my three year old daughter who had been trapped with me in the car wreck, and then my new unborn child. Seven months as a female greenhouse, a straw stuck between my locked jaws, two blue eyes lost in a disfigured face. Hi Frankenstein!

Resilient at heart -thanks Dad!- I fought back to rebuild myself, me and my face, to reconnect with my daughters, to understand what was happening to me, to put a semblance of order back in my life and to find a second breath.

I then embarked on a voyage of initiation that led me to discover the complexities of energy dieting, and of essential, energy boosting, food. I love eating, and for my own pleasure as well as my family’s, I’m always looking for byways to follow. I created a new crossbred cooking, delicious and light, antioxidant rich, privileging fruit and vegetables, sauces, fish and quality meat whilst searching amongst divine spices for subtle inspiration to give those natural products that are so good for us a bit of glamour.

Boosted by mad cows and dioxin I embarked on my first cooking lessons with girlfriends around my table, school projects, practical courses where taste buds can chill out. I graduated to my first detox cruises on yachts in Turkey, a good way to convince men that they’re not as fit as they think they are and that their neurons and gonads can fare much better (got to motivate them with their main preoccupations!) if their plates become toxin free. Other diets followed. Other classes too. And here I am in a first book where I’ll lay out the essentials needed to get to that energy high which I have been on for a long time and that I would really like to share with you.

Anti-aging and anti-stress, anti-weight and anti-blues, energy pleasure cooking is also a responsible and fair concept, conscious of issues and abuses that our fast-fooding habits can get us into in terms of health, social costs, and a disrupted environment and world. Beyond its immediate effects on our shape, our vitality, our well-being, and the quality of what we could become, what we eat can lead us to privilege one social project rather than another.

I hope I can help you (re)find the necessary frame of mind to create a beautiful and strong life, recover or keep your beauty, your intelligence, your love, your humor and your audacity in the cusp of a reconciled plate. Share the precious in you with those you love. And you can even indulge, now and then, in more or less forbidden food.

But not too fast! In the beginning you risk slipping up, fumbling about, getting frustrated with new machines and unheard of preparations. Don’t give up. By going through things again and again and with this first book of so easy recipes - I’ve done all the heavy lifting for you - you’ll soon become a starred, healthy, and (anew or at last) an irresistible chef.

Brussels, January 2016

Why walk if one can dance?”

A. van Stappen, éd. Jouvence.

« ENERGY » The word has never been more used.

But never before has it been so lacking: averred or latent depressions, symptomatic or chronic tiredness, allergies and intolerances to different foods, uncomfortable digestion, bloated metabolisms, too much weight and, worst of all, a pervasive lack of oomph and enthusiasm that makes us want to take a nap at the slightest hurdle.

Where on earth has our ancestor’s strength gone, that allowed them to do so much? They were able, often in difficult circumstances, to go to the end of their personal legend and to react with stamina and creativity, both of which seem to be lacking in our present day lives.

We agree: there is a world of difference between state of non-sickness where we just don’t feel in top condition, limp and spiritless, carried away by the slightest vexation and the state of grace where we fear nothing and feel ready, every day and whatever the circumstances, to move mountains. Let’s admit that happiness is effectively there, in the development and keeping up of a fundamental energy. But where to find it?

Easy: according to our ancestors energy is drawn from three sources: our genes, breathing and eating.

Genes are given. We are born with a bag of energy which has been passed down from our parents and their parents, and whose size will depend on the life they led themselves. We can only learn to manage it conservatively without throwing it to the wind.

It’s a bit like the hare and tortoise fable: we can be born with a fantastic energy potential that we’ll quickly waste because we feel stainless and burn the candle by both ends. The reverse is just as possible, conserve a meagre bag we were handed down and end up passing Tarzan at the post. It’s a question of lifestyle.

We’ll transmit a well maintained or wasted energy level to the generations that follow us. So it’s not too difficult to understand that for the last fifty years, from grand-parents to grand-children, bloated with junk, we’re feeling less and less dashing, hello there dozy spermatozoids…

Unless we turn the tide, unless we learn to pamper our energy assets and to revitalize our metabolism. Most importantly before we have our own children, so we can reset the clock and make sure they get a full tank of energy and primal health (body and brain) before they see the light of day.

Breathing: let’s talk about it. The Chinese say we breathe at the limit of death. Good breathing is really fundamental: it brings life and circulates energy, oxygenates our cells, gives our brain cells hope and spirit. But we have to choose the air we breathe. And when life has locked us up in concrete spaces, we have to find the time for regenerating walks in the forest, mountains or sea-side.

Eating, we’re there at last! It’s quite impossible to develop a good level of vitality and fire-power if we treat ourselves like garbage cans and continue to swallow lifeless rubbish that has been landing on our plates every day for the last two generations.

It’s obvious: we can’t feel good by swallowing poisoned and deformed food that has become totally unadapted to our needs, processed using inappropriate methods that intoxicate us, depress us, knock out both our body and our mind, fill us up with cellulitis and fat and stalk our immunity, our brain cells and our metabolism like serial killers.

Our intuition tells us that regaining our ancestor’s vitality must pass through our plate. A plate that should be overflowing with fresh and natural seasonable fruit and vegetables. Pure and untampered olive oil, quality protein and grains from the old days when they still did us some good. A plate from which chemicals and acidifiers, treacherous sweets, cooked sauces, aggressive frying and unadapted preparations are banned.

But with pleasure of course, because when we sit down to eat it should be a moment of intense pleasure and happiness. Because if we opt for this new long-distance energy that will - in short notice - catapult us from driving a Mini to driving a Ferrari, we must first acquire the necessary information and learn the techniques needed to be able to feel the subtle joy of pure pleasure in our kitchens…

Let’s also stop procrastinating and finding it too complicated.

Of course, to begin with, we’ll flounder about a bit (just like when we got on our first bike), but soon, by keeping focused on the promised resurrection, the results will turn up and from then on it will be pure pleasure.

To function in major mode, the body needs to find in what it eats not only live and unadulterated food but also food tailored to our needs. Needs that continuously change with age, activity levels and our basic metabolism.

1. We need good glucose to fuel our energy. Long live slow releasing sugars (carbohydrates) that guarantee a good energy base level without fast releasing sugar’s sudden mood changes (excitement – inertia). These slow releasing sugars (carbohydrates) are found mainly in whole grain products, vegetables and fruit that also contain fibers.