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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Recipe Book Recipe Reviews => Topic started by: CreamPuff63 on February 06, 2012, 02:04:50 pm
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Mmn, very nice. Made this tonight after dinner and DS kept wanting to cut a piece before I had even put the ganache on top. Anyway, once he went to bed I cut DH and myself a little bit each...yum! Love the nuttiness and chocolate combo. Not sure how I could justify eating it for a brekky replacement with the chocolate, but if I woke up and needed a good excuse to have a slice that early in the morning I guess I could (not necessarily should) ;) But tonight I have to sleep with one eye open in case DS gets up and raids the fridge during the night :o Its a definite 5/5
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The name of the recipe alone sounds yum! I wonder if Tenina can post a couple of recipes from her book for free for those of us who don't buy things straight up. I'm being patient and waiting for the app to come out.
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Tasty, I linked up some of the recipes from her website that she has included in her book. If anyone is aware of a recipe that I have overlooked please let me know and I will link. Just click on the recipe that has been hyperlinked in the Contents list here (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=8880.0). This recipe is one of them :D
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That was great thinking CP. It never hurts to have sample recipes from a book available - as we know, it gives people a taste of what's to come if they buy the book.
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Thanks for doing that, CP!
What is maca powder and where do you get it from?
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I looked at these CP and knew I would eat too many.
Thanks for the question Tasty. I don't know what it is either. :-\
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There has been a conversation on here about Macca powder before. It proivdes energy along with other things. I think it maybe from Peru as when I was over there last year it was everywhere.
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Thanks. I'll see if I can find it.
Spanner informed us all about macca powder sometime ago. I've copied the information here
Rather than hormone replacement therapy (HRT), millions of women are putting their faith in a cruciferous root vegetable from Peru Called maca.
WHAT IS IT?
Maca is a dehydrated, cruciferous root vegetable, and not a drug. It is a benign, medicinal food which has been in use for 10,000 years, possibly more, and has had ample time to be judged effective. Today, dried Maca roots are ground to powder and sold in drug stores in capsules as a medicine and food supplement to increase physical stamina and fertility.
WHAT’S IN IT?
Initial analysis of Maca indicates that it contains glucosinolates which have a positive effect on fertility. Proteins, as polypeptides, make up 11 per cent of the maca root; calcium makes up 10 percent and magnesium and potassium are present in significant amounts. other minerals include iron, silica and traces of iodine, manganese, zinc, copper and sodium. Vitamins in maca are thiamine, riboflavin and ascorbic acid. The amino acid proteins in maca include aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, histidine, glycine threolline, cystine, alanine, arginine, tyrosins, valine, methionine, isoleucine, lysine, proline, hoproline and sarcosine.
BENEFITS OF MACA
Menopausal symptoms: hot flashes, tender breasts, sleeplessness and emotional upsets, "brain fog", vaginal dryness.
Osteoporosis: significant bone rebuilding, improvement in bone density.
Energy booster: Balances the endocrine system - thyroid, pituitary and adrenal glands.
Male impotence
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Period problems: Pain, PMS, flooding and/or scant flow
American and Peruvian doctors have brought this extraordinary remedy to the attention of the Western world. Once in a decade a remedy used by native peoples for thousands of years comes to our attention and it seemed so important to health that we wonder how we ever got along without it. Maca is that kind of supplement. Now women have an alternative to hormone replacement therapy drugs. Maca works in an entirely different and more satisfactory way for most women than phytoestrogen herbs like black cohosh and liquorice root. And men, too, find that maca can counteract the difficulties they may experience in maintaining good sexual relationships as they age, due to a general slowing down in the output of the endocrine glands.
RESEARCH
Peruvian medical doctors say that maca root works in a fundamentally different way than HRT, promoting optimal functioning of the hypothalamus and the pituitary, thereby improving the functioning of all the endocrine glands.
They isolated four alkaloids from the maca root and carried out animal studies with male and female rats given either powdered maca root or the alkaloids. females receiving either root powder or alkaloids showed multiple egg follicle maturation, while in males, significantly higher sperm production and motility rates were noted than in control groups.
They established that it was the alkaloids in the maca root, not its plant hormones, that produced fertility effects on the ovaries and testes of the rats. "These effects are measurable within 72 hours of dosing the animals," they said. They deduced that the alkaloids were acting on the hypothalamus-pituitary axis, which explains why both male and female rats were affected in a gender-appropriate manner. This also explains why the effects in humans are not limited to ovaries and testes, but also act on the adrenals, giving a feeling of greater energy and vitality, and on the pancreas and thyroid as well.
Implications of the discovery of the pituitary-stimulating effects of maca are enormous. What it means is that hormone replacement therapy - even the natural varieties - will no longer be the gold standard for optimising health from a holistic point of view.
NATURAL VIAGRA
Doctors Malaspina, Muller and Chacon, as well as doctors from the USA and Canada, also have good news for men who are suffering age-related sexual dysfunction.
They can forget expensive, possibly dangerous Viagra. Maca works extremely well, and safely.
Dr Jorge Aguila Calderon, Dean of the Faculty of Human Medicine at the National University of Federico Villareal in Lima, prescribes maca for a wide variety of conditions, including osteoporosis and the healing of bone fractures in the very elderly. He says, "Maca has a lot of easily absorbable calcium in it, plus magnesium, and a fair amount of silica, which we are finding very useful in treating decalcification of bones in children and adults."
Dr Calderon has also helped patients overcome male impotence, male sterility and female sterility by employing maca therapy. Additional problems he treats with maca are rickets, various forms of anaemia, menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats, climacteric and erectile difficulties in men, premature ageing, and general states of weakness, such as chronic fatigue.
Another health professional using maca is Dr Garry F. Gordon, President of the International College of Advanced Longevity Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He said: "Using maca myself, I experienced a significant improvement in erectile tissue response. I call it ‘nature’s answer to Viagra’.
"What I see in maca is a means of normalising our steroid hormones like testosterone, progesterone and oestrogen. Therefore, it has the capability to forestall the hormonal changes of ageing. It acts on men to restore them to a healthy functional status in which they experience a more active libido. Lots of men and women who previously believed their sexual problems were psychological, are now clearly going to look for something physiological to improve their quality of life in the area of sexuality.
Of course, as someone interested in longevity, I’m aware that mortality comes on much sooner for those individuals whose sexual activity is diminished or nonexistent. I believe that people who engage in sex twice a week, or more, live longer. I’ve found sexual activity to a reliable marker for overall ageing."
The Importance of Maca in the History of Peru
Maca’s cultivation goes back perhaps five millennia. It was an integral part of the diet and commerce of the high Andes regions. When they controlled that particular South American area, the Incas found maca so potent that they restricted its use to their Royalty’s court. Upon overrunning the Inca people, conquering Spaniards became aware of this plant’s value and collected tribute in maca roots for export to Spain. Maca was used as an energy enhance and for nutrition by the Spanish Royalty as well. But eventually knowledge for maca’s special qualities died out, being preserved only in a few remote Peruvian communities. In the 1960’s and later in the 1980’s, German and North American scientists researching botanicals in Peru, rekindled interest in maca through nutritional analyses of what was designated as ‘the lost crop of the Andes’. The publication of a book by that name introduced maca to the world. At an international conference in 1991, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United nations recommended that Peruvians should return to eating traditional, native Andean foods. Maca was included in the FAO list as a means of combating nutritional problems being caused by people switching to processed foods and high-sugar drinks. The reintroduction of maca has established healthy eating once again in the Peruvian diet.
So CP did you use the m acca powder?
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The name of the recipe alone sounds yum! I wonder if Tenina can post a couple of recipes from her book for free for those of us who don't buy things straight up. I'm being patient and waiting for the app to come out.
Give in to temptation Tasty…the app will be a while, and well worth it no doubt, but a bit of a wait...
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I bought the Macca powder from the health shop. I always pop a bit in smoothies whenever I make them.
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Thanks CP and Cookie
Sounds a worthwhile purchase, maca powder
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I've just bought some maca gold powder 150g for $30 from the health food shop.
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yep...the price of feeling good does not come cheaply
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True CP! I only bought it for the energy bars, but after reading the benefits, I added 1/4 tsp to my Greek yoghurt at lunch time! Think I'll be buzzing if I make the bars ;)
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Review from Jaclom taken from another posting 21/2/12
I made the energy bars today.. I processed everything up though- my kids aren't keen on chunky nuts. I had whole almonds, skin on, so milled down you won't pick the skins. They are YUM! Have told my girls they can have them for beakfast with a glass of milk- they think I've gone mad letting them have chocolate for breakfast!
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I just bought some Maca Powder online from her (http://www.lovingearth.net/products/14/raw-organic-maca-powder)e. All up with postage, 500g cost $31.90.
I read that it was good for helping with menopause symptoms, plus I want to make the Energy Bars!
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Ok everyone who's tried this....does it give you energy??
Also what does maca powder smell/taste like? Tinking of buying some soon and making these.
JD - did you end up using the crio bru you got in these? What did you think?
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I haven't received the crio bru yet Tasty.
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Has anyone made these bars substituting coffee instead of the Crio Bru?
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Why don't you be the first to do so CC ;D
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I haven't received the crio bru yet Tasty.
YIKES, JD, we havent sent it yet…so sorry…just frantically frantically crazy…sending email now to mailer outer of Crio Bru….
please forgive me!
xxx
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Why don't you be the first to do so CC ;D
Will do Judy,just need to track down Maca Powder ;) ;D
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I made these today, mainly for DH to take to work as a treat with his cuppa.
I firstly blanched the almonds in the TM, then roasted them in the oven, adding the cinnamon stick for a few mins to help dry out before following the rest of the recipe.
I don't have the crio bru beans and wasn't sure if I was supposed to use coffee beans in place of, so today I just used 15g of instant espresso granules instead.
For the granache, I used 200g dark choc and 120ml of water with 1 tsp of the instant coffee dissolved.
This is a very nice slice. It reminds me of something, but I can't think of what. I loved the hit of orange and the roasted nuts really made it. Will make again. :D
(http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii26/ragdoll128/New%20Sweet/IMG_1487.jpg)
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Oh yum.
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Oh yum.
double yum-yum......it's on my hit list :)
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Why don't you be the first to do so CC ;D
Will do Judy,just need to track down Maca Powder ;) ;D
Did you find any cc?
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Why don't you be the first to do so CC ;D
Will do Judy,just need to track down Maca Powder ;) ;D
Did you find any cc?
I found this (http://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/) website Frozzie ;D It has other ingredients I need as well :-)) :-)) :D :D
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Lovely photo and end product Julie. Did you use the Maca powder, surely this recipe could be made without it for those on a budget?
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Just found a site in uk... Organic and raw and much cheaper than other sites.. Different quantities also... In france its around 35 euros for 180g 😱
http://www.gojiking.co.uk (http://www.gojiking.co.uk) is the site if you havent already bought it ..
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Just found a site in uk... Organic and raw and much cheaper than other sites.. Different quantities also... In france its around 35 euros for 180g 😱
http://www.gojiking.co.uk (http://www.gojiking.co.uk) is the site if you havent already bought it ..
Thanks Kim for the info,your a gem :-*
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Was buying when you posted... Same price for the macca powder roughly...
Cc do you know anywhere online where i can get fresh kaffir lime leaves as im only finding dried.. I did have a small plant but it died.. Not suitable climate
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Judy, I just had a taste of just the maca powder on its own and it's revolting to put it mildly! ;D, so it's not added for any nice flavour, obviously just the health benefits. So I would just leave out if unable to buy any.
Frozzie, I've read that if you can't get fresh lime leaves use lots of finely grated lime zest in place of. That's what I do as I can't get fresh leaves here either. I zest 1 or 2 limes. :)
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Are the kaffir lime leaves in a jar any good?
I would only be making the energy bars as a treat Julie so I would leave the Maca out. I'd be dangerous if I had too much energy ;D
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Lol jd and thx julie... Thats normally what i do but when i was in oz i did a fruit salad with a cooked syrup eith kaffir leavrs in and it was divine .. I think i found a thai ingredient wholesler tat sends fresh produce so will invetigate that further.. Dont think it would matter if in a jar or not jd..oz post really are ridiculous with items like heavy fines for sending perfume or aftershave because its flamable but can send liquor no probs ... Go figure!!! No probs for a business to send but privately a problem..
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I bought a jar Judy and they smelled horrible, wasn't game to use them :-))
Frozzie, great if you can score some, good luck. ;D
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No prob sourcing kaffir lime leaves here - across the terrace in back garden 😃
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Oh rub it in why dont you 😝
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Was buying when you posted... Same price for the macca powder roughly...
Cc do you know anywhere online where i can get fresh kaffir lime leaves as im only finding dried.. I did have a small plant but it died.. Not suitable climate
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Frozzie I have only seen dried kaffir lime leaves but found these (http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/kaffir-lime-leaves-paste-shredded-200g-2209-p.asp) never seen the paste in a jar before and will look next time I go grocery shopping for you ;)
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Can you get kaffir lime leaves as a paste?? I have only seen the leaves themselves in small jars CC.
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The only forms i ave seen is fresh, dried and powdered forms..i found a uk nursery that sells them fresh and not frozen for transport but find them more expensive than other sites... 5 pounds for 10 leaves
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I've just ordered a tree from our local Nursery. They hope they will arrive at the end of March, early April.
My brother has a curry leaf tree so we'll be able to swap when needed. ;D
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julieO, do you know how big the trees are? Are they a full size like an actual lime tree? We have a lime tree going crazy in our back yard but would love to have Kaffir leaves on hand.
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The tree will grow to about 1.5 metres and the limes are as useful as the leaves.
Gert
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Wonder, here are a couple of sites regarding lime trees. I will probably grow mine in a pot, my lemon tree that I potted a few months ago is growing really well. :D
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/exotic/care-of-your-kaffir-lime-tree.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1693465.htm
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I made these today using the recipe on Tenina's website as I don't have the book.
I'm not sure what went wrong but the nut mixture was a little crumbly. Then when I ended up putting the ganache on top about a day after, that ended up cracking on top. Is it just me or what could it be?
The only changes I made were not putting in macca powder as don't have any and putting almonds in with their skin on.
Help!
Still yummy though.
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I made these the other day as DH needed a bit of an energy boost. I put Maca powder in them but didn't tell anyone. I decided not to put the ganache on them and instead melted some indt chocolate and spread it very thinly across them. We all love them. They are in the freezer and everyone gets one per day as 'medicine.'
I plan to make some power balls soon for the same reason.