Breakfasts, Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Chesse, Muesli, Puddings, Recipes

Eton Mess Pudding, Budwig Diet Style

Eton mess style with mango
Eton mess style with mango, strawberries and blueberries

This is a great dessert to serve if you are entertaining, it’s quick to make,  it is much lighter and healthier, and most people prefer it to the traditional cream based Eton Mess.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons Gold Linseeds
  • Quark-Linseed Oil Cream (made from 150 g quark and 75 ml cold-pressed linseed oil thoroughly blended and optionally sweetened with 1 teaspoon Honey and or stevia)
  • Half a pear and half a banana sliced (or other fruit)
  • Raspberries and/or sliced strawberries
  • A little fresh fruit juice
  • A pinch of ground vanilla
  • A dusting of cinnamon (optional)
  • Macadamia nuts or lightly toasted sliced almonds

Method

Grind the linseeds to a fine powder in a dedicated electric coffee grinder and place in a bowl.  Add sliced fruit and juice.  Mix the quark-linseed cream with vanilla and heap up in bowl. Add the raspberries and stir everything lightly.   Top with nuts and an optional  dusting of cinnamon.

Breakfasts, Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Chesse, Muesli, Puddings, Recipes

Quark-Linseed Oil Smoothie Recipe

  • 2 tablespoons Linseeds
  • 1 portion of Quark-Linseed Oil Cream (made from 100 g quark and 3 tablespoons cold-pressed linseed oil thoroughly blended and optionally sweetened with 1 teaspoon Honey; see recipe)
  • A portion of raw seasonal fruit
  • Berries
  • 1-2 cups  freshly made juice,
  • spices, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, etc to taste

Method

Make the quark-linseed oil cream as usual but in this instance milk isn’t essential but make sure it is thoroughly blended and the oil is fully incorporated.  Grind the linseeds to a fine powder in a dedicated electric coffee grinder and place in a blender with the fruit, berries, spices and fresh juice, whiz until smooth.  Then add the quark-linseed oil cream and blend briefly add more juice if required.

Variations:  From this basic recipe, the only limit is your imagination!

Vary the fruits and spices according to the seasons and what tickles your tastebuds that day.

Leave out the honey, make savoury smoothies instead – a sort of chilled vegetable soup.

Try a Budwig Borscht with beetroot, chives, celery, caraway, apple & nettle juice and a pinch of cayenne!

Budwig Tips

Use a mini whisk to make the cream

Hand whisks can be used but you do need to beat thoroughly to blend oil and cottage cheese
Hand whisks can be used but you do need to beat thoroughly to blend oil and cottage cheese

Making the flax/linseed oil-quark cream:  I have found an ordinary mini hand whisk blends the linseed oil and quark well if you beat it vigorously as you would if making mayonnaise. It’s physically harder but I prefer it to an electric stick blender.  It is seriously low tech but very useful when you need to make the cream up when you are out and about – great for picnics.

This saves on washing up an extra bowl: when I am feeling lazy I mix the quark and oil in my cereal bowl and then add all the other stuff on top.  It doesn’t matter what order I do it in because I stir it all up anyway.

The finished emulsion of oil and cheese looks as well blended or even better than using the electric whisk and it tastes just as good!

(When I make this for guests and family they just assume it’s basically whipped cream and don’t realise it  doesn’t contain cholesterol and is actually good for them… LOL!)

From  Clare

Budwig Tips

Home-grown foods – funny shapes but better for you

Home grown for flavour

Grow your own,  beg or buy other people’s home grown food or help yourself wild growing!  Apples, raspberries, strawberries,  blueberries, salads leave, runner beans, spinach and chard are all really easy to grow. They taste better too.  I almost wept when I bought some traditional apples from the front of someone’s house, they tasted like I remember when I was a child at home!  Now I go out looking for other people’s spare home-grown produce: they often sell it at the gate.

Really nutritious superfoods

Don’t worry that the fruit and veggies may be gnarled and misshapen, or have been munched by caterpillars they have more flavour and have to be richer in minerals and nutrients even if sometimes you have to cut out the bruises and holes.  Wild ransoms, blackberries, cherries, crab apples and many other healthy superfoods grow wild and are just there for the picking.

Freeze spare

Any extra can be frozen.  Berries can be frozen, veg usually needs blanching. Check web for individual fruits freezing treatment.

Properly organic and chemical-free as Nature intended

These wild and homegrown usually have no chemicals on them, grow slowly and are full of nutrition and flavour.

 

AR

Budwig News

Fox News: anti-prostate-cancer-foods

In an article about foods that can help to protect men’s health, flax (linseed) is mentioned for two anti-cancer components – lignans and omega-3.

“Both flaxseed and its oil have been promoted as anti-cancer substances since the early 1950s, but only recently has any solid evidence emerged.”

“Only a handful of small studies have investigated the link between flax and prostate cancer in humans, but the results all look promising”

Read more  www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/04/anti-prostate-cancer-foods/

 

 

Budwig Tips

Spicy Sandwich Spread

I like to use the more bland cottage cheese which I find a bit boring on its own but it’s nice and creamy when mixed with interesting fillers.  Sometimes I chop up onion, gherkins ,capers,  celery, sweet peppers, mild chili and tomato to mix in with it to make a sandwich filler and use a wipe of oleolux instead of butter on the bread first to stop the bread going soggy. Good on baked potatoes too or boiled potatoes for a potato salad.

by Bethany

Budwig Tips

No more diabetes

“I started using the Budwig diet when I had a suspected tumour.  I had been diabetic for several years but after a few months on the diet I am not diabetic anymore so I still stay on it and I love the food and my new way of eating.  My favourite way of using the quark-linseed oil mix is with chives and just as a treat a little Parmesan cheese, brilliant lunch. My other favourite is the ice cream. I love the Oleolux too”

Mair R

Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Chesse, Puddings, Recipes

Budwig Diet Ice Cream Recipe

It might seem too good to be true but you can have ice cream on the Budwig diet.  When made with the fat-free quark, it is cholesterol-free and rich in the good fat omega-3.  You can use this recipe for an interesting way to have the linseed oil-quark cream instead of a muesli-style dessert.

This ice cream was created by Johanna Budwig.  It has got to be the all-time easiest home-made ice-cream recipe, the result is creamy,  smooth  and absolutely delicious – and is probably one of the healthiest ice creams ever.  It is a great treat, especially for anyone wanting to eat more healthily or with concerns about cholesterol, and it’s a good option for tempting a patient with a flagging appetite.

Vanilla Ice Cream

  • 100 g quark
  • 45 g linseed (flax) oil
  • 50g skimmed milk
  • 1 tablespoon raw natural honey
  • 1/4  teaspoon vanilla  extract or vanilla bean paste ( but not flavouring or “essence.”)

Simply blend and freeze.

Enjoy with fresh fruits, berries, nuts and a couple of heaped dessertspoons of ground linseed.

Variations:

  1.  Chocolate Ice Cream: add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to the mix above and blend.  Particularly good with ripe pears and chopped Brazil nuts
  2. Blueberry Ice Cream: add 3 tablespoons blueberries and blend, then fold in a handful of chopped walnuts.  Good with sliced peaches and almonds.
  3. Raspberry Ice Cream: add 3 tablespoons of raspberries and blend.
  4. Banana Ice Cream: mash a ripe banana and blend, great with fresh strawberries and mixed nuts.

Try your own variations with different fruit purees and juices, seeds and berries. Who would have thought linseed oil ice cream would taste this good?

 

 

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" – Hippocrates