Eggs and Pesto – Perfect Recession Protein

Eggs are great. They are cheap!! You can scramble, fry, poach and bake eggs or cook them in their shells. You can use eggs to make pancakes, waffles, French toast and omelets, too. Eggs are also the main ingredient in some dishes that came to the U.S. from other countries, such as a frittata, egg foo yung, quiche or souffle.

 

Eggs do many jobs in recipes and often help form the structure of cakes, cookies and other baked goods. Eggs also help make creamy custards and keep ice and sugar crystals from forming in foods like ice cream and candies. Eggs are important, too, in making some dressings and sauces, including mayonnaise. All I know is they are an incredibly nutritious food that is a wonderful source of protein.

 

But, in addition to all the ways you can cook or bake them, you can play with eggs. You might decorate them for a holiday or use them for an egg toss or other game.

 

For now I want to share with you one of my favorite and most nutritious egg recipes and the kids just love it.

 

10 oz fresh broccoli steamed for 10 mins and cut into small florets
4 large mushrooms chopped and lightly fried
4oz grated yarlsberg/emantal/edam
6 eggs
1/2cup milk
3 tblsp plain flour
In lightly greased 1 1/2-quart casserole, gently toss together broccoli, mushrooms, and cheese. Beat together eggs, milk, dressing, and flour until thoroughly blended. Pour over vegetables and cheese. Bake in preheated 350ºF oven until knife inserted near center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

 

I also like to add pesto to eggs because my kids love it. I mix up some eggs in a frying pan and then ad cubed bacon, fried until crispy and finely chopped mushrooms. To that I add finely chopped shallots and crème fraiche to bind it all together.

 

This homemade pesto sauce is good on pizza or pasta dishes.

 

INGREDIENTS:
• 2 cups fresh basil leaves (packed)
• 2 cloves fresh garlic
• 1/4 cup pine nuts
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese (fresh grated, preferably)

 

PREPARATION:
Blend all ingredients in blender or food processor. This amazing concoction will keep for month in fridge if covered with a small amount of olive oil. You can just add it to an omelette whenever you like. Note that this also makes an excellent sauce for pizza instead of something tomato-based.

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More Natural Remedies for Cold Sores

Cold sores are so obnoxious I decided to do more research into how to heal them. Furthermore a predisposition to them can be hereditary!
Reishi mushrooms
Reishi mushrooms have a long history of being used to boost the effectiveness of the immune system in traditional medicine throughout many parts of Asia.
In more recent times however, evidence has pointed to the fact that reishi also seems to have the ability to inhibit the spread of the herpes virus, thereby preventing the development of cold sores.
Furthermore, as reishi can be obtained in either powdered or food supplement form, the benefits of including this in your diet are readily available even if the mushrooms themselves are not.
Herbal remedies for cold sores
There are many herbal solutions that you can use to keep the herpes simplex at bay. These include the following:
Echinacea and goldenseal – Both echinacea and goldenseal are plants from which the extract helps to boost the ability of your immune system to fight against viruses like herpes simplex. The extract is available in capsule form over the counter in most health stores or online.
Self-heal – This is a plant that grows in Europe and in Asia (with a more scientific name of ‘Prunella vulgaris') of which the extract has been seen to be effective against the spread of both the herpes simplex 1 and herpes simplex 2 viruses.
There is also some evidence that it works against strains of the virus that have become resistant to drug-based cold sore solutions as well, and again, you should be able to find the extract in your local health food store or it is available for purchase online.
Blackcurrant – Studies in Japan have indicated that eating blackcurrants or including the extract of them as a supplement in your diet may be effective for combating the herpes virus as laboratory tests have indicated the effectiveness of blackcurrants against herpes simplex.
Wakame – Wakame is the Japanese name for a particular type of seaweed which appears to improve the healing time for anyone who is suffering from cold sores, whilst there is also some evidence that it inhibits the reactivation of the virus as well.
Sage and rhubarb cream – In a German study that compared the use of sage and rhubarb cream with the effectiveness of a cream using sage and Acyclovir, it was seen that there was little difference in the ability of the two test substances to help cold sores heal. However, the study concluded that the all natural mixture of sage and rhubarb was more active in fighting against cold sores, hence there is every reason for thinking that the natural option is to be preferred to the one containing chemicals.

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