It was hard for me to track down Rizal Dairy Farms on the web. Both their websites are down. They need a better website developer and maintainer. Maybe my company can do their website. I’m a web developer remember? www.filipinowebservices.com

I finally track down a number and call their office on a Saturday morning. I was looking for raw milk and raw butter. They said they had those but only in their head office, not in the outlets such as Market Market. Good for me, Antipolo is nearer.

The way to get there is via Ortigas extension. At the end of Ortigas extension, turn left going up the mountain of Antipolo and drive up for some 10 minutes. On your right you will see Beverly Hills Village. Ask the guard for Rizal Dairy Farms. He will tell you to go straight until you see 7th Avenue. Turn right. After 5 intersections you will arrive at Magnolia street, you turn left. The last house on the left is Rizal Dairy Farms. The small green gate is the entrance to the office which has the doorbell.

The address of Rizal Diary Farms is

#5 Magnolia Drive

Beverly Hills Subdivision

Taytay, Rizal 1920

Philippines

Telephone numbers: +63-2-660-2197 / +63-2-669-8177

You must call before you drive up. Raw milk is not always available. And Raw butter has to be ordered and made for a few days.

Rizal Diary Farms is more than just milk.  They have butter, cheese, yogurt and a lot of other products in the organic category.

They also have a catering company called Petra’s Naturally – accepts private and corporate catering & offers South Beach Diet Food Order Services.

Ah the self experimenter in me is itching again. After reading Aajonus Vonderplanitz and the experts on the Raw Paleolithic Diet, I get the itch to self experiment.

I tracked down the raw milk supplier in my area. Rizal Dairy Farms is in near enough Antipolo. So I call on a Saturday and reserve some milk for myself and this morning Sunday I drive up Antipolo Mountain to Rizal Dairy Farms’ head office.

I got my 2 liters of fresh raw cow’s milk, they say it is from organic cows. In their office I couldn’t wait so I asked them for a glass so I could taste raw cow’s milk for the first time in my life. I wish I had a camera for this moment. It smelled a little like cow, and tasted real good, full cream.

I then make some chitchat and tell the nice lady about my raw food experiences and why I’m buying raw milk. I get in my car and drive home. On the way home I felt really full. Wow, must be the full fat in the raw milk. I felt sleepy too. At home I take another glass of milk so I can socially drink it as my lunch with my family. Daddy is self experimenting again. And no you kids can’t have some because I’m still experimenting. If the experiment goes well, I’ll give you some. If not, then none.

I felt sleepy and lied down a while while letting my little girl take her nap. Then I’m doing my blogging. Then I’m farting. Stomach gurgling. Hmmm… is it the live raw milk doing that? Most probably. I’ll tell you more in the next blog posts after a few days and when I consume all 2 liters of the raw milk. Maybe in 2 more days.

I ordered 1/2 kilo of Raw Butter and the nice lady estimated the raw butter will be finished by Thursday.

Some of my readers here might be wonder where I get some of my ideas for eating raw animal meat.  There is my personal observations, local folk knowledge and there are my readings.  On the internet  you can read the full spectrum of raw foodists, not just the vocal raw vegans and fruitarians.  There are the ones who advocate an all raw meat diet and there are the many more people in between.  These are the raw paleolithic diet people, a broad spectrum.  In it I can see the Wai Diet, there’s Carol Alt the model, and there is Aajonus Vonderplanitz.

What is great about Aajonus Vonderplanitz is that at first reading you might say that his stories are whoppers, tall tales.  Upon further analysis and comparison to previous teachers I have sought, Aajonus may seem just as preposterous as when I first read Barefoot Herbalist.  But they are both correct!  Barefoot achieves his optimal health, and Aajonus achieves his optimal health.

The question is, where does our personal optimal health lie?  Something for you to find out.

Back to Aajonus.  I found this interview in Karl Loren’s website and I am shamelessly saving it in this blog post in case that page disappears.  I’ve read Aajonus’ book We Want to Live but this interview says so much in so few words.  You have to learn from this.

I’ve always sought out fatty food as beneficial.  The good fats.  Avocado, extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, coconut cream, etc.  But Aajonus has experimented with himself and many people find that fats and meats from specific animals are beneficial for specific needs in your development or healing.

This is a must read.

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On with the family experiment on raw food.  I told my wife I tasted raw beef this afternoon, that it tasted really good.  She didn’t want it.  Oh I pulled her over to demonstrate how it is done.  I told her Carol Alt the supermodel eats seared beef.  Though my wife does not know what searing is, my wife does not cook at all, let’s be clear about this point.

Anyway I showed her the big slab of beef steak I had.  Nice, tender and fresh.  I showed her the small cut I was making.  And I pulled her to where I was going to sear it.  She told me to marinate it.  No no no, I told her, that was not part of being raw.  Being raw is savoring the true flavor of the meat as it is naturally.  This was batangas beef fed with grass on the pasture under sunshine, open air.  So she sees me sear the meat 3 seconds on all sides so it looks socially cooked on the outside.

The seared beef smelled good.  I put it under my wife’s nose, and under my children’s noses.  They liked what they smelled.  Out comes my sharp steak knife and I make fine sashimi style slices for each child.  They loved it!  And this was while they were having the kinilaw na tangigue for dinner too.  They couldn’t make up their mind.  Which one tasted better?  I told them both the kinilaw and the raw steak tasted great but both had different flavors.

My 2nd boy got greedy and stood beside me and consumed the rest of the raw bloody beef.  Plainly eaten.  No condiments whatsoever.  Along with the trim yellow fat.

This experiment was great.  I got my wife’s approval for seared beef.  It seems socially cooked so it was visually acceptable.  And that is what matters to her.  Inside, it is all bloody raw.  My cut was around 1.5 inches thick.

This was a first.  A few more experiments with me consuming the raw beef and I will find out how beneficial raw beef is to my diet.  If it is then we can add it as a staple to the children’s diet.  What is important is I sear it myself, not the cook.  If I let someone else sear it, they will instead want to really cook it and that destroys it.  I want to sear it enough just so the aroma comes out and it is socially acceptable visually.  But inside it is all raw fresh goodness.

My wife and I were discussing last night how she thinks our children are small. Smaller than her old brother’s children. Hey, her brother and his wife are a lot taller than we are in the first place.

No matter. A few years of eating the regular Filipino diet of rice, vegetables and fish even if they are mostly organic hasn’t made our children bigger. Now that I’m into raw food, maybe we can make the children grow bigger with raw meat.

So this afternoon I set off with our cook to the Farmers Market to buy fresh goat for kinilaw, to be raw cooked in organic coconut vinegar. Too late. Other people have already bought the good goat parts for kinilaw. We went around the market and found fresh tangigue aka sea bass. I bought 1/2 kilo at around P 280 per kilo.

Our cook took care of it. I really don’t know what recipe she did but it was fantastic. Absolutely sensational. The whole family loved it. Nothing was left. So the kids endured the hot cayenne peppers, the vinegar, the onions… they said it was hot but they still ate a lot.

Kinilaw means to “cook” in vinegar. It’s not really cooking since there is no heat involved. But soaking fish or some other seafood in a strong vinegar solution turns the meat opaque and gives it a texture of having been cooked.

I really don’t know how raw this counts in the scale of raw foodists. Maybe it is beneficial? It does add more color to our raw menu.

What does this dish look like?

Something like this from http://www.kinilaw.com/

A recipe may look like this:

1 kilo skinned fresh sea bass

2 tbs finely minced garlic

1 cup white vinegar

6 tbs calamansi or lemon juice

5 diced tomatoes

1 cup finely minced onion

3 tbs finely minced ginger

1 red capsicum, diced

1 green capsicum, diced

1/4 cup spring onions, minced

salt and pepper to taste

Marinate fish in vinegar for an hour. Drain and mix with lemon juice and all other ingredients. Let it sit in the refrigerator for an hour before serving.

from http://www.camperspoint.com/article.php3?id_article=110

More information on kinilaw from http://www.coconutstudio.com/kinilaw_art.htm

Exciting development today. I finally got the notion of really doing it. Eating raw beef. In the Philippines we have two main sources. Batangas and Mindoro. Our beef are all grass fed. Organic. Free range. Flavorful. The fat is yellowish. The imported grain fed beef have white fat and taste dull. The cows are slaughtered around 11pm and arrive in the big Farmers Market in the morning. So says the big macho man seller. I bet he eats a lot of beef.

Last night I was reading the success stories of Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ adherents. Many commented that grass fed beef tasted really good. The super model Carol Alt eats raw beef. Carol is more socially polite, she eats SEARED beef. So I search the internet for what searing does. To heck with that, I just asked my cook to make a demonstration. And it appears each side of the beef cut you made is put on a very hot pan and “seared” for maybe 2 or 3 seconds per side, it just browns the surface so the meat looks polite on the outside. But inside it is bloody raw. This should be good for transitioning. It smelled great. It tasted great. No condiments. No seasoning. I tried two types of seasoning we had at home, so so taste, the beef had its own great flavor. Doesn’t need seasoning. I tried a 1″ thick cut. I ate a 2″ x 3″ small cut.

The price of prime batangas beef is easier than fish. It is only P 240 per kilo for that steak we bought, the raw salmon is P 440 per kilo and the raw tuna is P 320 per kilo . How will my body react to raw beef? Only time will tell.