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Paleo Diet Recipe: Ox Tail Stew

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A few days ago I was inspired by the cooked paleo diet journal of Celtic Cave Girl in cavemanforum.com about her oxtail stew. I figured I could cook that same stew. We have all the ingredients and the equipment for it. What’s good about it is it is a very fatty stew, fat, fat, fat. And it’s beef fat. Since it is a stew, it seems to taste less toxic than cooked ground beef. The usual Filipino recipe for oxtail is Kare Kare which is so not paleo diet because it relies on peanut sauce.

You see, even though I’m a raw paleo dieter, my family is not there yet with me so at the very least I should convert them to paleo diet, even a cooked paleo diet, then get further raw over the months.

FYI, I’m in charge of making money, doing the marketing personally, in charge of the daily menu… I just tell the maids what to cook. If it’s the first time a meal is to be cooked, I personally supervise it to be done. This is one of them.

Here are the steps we took to make the ox-tail stew:

  • Yesterday Saturday I bought 2 kilos of beef tail – ox tail,
  • Yesterday Saturday I bought a lot of beef bones for their raw bone marrow.
  • This Sunday morning I had all the raw bone marrow removed and put in two bowls.
  • I had the bones put in a pot over charcoals to make beef stock by 9am.
  • I watched some YouTube videos about how to make oxtail stew, they were the usual gross commercialized supermarket variety stews.  Imagine using packaged commercial chicken stock, and flour, and umpteen condiments… absolutely unhealthy… unacceptable.  I’m doing this the paleo diet way.
  • By 2:30 pm we began browning the oxtail parts
  • By 3pm the oxtail stew was stewing in the pot and we in fact consumed all the beef stock eventually.
  • Added 5 jack fruit leaves because our maid said that helps soften the oxtail
  • Added freshly ground pepper, sea salt, 1 fresh cayenne pepper, carrots, white onions, bay leaf
  • By 6:30pm the oxtail stew was ready to be served

This is the first time we had oxtail stew.  Amazing jelly like consistency of the thick ox tail skin.  Pictures of my oxtail stew below.  We have left overs so the children will have it for their morning meal and lunch packs.

Teen Sexuality Teaching Training Seminar May 19, 2011

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You are cordially invited to attend the May 19-21, 2010 – Sampaloc, Manila: Pro-Life Training Seminar “TEEN SEXUALITY TEACHING TRAINING SEMINAR” For Teachers, Catechists, Parents and Lay Leaders

Date: May 19-21, 2011 (Thur.-Sat.)
Time: 8am to 5pm
Venue: St. Joseph Retreat House Conference Room, Our Lady of Loreto Church, Manzanas Street, Sampaloc, Manila

Fee: Php 2,000.00 (includes snacks and meals, handouts and certificate)

The training seminar aims to strengthen the ability of the participants to respond to the needs of today’s teen-agers with respect to issues on human sexuality, marriage, family planning and population education, according to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

It is designed for teachers, counselors, catechists, parents, lay leaders, and others who deal with teen-agers on issues mentioned above.

Participants will be trained to implement the training modules on teen sexuality packaged in our manual entitled “LEARNING TO LIVE and LOVE” Plus updated supplementary activity and reading materials. This manual has been endorsed by the Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education and the Commission on Family and Life of the Archdiocese of Manila.

For reservations or more information, please call Malou at 733-7027 or you may send us a telefax at 734-9425; a text through our mobile 0919-2337783; or an email at life@prolife.org.ph. Visit our website at www.prolife.org.ph

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Earthing Grounding While Sleeping Success Experiments with Myself and My Son

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Last weekend beginning Friday night I made sure I slept with just the mattress on the floor of 1 story house… grounded. I slept very very well. In fact I wanted more sleep Saturday morning and Sunday morning. Just in time for healing maybe a small bone crack in my stubbed right toe. It felt like deep healing resting sleep. I felt so amazingly rested I tested this same grounding experiment with my 9 year old boy.

My 9 year old boy is small. He’s the first born, usually the first borns are smaller. My 7 year old boy is already heftier than my first born. As a coincidence, with our sleeping arrangements, our 2 younger children sleep in the mattress on the floor, while our eldest child sleeps on the elevated bed. Maybe our first born being unfortunate to always sleep on the elevated bed is not grounded and has so for years. Is that what is keeping him from growing faster and heftier?

Last night we started the grounding experiment. I had my boy sleep on the mattress on the floor for a change. Just before falling asleep he said that mattress made him feel sleepier than usual. And when he woke up he told me he slept really well. Ha ha. Maybe I was suggestive and my boy lapped it up.

The real key is consistency. So let’s see as the weeks go on if sleeping grounded will make a big difference in my boy’s health.

If you have pain or have health problems, grounding really works while at work or at sleep. Every little bit helps when you are sick and all those little bits add up. I think grounding is a big deal. That’s why I encourage children to walk around barefoot. I even remember my teacher Barefoot Herbalist MH give a lesson that some really sick people were told by their healer to dig a hole in the ground and sleep in it.

Manila Waldorf School Open House Feb 19 and March 5, 2011 – Looking for a new school?

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Looking for a new school for your precious little ones? Let me share a secret with you. We send our children to Manila Waldorf School in Timberland, San Mateo, Rizal. Our kids don’t watch TV and they don’t get burdened homework and tension rising exams. They get to play musical instruments, play with non-plastic toys, really learn ideas, lessons… not mimicking circus tricks and memorizing useless factoids… enjoying life with fresh clean air overlooking the polluted city below.

Announcement: Manila Waldorf School Open House General Orientation in MWS Timberland on March 5, 2011 from 10am – 2pm. Our Kindergarten orientation on Feb.19,2011 (9am-12nn).

Parents and children are invited to see our new campus in the idyllic place Timberland.

Hope you can explore the possibility of choosing Manila Waldorf School. See you there!

Manila Waldorf School
Timberland Heights
Spine Road, Guitnang Bayan 2, San Mateo Rizal
contact@manilawaldorfschool.edu.ph
Telephone 570-7038 Telefax 570-8138

Website: http://www.manilawaldorfschool.edu.ph

Children Discover Delicious Raw White Onions for Coughs

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My 2 boys who have been having coughs were interested when I told them my American friend Eric a fellow raw foodist told me that raw white onions were good to stop coughs. So I told my boys to just eat raw white onions. Luckily we bought some this evening.

As I was pealing one raw white onion, they feared the taste may be too strong or too hot. I had my 9 year old taste first… he said wow, this tasted really good, it was a tiny bit hot. So this piqued the interest of my 7 year old boy. I then told them a secret… that raw white onions tasted really good with the cooked beef at the dinner table. So they got part cooked beef and part raw white onion in their mouths and TING… man, that tastes really good!

The boys are asleep now, let’s see if their coughs disappear in the morning.

Paleo Diet Raw Food Lecture For My 9 Year Old Boy on Detox

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For the past weeks now my 9 year old boy has had a cough and cold. I let my wife enjoy her trying to cure our son through her various anthroposophic concoctions and she even had me buy a nebulizer machine. She’s at her wits end as to why our boy still is not getting well. So I volunteered to again for the nth time put our boy on a raw paleo diet to finally get rid of that persistent cough and cold.Continue Reading

2 Children Given Tummy Ache by Bad Tikoy? Happy Chinese New Year.

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My 3 kids visited their cousins a few blocks away for the Sunday afternoon. Dinner time 2 children had tummy aches. Must have been something they ate at the cousins. Asked them. The eldest boy said they all had Chinese tikoy, you know, that Chinese New Year thing… said they had a couple of squares, they all agreed their cousins’ tikoy tasted bad. They tasted some tikoy at home lunch time and that tasted good. So that must be the culprit, the prime suspect in this tummy ache escapade.

More about why the tikoy must have been the culprit. The cousins’ parents aren’t there. Only the nannies. Bad quality control. Bad food. Taste was terrible? Did the nannies cut and cooked the plastic layer along with the tikoy? It does happen. Did they use a bad egg? Did they use bad cooking oil?

There is always a danger when we let our kids socialize. This is just one of those days. My daughter didn’t get to eat dinner, only had a drink and I gave her a slice of pineapple to hopefully dissolve whatever is in there. My 2nd boy had a worse time, he did get to have dinner and I first gave him his probiotic dose then later a slice of pineapple to help digest stuff too.

They’re asleep now. I hope they wake up fine.