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["Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>]

Bev, I make a great Borsht...brought it to the birthday party of someone 
from Siberia once and they said it was the best! I bet the pudding will 
work with thawed frozen fruit. Yeah, it's really weird how gelatinous 
ground flax is. You'd never think a crunchy little seed could become 
pudding, but it does. Somewhere I have a recipe for fruit bars using 
ground flax, too...I'll see if I can find it.

I may have told you I once had some benign tumors that caused me to lose 
a lot of blood over enough time that I got used to being anemic when I 
should have just been dead. While all this was going on, and not yet 
knowing the problem, I began to seriously crave raisin cinnamon bread. I 
mean to tell you for weeks I was eating two loaves a day, wiping out a 
store's entire shelf of it in one trip each week. The surgery stopped 
the blood loss, and afterwards I stopped craving the bread. Later I 
found out cinnamon stops internal bleeding and we know raisins are a 
good source of iron. This is when I began to realize we need to listen 
to our cravings.

There very well may be a reason you are craving all these foods!

--Sage

EarthNSky wrote:
> Sage Austin | Eureka! Design wrote:
>   
> > Bev,
> >
> > You can make a pudding by griding a couple tablespoons of flax seed
> > and adding them with a little fresh fruit (banana, kiwi,
> > strawberries, etc) in a blender, sweetened if you like with a little
> > honey, a little lemon juice and vanilla for extra flavor. I let them
> > set up in the fridge in individual cups and garnish with some lemon
> > peel freshly grated. Because the seeds are so gelatinous they make a
> > good pudding and once you get the hang of it since there' no cooking
> > involved you can knock out an elegant, healthful dessert in no time
> > at all.
> >
> > --Sage
> >     
>
> Gelatinous?  That sounds very good, Sage.  I don't have any fresh fruit,
> but I do have frozen fruit so I am going to try it using frozen peaches.
> I never thought of using flax in things other than what I already do.  I
> can't wait to try some of these things.  We've been trying a lot of new
> stuff lately, and so far, we have diversified our diet well.  They say
> your taste changes every 7 years...it must be true.  I can't believe the
> things I eat/crave...raw onions!!!!  Beets!!! I've gone from craving
> guacamole to craving onions!!  I barely ate cooked onions before!
> Yesterday, I caught myself drooling over borscht recipes...Borscht!!!
>
> Bev
>