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Jalapeño Spinach Salad
I feel very privileged to be able to share with you one of my favourite recipes, one which I employ on a daily basis and which I have worked hard to create. I created this out of the necessity for good health combined with my desire to see if I could survive and even thrive on a diet which included none of the animal products which are so prevalent in the diet of many people, and also because of my curiosity to-- I wanted to know if it was truly possible to live and experience bountiful health without cooked food, which I grew up with and which may well have been a factor in a lifetime of health problems that now, thanks in part to this recipe, have gone the way of the dodo bird. What I discovered was abundant energy, mental sharpness, and ... Jalapeño Spinach Salad.
Jalapeño Spinach Salad offers the participant a delightful taste combination which provides significant elemental calcium along with magnesium in its finest form... greens.
So many factors exist in fresh vegetation. It is beyond human explanation, but may it be said that green leafy vegetation is the superlative cleanser. Magnesium is the central hub of chlorophyll, and after calcium the key element of all green vegetable matter. It is the chlorophyll which gives the plant its powerful green colour. The power of the sun sets in motion a chain of events in which photosynthesis plays some good role, and whose chemical reactions have eluded every scientific explanation. It is known that much of life as we know it thrives in sunshine, but why? There is more to it than just one simple answer, but one reason is that Sunshine creates energetic (free) electrons, essential in the negation of free radicals, electron scavengers which are electron-deficient as are, in fact, all acids. Free electrons are also found in fresh air, but more especially after a thunderstorm. Thus, fresh air is refreshing. As the saying goes, `there was electricity in the air'.
Electrons are also abundant in calcium-rich foods, because calcium is an alkaline earth metal, and alkalinity is abundant in the hydroxyl ion (OH-), an oxygen, hydrogen and electron trio which neutralizes harmful lactic acid (it also may neutralize beneficial stomach acids, so digestive aid is to be found in salad dressing containing a weak acid, vinegar). Of course it tastes better with dressing which is equally nutritious, which is why I have included my recipe for Incomparable Dressing, an exquisite fresh salad dressing which you may make at home, and which took me many hours in the kitchen to perfect. Incomparable Dressing takes apple cidar vinegar to new heights, utilizing this much healthier vinegar along with a generous portion of fresh garlic and italian cheeses to bring olive oil to a flavour pitch. It can be prepared in bulk and stored in the refrigerator if desired. Prepared in minutes, it can be the greatest thing ever to happen to spinach and romaine lettuce.
Topped off with a small handful of dried pumpkin seeds (the flat green ones) as well as an equal portion of unsalted sunflower seeds and a few walnut pieces (say, a couple three half walnuts), the symphony of taste is complete. If salt is needed (which is never, unless the cheese is omitted) natural salt (sea salt, rock salt) is called for rather than heat-processed table salt. But salt is not at all necessary when using the Parmiggiano Reggiano (parmesan cheese) combined with the very salty sheep's-/goat's-milk Romano cheese. Cheeses go very well with seeds and nuts actually, but since cheese is animal product it should be used only in quantities sufficient for the tastebuds in my opinion (to wit, to taste). The benefits of goat's milk are known from the Bible (Pr27:27 `a sufficiency of goat's milk for your food'). Norman Walker in his book Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices, p. 12 writes that fresh goat's milk is not mucous-forming (high casein content of cow's milk is a reason cited for cow's milk being mucous-forming).
