Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and The... (39 page)

SUN DRIED TOMATO DRESSING

Makes about ¾ cup

¾ cup
basic dressing

1 teaspoon sun dried tomato flakes (See
Sources
)

1 teaspoon chives or green onion, finely chopped

Prepare basic dressing. Add tomato flakes and let stand a few minutes to allow dried tomatoes to soften. Just before serving add chopped chives or green onion.

WALNUT DRESSING

Makes about ½ cup

2 tablespoons sherry vinegar

2 tablespoons unrefined walnut oil

6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Like flax oil, walnut oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Buy unrefined walnut oil in dark cans and store in the refrigerator.

Place all ingredients in a bowl and stir with a fork.

CREAMY DRESSING

Makes about 1 cup

¾ cup basic or
herb dressing

¼ cup
piima cream
or
creme fraiche

This is a traditional recipe of the Auvergne region in France. Prepare basic or herb dressing. Blend in cream with a fork.

A study has shown that boys born to mothers who experience postpartum depression later display behavioral problems in school. Inhibited emotional development, caused by Mom's post-pregnancy blues, is the accepted explanation. Much more likely is the fact that the same deficiencies that cause new mothers to be depressed also inhibit full development of the nervous system in their infants. The solution is proper prenatal nutrition, including plenty of foods rich in nutrients that feed the nervous system, such as eggs, shellfish, fish eggs, liver, cod liver oil, butter and cream. SWF

ROASTED TOMATO DRESSING

Makes about 2 cups

1 pound firm plum tomatoes

1 cup extra virgin olive oil

¼ cup balsamic vinegar

¼ cup shallots or green onions, finely chopped

1 teaspoon raw honey

2 tablespoons fresh basil, finely chopped (or 2 teaspoons dried basil)

1 teaspoon fresh oregano, finely chopped (or ¼ teaspoon dried oregano)

1 tablespoon parsley, finely chopped

2 tablespoons expeller-expressed flax oil

This is a delicious dressing for salads in winter! Wash and dry the tomatoes. Brush with olive oil and set in a shallow glass pan. Roast in a 400 degree oven about 30 minutes until skin begins to blister. Cool completely. Chop and set aside.

Whisk remaining ingredients except flax oil together in a bowl and season to taste with sea salt and pepper. Stir in tomatoes. Let dressing sit an hour or so to amalgamate flavors. Just before serving, stir in flax oil. Store leftover dressing in refrigerator.

In numerous reviews written by upholders of the diet-heart idea it is often said that this idea is based on "strong scientific data," the evidence is "overwhelming" or "powerful" and "controversy is unjustified". . .. nothing could be further from the truth. To use such vocabulary it has been necessary to exaggerate trivial, apparently supportive findings; to belittle or ignore the wealth of controversial and disproving evidence; and to quote unsupportive results as if they were supportive. . ..

Observations that are totally devastating for the diet-heart idea are mostly ignored. A good example is the fact that if we exclude individuals with the rare disease familial hypercholesterolemia (less than 0.5 percent of mankind suffer from it), there is no association between the level of blood cholesterol and the degree of vascular atherosclerosis. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD
The Cholesterol Myths

CREAMY MAYONNAISE DRESSING

Makes about 1¼ cups

¾ cup
basic dressing

¼ cup
piima cream
or
creme fraiche

¼ cup
mayonnaise

1 tablespoon fresh herbs, finely chopped

Place all ingredients in a jar and shake vigorously, or blend in a bowl with a whisk.

Unpasteurized milk and butter were used for thousands of years, with a history of conferring good health on their users. Since the time of Hippocrates, physicians used raw milk and raw butter as therapeutic agents to treat disease. Whole nations formerly depended upon dairy products as major sources of food. But when pasteurization was introduced, dairy products strangely and precipitously lost their health charms, almost as if somebody waved an evil wand and, presto, dairy products were instantly cursed. For example, in the days before milk and butter lost their lipase due to the heat of pasteurization, millions of people lived on dairy products without getting atherosclerosis (clogged arteries due to cholesterol deposits) because lipase knows how to handle cholesterol.

We have lost our ability to tame this killer. Lipase was also a valued guest in olive oil and other oils when they were thick and opaque but had to give up its residence when the factories made them clear. The commercial production of these oils coincides with the rise of cancer-related deaths in modern society. These strong indications of the value of lipase offer reasons why lipase should be given high priority in research to test its capacity to neutralize pathogenic effects. Edward Howell, MD
Enzyme Nutrition

CILANTRO LIME DRESSING

Makes about ¾ cup

½ cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon expeller-expressed flax oil

3 tablespoons fresh lime juice

1 tablespoon cilantro, finely chopped

¼ teaspoon dried oregano

dash cayenne pepper

pinch stevia powder

Place all ingredients in a bowl and stir vigorously with a fork.

MEXICAN DRESSING

Makes about ¾ cup

½ cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon expeller-expressed flax oil

3 tablespoons raw wine vinegar

pinch stevia powder

1 clove garlic, peeled and mashed

½ teaspoon dried oregano

¼ teaspoon chile powder

Place all ingredients in a bowl and stir vigorously with a fork.

Publications almost beyond counting have studied the prognostic value of the "good" HDL-cholesterol. The reason is, of course, that it is hard to find any prognostic value. If HDL-cholesterol had a heart-protecting effect of real importance, it would not be necessary to use the tax payer's money to demonstrate the effect again and again in expensive studies. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD
The Cholesterol Myths

BLUE CHEESE DRESSING

Makes about 1 cup

¾ cup
basic dressing

2-4 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese

If possible, use genuine Roquefort cheese made from sheep milk, which is rich in lauric acid. Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse a few times until blended; or mash cheese into dressing with a fork.

"LDL has the strongest and most consistent relationship to individual and population risk of CHD, and LDL-cholesterol is centrally and causally important in the pathogenetic chain leading to atherosclerosis and CHD." These words you will find in a large review
Diet and Health
.

Reviews by distinguished scientific bodies are supposed to meet high standards. . .[but] the "large body of evidence" was cooked down to one single study, which showed a predictive value for LDL-cholesterol but for a few age groups only. LDL-cholesterol is neither centrally nor causally important, it has not the strongest and most consistent relationship to risk of CHD, it has not a direct relationship to the rate of CHD, and it has not been studied in more than a dozen randomized trials. . .

Thus, the experimenters claim support from unsupportive epidemiological and clinical studies, and the epidemiologists and the clinicians claim support from inconclusive experimental evidence. The victims of this miscarriage of justice are an innocent and useful molecular construction in our blood, producers and manufacturers of animal fat all over the world, and millions of healthy people who are frightened and badgered into eating a tedious and flavorless diet that is said to lower their bad cholesterol. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD
The Cholesterol Myths

ANCHOVY DRESSING

Makes about 1¼ cups

1 can anchovies packed in olive oil

¾ cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon expeller-expressed flax oil

1 clove garlic, peeled and mashed

1 teaspoon Dijon-type mustard

¼ cup raw wine vinegar

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice