WHOLLY MACRO Macrobiotic Educators Personal Chefs
GAYLE STOLOVE ~ BS, RN, LMT JAIME PARRA ~ LMT
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Please find the October 28, 2010 Wholly Macro Delivery Menu below. We hope that you will enjoy reading our weekly articles as you scroll down to the Weekly Menu / Order Form section, or, you can click on the DELIVERY MENU link above to go directly to it.
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WEEKLY NEWS
We wanted to let you know about our upcoming Holiday Schedule since it feels like it is just around the corner.
We have good news and bad news.
The bad news first: We will be closing for three weeks, from November 18 through December 2 while Gayle journeys to the Kushi Institute once again to take a few more weeks of the advanced macrobiotic course she has been pursuing for the past two years. And yes, for the first time in the 15 years that Wholly Macro has been in business we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
The good news though: We will be doing the Thanksgiving Menu, in it's entirety the week of the November 11 food delivery. You may want to enjoy an early Wholly Macro Thanksgiving Feast that week, and then go on to enjoy another feast on the real Thanksgiving, or, you may want to stock up on the Wholly Macro Thanksgiving selection and save it until Thanksgiving Day. Every item on that November 11 Thanksgiving menu will freeze beautifully.
So, one more time for the people in the back: Wholly Macro will be closed November 18, November 25, and December 2. We will re-open December 9, and will send the December 9 Menu / Newsletter out on December 4. We will be closed again briefly the week of Christmas / New Years, (we'll give you those dates after we re-open in December), so things will be a little stop and go over the holidays this year, but if you bear with us, we will start the New Year off on a steady note, as we all enjoy a nice long stretch of uninterrupted delicious food deliveries in 2011.
We will remind you and keep you well informed of our on and off delivery weeks throughout the rest of 2010.
And BTW, the next three weeks menus have several items on them each week that freeze well, to tide you over while we are gone. We'll point them out to you each week in the About This Weeks Menu section of the newsletter. Read our article included in this newsletter about Wholly Macro's opinion and advice re: freezing food. |
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ABOUT THIS WEEKS MENU
This October 28 Menu has some real favorites on it.
The Shiitake Noodle Soup is a soup we created years ago for a private client of ours who wanted / longed for / craved in fact, chicken noodle soup! We pretty much use all of the classic chicken noodle soup ingredients with the exception of the chicken, and substitute it instead with delectable cubes of pan fried tofu which gives the soup a rich and hardy quality and makes for a much healthier soup, one that still contains plenty of good quality protein, without the extra dose of saturated fat chicken is so famous for. This, and all of our soups, freeze very well.
The Fillo Pastry Puffs: We have to brace ourselves whenever this dish appears on the menu because we get so many orders for it. It is yet another dish that we created for a private client, who wanted something similar to Spina Copita, the Greek dish made with spinach and feta cheese. You know the one. We couldn't do it with those ingredients. Too unhealthy. So we created our own fillings, and folded the fillo into neat little triangular pastries that freeze extremely well. In fact, you just take a few out, put them in an oven or a frying pan, and heat them up. They will puff back up and get nice and brown and flaky. This week they are seasonally stuffed with sweet yellow onions and cranberries in a base of split peas. A true meal in one dish.
We think that both the Seitan, Broccoli, and Sweet Potato Stir Fry, and the Brown Rice Pudding will freeze well too. And in the event that you want to eat them fresh, well have at it because they are both delicious and real favorites. But of course the Lentil and Couscous Dish and the Bowtie Pasta Dish are healthy and delicious too. Hmm. Decisions, decisions...
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**A reminder when placing your order, Wholly Macro will be closing starting the week of November 18th through the week of December 2nd, 2010 and will resume Delivery Service on December 9th, 2010. |
WHILE WE ARE AWAY....
Some words about how to best cope with the temporary absence of Wholly Macro from your life!!
We encourage you to always do the very best that you can for yourselves each and every precious day of your lives. Your best may not be perfect. But, if you have been putting forth your best effort, and if you have been ordering from us fairly consistently for the past five months, you should be in very good shape, having been eating the best possible food, as fresh as possible, just full of energy, vitality, and nutrients. Eating our fresh food frozen, for a few weeks, is the next best thing in our opinion. It far surpasses eating canned or packaged food. And also far surpasses eating lesser quality frozen food from the grocery store that has been frozen for many many months before you ever purchase it. And yes, we think it surpasses eating the prepared "health food" from the deli counters too, because first of all, that food is not fresh. It is all pre-assembled in a central facility, and then shipped to each store where it is re-heated or reconstituted. The ingredients used are far from pure, and it is just loaded with bad quality salt and oils (and sugar in alot of cases) Always read the ingredients!! We do not mean to sound like we are criticizing, or competing, because we are not, we just want you to be aware of the truth. Most of our dishes freeze really well. If we had to choose the one category that we recommend you prepare fresh yourself, we would choose the vegetable category. If you have our nice hardy soups, beans, tempeh, spring rolls, baked ziti, grains, and a nice selection of desserts, (because god forbid we don't have our desserts!), you can always steam some fresh veggies and have yourself a very fine meal. This is a good opportunity for you to experiment in your own kitchens as well. Using the extras that you purchased from us in advance, and some fresh foods that you prepare on your own, we think you can get by quite well. Just remember: keep it simple. What seems like a fairly easy dish, can become overwhelming if you are not used to cooking from scratch! We always find that it is best to have fun experimenting, but caution against becoming too overly ambitious. Not just in cooking, but in all areas of life. Everything in moderation. Balance is key. Anyway, these are our suggestions, because we care about you, and don't want you to suffer in any way while we are gone. Obviously, your choices are up to you. But by giving you three weeks notice of our closing, we hope to have allowed you plenty of time to prepare in advance.
So many of you rely on the expert knowledge and advice in relation to all things healthy that Wholly Macro provides, and in order to always remain up to date and as well educated and informed as possible, it is necessary for Wholly Macro to take educational breaks from time to time. We thank you deeply for your patronage, and for your understanding.
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WEEKLY ARTICLE
Breast Health Awareness Month and Soy Revisited
We get so much feedback from all of you in relation to everything that we do here at Wholly Macro. Be it the food we prepare, the topics we write about, the classes we teach, the consultation advice we give, or so on. And we really love it. Our clients, you all, are all so unique, which is why you are our clients, because we are so unique too.
We wanted to share the feedback we recently received from a unique client whom I hope doesn't mind our sharing it. It is something she pointed out to us in relation to something we wrote, that has shifted our perspective entirely, so much so that all month long, every time we hear the "old" phrase, we replace it in our mind with this new one, and it has happened so often, and the mental change we make is so profound each time we hear it, that we just had to write about it and share. It is the title of this newsletter in fact. This entire month of October, each year, is supposed to be devoted to breast health. Yet instead of focusing on breast health awareness, we spend the entire month talking about, advertising about, thinking about, and affirming breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Our client suggested that all of us, everyone, change that affirmation to Breast Health Awareness Month. Try it, and pass it on. It really feels much more positive this way, don't you think?
Speaking about breast health, we wrote about soy a few weeks ago, mainly compiling various data and various teaching with personal experience to try to make sense of the soy conundrum. In honor of Breast Health Awareness Month we just found an article entitled: "Soy's Link To Higher Risk Now Questioned". It has some good factual information from several health institutes that we would like to share with you. We won't repeat what we wrote in the previous newsletter, because trend setters that we are here at Wholly Macro, this article pretty much repeats exactly what we had stated. Yay. We were right!! If you want a copy of that previous newsletter let us know, we can forward it to you.
But now: Just the facts. The soy facts!
One of the big questions that agitates health-oriented people is whether or not to consume soy and soy products. There are vociferous campaigns both for and against soy. (Yes, there is an anti-soy lobby, which also happens to favor the consumption of red meat.) But the data now seems to be tipping in favor of soy. Here is a recent excerpt from the newsletter of Michael Janson, MD, a reliable physician-journalist and former president of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine (ACAM).
"Consuming soy foods (such as tofu, tempeh, and soy milk, not the highly processed texturized soy protein) has many advantages for health, as is evident from the low rates of a variety of diseases among populations who do consume them. Several recent studies confirm some of these benefits," Dr. Janson writes. 2009: The Journal Of American Medicine studied 5,042 Chinese female breast cancer survivors and found that a diet with high levels of soy reduced the risk of breast cancer recurrence and death.
Medline plus reports that soy may reduce symptoms of menopause and the risk of osteoporosis. (Men, you get osteoporosis too you know).
The University of Maryland Medical Center's website reports studies that suggest that soy may control blood sugar levels, lower bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol), and reduce blood pressure and arterial stiffness in both men and women.
Prevention magazine recommends eating foods that contain whole soybean foods, not processed soybean products.
Wholly Macro says: respect nature's wisdom and eat real soybeans, in as unaltered state as possible (such as tempeh, miso, and tofu), for breast, and overall health. Soy ice cream, soy cheese, soy yogurt, soy protein shakes, soy energy (candy) bars, etc. are a far cry from the soybean pod that hangs from the plant.
Why can't we just let nature provide our food for us? Why can't we as humans trust nature to provide our food for us, and just leave it alone and eat it as it was intended instead of altering it, and changing it, rendering it unhealthy, and then picking on it and calling it "bad"?
It is not a question of whether to eat soy or not. Make no mistake, it is important to eat it. It is how we eat it, in what form we eat it, that matters.
Happy Breast Health Awareness Month to us all.
As always.
Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro
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**A reminder when placing your order, Wholly Macro will be closing starting the week of November 18th through the week of December 2nd, 2010 and will resume Delivery Service on December 9th, 2010. |
WEEKLY MENU / ORDER FORM
DELIVERY MENU / ORDER FORM October 28, 2010 whollymacro@bellsouth.net ~ www.whollymacrobiotics.com
SHIITAKE NOODLE SOUP | SMALL___LARGE___ | Our comforting version of chicken noodle soup: energetically relaxing cubes of tofu are floating in a richly flavored barley miso, wakame sea vegetable, and shiitake mushroom broth, along with beta carotene rich carrots, cooling and naturally diuretic celery, so sweet parsnips, pancreas healthy yellow onions, brown rice noodles, a few sprigs of fresh dill, and a garnish of chlorophyll rich fresh green parsley.
FRENCH INDIGO LENTILS AND YELLOW COUSCOUS | SMALL___LARGE___ | Glistening deep blue-green french indigo lentils lend contrast and protein to this fluffy yellow couscous pilaf, along with mineral rich kombu sea vegetable, fresh english peas, and dices of yellow onion and carrot, to create a fresh and light grain and bean dish.
FILLO PASTRY PUFFS WITH CRANBERRY AND ONION TAPENADE | SMALL___LARGE___ | An interesting and wonderful blend of sweet and tart, this dish combines the good for the stomach and pancreas, naturally sweet flavor of slow cooked yellow onions and leek, with the kidney supportive subtly tart ambience of dried cranberries, in a base of pureed, good for the liver, protein rich split peas, a splash of mirin brown rice cooking "sherry" and naturally fermented shoyu soy sauce, all wrapped in wheat germ and rosemary layered spelt fillo pastry. Please heat in a dry frying pan or oven to crisp them up before serving..
BOWTIE PASTA PORTABELLO | SMALL___LARGE___ | Brown rice bowtie noodles, such fun to look at and to eat, and healthy too, are tossed with juicy portabello mushrooms, uniquely flavorful shiitake mushrooms, some cremini mushrooms, lots of chlorophyll rich fresh basil and parsley, vitalizing pine nuts, and organic capers, for a perfect, warm or cool, light and flavorful anytime pasta dish..
SEITAN, BROCCOLI, AND SWEET POTATO STIR FRY | SMALL___LARGE___ | Barbeque-ers, eat your heart out!! Plump, meaty, high protein, low fat and low cholesterol pieces of seitan, are pan seared with toasted sesame oil and flavorful bursts of circulation stimulating fresh ginger, then tossed with fresh green florettes of steamed broccoli, powerful cubes of stomach and pancreas energizing rutabaga, and bright orange beta carotene rich pieces of naturally sweet, cooling and relaxing sweet potato.
BROWN RICE PUDDING WITH APRICOT SAUCE | SMALL___LARGE___ | The shorter grained sweet and short grain brown rice are full of power, and work well to create this thick and rich porridge like dessert pudding, that incorporates kombu sea vegetable, sesame tahini, "amasake" naturally sweet fermented brown rice milk, brown rice syrup, pine nuts, cinnamon, and vanilla that is topped with a lovely orange iron and mineral rich full of vitamin A and good for the skin intestinal strengthening, digestion promoting, and generally alkalizing kuzu that is thickened with an iron and vitamin A rich apricot sauce..
VIRTUALLY ALL INGREDIENTS ARE ORGANIC!!
PLEASE PLACE ORDERS BEFORE NOON ON MONDAY!
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ORDERING DETAILS
To place an order from this newsletter, please copy and paste the menu portion of this email to create a new email and send to whollymacro@bellsouth.net. You can also hit reply, fill in the items and amount you would like to order, and send it that way. Or, you can still order / communicate with us by creating a new e-mail and writing to whollymacro@bellsouth.net, faxing us at 954-763-6698, or calling our voice mail system at 954-764-6371.
We will still confirm your order the same as we always have, so if you don't receive confirmation from us by the end of the day on Monday, please contact us either by phone or e-mail to re-submit your order.
NEVER ORDERED? WOULD YOU LIKE TO?
What we need from you before Monday is a completed Delivery Questionnaire and your order. (Please fill out the above menu and return it to us via your method of choice). For payment information please see the Ordering Details Sheet.
For any other
questions or concerns, first check our FAQ's page on our website. We are sure you
will find your answer there. If you still have a question, please contact us by
either e-mail or phone
954-764-6371.
Thanks so much.
Gayle and Jaime
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Contact Info GAYLE STOLOVE / WHOLLY MACRO PH: 954 764-6371 FAX: 954 763-6698 whollymacro@bellsouth.net www.whollymacrobiotics.com
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Thank you for all your support. Your feedback is important to us. For further questions or information please call or e-mail whollymacro@bellsouth.net 954 764-6371

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