Lemon Poppy Seed & Blueberry Plantain Cake (gluten Free) |
| 1/4 c | |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 3 whole | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 1/2 c | |
| 1/2 c | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp |
Preheat over to 325. Peel plantains and separate yolks from egg whites. Add 1TBSP olive oil, 1/4c water and 1/4tsp salt, 1TBSP potato starch.
1. Make a meringue with the egg whites by beating them on high with cream of tartar and sugar. The meringue is ready when stiff peaks form, about 3 minutes.
2. Puree plantain, vanilla, lemon zest, yolks, potato starch, olive oil, water, and salt until very smooth.
3. Carefully fold mixture into the meringue with a spatula until well mixed.
4. Line a pie plate with parchment paper and brush olive oil on the parchment, Pour batter into the pie plate.
5. Back for 40 minutes.
Serve hot with whip cream! Or, cool and add your favorite frosting.
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Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Lemon Zest
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Eggs, Olive Oil
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Raw Sugar, Green Plantain, Blueberry, Water
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Raw Sugar, Eggs, Olive Oil, Green Plantain
Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest, Salt (Mineral Salt), Water
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Raw Sugar, Eggs, Green Plantain, Blueberry, Potato Starch
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Green Plantain
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types (doshas), are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
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Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest
STRONG APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Green Plantain
STRONG RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Water
STRONG MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Raw Sugar
STRONG NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING Encourages feelings of stability and heaviness. Makes you feel settled, mentally relaxed. Mildly sedates the nervous system to ease stress. Can bring a spacey or anxious person back to earth. Reduces agitation, irritation, stress and racing thoughts.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Green Plantain
STRONG STIMULATES-BASE-OF-SKULL Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area at the base of the skull.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG RELAXES-EYES Eases tension in eye muscles, so the eyes feel less strained, often by supporting the liver.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest, Raw Sugar
MILD MAKES-JITTERY Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
STRONG ANXIOLYTIC Herbs that help people suffering from anxiety or panic. They promote a state of calm and often improve sleep. Most anxiolytic herbs are also nervines.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG BUILDS-STAMINA Promotes strength, endurance and resistance in the body. Rebuilds weak tissues after a time of depletion.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Eggs
STRONG REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest, Blueberry
Active Ingredients: Eggs, Green Plantain
STRONG CALMS-HEART An herb that literally calms the heart. These herbs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, sadness, depression, or other emotional imbalances in the heart. Related to the Chinese Herbal Category 'calms spirit.'
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Green Plantain
STRONG MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG RELIEVES-TENSION An herb that releases tightness, constriction, and rigidity in a muscle.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG FATS Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed, Olive Oil, Eggs
STRONG ZINC Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG INSOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
STRONG CALCIUM Calcium nourishes bones and muscles. A muscle cell is activated when calcium enters the cell. It relaxes when the calcium is secreted.
Active Ingredients: Poppy Seed
MILD TANNINS Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
MILD PROTEIN Active Ingredients: Eggs
MILD PHOSPHOROUS Active Ingredients: Eggs
MILD INOSITOL Inositol is an alcohol sugar made naturally in the human body from glucose. It is lipotropic (aiding fat metabilism in the liver). It affects a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, steroid, growth factors and water.
Active Ingredients: Eggs
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John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy, & botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. John, his wife Natalie and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC
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