Some of you might say no and I'm ok with it. As an artist I would still say it's at least as fulfilling, good-lookin' and definitely fun to make. First time we made this with S we laughed at the amount of cheese we put in it. Yikes, the next time I had maybe half the cheese and the pizza turned out to be great still! This goes to every adventurous soul out there!
I would suggest about 2 dl (1 cup) finely shredded cabbage and 1 dl (0,5 cup) finely shredded carrots for the crust. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and place in the 200 celcius (400F) oven for about 15 minutes. Now you can add the toppings! I recommend tomato purée, pineapple slices, tuna fish, tomato slices, artichoke and avocado slices... And cheese! Do you like mozzarella, feta or would you prefer monterey jack? Don't forget oregano! It should look somewhat like the following: Place the masterpiece in the oven for another 15 minutes. Make sure that the cheese has melted well and gotten some color! Serve with fresh lettuce and cool drinks — YUM! What I did different from our first try is that I didn't put cheese on the bottom of the pizza (that was in the original recipe found somewhere in the internet). So first it was cheese on the bottom (on top of the cabbage crust), then the tomato purée and other toppings and then on the very top more cheese! I preferred this latter option but feel free to add as much cheese as you'd like! Here in the US pizzas are all-fulfilling. They are indeed cheesy and let me tell you, with the heavy, thick carb crust your stomach will thank you afterwards. :P Can't help kinda liking them anyways.
Feel free to write comments on how you'd like your pizza! BLESS YOU MASSIVE xoxo
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Feelings are the energy of motivation. They inspire us, compel us, push us, encourage us, they bring us down and they lift us up. Feelings are typically likened to "a weather" whereas a person's mood could be seen as "the climate" where emotions arise. This "climate" describes what kind of weather (read: emotions, reactions, responses) is typical for a person but, as we all know so well (this may surprise): one can sometimes experience a really hot day in Finland — even though it's not that common! (the science of motivation goes a lot deeper than I mentioned in this paragraph! just saying, it's complex and fascinating!) Why is it important to understand your own feelings? More than being our motivators (for the good and the bad) they help us make decisions and build intimacy. Emotions are from God. He created them. He made us into His own image so emotions didn't just "happen" but the ability to experience them was purposefully crafted into our hearts. We can see Jesus be a pretty emotional guy! I limit my observations to him, for when we see Jesus, we've seen our Father who really, really cares for us. Jesus CRIED when Lazarus died and was sad over the loss of his friend (women like men that show their feelings yes!), he rejoiced when he was happy (like: At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. Luke 10:21.), he got angry when the pharisees were misrepresenting the Kingdom of God, he was loving towards children and women and he expressed compassion without shame. Jesus definitely was moved by what he saw. Emotions are spontaneous. We cannot strategically plan to have them but actors can fake them. Certain environments can stir them up but we can decide to numb them down. A loving act towards me arouses feelings of being noticed, cherished and valued. (Yes, feelings are a fundamental part of expressing and receiving love but there's more to love than the feeling that follows. Love is a very vulnerable, sacrificial decision to be made.) On the other hand, a violent act toward someone can bring that person such pain that they can shut down if they aren't able to process it. Feelings are a precious gift from God! Crying-sadness and laughter-joy are two of the most powerful whole body emotional responses we use daily to process and express what's going on inside us. Positive emotions do more than provide psychological comfort, however. According to University College of London’s Sophie K. Scott and colleagues (2014): I find it fascinating that some Finnish researchers found what happens in our body when we feel different emotions! (Science Daily) All the above is important and good to know about emotions — but the truth has a deeper, beautiful, relieving (!) dimension to it: we are led by the Spirit, not by emotions and feelings. The truth that God loves me doesn't change whether I feel it or not. Haha! That's GOOD news. The Holy Spirit moving is more than a hype. The Holy Spirit leading is not always fun either, sorry. :D Few months after I came to Redding I saw a dream where I had a battle inside of me. In the dream I consciously decided to set the Spirit of God in the throne of my life and to be led by the Spirit. In that encounter I submitted myself to Jesus' Lordship in my life: I surrendered my will to His and it required an intentional decision that didn't "just happen" (this goes to the category "experiences impossible to explain with words"). I'm yet to fully understand what that meant but after that day I've felt it easier to practice spiritual disciplines in my life. In the morning after I found myself just flowing in prayer and wondered how easy it was! What matters is Who leads me and Who gets to influence and fuel my heart where the emotions are born. Emotions can be trained for unrighteousness in which case they can start leading us away from Christ OR they can be cultivated in a redeemed heart for righteousness... when they eventually will serve our well-being and the Kingdom of God! Many people spend their lives being guided by their feelings. When their feelings change they are convinced their heart has changed. But feelings are rooted in emotion, not truth. A virtuous person lives out of their convictions and expects their feelings to follow. Feelings are great servants but terrible masters. If you stop following them, they will follow you. // Kris Vallotton I have an exercise for you to develop healthy self-awareness! This will help you to pay attention to RED FLAGS (such like loneliness, unworthiness, shame, rejection, powerlessness...) that can trigger behavior that you don't wish, such like finding yourself browsing porn sites in search of intimacy? Binge eating to fill up emptiness? Love the journey of getting to know your heart! You have been given a NEW one and it's time to discover what makes your heart flourish. Ah, I'm glad to share these things with you that I have been learning and have found really beneficial over the past year. Check yourself when waking up/leaving the house/coming back home/going to bed/whenever. 1. How am I feeling? 2. Why am I feeling like that? 3. What happened? 4. Ask the Holy Spirit what to do with the information you become aware of. Becoming conscious of your "normal" helps you to meet your needs in a healthy way! It helps you to not to punish yourself for being a human, to love yourself and to love Jesus and your neighbor with all your heart. xoxoxoxo My parents came for a visit! AH wow. Loved it. I enjoy that I finally get to be the one hosting and serving them. Sure I did fill the dishwasher when I still lived home but it's different this way. I get to make them feel welcome in my place and I get to invite them to my life. I've been struck with a feeling of deep, deep love toward my closest people. I want the best for them. And I want to be involved in getting them there. I want to invest in my relationships and serve my loved ones so that they would feel loved when they are with me. One of the most significant things I've learned is that love looks like remembering details. It looks like being mindful of what my friends like, what they don't, what they love to talk about, what makes them happy, what disturbs them... Knowing your buddy's love language is a KEY to a relationship where people's needs are going to be met. It would be tragic if I neglected my friend's love language of words of affirmation if mine was acts of service – and all I did was love them with doing stuff for them and never affirming their value with my words. I would be thinking that I spend all this time loving them—and they never notice my sacrifice and on the other hand: they would be thinking that I have totally forgotten them! Happens all the time. If you're interested in what love languages are, you can read more about them here. (Do the test!) I can briefly say that there are five love languages: words of affirmation, acts of service, physical touch, receiving gifts and quality time. Your language is the one that you give and receive love. My opinion is that the more healed you get, the more rounded you get, and the more ways you will be receiving and giving love. We need all of them. Languages can be mistreated and wounded (e.g. abuse vs. the language of touch) and it take times until the language can be fully expressed again. For instance, in CA I had this one neighbor who couldn't hug for a very long time because of the memories that begun to arise when she did. So, to honor her we kept our hugs short. I wouldn't make a strict law out of love languages because some people freak out when they "are everything" or can't understand the "purpose of naming them". Relax, it may take time to understand what yours is if you haven't payed attention to it before. (I just heard this from Abi Stumvoll; she pointed out that the father of the prodigal son threw his son a huge party when he returned, which definitely was his son's love language — c'mon somebody! Why not!) Knowing your top love languages will help you lots! They are a great tool to be used in building healthy relationships. It's beneficial to be aware that with some people you might have to make more effort to make them feel loved and to speak some of the languages that you are not that used to speaking. Love your neighbor as yourself. So, after wondering what to offer to a person with a sensitive stomach... This was my choice! A chocolate avocado-banana mousse with whipped coconut cream. It was really, really delicious! Thanks God for creating us mouths to taste all this goodness....
Scoop the mousse into pretty glasses and place the cream on top. Decorate with chocolate chips! Leave in the fridge until they will be served and enjoyed with good friends and chai tea, just because. ♥
Tän blogin suunta on kohti kokonaisvaltaista ja täyttä elämää. Tahdon, että jokainen solu ja ajatus mussa rakastaa Jeesusta ja haluan pitää huolta myös mun kropasta, jossa Hän majailee. Ja siks haluan kirjoittaa tänään ruuasta (bravó!). Ehkä tähän blogiin siis tulee tän postauksen myötä jonkinlainen lifestyle-sävy, jos nyt tykkää luokittelusta, mutta vaatteita en kyllä vois alkaa kuvaamaan, ei huolia. Sidenote: On tuntunut niin hyvältä tulla takaisin omaan seurakuntaan ja nähdä, että kaikkien suulla ja sydämessä sykkii yksin Jeesus. Kuin siistiä! Ei vois parempaa pyytää.
Mietin, mikä kuvais mun ruokafilosofiaa. Nimittäin kaikilla on jonkunlainen sellainen, vaikkei sitä tietoisesti olisi ajatellutkaan. Joten, kun nyt haluan tätä blogini RUOKA - (woop woop!) valloitusta jotenkin alustaa, niin kyllä se on tietynlainen puhtaus yhdistettynä uteliaisuuteen. Nautin luovista tavoista laittaa (oikun ois aina kotimaisia) vihanneksia, rakastan omenoita haha, täysjyväviljoja, kookoshiutaleita (totutan mun kämppistä niihin #jeeee terkkuja), pähkinöitä ja siemeniä, intialaista ruokaa, clipperin chai-teetä (jos Herra soisi niin vaikka joka aterian yhteydessä) ja hyviä mausteita. Huomaan, että mitä prosessoidumpaa jokin tuote on (kuten muunneltu maissitärkkelys ja aspartmaami), sitä vähemmän mun tekee mieli sitä suuhuni laittaa, eikä mua haittaa sanoa ei kun tarkoitan ei. Kieltämättä arveluttaa kun ihmiset lähtevät hieman 'parantelemaan' Taivaan Isin luomistyötä – ja kas kummaa jos high fructose corn syryp ei sulakaan kropassa ja saa aikaan lihavuutta (alhaalla video). Amerikka oli täääynnä ihmeellisen värisiä (väriaineet) herkkuja ja ne oikeastaan ällöttivät kuin houkuttelivat maistamaan. Ehkä jotain ihmetyttää, etten yläkoulun jälkeen ole ostanut itselleni karkkia kuin muistaakseni kerran, ja senkin pussin syömisessä kesti varmaan puoli vuotta! :D (tulee kyllä kaverilta maistettua, ilman kummempia intohimoja tosin) Mutta annas kun meillä töiden taukotilassa on raakasuklaata maistiaiseksi. En kestäää! YES! Voiko olla parempaa? Oon siis niitä ihmisiä joita ihastuttaa ajatus siitä, kuinka erinomaisen kakun voikaan valmistaa manteleista ja banaani-avocado-kaakao-mössöstä ilman lisättyä sokeria. Amerikassa oli siis paljon överijuttuja, mutta niiden keskellä oli toisaalta tosi fine mennä kaikessa vastavirtaan halutessaan (ylipäänsä tämä yees anything goes if it makes you feel good -new age thinking). Jos kuitenkin pysytään ruoka-aiheessa, niin Jumala loi meille ihan valtavan hienot kropat ja on todellakin viisasta pitää niistä huolta kiinnittämällä huomiota siihen, mitä syö. Se, miten mun keho voi, vaikuttaa mun mieleen, tunteisiin, terveyteen, jaksamiseen, sosiaaliseen ja hengelliseen elämään. On varmaan aika helppo ymmärtää, että vihollinen nauttii suunnattomasti kun jollain elämän osa-alueella ei ole tasapainoa. On haaste kuulla Jumalan ääntä jos kroppa on ylikierroksilla karkeista tai energiajuomista jne. ja basic-juttu esimerkiksi kriisin aikana on pitää huolta siitä, että nukkumisrytmi pysyy hyvänä ja tulee syötyä terveellisesti, mikä luo hyvän perustan paranemisprosessille tunteissa ja mielessä! Elämä ei ole aina yhtälöä 1+1. En esimerkiksi voisi palauttaa huonoa päivää ainoastaan aamulla ahmittuun keksipakettiin (sillä voin oppia käsittelemään tunteeni). Sen verran omasta kokemuksesta kirjoitan, että tiedän, miltä tuntuu olla painoindeksin mukaan lievästi ylipainoinen. Yläkoulun loppuessa päätin Jeesuksen kanssa, etten enää jaksa peitellä itseäni: niin likaista sydäntäni kuin sitten kätkeytyä kameralta, kun en halunnut katsoa ja kohdata sitä, miltä näytin. Haluan muuttua Jumala! Toivon, että sait kiinni ajatuksistani ja löysit sydämeni näistä sanoista. Jos huomaat elämässäsi negatiivisen kierteen, niin tänään on se päivä kun voit sanoa ei ja alkaa murtaa tylsää kaavaa. Sinun ei tarvitse jäädä olosuhteiden uhriksi ja vangiksi. Sulla on Pyhän Hengen voima taivaasta tukemassa hyviä, jumalallisia valintoja, jotka ovat täynnä VAPAUTTA ja ELÄMÄÄ Jeesuksessa. Oma vinkki: kohtaa itsesi. Kohtaa Jumala. Ota selvää tunteistasi ja niiden lähteistä. Kysy itseltäsi, miten voit ja sen jälkeen miksi! Hahaaa, I pray you'd wake up with hunger pains for Jesus!
Joo, ja nyt tämän saarnan jälkeen haluan kuitenkin esitellä sinulle PULLAN, koska meillä oli juuri kuluneella viikolla ihan mielettömät tuparit. Tosi rehti pulla tämä kuitenkin on, sillä S:llä oli kaapissa luomusokeria ja luomuvehnäjauhoja. Itse asiassa, jos olisin tajunnut, että meillä oli vielä jäljellä stevia-sokeria, olisin varmaan testannut sitä tässä, mutta se jää sitten ensi kertaan hehee. Tästä ei tullut liian makeaa omaan makuuni ja saadun palautteen mukaan suhteet näyttivät toimivan!
Ajatus reseptiin lähti siitä, että me tajuttiin S.n kanssa, että olis kiva tehdä juhliin jotain itsekin (meidän priorisoitu energia siis kului ohjelman suunnitteluun). Eli, ei aikaa käydä kaupassa joten mitäs mitäs meidän jääkaapissa onkaan?? Tyypillinen tapaus. Ja silloin muistin S:n juuri edellisellä viikolla tehneen maailman parhaimpia sämpylöitä, joita kohotettiin yön yli jääkaapissa, mikä teki niiden rakenteesta ihanan huokean! Toimisiko se pullan kanssa myös? Pienensin vähän tavallista pullareseptiä ja näin kävi:
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