12 Steps to Whole Foods

Replacing White Flour with Whole Grains
Rice Milk (1 or 2)
If you have been buying Rice Dream to replace dairy milk on your breakfast cereal, you will save money by
making your own rice milk with inexpensive brown rice with this recipe (sweet brown rice is the best for this
purpose, but they all work).
½ C dry brown rice, rinsed and drained (and preferably soaked overnight)
8 C filtered water
½ tsp. vanilla extract
optional: ¼ tsp. sea salt
optional: ½ tsp. stevia
Bring 4 C of the water to a boil, add the rice, and cover. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for 45 min.
Pour the rice/water mixture into a high-powered blender and blend on high speed until very smooth. Strain the
mixture using a cheesecloth if you like your milk very smooth, or with a fine strainer, or not at all if whole
nutrition is most important and you don’t mind the sediment. Add another 4 C of water plus the vanilla, salt,
and stevia, and stir. The milk will keep for one week in the refrigerator.
Amaranth L’Orange (2)
All I can say is…this is a weird recipe. But my kids and I really like it for dinner, along with a salad. The tiny
seed grains are crunchy, and the sauce adds raw nutrition and makes it interesting.
2½ C amaranth seeds, dry roasted under the broiler or in a dry sauté pan until golden
6 C vegetable broth
2 tsp. Herbs de Provence (a common French herb combination you can buy at most markets) or
rosemary
8 C broccoli, chopped small
Sauce:
1 C fresh orange juice
½ C raw sunflower seeds, soaked in water several hours, then drained
¼ C yellow miso
¼ tsp. sea salt
optional: 2 tsp. orange zest
Put the first four (main) ingredients in a saucepan, stirring as it comes to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for
35 min., stirring occasionally and removing the lid for the last 10 min.
Blend the sauce ingredients in a high-powered blender until smooth. Serve this dish hot, in bowls, with the
sauce spooned over the top.
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