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Serves 4
2 pounds large shrimp
1 pound rice linguine
2 Tablespoons coconut oil
1 teaspoons minced garlic
3 Tablespoons rice vinegar
¼ cup honey
1 dash white pepper
1 bunch scallions
2 Tablespoons nam pla
2 Tablespoons Bragg’s Amino Acid
½ cup coconut milk
½ cup peanuts
1 head broccoli – cut in floweret’s
3 carrots- matchstick cut
½ head Chinese cabbage- sliced thin
3 whole limes
1 Tablespoon ketchup
¼ teaspoon red curry paste – or to taste
¼ teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1) Cook rice noodles al dente. Rinse and drain well.
2) Prep vegetables and have everything ready beside the stove.
3) Stir garlic and coconut oil in pot. Add curry paste and stir well. Cook 2-3 minutes. Add ketchup, vinegar, nam pla. Simmer a few minutes, remove from heat and add sesame oil and set aside.
4) Heat coconut oil and add carrots, cook until al dente, add cabbage and stir fry until wilted, add broccoli and continue to toss until broccoli is bright green.
5) Remove veggies and cook shrimp until bright pink.
4) Toss all veggies in sauce, add pasta and shrimp. Add fresh lime juice of two limes, add scallions.
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Filed under: Food and it's Impact on Our Health, Gluten, Soy and Lactose Free Recipes, In The Kitchen with Millie- How To's
This dish a a perfect example. I love Thai food, but with it’s emphasis on rice it is carb heavy. As rice is a gluten free grain, it is ok to eat occasionally. The way to handle that is ANY time you eat more carbs than usual, balance it with adding more fat. This allows the body to take in the carbs slower so that it does not spike the blood sugar so drastically.
Example; Cannot resist that slice of bread while waiting for your dinner at a restaurant? Slather the bread generously with butter.
The Fluffiest Coconut Rice
From Bon Appetite
Ingredients
- 2 cups jasmine rice
- 1 cup coconut cream
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Rinse rice in a large bowl with cool water until water runs clear. Drain rice.
- Combine rice, coconut cream, sugar, salt, and 2 cups water in a medium saucepan. Bring just to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar, then cover and reduce heat to low. (Alternatively, cook rice in an electric rice steamer.) Cook until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed, 40–45 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork; cover and let sit for 20 minutes.
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CNN ran this article this morning;
Child slavery and chocolate: All too easy to find
In “Chocolate’s Child Slaves,” CNN’s David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast to investigate children working in the cocoa fields. (Premieres Friday January 20, 8 p.m. GMT, 9 CET on CNN International.)
By David McKenzie and Brent Swails, CNN
Daloa, Ivory Coast (CNN) – Chocolate’s billion-dollar industry starts with workers like Abdul. He squats with a gang of a dozen harvesters on an Ivory Coast farm.
Abdul holds the yellow cocoa pod lengthwise and gives it two quick cracks, snapping it open to reveal milky white cocoa beans. He dumps the beans on a growing pile.
Abdul is 10 years old, a three-year veteran of the job.
He has never tasted chocolate.
During the course of an investigation for CNN’s Freedom Project initiative – an investigation that went deep into the cocoa fields of Ivory Coast – a team of CNN journalists found that child labor, trafficking and slavery are rife in an industry that produces some of the world’s best-known brands.
It was not supposed to be this way.
After a series of news reports surfaced in 2001 about gross violations in the cocoa industry, lawmakers in the United States put immense pressure on the industry to change.
“We felt like the public ought to know about it, and we ought to take some action to try to stop it,” said Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who, together with Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, spearheaded the response. “How many people in America know that all this chocolate they are eating – candies and all of those wonderful chocolates – is being produced by terrible child labor?”
More about the Harkin-Engel Protocol
But after intense lobbying by the cocoa industry, lawmakers weren’t able to push through a law. What they got was a voluntary protocol, signed by the heads of the chocolate industry, to stop the worst forms of child labor “as a matter of urgency.” One of the key goals was to certify the cocoa trade as child-labor free.
“It was meant to achieve the end of child slave labor in cocoa fields,” Engel said.
It didn’t.
UNICEF estimates that nearly a half-million children work on farms across Ivory Coast, which produces nearly 40% of the world’s supply of cocoa. The agency says hundreds of thousands of children, many of them trafficked across borders, are engaged in the worst forms of child labor.
A recent study by Tulane University says the industry’s efforts to stop child labor are “uneven” and “incomplete” and that 97% of Ivory Coast’s farmers had not been reached. But the industry’s main representative in the country disagrees with the assessment.
“I think the situation has improved exponentially,” said Rabola Kagohi, country director for the International Cocoa Initiative, the chocolate industry’s answer to fighting child labor and trafficking. “Today, the message is physically getting through.”
Kagohi works out of a basement office with one other permanent employee.
“There are some results,” he said. “I wish that you had spoken to some planters.”
None of the farmers CNN spoke to in the heart of the cocoa production region said they had ever been reached by the International Cocoa Initiative, the government or chocolate companies about child trafficking.More……
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