Zuccini and garlic pasta-stew, that my friends named Kat's Ratatoutille

Once upon a time one hungry girl with two even more hungry travel buddies who wanted her to cook them some pasta after a long day of sightseeing in a colorful September day somewhere in Switzerland.
Now, what can you do when pasta is not an option and you need something quite fast...

For 3 hungry buddies

Go to a vegetable market or to an organic food store on your way and get these ingredients:

Olive oil to cook the vegetables
5 zucchinis
4-6 garlic cloves
Don't be shy to spice it up with sea salt and black pepper

These are basically the main ingredients. To make it a full meal add also some other vegetables.

4 carrots
0,5 liter of mushrooms
About 4 tomatoes to stew it up
Some oregano to finish it

Now, what to do with some vegetables and spices?

Wash carrots, cut them to small pieces.
Throw them in a hot boiler with olive oil and cook about 10 minutes.

Peal the zucchinis, take the inner part out and cut them to small slices, almost like a pasta but thicker because otherwise you spend one hour slicing. You don't want to do that, trust me!
Then, get a garlic pressure! Or at least a shredder to give more flavor to the zucchinis. If there is non of those in the kitchen, I guess you have to satisfy to the knife! Remember to use a lot of garlic if you are planning to go out on a hot date after so you can put your date in a real test.
Throw the zucchinis and the garlic in the boiler and add more olive oil. Spice them up with sea salt and black pepper and cook about 5 more minutes.

Chop the mushrooms or cut the olives into half and add in.
Take the green top off from the tomatoes because it's nasty. Chop and squish the tomatoes in the boiler with some oregano and let it be couple of minutes.
Taste it, not all of it! Add some salt and pepper if it needs it.


REMEMBER: from the left overs of the zucchinis you can make a side salad. Just add some olives, lettuce and sunflower seeds, or what ever you have, pour some olive oil, squish a bit of lemon and of course add some salt and pepper!

Enjoy it with your buddies! They are waiting and indeed very hungry! Once they've eaten they will do the dishes because they really liked your pasta! Now, enjoy the rest of the night, wherever you might be!


And, please tell me anything you think about the recipe, it might still need some improvement!

What and why?

Hi, ya all who stumbled on this blog!

I am extremely interested on cooking healthy alternative food because I like to be healthy and eat as organic food as possible in the modern society. Basically the best would be growing your own food so that it wouldn't be so far produced and you would know what is in your food. But because I don't have my own garden and I travel a lot, I try to find organic food shops for now.

Why did I start paying more attention on the food that I put in my mouth?

Simply: My health was going worse slowly but steady. I have spend a lot of time in the doctors without getting any permanent help for sickness. So I decided to actually do something for myself. I studied a bit of "alternative" treatments: naturopathy, and found out more about food and alternative ways to cure myself than I ever imagined.
About food, I found out the food we eat today is very well produced and there are actually very little micro nutrients which are vital for human. Those are for example vitamins. So basically I start of by eating very little or not at all carbohydrates, like sugar and white flours and no yeast at all (so white bread and buns are definitely the worst food) and putting more green vegetables, herbs and spices on my plate.
And of course I try to variate my plate, not eat too much of anything, dance a lot of salsa, sleep like normal people and keep my mind open for new ideas. Simply keeping in balance of mind, body and nutrition!

Short guide to start of with ( this guide is from http://karppaus.info/ ):
1. Reduce / stop eating the bread, replace it by using oil in salad or use dark bread which has no yeast of white flours (hard to find, but once you do, you get used to it and it'll keep the hunger away a long time)
2. Minimize pasta / rice / potato use, or stop it completely. Use vegetables with oil or prepared in different ways with steak / fish / chicken
3. Replace margarine with butter
4. Replace light creams with real creams (whipping cream)
5. Remember that eggs are a excellent food (in my case not at all since I am trying to eat only little eggs)
6. Instead of sugar candy try dark chocolate (70% cocoa), you can also try sugar-free candy, but start gently

Women also have a lot more yeast infections than men and yeast infection is a reason for a lot of other illness as well. By following a simple diet like this will definitely help! At least for me it did... So far so good!

More of this you will find in Finnish on http://karppaus.info and in English for example http://lowcarbdiets.about.com

I am also avoiding milk products and replacing them with others like sesame oil, rice milk etc.
Milk is increasing my allergic reactions and I have heard great stories about getting rid of asthma and allergy by just by quit drinking milk!
And I have seen the difference in my own body!
But I do always say that what might suit for me, might not suit for you. Just try it out and you will know!

So, by paying a little bit of attention on the food I eat, trying to listen my homeopaths great advises who really knows a lot more about food than me I think I might have started a new chapter in my life!

And because I really enjoy experimenting new receipts that I come up with and I'd like to share my knowledge (which is increasing bit by bit) and cookings I started of this blog!

Enjoy your kitchen!