I broke down and ate some smoked sausage last night. I had the worst nightmares. Come to think of it I've been having really good dreams lately. I thought it was due to juicing citrus with the peelings on but maybe some of it had to do with the fact that I've been eating so much raw food. Does raw food affect your dreams?

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On how to make mayo or that HG means hunter gatherers?

"Waiter. There is a fly in my soup!"

"Didn't you order the fly soup?"

"No I'm on a diet ordered the mosquito."

Hi Robin! Till I saw this post I was wondering if you were male or female, as your name suggests that you could be either "Robin love" or "Rob in love". Now I know!

As I mentioned in a post in another thread I'm beginning to think my craving for cooked food is more mental than physical. I wonder if the answer lies in some sort of mental exercise to tell myself and what that should be. According to the bible even god liked the aroma of burning flesh saying it was “a pleasing odor to the lord”. What a load of brain washing hooey!

Actually anyone that would rather attack someone for eating caged animals than do something about the people responsible for caging them is a coward. If you were to do that by peaceful and legislative means you would have people like me 100% behind you instead of 100% against you.

You are no different than the government going after drug users who have an illness rather than the people supplying them with their addictions. It's easy and profitable to go after defensive addicts and ignore drug cartels with machine guns. 

I buy what I can afford. Provide me with the means to acquire grass fed meat and I will gladly comply. But I'm not going to starve myself to make some winy little ass, self proclaimed phony liberal feel better. Don't try and put me in a cage instead of the animals you show pity for!

Wouldn't that make eggs in small quantities paleo? I like to think of paleos going around eating nothing but mammoths but how often did this actually happen? My guess would be hardly ever and would be a rare occasion and that most of the time they wound up eating insects and grubs. I didn't really look but I didn't see anybody posting a recipe or photograph of any one eating insects though they were probably the most abundant animals available.

I'm going to have to try that with my shiitakes once I'm done freezing them for another week as a precaution to kill off any would be parasites.

How about adding them to some raw liver and onions? Maybe I will try that.

I used to make my raw organ meat shakes using pineapple juice. It tasted really good that way but due to improper food combining gave me some really fowl smelling gas. AKA gym clearing gas. When I switched to using water it made a night and day difference in that department. One thing I really miss was liver and pineapple juice. Yum! For some reason if I whipped it long enough in the food processor it would homogenize into a really thick shake! You gotta try it. Just don't plan on being around a lot of people in a social setting afterwards!

I think even cooked food causes depression.

Making your own mayonnaise can be very rewarding. It lets you use your own healthy oils, is free of preservatives and forms the basis for all thick salad dressings. Plus it's almost like magic when you are able to combine two watery substances together into a thick mixture without cooking them.

Mayonnaise is basically an emulsification of raw egg, water (or vinegar), oil and spices. But when you mix all those ingredients together you normally wind up with a gooey mess. The trick to making it is mixing it in such a way that it becomes emulsified into beautiful thick mayonnaise.  To do this successfully is more of an art than a process which is so delicate that superstitions have developed over generations that a batch will fail if it is made with someone in the room with the wrong vibe. It has almost become a religion.

I've made hundreds of batches of mayo and I've done it successfully for so long that hardly any of my batches ever fail but when I first started making it I had a hell of a time getting it to emulsify. Forget about making it by hand or even in a food processor. That is for experts. The trick I've learned is to use a stick mixer but even that often led to "mayo fail".

To sum up the tricks I know into one paragraph: Use a stick mixer. Find a tall thin jar, just big enough to get the stick mixer in. Crack the egg yolk into the bottom of the jar, add your oil and little water or vinegar and wait about fifteen minutes for the temperatures of the oil and egg to equalize before mixing; don't forget the water at this stage. If you wait to add the water after you start mixing it will be too late and no matter how long you mix it will not thicken into an emulsification.  Hold the stick mixer over the egg yolk and begin with slow pulsating mixes. Do not move it! Start with tiny slow bursts and make them longer once you see mayo beginning to form at the bottom of the jar. Once that happens you can hold the trigger on the mixer continuously but do not move it from the bottom of the jar till you see a glob of thick mayo form. Once that happens slowly rock the mixer and pull it up ever so slightly to see if you can feel the thickness sticking the mixer to the jar. Once that happens slowly pull the mixer up and down a little at a time, increasing it as it thickens till you go all the way to the top. After that you can add spices and more water or vinegar or whatever you want.

Hopefully this video will be of more help to anyone desiring to make their own home made mayonnaise. Good luck!

She makes it look so simple but really it's not. Well it is but it's kind of like riding a bicycle. Don't give up if you fail. Don't forget to let the temperatures of all the ingredients equalize and don't forget to add a little water or vinegar before you start mixing! (you can ignore this step if all your ingredients have already been sitting out on the counter.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwz6jknw574

What he said!

I've seen drastic improvements in everything since I gave up grain and dairy products. Wheat is by far the worst with corn next in line. The bulk of my diet for a long time has been only meat and green vegetables but lately I been adding in whole citrus, juicing the peelings and all and have been feeling fantastic. Before that I started juicing vegetables excessively and I think it was too much of a good thing and was noticing a slight deterioration in my health. But it was still tons better than way back when I was doing wheat and dairy. Wheat and cheese were hard to give up. I still crave them sometimes even now.