Top of the day to you.

I promised you a terrific Stew from last week's message and here it is. I make this about every day and the energy I get from it is tremendous. I make it for my NOON meal in the cooler months from about middle of Autumn - 1st of Spring. And I vary it somewhat, but these are the basic ingredients and how to do it.

But let me throw this in as we go. A few people tell me that some of these recipes are a bit of a task. So I am planning some very easy ones. I made a salad tonight that was most unusual.

But as with all things new, we need to sort of adapt to them. Especially when they are so good for you that the energy is abounding and the stress is easier to deal with and the sickness is rare. These benefits keep me focused, as I can't afford the downtime due to sickness from bad food.

INGREDIENTS:

1 tablespoon of Millet ("What the heck is Millet, Ethel?" you ask! They are the seeds that really, really look like bird feed!)
4 tablespoon of Basmati Rice
3 cups of Distilled Water
2-inch thick slice of Butternut Squash (peeled)
1 thinly sliced Parsnip
1 small Sweet Potato thickly sliced (peeled)
4 small Red Creamer Potatoes
1 half pound of String Beans
2 ears of BI-Color Corn (or the sweetest Corn you can get.)
4 large leaves of fresh Collard Greens

In a large non-aluminum Cooking Pot (preferable stainless steel, glass or a crock pot) put the 1 tablespoon of Millet; 4 tablespoon of Basmati Rice; 3 cups of Distilled Water. Bring to a boil and then cut the stove right down to a real low temperature.

Then add the rest of the ingredients in this order.
2-inch thick slice of Butternut Squash (peeled); then 1 thinly sliced Parsnip; then 1 small Sweet Potato thickly sliced (peeled); 4 small Red Creamer Potatoes; 1 half pound of String Beans with the ends cut off them and cut into about 2-inch pieces.

Then cut the corn off the 2 ears of BI-Color Corn (or the sweetest Corn you can get.) and spread all over the top of the mixture and add the cut up 4 large leaves of fresh Collard Greens. Let cook for about 1-1/2 hours and this will satisfy you all day. I'm amazed at how many people think you can't fill up and sustain your energy on anything less than a cooked piece of flesh.

This will dispel that myth right away. This is a fabulous meal and this recipe will fill up at least 2-3 people! I always sprinkle a little basil and parsley on top of it when it's done.

You might be saying this is a lot of trouble and you could be doing something different! But I do this when I'm making breakfast of one of the several breakfast recipes I've shared with you so far all the while listening to some marketing tapes or whatever motivates me for the day.

I spoke to a group the other evening and a good friend, Rick Ernst, from Orlando came to see the presentation and he'll attest that we made it all very simple for you to do this.

Sometimes we let our stresses make us do things that would be less healthful. We don't have to be a puppet manipulated by outside powerful forces; we can become the powerful force ourselves.

The obstacles we face are mental barriers, which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. I've heard it said that we shouldn't pray for tasks equal to our powers, but to pray for powers equal to our tasks.

We are bigger then anything that can happen to us. This is where we will win the battle, in the playhouse of our mind.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. We are more important than our problems.

Let me know what you think of this one. I hear from so many folks that it's what makes it all worth the effort to do this.

Wayne "The Mango Man" Pickering

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