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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Index 21

The last index, which was called New Index and can be found by clicking here has become so full that I'm beginning another index, Index 21, named because it was begun in fiscal year 21, though actually in the calendar year, 2020.  I will add additional headings as I add additional videos.  You will find many recipes and related videos as well as helpful information in the old new index.


Recipes


Smoothies

Blackberry full meal balanced delicious vegan smoothie (kids and others may mistake this for a blackberry milkshake)

Blueberry & Brussel sprout smoothie - another fully balanced meal

Chocolate Smoothie, helpful for Memory, Blood Sugar Regulation, relieving Constipation, and building Energy… another well balanced full meal smoothie: with Chef Dahnaya

Healthy Holiday Smoothie: Pumpkin Pie Spice with sweet potato or yam

Honey Lemon Ginger smoothie. A smoothie with a nice little kick...much better than you might think.

Orange full meal smoothie

Simple Pumpkin Pie Spice Smoothie with Chef Dahnaya and Q

Strawberry Rhubarb Smoothie - Full balanced meal - great for energy and regularity (vegan option)

Variation on my most insanely healthy smoothie - helps cognition & memory, blood sugar, and regularity

Weight loss well balanced smoothie with benefits for regularity. Good for the brain.

Miscellaneous Recipes   

Apple Cinnamon Whole Wheat Cookies with Coconut Sugar

Banana Maple Whole Wheat Bread

Best gluten free bread I've ever made or had. Good rise and doesn't fall apart.

Cinnamon Honey Whole Wheat Bread very healthy recipe

Chocolate - Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies with Coconut Sugar

Curtido Recipe | Salvadoran Style Pickled Cabbage Recipe

Delicious Cinnamon Honey Raisin Whole Wheat-Oat Bread...good for the body and soul

Delicious Maple Blueberry Whole Wheat-Oat Bread

Delicious Maple Chocolate Whole Wheat Bread

Easy peasy healthy gluten free flat or fry bread

Fabulous Delicious Refried Beans

Gluten free oat bread. I've been working on it for years, finally a gluten free bread my wife likes and asked me to save the recipe.

How to Make CURTIDO a Latin-American Sauerkraut

Low Carb Sugar Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe - Natvia's Healthy Treats & Dessert Recipes




Meatloaf: Pretty darn healthy and pretty darn good.








General Health

#1 Best Backyard Weed for Arthritis (RHEUMATOID, OSTEO & GOUT)

3 Mistakes Vegans Make! Dr Joel Fuhrman

5 Common kitchen herbs that can be used MEDICINALLY

5 Foods to Avoid if You Have UTI (Urinary Tract Infection)

5 Natural Remedies For GERD

5X Your BRAIN CELLS

6 Foods That Are Super Easy to Digest

6 Nasal Rinse Myths Busted

6 Reasons Why Men Should Consume Almonds

6 Tweaks You Should Make To Your Diet!

7 Foods That RUIN Your Liver

7 Tips for a Healthy Bladder

8 Dangerous Signs that Should NEVER Be Ignored

8 Incredible Foods That Calm Autoimmune Diseases

8 Reasons You Should Eat More Coconut | Dr. Josh Axe

8 Reasons Why You Should Eat More Sauerkraut

9 Foods That Cause Inflammation

10 Best Foods That Are Easy to Digest | (Easy to Digest Foods)

10 Best Foods to Increase Height in Children

10 Signs Of A Bile Deficiency

12 Amazing Health Benefits of Garlic | A Super Spice | Dr. Eilbra Younan

12 Things Your Feet Can Tell You About Your Liver

Arizona man, 110 years-old, credits long life and health to 5 foods

BALANCE YOUR HORMONES | 7 tips to balance hormones naturally

Bile Acid and Cholesterol: The Missing Link

BENEFITS OF 3 TBSP HEMP SEEDS A DAY!

Better Than Fish Oil, See What Happens To Your Body When You Take Krill Oil Everyday

Best Foods to Balance Hormones Naturally in Women and Men | Dr. Josh Axe

Best Natural Cough Remedies That Works

Chamomile, Turmeric, Aloe Vera and Pomegranates- Weapons Against Disease?

Dangers of Essential Oils: Top 10 Essential Oil Mistakes to Avoid | Dr. Josh Axe

Do This to Grow Taller Fast: Kids : How to Grow Taller - VitaLife Show Episode 240

Don't Eat Avocados Until You Do This! Dr Michael Greger

Easy Tinnitus Treatment - Ask Doctor Jo

Eat 1 Cucumber a Day and This Happens To Your Body

Eat 1 Spoon of Raw Honey Every Morning and THIS May Happen

Eat a Honey and Turmeric Mixture for 7 Days & THIS May Happen To Your Body ❗

Eat These Foods to Live to 100 | Health

Essential Oils to Help Improve Your Health?

Everything You Need To Know About Coconuts - Coconut Milk, Oil, Sugar, Water, & More!

Examine.com Nutrition and supplement information

Fix Your Short Term Memory Loss – Hippocampus Repair – Dr.Berg

Foundations of Physical and Mental Health Includes some religious references

Gerald Jampolski - Principles of Attitudenal Healing

Get out. Take a walk. Take a walk. Get some sun… but don't overdo and use sun block when needed.

Gut-Brain link

Health Benefits of Garlic

HEALTHY HABITS: 10 daily habits that changed my life (science-backed)

Honey: Bacteria's Worst Enemy

Honey With Turmeric Is the Most Powerful Antibiotic in the World, Even Doctors Can’t Explain It (not sure if it is THE MOST, but very good.)

How can I be more resilient in stressful situations? with Dr. Joan Borysenko

How Exercise Affects Your Immune System

How Much Coconut Oil for Alzheimer's & Dementia?

How the food you eat affects your gut - Shilpa Ravella

How to Boost Your Acetylcholine for Super Brain Power

How To Boost Your Immune System Naturally! 7 Immunity Boosting Power Foods!

How to Fix Shoulder Pain in Seconds (This Works!)

How To Get Rid of Puffy Eyes | Dr.Berg

How to grow to your MAX potential height (for teenagers)

How to Increase Your Height and Grow Taller

How To Know if You Have Bile Deficiency? - Dr. Berg

How to live to be 100+ - Dan Buettner

How To Lower Blood Sugar Quickly: 8 AMAZING Tips Revealed!

How to manage UTI with healthy diet? - Ms. Sushma Jaiswal

How to Regrow Your Hair (UPDATED VITAL INFO)

How to Repair Your Immune System if it is Old and Damaged

How to Treat Acute Bronchitis | Healthy Recipes

How to Treat Urinary Tract Infection | Food & Healthy Recipes

How to Use Ox Bile and TUDCA the Right Way

I AVOID 5 FOODS & my body is 30 YEARS YOUNGER! Harvard Genetics Professor David Sinclair

Know the Early Warning Signs of a Heart Attack?

Lentils Are Amazing! The Impressive Studies On Lentils

Let Your Kids (or Yourself) Play in the Dirt More Often

Longevity Vegetables: Garden Secrets for Healthy Aging

Many Symptoms of Heart Attack and Heart Disease: A Complex Condition

Mayo Clinic Minute: Treating Urinary Tract Infections

Never Give Up Says Dr. Bernie Seigel

ObGyn Answers Gestational Diabetes FAQ | Pregnancy Diabetes & Diet Overview

Prenatal vitamins and minerals for pregnancy

Quit Smoking in 3 minutes using Disgust (Animated)

Saline Nasal Rinses - How and When to Use Them

Sinus Rinse: Benefits and Making the Solution

Solve Diabetes Overnight Understanding This Simple....

Sleep Hygiene: Train your Brain to Fall Asleep and Sleep Better

Simple Tips to Make Your Diet Healthier.

Sinus Rinse Animation

Stay happy and Stay healthy! (short and sweet)

Staying Healthy: Ways to Stay Healthy

Stinging Nettle For Breast Cancer, Wounds, & Vitamin C

Surprising signs of heart attack in women

The #1 Worst Food for Your Heart (HINT: It's Not Sugar)

The 9 Benefits of Bile Salts

The 10 Best Foods To Boost Brain Power and Improve Memory

The #1 Best Nut For Reducing Inflammation






The Consequences Of Cutting Whole Grains Out Of Diet!

The FYI on UTIs: All you need to know to treat and prevent urinary tract infections | GMA Digital

The Guaranteed Way to Extend Your Life and Live Longer

The Gut-Brain Connection

The Life Changing Benefits Of Brazil Nuts! (Also pertains to potential covid and depression prevention)

The #1 Most Common Mineral Deficiency in the World

The 10 Top Foods that GUARANTEE You'll Lose Belly Fat Fast

The power of Kindness - with Dr Kelli Harding

The Remarkable Story of Roseto Shows the Power of Community

THIS is the Most Powerful ADAPTOGEN in The World - How it Works and Why it's THE BEST

Top 3 Treatments For Asthma That Are Not Medication

Top 5 Herbs to Kill Viruses and Boost Your Immune System

Top 10 Amazing Health Benefits Of Stinging Nettle | Blissed Zone

Top 10 Foods That DESTROY Your Immune System

TOP 10 HABITS THAT DAMAGE YOUR IMMUNITY - How to Boost Immunity

Top 10 Herbs for Lung Health, Clearing Mucus, COPD, and Killing Viruses

Top Signs & Symptoms Of Vitamin B1 Deficiency: Dr.Berg

Urinary Tract Infections, Animation

Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) Overview | Causes, Risk Factors, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

UCF Health: Superfoods For Super Health

Utilizing baby shampoo irrigations and probiotics for the treatment of sinusitis

Vitamin D

Vitamin D: The Miracle Supplement Video - Brigham and Women's Hospital

Watch "Wow New Walnut Findings! Cancer Progression?" on YouTube

What 2 Servings Of Mushrooms A Week Does To The Brain!

What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser

What The Longest Living People Eat Every Day | Blue Zone Kitchen Author Dan Buettner

What Vaping Does to the Body

What Does Vaping Do To Your Lungs?

What is Garlic Good For? Benefits and Medicinal Uses for Garlic

What Happens To Body When You Eat Oatmeal Every Day!

What The Science Says About Eating Chicken!

What Triggers Your Acid Reflux, and What Solutions Will Work

When and how to use Ox Bile or Tudca

Which healing foods prevent urinary system infections?

Why Vaping is Bad For You

My own Weight Loss

My Weight Loss: The "not so" Incredible Shrinking Man

Beating a Food Addiction | CR Pete Petersen | TEDxUIdaho

Weight Loss

8 Morning Habits That Help You Lose Weight + Giveaway!

How to Eat a Lot and Stay Under Your Calorie and or Fat Budget

Healthy Foods you can Forage

3 Ways to use spring dandelions - Foraging

Dandelion TEA "What happens to your body if you drink DAILY"

How to harvest, prepare, and use dandelion leaf and root for beauty and health

How to: Make Dandelion Tea


Exercise

25 MIN FULL BODY PILATES WORKOUT FOR BEGINNERS (No Equipment)

5 MINUTE FAT BURNING MORNING ROUTINE | No Equipment Needed | HIIT | The Fitologists

5-Minute Thigh-Slimming Workout

5 of the Best Core Strengthening Ex. You Should Do Everyday. (Great For Back)

10 Exercises to Never Do With Osteoporosis

Bowflex® How-To | Planks for Beginners

Gentle Pilates - 15 Minute Pilates for Beginners Workout!

How to Plank Properly for Beginners - Step By Step Tutorial

Push Ups?? I Hated Them Until I Started Doing Them Like This!

Science Says 1 Minute of this Exercise is = to 45 min. of Jogging

Stop Making These Plank Mistakes - Three Easy Fixes To Plank Correctly

The #1 Exercise to Lose Belly Fat (Easily)

The Power of Rebounding: How A Rebounder Can Change Your Life

Top 10 Reasons Why Resistance Bands Beat Free Weights

Total Body Pilates! 20 Minute Tone & Shape, Legs, Butt, Abs, Beginners Home Workout, Flexib

What Will Happen To Your Body If You Walk Everyday

(Dance)

Health Benefits of Dance

Dancing with oldest daughter at wedding of oldest son

Cognitive/Mental Health and Happiness

4 Key vitamins for depression and anxiety: are you missing these vital nutrients?

7 Signs Someone Is at Risk of Suicide | Health

7 Ways to Treat Depression Naturally Without Medications!

ADHD and Autism Relationship Accommodations -- How to Get Your Needs Met

After suicide, survivors need help

How to Be Happy – 7 Habits of Happy People

How to Let Go of the Past - 3 Steps for Regret

Best Essential Oils for Anxiety & Panic Attacks

DO THIS DAILY To Boost Brain Health & Prevent COGNITIVE DECLINE | Mark Hyman

Escaping the Anxiety/Burnout/Depression Cycle

Fight Depression and Anxiety With Your Core Values 26/30 How to Process Emotions

Finding Hope in Broken Dreams | Liz Wiseman

Forgiveness: An interview with Jerry Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione

Gerald Jampolski - Principles of Attitudenal Healing

How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill – Dr. Jonathan Haidt

How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill – Simon Sinek

HOW TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION - ancient wisdom story

If You Struggle With Anxiety, This Mind Trick Will Change Your Life | Mel Robbins

Living Beyond “What If?” | Cambry Kaylor – Hope Works

Losing My Sister to Suicide | Hope Works

Natural Supplements and Treatments for Anxiety: What the Research Says About Supplements for Anxiety

Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation in 4 minutes



Teen Suicide Prevention




The Reason You Need To Run Toward Fear - David Goggins

The surprisingly dramatic role of nutrition in mental health | Julia Rucklidge | TEDxChristchurch

What is Suicidal Ideation?

Why Diet Might Be a Big Deal for Mental Health

Why Enhancing Metabolic Health Could be the Key to Preventing Alzheimer's Disease

"Your Behaviour Won't Be The Same" | Dr. Andrew Huberman (Stanford Neuroscientist)

Youth temple attendance correlated with better mental health and more lasting faith Large study of Latter-day Saint youth finds emotional health benefits from temple attendance


Migraines

6 Foods That Help Fight Headaches

7 Best Headache Relief Treatments - Ask Doctor Jo

Get Rid of Migraines Naturally and Fast!

Got migraines? These are the foods to eat (and avoid) | Your Morning

Headache and Migraine Triggers and How to Prevent Them

Instant Headache Relief in Seconds with Self Massage. Do-it-Yourself

Massage Technique for Migraine Relief - ModernMom Massage

7110 Newman Blvd Lasalle, QC H8N 1X2 Canada

Migraine | Migraine Relief Treatment

Migraines - Pathophysiology & Treatment (Described Concisely)

New migraine prevention drugs: Mayo Clinic Radio

New Migraine Treatment Options

Primary v Secondary Headache (with Red Flags) | Tension Type Headache, Migraine & Cluster Headache

Tension Headaches vs. Migraine Headaches

The cutting-edge treatments for migraines l GMA

What Lifestyle Changes, Diet And Supplements Will Help Migraine Sufferers?

Yoga For Migraines - Yoga With Adriene

YOGA TO CURE HEADACHE & MIGRAINE | EASY YOGA WORKOUT | NATURAL METHODS To Cure Headache

Physical Therapy and Pain

Complete Spine Decompression: Neck, Mid & Low Back. For Instant Relief at Home (7 Options)

Do You Need Mobility Work? | Ep 22 | Dr. Michael Mash

First Step to Stopping Neck Pain. The Magic Spot (T1 to T7)

Single Best Fix (6 Min) for Neck Hump (Buffalo Hump)

STOP These 5 Habits or Your Knee Pain May NEVER Go Away!

Stop These 12 Daily Habits or Your Hip Pain May Never Go Away.

Unlock Hip Flexor Tightness & Pain in 90 Seconds! In Bed.

Sleep

Sleep: How to get a good night's sleep and how to help someone else get a good night's sleep.

Sommeil: Comment obtenir une bonne nuit de sommeil et comment aider quelqu’un d’autre Ă  obtenir une bonne nuit de sommeil.

Sleep Problems? Try These Easy Hacks!

Weight-loss and body shaping

10 Reasons Why You Can’t Shift Stubborn Belly Fat

ADHD - ADD

ADHD and Motivation

Autism and Situational Mutism (when words don't work!)

Aspergers and Recharge (What Does Recharging Look Like?) | Patrons Choice Aspergers from the Inside

Chronic Unemployment (What can we do?) Aspergers from the Inside

Digital Brain Timer for Getting Projects Done!

Failing at Normal: An ADHD Success Story | Jessica McCabe | TEDxBratislava

How ADHD Treatment Is Not ADHD Friendly

How to Treat ADHD [Without Medication]

Jobs for Aspies (Good Jobs for People With Aspergers)

My Top 10 Female Autistic Traits | Autistically Me

Why socialising can be PAINFUL! (for autistic people) Aspergers from the Inside

Coffee, Caffeine, and Energy Drinks

Top 10 Energy Drinks with Dangerous Side Effects

Your Brain On Coffee

Your Health: Caffeine & the Heart


Diabetes and Blood Sugar

#1 exercise for gestational diabetes or how to avoid gestational diabetes

5 Best Cereals That Barely Raise Blood Sugar

7 Best Grains for Diabetics (Grains Good for Diabetes)

7 Alarming Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Too High

11 Drinks That Lower Blood Sugar Naturally

13 Incredible Foods That Reduce Blood Sugar

15 Worst Foods For Diabetics

Complications Of What is Gestational Diabetes And Prevention - Manipal Hospitals

Gestational Diabetes, Animation

Gestational Diabetes: Managing Risk During and After Pregnancy Video - Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Good Carbs for Diabetics

How to Bring BLOOD SUGAR DOWN quickly. SUGARMD

How to Eat Healthy with Diabetes - Carbohydrate Confusion Part 1

Optimizing diet for diabetes during pregnancy, part 1: Getting Started | Ohio State Medical Center

REVERSE Gestation Diabetes - 2021

Simple steps to prevent Gestational Diabetes - Dr. Shashi Agrawal

The Scary Truth About Sugar Documentary

Top 10 Diabetes-Fighting Vegetables

Alcohol and Drugs

Alcohol-Related Deaths | Alcoholism

Deaths from Alcohol-Related Liver Disease On the Rise


Child Development

Breast anatomy and lactation | Reproductive system physiology | NCLEX-RN | Khan Academy

How To Calm A Crying Baby - Dr. Robert Hamilton Demonstrates "The Hold" (Official)

Impossible Challenge : How to calm babies in 5 seconds?

Physiology Of Lactation

Prenatal Development: What Babies Learn in the Womb

The science of milk - Jonathan J. O'Sullivan

The surprising effects of pregnancy

Health and Forgiveness

Stephen Post: Learn to Forgive Because Bitterness is Bad For Your Health

The Benefits of Forgiveness and How Negativity Causes Cancer

The Importance of Forgiveness: Johns Hopkins Medicine

Other disABILITIES

Is it ADHD or is it Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)?

Parent autism resources.  This site is no longer maintained but contains a great deal of information and videos that remain current.

Sensory Processing and ASD

Dyslexia

Alzheimer's

Groundbreaking New Revelations on Alzheimer's Disease

Neuropathy

6 exercises to help manage Peripheral Neuropathy pain symptoms

7 Foods to improve nerve pain and 5 to avoid if you have neuropathic pain

Diabetic Neuropathy, Animation

Got Neuropathy, But Not Diabetic? - The Nerve Doctors

Peripheral Neuropathy Home Remedies [Leg & Foot Nerve Pain Treatment] 

Peripheral neuropathy: Mayo Clinic Radio

Reverse diabetic neuropathy with the help of Dr. Bao Thai

What is Neuropathy: Treatment, Causes & Surgery

What is Peripheral Neuropathy? What can be done about it?

What You Can Do to Treat Peripheral Neuropathy at Home


Brene' Brown

Brené Brown Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever

Brené Brown on Empathy

The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED



























Friday, November 29, 2024

My Simple Sleep Routine That Changed Everything | Dr. Mark Hyman


 

Orange full meal smoothie

 In a stout blender add:

1 cup old fashioned rolled oats

2 large peeled oranges

1 cup cauliflower

1 tsp ashwagandha

1 tbs chia seeds

1 tsp maca root

1 tsp taurine

1 cup almond milk

1 scoop protein powder (pea is my recommendation)

stevia to taste

water and ice to coming close to filling the blender

blend well

enjoy


Friday, September 27, 2024

Chocolate - Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies with Coconut Sugar

In a large bowl:

2 cups coconut sugar

3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

pinch of sea salt

In a pan on the stove, slowly bring to a light boil:

8 tbs butter

1/4 cup unsweetened coco powder

1 cup natural peanut butter (crunchy is best, no sugar)

1 tbs vanilla

1/2 cup whole milk

Bring items on the stove to a light boil for about 1 minute.  Pour into large bowel with the oats and sugar.

Mix well.

Spoon individual cookies onto a cookie sheet pre-sprayed with olive oil or you can pour into a casarole dish also pre-sprayed.  Put into fridge and allow to cool for at least 30 minutes.  Cover and keep refridgerated.


Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Oatmeal, chocolate chip, peanut butter cookies.

 In a mixing bowel add

  • 2/3 cup maple syrup
  • 2/3 cup creamy or crunchy natural peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup melted coconut oil (or butter)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups oats
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
  • 2 eggs
  • (Optional - 1 banana)
Mix with blender.

Use a spoon and make into tight balls and place onto a flat pan sprayed with oil.

Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes.

Allow to cool.

You may best enjoy them frozen.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Apple Cinnamon Whole Wheat Cookies with Coconut Sugar

 In a large bowl add

3 cups finely chopped apple

1 tbs cinnamon

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup melted butter

1 cup coconut sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 cup old fashioned rolled oats

1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk

Mix well by hand or with an electric mixer.

Roll dough into balls approximately 1 inch in diameter.

Place into cookie sheets sprayed with oil.

Place into an oven preheated to 375 f

Bake for 12 minutes.

Remove and allow to cool.  If not eaten soon after baking, put into a fridge or freezer for storage.



Monday, February 12, 2024

Delicious Maple Chocolate Whole Wheat Bread

 (Yes, it's a bit of work, but everything worthwhile is.) 

Start with a large bowl.

Add 5 cups warm water (click here for the best temperature)

Add 2 tbs yeast (stir  gently and just a little with a whisk, spoon, or fork)

Allow to sit for 10 minutes

Add two large eggs

Add 1/2 cup of pure maple syrup

Add 1 tbs salt

Add 1 tsp baking powder

Add 1 tsp baking soda

Add 4 tbs olive oil

(stir with a whisk, spoon, or fork)

Add 10 cups whole wheat flour

stir with something stout

Add 3 cups dark chocolate chips



gently stir with a large sturdy spoon (you can also use your hands)

On a flat nonporous surface, pour out 3 cups rolled oats. (Typically I prefer old fashioned rolled oats, and you can use them for this, but for this recipe, you can also use quick oats.) Spread the oats out so there is a thin layer.  Pour and scoop the dough out on the oats.  Add 2 cups whole wheat flour on top of the dough. Start kneading with your hands.  If after you start kneeding, you need a little more flour, you can add 1-1.5 cups more. This can actually be enjoyable, it can be a stress reliver and a decent exercise.  Click here for: how to knead bread.  BTW, this is one time, as long as it stays on and directly above the surface you are kneading on, this is one time it's ok to get a little aggressive and perhaps work out some of your frustrations.

After kneading just a minute ot two, if needed, add a little more whole wheat flour.


Continue to knead.  Kneading should last in total about 10 minutes.

Place the ball of bread dough back into the original bowl.  There will likely be a little dough left from the original mixing and this will allow it to be absorbed into the bowl.

Place a dry towel over the bowl of bread dough and allow to rise for one hour.

Pour another two cups rolled oats onto the same surface and spread out just enough to allow the risen dough to be placed on the thin layer of oats.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Spray with oil (olive if available) 4 bread pans.

Place the ball of dough on the think layer or oats.  Roll it in the oats to cover the dough.  Cut dough into 4 mostly equal parts. I do not cut to the surface but stop just above and then pull the pieces apart.  Gently roll each part on the think layer of oats.  Place into sprayed bread pans and allow to rise for another hour.

Place in preheated oven and allow and bake for 30 minutes.

Remove, allow to cool, remove loafs of bread.  Enjoy.

Delicious Maple Blueberry Whole Wheat-Oat Bread

(Yes, it's a bit of work, but everything worthwhile is.)

 Start with a large bowl.

 Add 5 cups warm water (click here for the best temperature)

 Add 2 tbs yeast (stir with a whisk, spoon, or fork)

 Allow to sit for 10 minutes

 Add two large eggs

 Add 1/2 cup of pure maple syrup

 Add 1 tbs salt

 Add 1 tsp baking powder

Add 1 tsp baking soda

 Add 4 tbs olive oil

 (stir with a whisk, spoon, or fork)

 Add 3 cups dried blueberries

 (stir with a whisk, spoon, or fork)

 Add 10 cups whole wheat flour

 gently stir with a large sturdy spoon (you can also use your hands)

 On a flat nonporous surface, pour out 4 cups rolled oats. (Typically I prefer old fashioned rolled oats, and you can use them for this, but for this recipe, quick oats are better.) Spread the oats out so there is a thin layer.  Pour and scoop the dough out on the oats.  Start kneading with your hands.  This can actually be enjoyable, it can be a stress reliver and a decent exercise.  Click here for: how to knead bread.  BTW, this is one time, as long as it stays on and directly above the surface you are kneading on, this is one time it's ok to get a little aggressive and perhaps work out some of your frustrations.

 After kneading just a minute or two, (have prepared in advance) add 1 more cup or whole wheat flour.

 Continue to knead another two or three minutes and add another prepared cup of whole wheat flour. 

Continue to knead.  Kneading should last in total about 12 minutes.

 Place the ball of bread dough back into the original bowl.  There will likely be a little dough left from the original mixing and this will allow it to be absorbed into the bowl.

 Place a dry towel over the bowl of bread dough and allow to rise for one hour.

 Pour another two cups rolled oats (quick is best for this) onto the same surface and spread out just enough to allow the risen dough to be placed on the thin layer of oats.

 Preheat oven to 400 degrees

 Spray with oil (olive if available) 5 or six bread pans.

 Place the ball of dough on the think layer or oats.  Roll it in the oats to cover the outside of the ball. Using a knife or dough scraper, slowly but firmly divide the dough into 5 or six mostly equal parts. I do not cut to the surface but stop just above and then pull the pieces apart.  Gently roll each part on the think layer of oats.  Please into sprayed bread pans and allow to rise for another hour.

 Place in preheated oven and allow and bake for 30 minutes.

 Remove, allow to cool, remove loafs of bread.  Enjoy.


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