Join Author Martha Char Love of new cook book "Mom's Island Bakens" on It Matters Radio

Join Martha Char Love, author of new cook book Mom's Island Bakens for a live Broadcast on "IT Matters Radio", Thursday, December 4th 9PM ET, 8PM CT, 7PM MT, 6PM PT. Find out about cooking nutritious food that is also delicious.
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If you missed the broadcast, then you may still see the full interview here:
 http://www.itmattersradio.com/#!martha-char-love/cx6y


Review by Co-Host Ken Weene of Mom's Island Bakens:

Anybody here not like to eat?

I admit it; I like to eat and I love tasty food. The problem is that nagging worry about health. You know the one, the one asking will this be healthy for me as well as tasty? Eating well — not just delicious  but healthy — requires a lifestyle change for most people. Martha Char Love tries to help with Mom’s Island Bakens. It isn’t just the over fifty recipes in the book that are helpful, there are chapters about how to alter recipes in general, for example some advice on how to lower the glycemic index and how to balance acidity and alkalinity. She offers specific recipes for specific problems such as poor sleeping and jetlag. Martha also gives tips for cleaning your kitchen without using dangerous chemicals.

While neither a nutritionist nor a chemist, Love condenses a lot of useful information into her book, much as she encourages her readers to pack nutrient density into their food. This is a book for people who care what they put into their guts and that is certainly something for all of us to care about.

Review by Kenneth Weene,

Co-Host, It Matters Radio

Mom's Island Bakens is Given a 5 Star Review by a Guy Who Says He is "Next To Useless In the Kitchen"

The following 5 star review of Mom's Island Bakens is by T. R. Heinan, author of
L'Immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen

Mom’s Island Bakens by Martha Char Love is the only cookbook I have ever actually wanted to recommend. As a guy who is next to useless in the kitchen, I nearly gave up on cookbooks, and even magazine recipes, when I discovered that they always seem to require at least one ingredient that can only be purchased at two mom and pop stores in New Delhi or only sold in Alaska on Tuesdays during the month of July.  

At last here are recipes that only require ingredients you are likely to find at your local grocer. When it comes to making substitutions in recipes, the author has already done it for you. The entire book is filled with the substitutions needed to make old family recipes healthier. In fact, the first four chapters are devoted to learning how to make everything you cook heathier, with an eye to nutrient density, lowering the glycemic index and balancing pH levels. There is even a easy to follow section on how to make a gluten free baking flour mix. This book also gives you the tools to modify your own family recipes in order to make them healthier. As a heart patient, I really appreciate having this information. 

Mom's Island Bakens provides over fifty recipes and even entire meals that you can make to enjoy truly healthy eating without having to acquire the tools and skills of a top chef or ingredients you’ve never ever seen anyplace you shop. So glad I discovered this little book. I give it five stars. 

Mom's Island Bakens, available on Amazon US and on Amazon UK

Smell that Organic Mayan Chocolate! Healthy Double Chocolate Cherry Almond Cookies

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an't you just smell that Organic Mayan Chocolate cooking! Just cooked 4 dozen cookies from my new cookbook, "Mom's Island Bakens". So Delicious! And the best thing about it is that they are half almond flour (and use half other whole grain) so they are high in protein, low in glycemic Index with organic raw agave and dried cherries for sweetening, and high in nutrient density with flax meal and chia seed, with heart healthy organic olive oil, walnuts, and omega-3 eggs. Easy to cook! 

Double Chocolate Cherry Almond Cookies from page 84, "Mom's Island Bakens"

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"Mom's Island Bakens" Cookbook Shares a Simple Gluten-Free Flour Mix Recipe for People with Celiac Disease

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his has been a fun week with the new release of Mom’s Island Bakens and it now being available on Amazon! One of the first people who bought my book, author Mamie Adkins, has emailed me and asked me if I would suggest this book for people with Celiac disease. Thank you, Mamie, because that is a great question and I think other people may wonder the same thing. Celiac is a disease in which eating gluten triggers an immune system reaction in the small intestines and overtime causes mal-absorption of some important nutrients. Following a gluten-free diet can help manage the symptoms and promote intestinal healing. While Mom’s Island Bakens is not written specifically for those with Celiac disease who are needing to become gluten-free, it does include in most of its recipes that use grains a substitute flour mix suggestion that is gluten-free. There are also a few delicious gluten free recipes using other gluten free grains than suggested in the gluten-free mix.

Likewise, the ingredients included in a few of the recipes in Mom's Island Bakens may have dairy products listed but usually also will include suggestions for non-dairy alternatives like almond or rice milk. I almost always use almond milk in all the recipes. And best of all, Mom’s Island Bakens takes a look at other important things to consider in your ingredient lists like how to make a recipe nutrient dense and have every bite packed with as much nutrition as possible. There are times that I select to forgo making a recipe absolutely dairy-free (even though most of my recipes include suggestions for doing so if you are allergic to dairy) because I want to make sure the nutrient density is as high as possible.

An example of allowing for milk products in a recipe to increase nutrient density is seen in the chocolate cream pie recipe on page 99 of Mom’s Island Bakens. I noticed tonight that for the chocolate pie recipe (I made one as a birthday gift for a family member) that I have listed as one ingredient a cup of almond milk thickened to kefir consistency using organic non-fat dried milk. The dried milk makes this recipe not absolutely dairy-free. However, you can make this recipe without using the non-fat dried milk and instead add two more tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken the almond milk. Since cornstarch has no nutritious value what-so-ever, I prefer to use dried milk as a thickener when possible. Of course, you would need to consider your own health needs to make this decision. I have cooked this pie both ways and it is delicious either way!

And yes, there are a number of recipes that are gluten free in Mom’s Island Baken’s. However, if you would like to simply have the gluten free baking mix recipe that I include in Mom’s Island Bakens, I am happy to give that out freely. Just use this mix to substitute 1 to 1 for wheat or other gluten flours in any of your favorite recipes and enjoy good health:

1 cup certified gluten free organic millet flour or certified gluten free oat flour

1/2 cup organic almond meal

1 cup potato starch

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

So back to the original question, is Mom’s Island Bakens a good cookbook for people with Celiac disease? My answer is yes, because it is written to help everyone consider how to make ingredient substitutions for good health. And if you would like to consider not just how to substitute ingredients to make your diet gluten-free, but also how to have your cooked food higher in nutrient density, lower on the glycemic index, using all heart healthy oils like olive oil, and more digestible as a more alkaline diet, then you would certainly find Mom’s Island Bakens helpful. I suggest Mom’s Island Bakens to anyone as a helpful guide in making an overall more healthy diet change through learning to alter recipes for gut and heart health. And surely, you will find a number of Mom’s tried and true recipes not only healthy for you but also very delicious. 

Mom's Island Bakens: Over 50 Altered Recipes For a Happy Gut and a Healthy Heart

Mom's Island Bakens: 

Over 50 Altered Recipes For a Happy Gut and a Healthy Heart

by Martha Char Love

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here are over 50 original recipes in this book and all are very delicious and healthy foods—many entire meals. The recipes that I have included are from my personal collection that I have created over a 40-year span of time and that I refined to healthy versions for gut and heart over the years to reflect modern knowledge about excellent nutrition and well-being.

Best of all in this book, you will be given cooking tips throughout that will help you become a skilled and creative cook with gut and heart health in mind. Once you have learned these 50+ recipes, you will have not only a great daily diet, but also the ability to make up your own variations of a large selection of types of dishes and alter any recipe you find on the internet or otherwise into a healthy but very tasty version of your own that will serve your own dietary needs.

This book is not only a recipe book, but also a course in how to cook and to alter recipes to your health specifications. Reading this book will demonstrate to you, for instance, how to take an old family recipe of your own mother’s and make changes to it that render it healthier—and yet satisfy your yearning for the comfort of her cooking. Furthermore, many of those delicious looking recipes you come across while surfing the web can be altered to a more healthy version for heart and gut and you will find some of these also included in this book.

You are also encouraged to alter the recipes in this book even further, to accommodate your own health concerns and the latest diet information and research past the time of writing this book. While I have added as much dietary knowledge and resources as possible for you to use, in determining what are healthy ingredients for you specifically, it is advised to go over you particular needs with your health care physician. 

You are invited to visit this blog site for more on the content in Mom's Island Bakens, updates on recipes, cooking tips and even some added delicious and healthy recipes.

Table of Contents for "Mom's Island Bakens"

To give you an idea of what Mom's Island Bakens is all about and what delicious and healthy recipes are included, here is the table of contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

A Word About “Mom’s Notes and Tips”

And A Word About Tasting

Updates and Recipe Versions

Chapter 1:

Changing a Recipe to Your Taste
and to the Most Updated Knowledge
About a Healthy Diet

Making Substitutions in Recipes

Flour Substitutions

Basic Gluten Free Baking Flour Mix

Substituting Liquids for Dry ingredients

A word about Egg Replacement

Three Important Healthy Ways to Alter and Improve a Recipe

Adding Ingredients for  Nutrient Density

Lowering the Glycemic Index

Balancing Your Acid-Alkaline pH Levels

Chapter Summary

Chapter 2:

Altering Dishes

Where to Start In Making Healthy Substitutions

What to Do When you Yearn for “Comfort Foods”

Emotions and Need for Comfort Foods

Chapter 3:

How I Altered Two of Mother’s Recipes

Recipe 1: Mother’s Original Shrimp and Rice Dish
My Altered Healthy Version of My Mother’s Shrimp and Rice Dish

Recipe 2: Mother’s Saving Grace Spaghetti

My Altered Healthy Version of Mother’s Life Saving Spaghetti—I Now
     Call “Secret Ingredient  Spaghetti”

Chapter 4:

Cakes, Breads, and Muffins

Organic Lemon Cake with Walnut and Lemon Icing Glaze

Frozen Log Cake—Coconut Milk Whipped Cream with Mayan Chocolate

Banana Nut Bread

Mom’s Island Ginger bread

Raison-Walnut Vanilla Muffins

Zucchini Gluten-Free Muffins

Heart Healthy Raison-Walnut Bread

Alternative—Handmade Bread Directions

Yum-Yum Chocolate Cherry Bread

Best Beet Chocolate Chewy Brownies

It’s More than a Scone

Chapter 5:

Cookies.

Easy Green Tea Almond Cookies

Favorite Oatmeal Raison Cookies

Oatmeal Cranberry Walnut Cookies

Double Chocolate Cherry Almond Cookies

Chapter 6:

Pies

Basic Altered Healthy Pie Crust

Agave Pumpkin/Sweet Potato Pie with Rice Milk  

Chocolate Cream Pie

Mom’s Island Apple Pie #1

Mom’s Island Apple Pie #2

Delicious Healthy Cherry Pie

Mango Ice cream

Chapter 7:

Main Entrées with Some Side Dishes

Nepalese Style Cauliflower and Potato

One Dish, Easy Baked Veggies  and Fish

Oven Baked Fruit

Meal in a Pumpkin—A Child’s Delight

Roman Hawaiian Pizza

Elves’ Squash Dish

Potato and Mushroom Delight

Falafels

Navy Bean—Pine Nut Burgers

Hot Veggie Sandwiches

Wild Rice Stuffed Peppers

Hot Almond Butter Sandwiches

Pesto Pasta and Veggies

Perfect Microwaved Organic Corn on the Cob

Chili Soup

Mom's Island Baken Beans

Chapter 8:

Soups, Salads, and Side Dishes

Minestrone Soup

Lentil Soup

Coconut Milk Soup

Miso soup

Papaya Salad

Special Cold Salad Green Beans

Pumpkin and Raison Soufflé

Mango Rice

Green Salad Delight

Bob's Longevity Oatmeal

Jetlag Fruit Salad

Chapter 9:

Condiments and Sauces

Homemade Organic Ketchup

Green Heaven Greek-Yogurt Dressing

Yogurt Tartar Sauce

Blueberry Jelly

Raw Cocoa Syrup

Mint Sauce

Basal and Pine Nut Pesto

Fresh Fruit Yogurt Dip

Chapter 10:

The Happy Gut and  Healthy Heart

The Happy Gut

Organic Edamame and Depression

Himalayan Salt

Try Eating Something New! Mangosteins, Durians, and Pear Apples!

Food That Will Help You Regulate Your Sleep

Chapter 11:

One for Rover!

Puppy Pancakes Treats

Chapter 12:

Kitchen Cleaning Tips

Cleaning Your Oven Using Non-Toxic Household Products 

Cleaning the Food Smells from Inside Your Microwave

Cleaning Sterling Silver

Appendix 1:

ANDI Scores

Appendix 2:

pH Levels of Ingredients of the Recipes in This Book: Accentuate the Alkaline in Your Diet 

Appendix 3:

Guide to Measurement Substitutions

About the Author

It is important to remember to smile and sing and laugh and have positive thoughts while you cook! The food will carry your life energy and good wishes to help nurture all who eat it. And most certainly do swallow your smiles often as you cook to bring happiness to your own gut!