AGTSP!!! paoho... We can't find the collection of recipes right away that Nama' Das sent??! It must be somewhere, but we hope he still has it and can continue to edit this book.
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Yes, Guru Maharaja, I still have it, updated with your porridge recipe. I had send it to you again. Please reply if you got it.
HpS - It is in our yahoo.mail, but again, we are so overwhelmed with work that we rely upon you to assemble it, and write some Chapters also.
I noticed in your recipe that the offering part is different than our (ISKCON) usual procedure. At least externally looking. Can I ask what is the reason for that?
HpS - Just like Lord Caitanya took Sannyasa in a Mayavadi Sampradaya, we are adjusting it for the vernacular of an American, Bachelor, audience.
Your servant Namacarya das
ps: waiting for your Hawaii Janmastami class to be uploaded.
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CHAPTER TWO
FIRE
Where we dwell, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the "Boro", we live in an old ramshackle mobile home that was rehabilitated to act as a cave for us while we were camped here. We travel a lot. Good habit.
The stove is like about 20-years old, electric, four burners. We've never really used more than the front-left burner the entire time we've camped here, over five years now. Live in a cabin and use a one burner hot-plate.
WHATEVER YOU DO EVERYDAY YOU WILL BECOME EXPERT AT THAT
So, we cook everyday for God. Get up at the same time. Try to get develop a daily rhythm. Then we can see where are our strengths, weakness, natural inclinations.
We learned that if we put milk on the stove to heat and then go do something else, 9-times out of 10, we will forget it and hear it boiling over, or later find it cooked to ashes on the mutilated pot. So we learned to put the milk on Low, or Low - Medium-low, then it can go for a long, long tme until we remember it. Get to know your hot-plate's dial.
BETTER THAN A STOVE
Cooking on Buffalo-chips or dried Gober [dried cow-dung] is the best, second best is wood, then gas, then electric, then micro-wave. Generally speaking, stuff tastes different on the kind of fire you give it.
If you bake five potatoes at 475-degrees for 45-minutes, they taste different than if your boil them (at 212-degrees). The protein ends up different.
However, we feel that the most essential cooking item is a blender. Don't need no fire, just need Yogurt, bananas, organic crunchy p-nut butter, raisins and some rolled oats (get 'em baked first, I'll tell you why later). Zzzzzmmmmm!
Finished, breakfast for your dearmost Friend.
Peas-porridge and Gorilla-glop. Another good one is fresh, sweet, oranges and apple-juice, early in the morning.
Bake almonds with the potatoes, oats and use them instead of, with, the P-nut butter.
The real secret is to cook everything for your Ista-devata, your God, and then everything will turn out good with that consciousness. You will get good intelligence from within. Hare Krsna.