Sweet Potatoes

 Since I read the book "The Starch Solution" I have been looking for good starches to incorporate into my diet. I had been consuming a lot of rice but I find that I get a little achy if I eat rice daily. Potatoes and bread are out for me, so that basically leaves sweet potatoes.

Since incorporating these into my diet I often eat an entire medium-sized sweet potato at each meal. I have also found that I have a lot more energy during the day. Pineapple calls me the Energizer Bunny.

Finally, by switching to a very-low-meat, high starch diet, I passed a bunch of kidney stones (about 1 every 4 days). They passed relatively early in my high-starch diet and I haven't had any since, so my suspicion is that my diet was much more alkaline than a high-meat diet and as a consequence of being alkaline those stones started to shrink. When they got small enough they dislodged from my kidney and passed. Thankfully these were small stones and were the easiest for me to pass (I've had several other larger, very painful stones in the past).

Massaman Curry

I love this recipe. It is fairly easy, and quite tasty.

Ingredients

• 2.5 cups Coconut Milk (or 1 can with some water to water it down)
• 1.5 Lbs Chicken/Stewing Beef. Cut into 1-inch cubes
• 1 cup Coconut Cream (or 1 can cream or milk)
• 3 Tbs. Massaman Curry Paste
• 2 Tbs. Fish Sauce/Salt
• 1 Tbs. Brown Sugar/Sugar
• 4 Tbs. Tamarind Juice (Optional)
• 6 Pods of Cardamom
• 1 Stick Cinnamon - Or Cinnamon powder to taste
• 1 to 1.5 lbs Potatoes, cut into cubes
• 1 Onion, cut into wedges
• 0.5 cup roasted peanuts (Optional)
• 1 Tbs. Lime Juice (Or 1 or 2 fresh limes)
• Rice (preferably jasmine)

Notes on Ingredients

This is the recipe given to me, but I make the following adjustments every time I prepare it.

I always buy 2 cans of coconut milk instead to trying to differentiate between cream and milk. for the first one in the list, I use 1 can and pour in 1 more can of water. I do this because the chicken needs to be fairly well covered as it warms up in the pot (see Directions).