Not all animal foods are created equal.
Some are genuinely excellent.
Others are coasting on a reputation they haven’t earned, and a handful are actively working against you while you congratulate yourself for choosing them.
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Worrying about grain-fed beef is peak first-world health anxiety.
You have access to abundant, affordable, nutrient-dense meat. The kind your great-grandparents queued for ration books to glimpse. The kind your peasant ancestors would have disowned you for turning your nose up at.
A thousand years of your bloodline ate scraps, gristle, and the bits the lord didn't want. You inherited the entire animal and you're upset about the omega-3 ratio.
You're standing in the supermarket at 7pm, holding a pack of beef, googling "grass-finished" while your cortisol does a lap of your nervous system.
The cow ate corn for six weeks. You ate ultra-processed food three times this week. Pick the actual problem.
Read the room. The room is your nervous system. It is currently screaming.
- Baptized as a baby, catechised by the church (although poorly since family were non practicing cafeteria Catholics) mainly through choir duties, altar boy duties, etc.
- Received first communion after a few years of preparatory lessons in my parish (without knowing what it's really all about), then confirmed by my Bishop at around 10 or 12 or so. (Again without really knowing what it's all about)
- Apostasized fully when i reached high school due to the weak faith of those around me and poor upbringing, "God is not real, opiates of the masses yada yada yada"...
The spirit of the world thoroughly captured my mind and my soul.
- Continued being lost until early adulthood, dabbled in mysticism, paganism, esoteric eastern religions, anything really as long as it ain't Jesus.
- Eventually became a "born again Christian"... Read the bible cover to cover, learned about theology , soteriology, Christology, etc thinking I'm holier and smarter than everyone... Thought that i was doing a service to God and Godliness when all it was was veiled pride and supreme arrogance. Looked down upon Catholicism as a unworthy and a corrupt "teaching of men", thought to myself I'd become a prophet and start my own church (the ultimate protty dream)
- Lost the zeal of my youth due to inability to harmonize doctrines and dogmas which seemed conflicting, confusing and eventually being a Christian only mentally and culturally, the faith was built on sand.
- One day watched a Catholic edit that goes unfathomably hard online, and then another and then a hundred more... Catholicism was dripping with aura and my worldly ass was enamored.
- Started to take it seriously, started learning about real Catholicism (Godbless Catholic Answers), started to live a Catholic life, started to learn all there is to learn about it.
- Still it was mostly mentally, the heart and soul did not truly believed, the foundation of faith was no longer on sand, yet it's not as solid as rock
- One night when i was pondering over the fate of the apostles, asked myself this very logical question "Why would they die so horribly for Christ? If it didn't profit them anything at all"
Did they make it all up? did they lie for their own agendas and gain?
If it were a lie, they sure did not profit from it and on the contrary, recanting and calling it a lie would've saved them all from supreme humiliation and horrors and death.
- Then the realization hit me, the essence of the moment that happened to Saul on his journey to Damascus hit me...
It wasn't a blinding light nor a supernatural event
It's the realization that men of this world would never die or sacrifice themselves over a silly inconsequential lie when they could have saved themselves and maybe even profit from it... It's the realization that all of them willingly took up the cross and died because they TRULY DID SEE Jesus again. They touched His hands and His wounds, they saw Him with their own eyes, heard Him with their own ears and when mortals truly see divinity, there is no turning back. When Saul had seen divinity, there was no turning back. When i saw divinity, there was no turning back. And what divinity wills, the mortal who sees, does.
- My faith and zeal renewed like never before, my Lord and my God has need of me, and with my life and if need be my death, i shall seek The Kingdom of God, the only reward i seek is to see Jesus Christ my Lord, my God, my Saviour, my all at the end of my days.
Blessed be the sacraments, the visible sign of the invisible grace which Jesus instituted that have strengthened and led me back home.
May all our faith be anchored upon His rock unchanging. May God bless us all, amen.
Raw kidney beans: five of them will hospitalise you.
Raw cassava: kills people regularly in food-insecure regions if not processed correctly.
Raw elderberries: cyanide compounds. Toxic without cooking.
Raw potatoes: solanine. Neurological symptoms in quantity.
Raw grain: mycotoxins, lectins, phytates. Requires processing to be safely edible.
Raw spinach: oxalates that accumulate in soft tissue with regular use.
Raw ribeye: safe. Eaten raw across cultures throughout history. No processing required.
The plant kingdom is defending itself.
This is not metaphor. The chemistry is real and documented.
You don't have to cook a steak to avoid hospital.
You absolutely have to cook a red kidney bean.
to drink :
-manina speakeasy bar
-time beach warung for cocktail
-behind the greendoor
-the lawn
makan murah
- dapur panda dewi sri (authenthic singapore cook by uncle2)
- bigul slingsing canggu
- bigul men agus canggu
- bigul sari nadi canggu
- bigul pan ana denpasar
- bigul ajik gita ubud
- bigul sari astri (the best for me) denpasar
- bigul men weci sanggeh
- legend bigul pande egi gianyar
- nasi campur warung adi (pagi) sanur
- nasi campur men weti sanur
- bak choorme by super lucky (kuta)
-super lucky
-mevui kuta (pho)
-pho tin (pho)
- lawar marlin adi dongker
- lawar sapi pak joni denpsar
- lawar kuwir (bebek) buwit (tanah lot)
- lawar kerbau mang bo sanggeh
resto :
- bali nikmat (cantonese)
- htp seafood ( medan lang seafood)
- pasar kedonganan seafood tour plus bakar di tmpt
resto jepang shady but authentic
- yukimaru sanur (yakitori)
- warung tensaki (hotpot)
- take (ramen and nigiri)
brunch :
braud
baked
baro bakery
atelier 8
7 am
sibling espresso
kanvaz vincent nigita
hula prerenan
for coffe :
hungry bird
resto high end
-sijin for sure
-indigo for omakase
-mason for biasa aja meal but they have really good bread dessert
- pica ubud (never been there but i heard very solid)
- da maria for pizza and vino
- riviera for pasta
- seasalt by alila enakk a lot of asian flavour
-locavore to go
-locavore butcher table
-shelter bali