The Amiable Muse : Spring Flower salad

Saturday, 24 October 2015

Spring Flower salad

Serves:	4
Allergens:	Gluten free
Dietary considerations:	Low carb / Fat conscious / Health conscious / Dairy free / Vegan
Category:	Easy
Prep time:	10 minutes
Cooking time:	5 minutes
Ingredients: 1 x 180 g pillow pack mixed lettuce leaves 10-15 spears fresh asparagus, blanched and cut into bite-sized pieces ½ cup walnuts, toasted Edible flower petals (such as nasturtium, hibiscus, calendula, rose, pansy and dianthus) Cape gooseberry balsamic vinegar reduction
Cooking instructions: Scatter the lettuce leaves and rocket onto a serving platter. Toss the asparagus and walnuts on top and decorate with the flowers. Drizzle with the dressing and serve.

The Mystical world of Earth

This is the theory that planet Earth is a self-regulating organism, it was put forward by the British biologist James E. Lovelock in the early 1970's. Lovelock accepts that he was not the first to come up with this theory as in 1958 Alfred Redfield also offered the idea of the planet controlling a homeostasis. His main hypothesis was that the whole planet is biologically controlled by self regulation of all living things on planet Earth.

The belief is that humans along with all other life forms contribute too and are affected by all other life forms, this in turn creates a homeostasis. Those that do not support this theory believe instead that the Earth was created and is maintained by serendipity ? (happy coincidence), it is for the Gaia theory that our Ecology section is put under this heading along with recommended sites. The whole team at Mystical World Wide Web support any organisation that is attempting to correct some of the destructive nature of "Man and Commerce".

"This we know, all things are connected,
like the blood that unites one family.
All things are connected,
whatever befalls the Earth,
befalls the sons of the Earth.
Man did not weave the web of life he is merely a strand,
what ever he does to the Web he does to himself.
This we know".

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.” - Ayn Rand

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Saturday, 24 October 2015

Spring Flower salad