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Slow Cooked Dinner for the Nomadic Lifestyle

Today on The Wizard Life I'll be showing you how I slow cook a meal of grassfed meat, organic vegetables, ghee and spices using solar power while living in my truck out in the wilderness.

I use a 12-Volt Slow Cooker powered by my single 100W Solar Panel and 100ah Battery. It also runs great plugged directly into the truck's cigarette lighter while on a long drive. Always nice to arrive home to a healthy meal that's hot and ready to eat, eh?

The first thing I add is some grassfed meat:

GrassfedMeat

In this case I'm using grassfed lamb cut into small chunks for stew. I avoid grainfed meat like the plague for a lot of reasons, but primarily because I can feel my body becoming inflamed and my mind slowing down after eating it, and animals raised on grain commonly lead horrific lives.

Grass is the natural diet of many of the animals we raise for food, and this leads to much healthier meat (which you can read about here), and the animals are more likely to have lived happily.

The next thing I add are some organic frozen vegetables:

OrganicFrozenVegetables

I find that frozen vegetables are most convenient because they are already cut into the appropriate size, and often come in tasty combinations. Onions are the key thing to have for flavor, but I also love broccoli, cauliflower and carrots.

I always buy organic vegetables to avoid the contamination commonly found on and inside conventionally grown produce. Check out this article to learn more about that.

Next I add some organic grassfed Ghee to the mix:

GrassfedGhee

Ghee is pure butter fat and is only necessary when using cuts of meat that have very little fat. Since I'm trying to minimize my expenses, that's usually what I'm working with.

Ghee adds a lot of flavor to pretty much any cooked meal as long as salt is included in the recipe. Assuming it's organic and grassfed it also has a ton of health benefits. Ghee has a very long shelf life as well, which makes it perfect for the nomadic lifestyle.

Next comes the seasoning:

Seasoning

Really all I need is sea salt to make a delicious meal, but recently I've started adding mustard powder for flavor and cayenne for some spiciness. I highly recommend this combination!

Last thing to add is enough water to cover the ingredients:

AddWater

I use the Roadpro Slow Cooker which can be powered by any 12-Volt electricity system with an outlet like the cigarette lighter in a car. In this case I'm using my 100-Watt Solar Panel and 100ah Battery to the power the cooking process.

SolarPanel

Isn't it amazing that a single solar panel like this can collect enough energy to cook meat?!

Cooking

It usually takes about 4 hours before it's ready to eat, and requires very little attention on my part during that time. I just stop by to stir it a few times to help everything cook evenly.

Stirring

Voila! A delicious hearty meal cooked by the sun in the middle of the wilderness. Hard to get better than this!

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I was just about to write an anti-vegetarian blog! Not that I would ever go back: my body and my sensitivities couldn't take it, but veganism is really starting to rub me the wrong way, since I notice the least sensitive people signing up for this diet for fairly militant reasons. This is my cut off line, since my dietary motivations are spiritual-intuitive and my concerns for this planet also involve feeding the hungry and nourishing the soulfully empoverished- two sides of the same coin if you take a spiritual approach. Plus the cosmic nutritional stream asks to be incorporated intelligently into our human lives.

I personally gravitate towards fruits and salads and could be happy on a so-called vegan diet, minus the coconut, soy, and other environmentally impacting crops. Raw food can also be considered largely exploitative of our resources with its exotic berries and massive import of non-local powders specifically. I have noted that there is very concern in that community and subsequently very little control on where it all comes from - seldom organic. And it's all a luxury and an excess again: why drink three mangoes, five oranges, 35 raspberries, and one banana in one smoothie when you don't need such a high calorie or sugar intake?

Furthermore, aside the loss of portion size, we lose connect with our food by using blenders. Chewing is important for the etheric (fluid-energy) household of our body: it helps us listen. To listen is to digest in turn (the ear is morphed out of a piece of intestinal-tract in the embryo). We swallow life in greedy gulps; or are force fed enough already, as if through a funnel (noise, abuse, harshness). We must teach our children to savour, again. And process, breaking down texture, shape, "origin" with our eyes before we even give it to our mouths. Look at the sturdy broccoli tree and compare it to the paper-thin spinach leaf, contrast this with the bright orange carrot: not just one brown or greenish slush).

The way we eat now is ridiculous, and so Veganism fits into our day and age and our need to become more aware of the obscene disrespect we show our fellow creatures, but not least of all also our fellow human beings: serving them bad quality, teaching them to savour artificially, poisoning our children, depriving our neighbour (countries).

But Veganism, and Raw Foodism no less, are, also decadant luxuries, in the face of some critical nutritional issues or lack. Notably it has a specific attraction on men on the one hand, and puritan souls on the other, because it's quite "strict" and rigid: a lot of no, thou shalt not! This gives a sense of discipline and righteousness. One is furthermore protecting species and regions and rights and all sorts of powerful aggrandising slogans can be slung the way of those who are cruel and unclean.

Now, "to make matters worse", for all the dear vegans out there, I am even a fishytarian (though allergic to shellfish). And in part this is for social reasons, (or there was very little left to eat on my travels and many hosts to insult perpetually) and now also for the sake of my son whose body is less robust than mine, and he needs the energy of animal protein. I often feel like cutting down even more on such proteins (as older people often naturally do), but I also eat fish once a week for spiritual reasons, not easy to explain and impossible to justify, but all vegetarians are hypocrites unless they wear plastic shoes and forgo cheese (made with rennet). Only I see it differently. Less materialistically.

I believe by eating the fish I engage in a dialogue with it (I only buy fresh fish from a local fishmonger, and I always discuss the conditions of the catch, where, how, seasonally appropriate etc. Not so much to appease my mind, that I might be holier than thou, but to extend that dialogue.) It is a kind of praying for the Ocean. I would like to think I could catch the fish myself, but again, it's a tricky one: because me going out fishing in the city is stupid, and we'll have to wait and see what I might or might not be capable of on my desert island. I cannot catch the rabbit or the bird, let alone the cow. I imagine looking it in the eye and not feeling hungry. I would like to think this is not sentimentality but a place I've arrived at for specific reasons that are necessary for my development. Just like I know there are some people who specifically have to hunt and eat animals: it is natural and necessary for them.

All this may sound odd, (no, it doesn't to you) but eating is very intimate and a dedicated devotion to Mother Earth and Nature and above all the Cosmos and the group souls of animals AND plants AND minerals. Primitive people know this, but we can't be bon sauvages anymore and return to the wild (well, you can try, but not all us millions, and thank god for that I can hear you cry - we'd ruin your nomadic peace!). By ingesting animals we set their spirit entities free and evolve them etherically. For farmed animals this goes no less, but they are also starting to evolve pretty fast now, and this is what makes the old ways of (large scale) farming ever more brute.

I accept this goes a bit over most people's head, but I would love to see more people checking into their OWN intuition on what they really need to eat (form intuitive bridges between inner and outer worlds, the very construction food is meant to build. Eating is a great, clear place to start a spiritual relationship - quick results, easy to monitor, get stuck in there as of age 6 months!)

Different strokes for different folks. A bit of a wet cliché.

I can be very strict though! I am a great advocate of bio-dynamic farming (terribly worried by the short-cuts in general organic farming, turning into just another industry and commercial success). Anthroposophical bio-dynamics, akin to the Aryuvedic/astrological principles already practiced for millenia on the Indian subcontinent. (Not quite permaculture, which initially I found very promising, but ever more it seems to be promising to become a lucrative fashion and run away with itself on a purely materialistic basis again. The individuals will make the difference!)

Demeter farming (see link below) is a hermetic way of understanding our cohabitating with eachother and other species and elementals; broading our view to include microbe, virus and bacterium to those in herds, hives, woods, mountain chains and mineral veins. It is about feeding a sensitivity to nutritional streams which do not serve our survival (we have a sell-by date for sure) but enhance the quality of our life with a cosmic intelligence. How we "farm" this, reap these rewards, glean the kernel and separate it from the chaff is a spiritual business, practiced in the dirt, developed in the pot, glorified on the dish.

Oops, this concludes my "blog" but it felt better to share it with you and yours personally.
For further info on bio-dynamics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgduHhfv3ms&list=PL-Oo0RZFhcPHyEDAkzcpxVoKtqqii-gKA&index=36

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