Wholemeal Pancakes Recipe

Posted on February 6, 2010 by admin

Healthy, tasty pancakes using wholemeal flour.

Ingredients:

1 cup wholemeal flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 tablespoons milk powder

1 medium egg

1 cup water

butter or oil for cooking

Instructions:

Mix dry ingredients.  Add egg and stir.  Add water and mix until reasonably even batter is formed ( a few lumps are ok).  Heat frying pan and add coat surface with oil or butter.  Pour out batter for desired size of pancake.  Cook until bubble form and remain or pop leaving a hollow.  Flip pancake and cook on other side.

Each cup of flour makes 3 medium or 2 large pancakes

See video below for demonstration:

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Fruit Tofu Whip Recipe

Posted on February 6, 2010 by admin

This is a super simple, nutritious, high protein dessert of breakfast dish.

Ingredients:

1 block of tofu

Fruit – 500g – 1 kg of fresh, canned or frozen fruit

Sunflower seeds

Fresh mints leaves

Water – you may also need a little water for blending.

Instructions:

Cut the tofu and fruit into chunks and blend in a blender.  Serve in bowls garnished with sunflower seeds and fresh mint leaves.  Its as easy as that!

Serves 4

See the video below for demonstration:

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Wholemeal Fruit Crumble Recipe

Posted on February 5, 2010 by admin

This is a really easy, quick, healthy dessert recipe.  The ingredients are all things that you are likely to keep stored around your house so you can whip it together at short notice if you have unexpected guests… or are just really hungry.

Ingredients:

1 cup wholemeal flour

1 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup sugar (you can use any type you like, but a natural sugar that still has it’s minerals will be better for you)

1/2 cup nuts or seeds

100g butter

Fruit – two small cans (approx 900g) or a similar amount of fresh stewed fruit

Instructions:

Spread fruit evenly in the bottom of a 20cm x 20cm (8inch x 8inch) baking dish.  Mix dry ingredients except nuts or seeds together in a bowl.  Cut butter into small chunks and combine with dry ingredients.  Rub together with your hands until the butter is evenly mixed and the dry ingredients start to clump together.  Add nuts or seeds.  Spread crumble mix over fruit in baking dish.  Bake in oven pre-heated to about 180 degrees celcius until golden brown on top.

Serves 6

See video about Garcinia Cambogia and below for demonstration:

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Self defense – using everyday objects as weapons – damage

Posted on February 3, 2010 by admin

I have some self defense seminars coming up soon.  This is a video of a demonstration I will be using in them.

You can greatly increase the effectiveness of your strikes in a self defense situation by using the objects around you as weapons.  The video shows different objects being used to strike a block of hard professional modelling clay to see the kind of damage they might do.

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Wholemeal flat bread / chapati / tortilla recipe

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

Wholemeal flat breads are simple and easy to make, and provide lots of versatile meal options.  There is nothing quite like the smell and taste of fresh made bread and you know you’re getting good nutrition because you know EXACTLY what you have put into it.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups of wholemeal flour (plus extra for rolling)

1 tsp salt

1 cup water

Makes: 10 -16

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together. Knead for 10 minutes.  Wrap in cling wrap and leave to rest for 1 hour.  Divide dough into pieces (10 – 16).  Roll out thin using plenty of extra flour to prevent sticking.  Cook in a hot dry pan on a medium to low heat for about 30 seconds to 1 minute each side, you can tell it is ready to turn when the surface begins to bubble slightly or when the surface in contact with the pan starts to form light brown spots.  Serve and eat!

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How to grow wheat grass

Posted on January 27, 2010 by admin

The wheat grass I’ve been growing at the centre has been attracting lots of questions and comments, so I thought I’d make an instructional video so you can know how to grow your own:

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Kids Kung Fu Dates for 2010

Posted on January 27, 2010 by admin

Kids kung fu classes at the North Shore Kung Fu and Qigong Health Centre run in sync with the primary school terms.  Term one begins next week!

Term one: 1st Feb – 1st April

Term two: 19th April – 2nd July

Term three: 19th July – 24 Sept

Term four: 11th Oct – 17th Dec

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Acupuncture massage rings now available

Posted on January 21, 2010 by admin

This is an interesting new product that I have sourced.

I have only had them for a couple of days, but I have enjoyed using them myself and others who have tried them have also enjoyed them.

The rings provide a pleasant stimulating massage as you roll them up and down your fingers.  Great for people who work with their hands, or who are on a keyboard a lot and get stiff or sore fingers.  Also the massage is a great stimulation of the ends of the meridians which run down into each finger tip.

I’d be keen to hear what you think of them.

I only have a few available at the moment.  You can get one for $5 by dropping in to the centre, or send me an e-mail and I can post one out to you.  If I get more of them in I expect they will normally sell for about $10

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Gig and show tonight at the centre!

Posted on January 17, 2010 by admin

Hi guys, watch the video below for more details.

Start time 7:15pm, band plays at about 8:30pm. 

Cost: $2 on the door.

All art work is for sale, some by silent auction.

For those of you who missed it, here is some footage from the night:

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Welcome back for 2010!

Posted on January 8, 2010 by admin

Welcome back for 2010!

Classes start up again next week (for the adults at least, kids have to wait until the first week of the school new term for their classes).  I hope you are looking forward to it.  I am looking forward to seeing you guys here and getting back into training after the break!

This is my first foray into using video content for posting news.  Hopefully they will improve with time.  Using video clips is going to allow us to show some of the interesting things that go on down here at the centre. 

You should be able to just click play on the box below and it will play.

See you soon!

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