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Dear List Members...

Thank you for responding......several of you sent the same ideas!

    Rice Cake tips:

Bake them @ 300 degrees for an hour and store in an air tight
container...improves the taste immensely

Toast them in a toaster for quick 'breads'

Crumble them & add butter & sweetner

Make French Toast with them...(use a spatula to remove from the batter)

Crumble them up and use like shredded wheat cereal

Use as topping in dishes where you formerly used bread crumbs

Open face sandwiches with tuna or PNutButter/Apricot Jam

Top with chopped fresh garlic in olive oil with salt and pepper

Top with a nut butter & bananas

Top with a nut butter & sunflower seeds

Use in recipe for reheated mashed potatoes...(the inside ones loose their
crispiness)

Popcorn ones...add sweet butter & salt and gomashio*

Top with Sesame Butter..a little flax oil and gomashio*

*Gomashio is a condiment that is made of sesame seeds and salt ground
together....
To make it the quick way:  Wash whole sesame seeds and drain  (they are
bitter if you don't wash)  Spread out on a cookie sheet and
bake along with the rice cakes at 300 degrees for 20 minutes...Stir
them....and bake another 30 minutes or til as toastie as you like...then
toss them in a coffee grinder with salt (I use Muromoto's Macrobiotic
Sea Salt)...Store in the refrigerator.

To make it the long way:  Wash the seeds and drain   Place a small amount in
a wok and stir over heat til roasted   Grind in a suribachi (Japanese
mortar/pedstal...not sure of spelling)

Gomashio and Flax Seed Condiments are excellent on top of rice....and
especially if you add flax seed oil too.  You make Flax Seed Condiment the
same way as Gomashio except you don't wash it beforehand.  Flax Seed
Condiment imparts a buttery taste.

Using flax seed oil provides you with the Omega 3's which are essential
fatty acids .... olive oil provides you with the Omega 6's.  If you take in
the right kind of oil, you will find you are less hungry...food will taste
better and the cravings for sweet (fatty) kinds of foods will lesson.

Bon apetite!

Rhonda in Arizona