Ingredients:
1 cup tomatoes – peeled, seeded,diced
1 small onion – oven roasted
1 cup mushrooms – minced
2 teaspoons garlic – minced
1/2Â pound spinach leaves – blanched, chopped
1/4Â cup nonfat cottage cheese
3/4Â cup tofu – mashed
2 Tablespoons fresh basil – minced
Ground black pepper
salt – to taste
48 eggless ravioli dumplings
Instructions:
Combine tomatoes, onion, garlic, and mushrooms in large pot. Cook over medium heat until mushroom liquid evaporates and mixture becomes a bit dry. Do not over cook.Â
Once complete, set aside to cool. Once cooled combine with spinach, cottage cheese, basil and tofu. Season with salt and pepper to taste.Â
Place a single layer of ravioli dumplings on a cutting board and moisten edges with water using a pastry brush. Add one Tablespoon of spinach mixture to the middle of each skin.Â
Top with a second ravioli dumpling and press edges together to seal. Place ravioli in boiling water for 3 minutes and cook for 3-4 minutes, until raviolis are firm, not soft.Â
Do you wake up every night to the stinging pain of heartburn? Are you losing sleep from your reflux symptoms? Is the intensity of your heartburn suddenly so bad you just can’t take the pain? You may have a more serious condition causing your heartburn. In fact, what you feel may not be heartburn at all. That’s why it’s important to recognize other symptoms and see a doctor for a proper diagnosis.
If you have severe, persistent heartburn, and don’t experience relief from diet changes or over the counter medications, you may have a condition called gastroesophegeal reflux disorder, or GERD. This is ad condition where your stomach allows acid to pass backwards into the esophagus. While the most common symptom of GERD is heartburn, you may also experience regurgitation, difficult or painful swallowing, sore throat, belching, feeling horse, a bad taste in your mouth, or bad breath. Besides the annoying pain and lack of sleep, GERD can cause permanent damage to the lining of your esophagus. This damage can lead to serious problems, including ulcers and cancer.
Another, less common cause of chronic heartburn is gastroparesis. This is a condition where the stomach doesn’t empty properly due to nerve damage. It often occurs in individuals with diabetes, but that is not the only cause. Along with heartburn and reflux, gastroparesis also presents with an early feeling of fullness, nausea, vomiting, bloating, lack of appetite, and weight loss.
A hiatal hernia is another condition that presents with chronic heartburn. This is caused when part of the stomach slips through part of the diaphragm and into the chest cavity. In addition to heartburn and acid reflux, symptoms of a hiatal hernia may include: vomiting, bad taste in your mouth, belching, hiccups, chest pain, bloating, coughing, trouble swallowing, and discomfort, pain and pressure in the abdominal area.
A peptic ulcer may be the cause of your heartburn. Because symptoms are similar, a doctor should check for ulcers when diagnosing you with GERD. Along with heartburn, ulcers also present with nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, weight loss, and slow bleeding in the stomach. While ulcers and GERD may have similar causes and presentation, they require different treatment, so proper diagnosis is important.
If you suddenly get a severe case heartburn, you may not be experiencing heartburn at all. Often, the initial chest pain associated with heart attack is mistaken for heartburn. That is why it’s important to notice other symptoms that come along with your severe heartburn. You should see a doctor immediately if you’re also experiencing: a tight, crushing pain in the center of your chest, pain that spreads to your neck, jaw shoulders, or arms, shortness of breath, sweating, dizziness, or nausea.Â
Another condition that may also be confused with severe heartburn is a gallbladder attack. If you experience heartburn, nausea, and a strong ache in your abdomen, you should see a doctor as well.
As you can tell, many of these problems have a similar presentation which is why it is important to see your doctor and give them a comprehensive list of symptoms. That way, you are more likely to get proper treatment. Good luck on getting treated.
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 small onion
2 cloves garlic
1/2 inch piece of ginger
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp. cumin
1/2 tsp. coriander
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
6 medium summer squash
1 medium steamed potato
1 large apple
4 cups leftover water from steaming vegetables or plain water
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
Instructions:
Chop onion and garlic. Combine oil, cumin, coriander, mustard, cinnamon, salt, and cayenne in soup pot. Sauté onion and garlic until soft, stirring often. Peel ginger. Place in blender with 1 Tbsp. water and blend. Add blended ginger to soup. Cut summer squash into 1″ pieces. Quarter potato and apple, removing core and seeds from the apple. Chop squash in food processor or blender. Add potato and apple to blender. Use small amounts of liquid to keep blade moving. Add remaining liquid, a little at a time, working the machine until a soup-like consistency is achieved. Transfer soup to pot. Warm to just simmering.  Stir occasionally. Add lemon juice. Adjust seasoning to taste by using salt and cayenne. Garnish with chopped cilantro.