Lifestyle changes are often influenced by social classes and to show that a person is successful by fulfilling life with "luxury" food.

From the habit of feeding the "ego" with food that follows current trends, from there we begin to bring many diseases into ourselves. Ranging from mental illness to physical.

In an era of luxury as it is today, living simply with simple food is considered a social class failure for some people.

That's why I always learn to always maintain a simple diet but that contains enough health value and is able to become natural medicine for the body.

I am also happy to find friends or communities who do not feed their egos with "expensive food but bad for the body".

In fact, I'm grateful to get to know the vegan community at Steemit that promotes a healthy lifestyle. Thanks to the community @naturalmedicine and @vegansofsteemit I am now getting used to managing a plant-based food even though it is not completely one hundred percent because I still have a hard time not eating eggs.

So, in this post, I will participate in the "Do It Now" Challenge held by @naturalmedicine and @Build-it Tribe

I will share with you how to make coconut bowls and some vegan recipes. I have also made videos so you can watch the procedures for making them if you are bored to read blogs.

Enjoy!

The Contents:

1.How To Make Coconut Bowls
2.How To Make Vegan Thai Green Curry
3.How To Make Tropical Mango Smoothies

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1. HOW TO MAKE VEGAN BOWLS FROM COCONUT SHELLS

If you live in an area that has a lot of coconuts, then using coconut shells for serving bowls on your dining table is a good thing. Since I can make it myself at home, now I feel addicted to making coconut bowls.

How to make it is certainly not difficult if we already have a supply of coconut shells. Next, we only need sandpaper or aluminum oxide cloth, knives, and cooking oil.

If you want to see my video tutorial, please watch more here: Video Tutorial: How To Make Coconut Bowl Using Simple Tools or just click on the thumbnail below.

The first step

Cut a coconut using a saw, or we can use a machete. Here I am splitting the coconut in a very traditional way using a machete, but I have to be very careful so that the shape of the coconut shell is good.

Please watch my previous video to see: How To Peel and Cut Coconut

Second Step

Clean the rough layer of fiber on the outside of the shell, and clean the rest of the coconut meat that was previously removed from the shell.

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Third step

Rub the shell with sandpaper until the rough surface feels smooth and displays a nice natural texture. Repeat several times.

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Fourth Step

After the surface of the shell really feels smooth and clean from the rest of the dust, then apply cooking oil, then dry. Repeat about 3 times.

Results

I really like the results. Even now I often use coconut bowl for my eating activities.

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Coconut bowls have different characteristics from each other. Different colors and textures of coconut shells provide beautiful artistic value.

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2. HOW TO MAKE VEGAN THAI GREEN CURRY

Thai Green Curry is a popular dish with basic ingredients of chicken with vegetables. I replaced the chicken in this recipe using tofu. You can also use tempeh in this recipe.

To make Vegan Thai Green Curry is very easy. If you don't have a complete inventory of Asian spices, I don't think that's a problem. The most important thing in this recipe is making a green curry paste.

The green color in green curry paste is produced from green chili and coriander leaves. You can use a substitute for green chili with green peppers. As for the coriander leaves, it can be replaced with celery leaves. For this recipe, I did use celery leaves because in Indonesia it is very difficult to find cilantro and I have never found cilantro.

If you want to see my video tutorial, please watch more here: Video Tutorial: How To Make Vegan Thai Green Curry Recipe, Easy and Yummy! or just click on the thumbnail below.

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Ingredients make Green Curry Paste

Curry Paste Ingredients:

• 2 celery sticks (If you have Cilantro supplies, you should use Cilantro)
• 3-5 green chilies (according to your spicy taste)
• 3-5 pieces of small green chili
• 3-5 sheets of Kaffir Lime Leaves
• 2 Stems of lemongrass
• 3 cloves of shallot- 3 cloves of garlic
• Galangal about one thumb-size
• 1/2 tablespoon of coriander- 1/2 tablespoon ground pepper

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Curry mix ingredients

• 500 ml of coconut milk
• 4 white tofu
• 300 grams of eggplant (can also use purple eggplant)
• 100 grams of mung bean sprouts
• 100 grams of Chinese cabbage
• Local Basil / Kemangi
• 2 tablespoons of coconut sugar / brown sugar
• Salt to taste
• Cooking Oil for sauteing
• Half a glass of water

How to make:

• Blend all ingredients for curry paste.

• Heat oil.

• Enter the curry paste. Then cook the curry paste until it smells good.

• Add coconut sugar and salt.

• Add eggplants. Stir for a while, then add half a glass of water.

• Cook until the eggplants become half-cooked.

• Add coconut milk. Wait a minute until it boils, stirring constantly.
• Add tofu, Chinese cabbage, and mung bean sprouts.

• Cook for a while so the vegetables don't get soggy. Check the taste.
• Remove and serve with rice.

I serve Vegan Green Curry with a coconut bowl. I am very happy to be able to further reduce the use of manufactured products and gradually use home products that are more environmentally friendly and of course healthier.

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3. HOW TO MAKE TROPICAL MANGO SMOOTHIES

How to make smoothies is very easy because we can combine various fruit ingredients to our taste.

The most important thing about making smoothies with good texture is that you must have a supply of plant-based frozen fruit and milk, or you can use coconut water.

I always have a supply of frozen fruit to make smoothies for breakfast or for a healthy snack during the day.

If you want to see my video tutorial, please watch more here: Video Tutorial: How To Make Healthy and Yummy Tropical Mango Smoothies, VEGAN AND ASIAN-STYLE SMOOTHIES or just click on the thumbnail below.

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This time I made Mango Smoothies with toppings of tropical fruits in Indonesia, namely Longan, Water Apple, and Coconut.

In this recipe, I use mango and 1/4 cup of coconut water. I do not use milk.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2- 2 Frozen Mango Fruit
• 1/2 cup of coconut water
• 1 tsp lemon / orange juice

Topping

• Longan
• Water Apple
• Young Coconut Meat

After the mixture of frozen mango and coconut water is blended, serve smoothies with your favorite fruit topping.

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That was the way to make VEGAN BOWLS and Vegan Foods in my version. I am very happy to be able to share my simple lifestyle with you.

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