Celery Root, Burdock, Brocolli, and Sea Food Miso Soup for Dinner
Chick Pea Miso Soup with Celery Root and Scallops Ingredients 1 cup scallops or other sea food 1 cup chopped celery root 1 cup chopped burdock root 1/2 cup white, brown, or fresh shitake mushrooms 1 cup small broccoli florets 4″ piece of kombu sea veggie, cut into pieces with a scissor 4″ piece of wakame sea veggie, ditto 1-2 slices ginger root 2-3 chopped scallion 2 quarts water 1 tbsp chick pea miso paste or mellow white if unavailable 1 tbsp sweet white miso paste or more to taste a dash of white pepper if desired Directions 1) Bring water to boil and add the root and sea...
Read MoreWinter in the "Nei Jing", the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Chinese Medicine
To stop for a moment and meditate on the passage of time, to feel time moving inside you, is to practice the value of the winter season, when movements appear underground, when earth’s energy has gone downward and inward. The sun too is on holiday low in the horizon, and cool Venus appears triumphant in a dazzling triangle alongside Jupiter and the waxing and waning Moon in mid-winter. To stop for a moment and meditate on the passage of time, to feel time moving inside you, is to practice the value of the winter season, when nature’s In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic or Nei Jing Su...
Read MoreJapan, Radioactive Remedies and Cell Phone Radiation
Radioactive iodine has been found in the milk of cows who graze in California and Washington State. While the Government assures us not to worry (why does that sentence make me grin?), if you are concerned, obviously this would be a good time to go on that cleansing diet that eliminates dairy products. As to the larger question of exposure to radioactive isotopes and what you can do, one of the major public health officials recently (cannot remember if it was the Surgeon General or whom) said it would not hurt to take potassium iodide as a supplement; which, if my science is correct,...
Read MoreNapa Cabbage 1-2-3-
my friend lucia keeps composting her napa. (she grows a lot since she owns a farm, but she complained she has ideas for everything but napa). here are two great ways to use napa in cooking. one: napa stir fry heat sesame oil (plain, not toasted type)to pretty hotadd grated or julienned gingerstir 10 seconds and lower flameadd sliced shitake mushroom stir fry for a few minutes, less if fresh, longer if dried.add napa cut in larger pieces. add the white part first the leafy ends second.stir fry a minute while adding tamari wheat free soy sauce to taste.add a dash of white pepper, or five...
Read MoreBoosting The Immune System: Lung Qi and Yin
The Chinese Medicine view of the immune system combines notions of both nature and nurture. Jing, translated as Essence, is inherited from our parents, depleted by the very fact of living, depleted badly by bad living, added to by meditation, foodstuffs, and herbs. Jing is the deepest level of the body’s energies, the source of all Yin and Yang in the body. (In the most general terms, which therefore are neither elegant nor explicative, Yang is function and Yin structure). There is also the concept of “pre-natal” qi, which combs from our parents. The medical student who...
Read MoreVegan Sea and Land Vegetable Soup for Spring
This wonderful soup is in the category of recipes for gently cleansing and renewing the body in Spring, or whenever you feel weak or are recovering from illness. It relies on the deep flavors of root vegetables, sea vegetables, and shitake mushroom. It is a simple soup with subtle flavors to be savored slowly and mindfully. Shitake mushrooms are an excellent fragrant mushroom that in Chinese Herbal Medicine are used to strengthen the stomach and intestines, invigorate the blood, fortify the bones, and re-enforce the Qi and Yang of the body. The Qi and Yang are, among other things, in charge...
Read MoreVegan Chick Pea Miso Soup or Its Seafoody Cousin
Of the general food remedies for winter, nothing approaches soup. Soup is warming and makes vegetables and protiens delicious and digestible. At the same time pushing hot fluids in winter keeps mucus membranes and bronchial passages hydrated, while loosening phlegm . A favorite of mine is Miso Soup, which is made from a base called Miso Paste Good Miso paste is like fine wine. It is a fermented product with lots of health attributes that originated in Japan, the land of longevity, and is made from rice or other grains or beans to which a starter culture has been added. Miso paste is only as...
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