Showing posts with label healing foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healing foods. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Calcium Supplement from Eggs Shells!

I recently found a great use for my left over egg shells that I will share today. They contain about 1400mg of calcium. People need at least 500mg a day more or less depending on age and with the methods provided by this site, you'll be able to make your own calcium supplement for your diet too using some lemon juice and salt.

It important to note to eat a magnesium rich food with the supplement for it to work effectively such as Asian Radish.

Check it out!:

http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/how-to-make-calcium-using-egg-shells

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Bimbimbap Me!

I love bimbimbap .It's so tasty and healthy. It's the perfect amount of food. 

 It means mixed rice. A mixture of vegetables, rice and sauce. The traditional recipe incorporates wild foods such as gosari or fernbraken. In the modern era with more variety of foods available the style can change some what. It always contains rice and vegetables. It usually includes an egg, but sometimes meat, sometimes raw fish. or sometimes plain. All styles I find are delicious. At Mulme Healing Farm the farm manager and I made different bimbimbaps using different combination of vegetables sauces and proteins. 

For the sauce I usually make pepper sauce made by mixing pepper sauce, soybean paste, garlic, some tangerine jam, and a little water. 







The style at my home changes everyday. There are endless combination by just taking one food group and exchanging it with another. Just for Sometimes carrot. Sometimes, mixtures of different bitter greens with a nice sauce. Sometimes, one ingredient. I've even change the white rice to brown rice or millet sometimes which would make it not bimbimpap anymore. Because bap means rice. However, the style is close enough for my taste.

This week I've eaten a lot of it this week. My camera is not working at the moment so I can not post pictures unfortunately.

Today, I tried it with some healthy raw mackerel and bitter purplish greens. Mackerel is filled with Omega-3 fatty acids and polyunsaturated fats which can burn away and become nasty smelling if cooked too long. I'd rather eat it raw to get the best nutrition from it.

Wednesday, I ate bimbimbap with eggs and perilla leaves.

Tuesday, bimbimbap squid and romaine lettuce.

Monday, plain bimbimbap.

There is an art to the color and taste and there are psychological as well as health benefits to that. I don't always have enough colors but I at least have some color. Incorporations of medicinal herbs can be put in and is a great strategy for adding more medicines into your body. The sauce brings together ingredients that are healthy and now become tasty as well.The taste can be great but also how how

It's truly magical stuff and should be part of a healing strategy for many people.A perfect supermeal.



Saturday, 30 July 2011

Really Joyful and Positive Food

Pictures of my meals from the past week. 

Snail, snail broth, salad with peppers, tomatoes and cucumber so fresh it doesn't need dressing, side dishes of pickled onion in soysauce, gatkimchi, and seubogi kimchi. 

Snails, with rice, and a salad consisting of  cucumber just harvest from the garden, green and red gochu peppers, and bell peppers. 




Snails, served with rice, cabbage kimchi, snail broth, a salad of wild garlic shoots, tomatoes, peppers,and whatever else we picked that day.  


Snails, served with rice with a runny egg on top, seobogi kimchi, snail broth, and perrilla kimchi. 


Do you notice some themes? The foods we are eating are variations of the local ingredients here cooked and served in a Korean style.

The variety  for protein and other things  will be limited when everything is local except for the rice.  There is not a lot of beef and pork to be had here.  That's what it is to eat organic and local though. Still I have eaten some of my best meals in Korean because they ingredients have been soo fresh and delicious. 


Some we pick ourselves and others we are given to by farmers in the area. 

JH picking chamwe with me to eat before we weed the bean field. In this heat, eating a lot of fruit keeps us happy and strong. 


Or caught. Catching snails is easy! And twice this week we have snorkeled for snails which is so much fun. Their little bodies hug the rocks of the coast and we scoop them up in the shallow waters. It was soo much fun. 

 Learning how to cook the local ingredients is just as important as local ingredients. There is a bitter taste that I've learned to remove for Y's taste.

Here are some highlights for me. 





A dipping sauce to go with the pajeon below. 
Wild Garlic and fresh from the garden pepper pancake which I made today on my day off for something a little more indulgent. 


Soft boiled egg on rice. My tribute to J of culinary linguist. She likes runny eggs.

Mango from the garden that was a bit overripe and eating in our hands. 

JH makes Korean food but the farm needs help to develop healing foods that are delicious  for westerners too!


Everytime I eat the organic food here I feel so much positive energy. I want to share this.
Earth Elements my intensive hobby is going to be developing recipes for the farm to use that are delicious.  Since I try to take a fast food and make it healthy it makes sense to use the local peanuts to make a peanut butter recipe first. 

local specialty: Cold soup with raw fish. In this case squid.  오징어  물회

All together we are eating corn, watermelons, chamwe, wild vegetables, peppers, peanuts, squid, snails.  Our challenge is to create variety for eat item and change a little. Actually, its not that hard when you have to do it. Next week we might get eggs and some butter from happy animals to make some western stylized foods.


I'm really excited to develop great healing foods for people to make stronger bodies. However, it's not just food but also a lifestyle in which people can remove stress and nergative energy. Being on the farm and following a schedule of meditation and gumdo before I start the day clears my mind and I feel positive. That's important too. 


JH and I chucking corn for meals in the field and taking the beards of to make corn beard tea. 

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