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Category Archives: Macrobiotic
5-Element Kitchen: Chopping into Spring
In the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) 5-element system, spring corresponds to the Wood element. If you think of Wood as bamboo, and not an oak tree, it’s a bit easier to see how wood’s correspondences make sense: the wood element exhibits characteristics of upward movement and flexibility, birth and new growth and it’s color is bright green. Those [...]
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Slow Cooker Congee: To Cook Jook
Living in Queens, there are ample opportunities for culinary inspiration, and dim sum brunch yesterday was merely one of those times. Heading out for dim sum means that there are many steamed buns, dumplings, and fried meat morsels in your future. However, before you get to the doughy goodness of steamed delectables, there is often an opportunity [...]
Also posted in CSA, Gluten Free, Inspiration, Medicinal Food, Pareve, Recipes Tagged Easy, Healthy, In advance, Macrobiotic, Qing Dan, Queens, Recipes, Seasonal, whole grains Leave a comment
Pickles. Old school style.
As many of you know, I am a pickle-lover. But there are pickles, and there are PICKLES. Over the past few years I have been learning about the benefits of fermented pickles which differ from hot-packed and boiling-water-processed pickles which are made with vinegar and sugar. Fermented pickles are preserved through a natural process which [...]
Also posted in Fermentation, Gastroactivism, Medicinal Food, Recipes, vegan, Vegetarian Tagged fermentation, from scratch, Healthy, Macrobiotic, parve, Seasonal, Sustainable, vegan, Vegetarian 9 Comments
Cool Down Cucumber Seaweed Salad
I’ve been making this salad since I fell in love with a similar one at Souen, a macrobiotic restaurant in Greenwich village during college. Now, 13 (gasp!) years later, knowing more about Chinese medicine and the 5-elements, this salad remains one of my top go-to summer dishes. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory, the summer [...]
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