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I don’t follow normal breakfast patterns . Strangely to most taste - this is my cravings for breakfast this morning plus coffee :D
This looks massive but this is only a very small bowl of seafood .
There are no additives in this food or of which is heavily processed like ready made salad dressings or seafood sauces . Although the lettuce I used isn't organic , but if any chemical residues are present ( link to its farm production ) it could only be very minute even of neglible amount . My mindset does argue in effect by putting in the Tumeric and Parsley portion can offset the action of the radicals ingested in .
Mixed Seafood ,
lettuce ,sweet pepper ,
parsley ,sprinkled with tumeric
cumin and black pepper .
Tumeric and Parsley have potent anti-cancer properties .
I am kind of naughty as I knew I am allergic to prawns .But I love prawns .
So when I cheat by eating prawns ,I always have some antihistamine ready :)
Possibly by eating small doses of prawns more often will get my system to adapt to having prawns in my diet content and hopefully will reduce the extent of allergic reactions to nil . Similar to the idea of immunity ... but this is only an opinion and a wish .
With shots like this I often used my photo and shoot :D it's quick .
Spices for sale in a Jodhpur market.
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Here is an assortment of some of the spices I use regularly in my cooking, including two favourites- garlic and Herbes de Provence.
Each arm represents a popular color used in Holi; Red represents love. Yellow represents Tumeric powder and by extension medicine. Purple represents magic, and green represents new beginnings and spring.
Finally, blue represents the blue skin of Lord Krishna, another avatar of Vishnu.
Too late for halloween...:))
Fried eggs, butter, olive oil, and spices are all on the Atkins Diet.
The Atkins diet is mainly proteins, fresh vegetables with low sugar content, and fats. NO grains, and NO sugars!!!
With zero sugar and zero grain intake, your body goes into Ketosis and then it burns the body's stored fats first. It does not store new fat deposits.
Fortunately, Atkins diet recipes are lush and rich and satisfying. For example, I can have all the delicious freshly prepared whipped cream I want, with or without cinnamon and pumpkin pie spices, but no sugar.
Well, today's challenge had the juices flowing! Back into the kitchen and I raided the shelves for some lovely fresh spices - I even had to grind some!! The smell of ginger, paprika, turmeric, the mixed spice and cinnamon sticks just confirmed what I was thinking when pulling these together - yes, curry for dinner, tonight!!
Our Daily Challenge - SPICE ......
Turmeric or ʻōlena
Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Photo: Developing stages of ʻōlena. Plants are easy to grow in warm areas. All that is needed is a small piece (upper left) from which a new plant emerges to form a large rhizome (lower plant) in 10-12 months.
Polynesian names
Ango (Futina, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, ʻUvea)
Cago (Fiji)
Reʻa, Reʻa maohi (Societies)
Renga (Cooks)
ʻEka (Northern Marquesas)
ʻEna (Southern Marquesas)
Taleʻa (Tuamotus)
ʻŌlena (Hawaiʻi)
Polynesians use the rhizomes mostly as traditional medicine or yellow dye.
ʻŌlena is one of 24 or 25 canoe plants that were brought by the early Polynesians to the Hawaiian Islands. Another canoe plant, ʻawapuhi or Shampoo ginger (Zingiber zerumbet), is related to ʻōlena.
Pua ʻōlena
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ʻŌlena can be harvested at any time of the year. However, I generally like to harvest it when the leaves turn completely brown. I find it has a better and stronger taste at that time. When leaves are green the rhizomes seem more watery and less flavorful.
The health benefits are reducing inflammation and joint & muscle pain, and increasing cardiovascular, skin, brain cell function and mood balance.
January 15, 2018
Sore throat day sipping on either ginger tumeric tea or homemade chicken broth, both of which have been in constant rotation. Foot massage with Megan.
Tilak is a mark of auspiciousness. It is put on the forehead with sandal paste, sacred ashes or kumkum (red tumeric). The devotees of Siva apply sacred ashes (Bhasma) on the forehead, the devotees of Vishnu apply sandal paste (Chandan), and the worshippers of Devi or Shakti apply Kumkum, a red tumeric powder...
here a devotee of lord Shiva has drawn a tilak like a "trishul", is wielded by the Shiva..
A bright display of spices at the Kandy Central Market.
Sri Lanka is known for its fabulous spices in diversity, quantity and quality. Visions of cooking and sumptious meals danced in my head as I browsed these shops. Cardamon and cinnamon, nutmeg and chili, pepper and tumeric and amazing smelling vanilla.
Kandy's Central Market, open only on Fridays was a fortuitous find through a helpful passerby. Stocking the same range of foods, spices, herbal tonics, crafts, textiles and factory-reject designer-brand clothing, it caters to the locals and is goernment run so there is one price and it is 200-300% cheaper than the tourist shops. There apparently used to be 3 on the island, but 2 were destroyed by the sunami and have not yet been rebuilt. The one in Kandy is the only one remaining. So if you are in Kandy on a Friday, ask for it, ditch your guide's and guesthoues's advice to frequent the pricey shops of their friends and stock up on your gifts here.
During our cycle ride we stopped at this woman's family home. They are a farming family and had a wide range of produce such as mandarines, bananas, coconut, tumeric etc. She also liked her betel nut (as you can see).
While Turmeric is healthy and tasty for me it has always had more of an insect larva look than a vegetable look.
Marinate the cubed chicken breast pieces in a plastic bag with a wet curry paste.
Malaysia/Singapore- they are all excellent. This one, a rendang, contains chillies, garlic, onion, lemongrass, ginger, tumeric, tamarind, cumin and coriander.
Coo, finally, nearly caught up with #Colour_Collective. A colourful wee Tumeric Fear this week.
With special thanks
Weekly shout out to my $10 patron, Warren from IWrite. Without people like Warren, I wouldn’t be able to wake you all with my little fears and you’d probably cry a lot less in the morning than you already do. So please do check out Warrens blog.
"What kind of tea did you say this was?" asked Thaddeus as he took his first few sips.
Shiro placed the tea kettle back over the fire, "Tumeric and Nutmeg, a family recipe. Helps with sleep…and dreams…"
As Thaddeus drank the tea, Shiro had offered him, a sudden, heavy calmness washed over him. His eyes grew heavy as he was pulled into a deep sleep. But something wasn't right. Just as soon as the tea had warmed him, it grew cold, very cold. Thaddeus felt his fingers and toes going numb, and shot upright in fear. His eyes squinted open into a frozen wind that chilled him to the core. Snow surrounded him on all sides. "W-what? W-where a-am I?"
"In your dream…" said a familiar voice from behind him. It was Shiro. "That's what the tea was for."
"w-why?What' are we here for?" he shivered.
"I'll tell you when we find out. "
A sudden whinny of a horse startled them. A white horse pulling a wagon appeared, with two cheerful men looking their direction. They galloped pass them, as if neither man was there. Thaddeus watched them as he sat, "Didn't they see us?"
"No," said Shiro as he helped him to his feet," They are dream walkers like us, but see only those that are lost. We are not, you are not lost, and as long as we keep moving we won't be…"
Thaddeus staggered off through the snow behind Shiro in a world he had conjured, and wasn't even awake to see it...
Another beneficent use of homoeopathic magic is to heal or prevent sickness. The ancient Hindoos performed an elaborate ceremony, based on homoeopathic magic, for the cure of jaundice. Its main drift was to banish the yellow colour to yellow creatures and yellow things, such as the sun, to which it properly belongs, and to procure for the patient a healthy red colour from a living, vigorous source, namely, a red bull. With this intention, a priest recited the following spell: “Up to the sun shall go thy heart-ache and thy jaundice: in the colour of the red bull do we envelop thee! We envelop thee in red tints, unto long life. May this person go unscathed and be free of yellow colour! The cows whose divinity is Rohini, they who, moreover, are themselves red (rohinih)—in their every form and every strength we do envelop thee. Into the parrots, into the thrush, do we put thy jaundice, and, furthermore, into the yellow wagtail do we put thy jaundice.” While he uttered these words, the priest, in order to infuse the rosy hue of health into the sallow patient, gave him water to sip which was mixed with the hair of a red bull; he poured water over the animal’s back and made the sick man drink it; he seated him on the skin of a red bull and tied a piece of the skin to him. Then in order to improve his colour by thoroughly eradicating the yellow taint, he proceeded thus. He first daubed him from head to foot with a yellow porridge made of tumeric or curcuma (a yellow plant), set him on a bed, tied three yellow birds, to wit, a parrot, a thrush, and a yellow wagtail, by means of a yellow string to the foot of the bed; then pouring water over the patient, he washed off the yellow porridge, and with it no doubt the jaundice, from him to the birds. After that, by way of giving a final bloom to his complexion, he took some hairs of a red bull, wrapt them in gold leaf, and glued them to the patient’s skin. The ancients held that if a person suffering from jaundice looked sharply at a stone-curlew, and the bird looked steadily at him, he was cured of the disease. “Such is the nature,” says Plutarch, “and such the temperament of the creature that it draws out and receives the malady which issues, like a stream, through the eyesight.” So well recognised among birdfanciers was this valuable property of the stone-curlew that when they had one of these birds for sale they kept it carefully covered, lest a jaundiced person should look at it and be cured for nothing. The virtue of the bird lay not in its colour but in its large golden eye, which naturally drew out the yellow jaundice. Pliny tells of another, or perhaps the same, bird, to which the Greeks gave their name for jaundice, because if a jaundiced man saw it, the disease left him and slew the bird. He mentions also a stone which was supposed to cure jaundice because its hue resembled that of a jaundiced skin. Sir James George Frazer, 1922
pickled beets
(1) get approximately enough beets to fill the largest pot you have.
(2) wash beets, trim stems, leave weird rootlet tails.
(3) boil beets until you can stick a fork in them partway.
(4) cover beets in cold water and allow to cool.
(5) combine 4 cups cider vinegar, 2 cups water, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons pickling salt*, 1 tbsp allspice berries, 1 tsp whole cloves and two 2 cinnamon sticks in a pot**. bring to a boil, stir to melt sugar, and then reduce to a simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.
(6) pack beets into jars and pour the hot liquid over them.
(7) you can either do it the real way with mason jars with 2-piece lids that you process in a boiling water bath, or you could just use regular old jars like we did and stick em in the fridge. wait many days as you possibly can for them to pickle in the fridge, and then eat. keeps longer than leftover chinese food, but not as long as pickles done the real way.
* we couldn't find actual pickling salt anywhere, so we just used non-iodide kosher salt that did not have any anti-caking additives.
** don't use an aluminum or iron pot. we learned that the hard way.
bread and butter pickles
(1) wash and slice pickling cucumbers (we just used kirbys).
(2) slice one small onion.
(3) toss cucumbers and onion in a bowl with 1/2 cup pickling salt. cover with ice cubes and allow to brine for 4 hours (we just did it for 30 minutes).
(4) bring 4 1/2 cups cider vinegar, 3 cups sugar, 2 tsp yellow mustard seeds, 1 1/2 tsp ground tumeric, 1 tsp celery seeds, to a boil.
(5) drain cucumbers & onions and add to the pot. Bring slowly to a boil.
(6) pack everything into jars, cover with remaining liquid, and see above for finishing methods.
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Wheel spun singles dyed with a range of natural dyes. Reds: madder, cochineal and brazilwood. Oranges: madder. Golds: tumeric and onion. Yellow: lichen (Letharia vulpina). Green: yellow lichen dye with copper afterbath. Blues: natural indigo. Purples: Umbilicaria lichen fermentation. Deep midnight purple: logwood.
Folkloric
- Bark is reported to be vomitive and aphrodisiac.
- Decoction of bark used for catarrh.
- Tender fruit used as emollient.
- Decoction of bark regarded as a specific in febrile catarrh.
- Gum is astringent; used for bowel complaints. In children, gum with milk, given as cooling laxative. Also used for urine incontinence in children.
- Gum used as styptic, given in diarrhea, dysentery, and menorrhagia.
- In Liberia, Infusion of bark used as mouthwash.
- Infusion of leaves, onions, and a little tumeric, used for coughs.
- Young roots, shade-dried and powdered, is a chief ingredient in aphrodisiac medicines.
- Tap-root of young plant used for gonorrhea and dysentery.
- Bark in diuretic; in sufficient quantities, produces vomiting.
- In Cambodia, bark used for fevers and diarrhea. Also, as a cure for inebriation, used to bring about perspiration and vomiting.
- Malays used the bark for asthma and colds in children.
- In India, roots used for gonorrhea, dysuria, fevers. Decoction of bark used for chronic dysentery, diarrhea, ascites, and anasarca. Tender leaves also used for gonorrhea.
- In Java, bark mixed with areca nuts, nutmegs, and sugar candy, used as diuretic and for treatment of bladder stones. Infusion of leaves used for cough, hoarseness, intestinal catarrh, and urethritis. Leaves also used for cleaning hair.
- In the Cameroons, bark, which has tannin, is pounded and macerated in cold water and applied to swollen fingers.
- In French Guiana, decoction of flowers used for constipation.
- In Mexico, used for boils, insect bites, mange; used as anti-inflammatory; bark and leaf decoctions used as poultices. Bark decoction taken internally as emetic, diuretic and antispasmodic.
- Bark used for liver and spleen conditions, abdominal complaints, flatulence, constipation.
- Leaves used as emollient. Decoction of flowers is laxative.
- In Nigerian folk medicine, used for treatment of diabetes and infections. Leaves used as alterative and laxative, and as infusion for colic in man and in livestock. Seed oil used in rheumatism. Also, leaves used as curative dressings on sores and to maturate tumors.
- Compressed fresh leaves used for dizziness; decoction of boiled roots used to treat edema; gum eaten to relieve stomach upset; tender shoot decoction used as contraceptive; leaf infusion taken orally for cough and sore throat. (34)
- In India and Malaya, used for bowel complaints.
- In the Ivory Coast, mucilage obtained by boiling used to remove foreign bodies from the eye. Also, bark sap given to sterile women to promote conception.
- In West Africa, used for diarrhea and gonorrhea.
Others
- Fibers: Pod fibers are used in the stuffing of pillows, cushions, mattresses and the manufacture and life-preservers.
- Oil: Kapok oil, extracted from the seeds, used in the manufacture of soap; also, a substitute for cotton-seed oil. Also used for cooking and as lubricant.
- Wood: Tree is used for fencing and telephone poles.
- Fresh cake valuable as stock feed.
- Ashes of the fruit used by dyers in Malaysia.
- Study showed the C. pentandra fiber may be useful in recovering oil spilled in seawater.
- Fodder: Sheep, goats, cattle relish the foliage. Pressed cake as cattle feed yields about 26% protein.
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Ganesh
Site specific wall drawing (12' x 20')
Spirograph, ink, graphite, latex, gouache, watercolor, kum-kum powder, tumeric, incense, fire and found objects.
2010
@ The Pittsburgh Center For the Arts
from the exhibition Cluster
Curated by Adam Welch
February 5, 2010 - March 28, 2010
Watch a video of the making of Ganesh here
Copyright © 2010 David Pohl
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