Kefir

My friend shared kefir grain with me and I've been making kefir with cow milk for a few months.

Today I used goat milk for the first time. It formed kefir in a very different manner than cow milk.

I was so drawn to how the kefir grain was interacting with the milk, forming this map of kefir continents.

What resulted is a soft, smooth, silky drink that placed me in the midst of nature. This is something very common sense, but when I drink cow milk kefir, it tastes like the essence of cow and goat as the essence of goat.

What is health?

This is one of the best books on 'you are what you eat'. In the chapter on 'health and illness: new definitions', she talks about what health means. These conditions might sound like a common sense, but it actually take good holistic care of the whole to stay in this condition.

PHYSICAL

1. No fatigue 2. Good appetite 3. Good sleep

PSYCHOLOGICAL

4. Good memory 5. Good humor 6. Precision in thought and action

SOCIAL

7. Taking responsibility 8. Making choices

SPIRITUAL

9. Honesty 10. Gratitude 11. Humility 12. Love

From "Food and Healing" by Annemarie Colbin

Super Probiotic (3)

New Faces! From Left, Red cabbage with brine, Chioggia beets in Koji, Chioggia beets in lemon+salt, radish in lemon salt brine, and red cabbage in brine.

Chioggia beets are very pretty. This pattern and color somehow remind me of antique Japanese candies. Perhaps this is why I'm drawn to this particular beets.

Then pickled garlic. After three months of wait, I can finally taste it!

About eating

Eating is such an amazing experience. It activates all my senses: seeing, tasting, hearing, touching, and smelling. The sound and feel of a wooden spoon hitting the surface of the porcelain bowl. The vivid red color of pickled cabbage. I take one sip of the long-cooked chicken soup, noticing the harmony of egg and broth. My nostrils gradually open up. My cells vibrate. Good whole food is an inspiration.

Cosmos of Chicken Soup

Chicken soup is God's given. What more assuring and warm food there is on this earth. It is perfect in its texture, consistency, scent, and visual look. So complete. So satisfying. My day starts with the morning ritual of re-appreciating this super food.

Super Probiotic (2)

I've been crazy about pickles. I've pickled garlic, cabbage, carrots, eggplant, radish, red beets, golden beets, Chinese cabbage, daikon radish, and turnip. With just simple lemon juice and salt or brine (water + salt), any vegetable turns into powerful source of nutrition. You can also use koji or miso, which produces slightly sweet taste.

Super Probiotic

I've been really into probiotic food lately. Here are the three examples of recent brunches. Chicken soup with miso, Spinach and tomato sauteed with butter, almond cake, strawberries+ blueberries + home made yogurt.

Chicken soup with an egg, avocado + lemon + miso tamari, Nut butter pancake + home made creme frache, spinach sauteed with butter, organic raspberry, lavender tea.

Chicken soup with one egg, Rainbow chard sauteed with butter, Cooked beats, Nut butter pancake, yellow peach + home made yogurt. Feels great after eating.

Super Probiotic (1)

I've been really into probiotic food lately. Here are the three examples of recent brunches. June 28th, 2014

Chicken soup with miso, Spinach and tomato sauteed with butter, almond cake, strawberries+ blueberries + home made yogurt.

July 4th , 2014

Chickin soup with an egg, avocado + lemon + miso tamari, Nut butter pancake + home made creme frache, spinach sauteed with butter, organic raspberry, lavender tea.

September 14th, 2014

Chicken soup with one egg, Rainbow chard sauteed with butter, Cooked beats, Nut butter pancake, yellow peach + home made yogurt. Feels great after eating.