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Our Mother is beginning to freeze and we may feel our own root
systems contracting to a core energy level. Continue to maximum
the life-force held in the medicine spirits of the summer's bounty by
using the Easy Sparkle Vinegar as a daily tonic and digestive aid.
This is also a good time to maximize the life force we feed
ourselves in the continued bounty of our autumn root crops. For a
simple lunch or supper you can make some beautiful golden beets
and dress them with wilted radicchio. Serve over a yummy whole
grain. Chop italian fennel, broccolini and swiss chard to be
braised in your favorite marinade. Try hearty leftovers, like a
smashed yukon gold potato and some roasted carrots, for
breakfast. If you feel run down prepare a simple anti-oxidant meal
of a pepper-tomato-broccoli stir fry and some miso-astragalus soup.
Cooking healthfully while also being "away" from the comfort and
convenience of a burgeoning kitchen garden can be surprisingly
rewarding. Focus, always, on preparing and ingesting the foods
with the strongest life force. Keep yourself well-fixed with the
basics of flavorful & healthy cooking: home-made stocks, a good
grade of organic extra virgin olive oil, good quality organic
medicinal & culinary herbs, the freshest available cheeses, spices
and fruits, and some concentrated opening & sweeting of all the
secondary heart and hand chakras! Remember that food
preparation is its own form of meditation and Life Prayer. This can
be a particularly healing and illuminating vehicle for personal
transformation during the abstract and literal voids that the winter
season tends to provide. Learning how to heal and grow in this
always-practical and relevant way can be an authentic revelation
for many folks who are used to embracing a too-busy mentality that
often moves against the grain of their physical and psychological
needs. Emotionally few things are as comforting as a warm winter
home with a prolific loving kitchen! Providing such comfort for
ourselves and others we love (including our beloved pets) can be a
powerful healing tool for this recessive time of year.
SIMPLE DEEP GREEN HEALING BROTH
Coarse chop all ingredients to be strained or eaten at your
discretion. If you choose to cook-down the food as much as
possible, please discard the wastes as a sacred offering
material in your compost or at an outside altar.
Fill a stock pot with good quality water and what you can
gather from the following ingredient list:
ginger root, garlic, green onions, shitake mushrooms,
shallots, broccoli, asparagus, sweet peppers, carrots, italian
fennel, parsely, turnip , alfalfa
Cook gently, with frequent stirring and admiration, until
vegetables have given their life force to the broth. The
strained water will be a beautiful deep green. This makes an
excellent rejuvenation broth for those recovering from flu
and some forms of IBS. It's also a lovely restorative tonic to
have in place of tea on chilly winter mornings. Trying using
this broth for half the water requirements in side-dish grains
or mashing potatoes. It's also great for cooking beans and
adding flavor to refrigerator leftovers' Last Call buffets.
Do you have your 2005 seed catalogs yet? This is a good time to
update your list for catalog requests and begin a budget of
time/finances for your winter's growing ambitions.
WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE 2005
FLOWER/EARTH MEDICINE STUDY OPTIONS