A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
One of my favorite herbs is dill. I love the pleasant and unique aromatic smell of dill. I use it in my roast meats and in bolognese sauces. This herb is pretty costly at our local supermarkets. A small punnet of a few sprigs of dill costs over RM6. My next project is to…
Broccoli has recently topped the list of favorite veggies for my girls. We have it for dinner 2-3 times in a week. I normally blanch the broccoli in boiling water with a little salt and oil. They love it cooked this way, which is not too hard, not soft and mushy, slightly salty and slightly…
My 3 kids love kimchi, I kid you not! Do your kids like the tanginess of the kimchi? I have not seen many kids who can stomach this spicy and sour pickled veggies but my kids ace through it, though they would be gulping down cups after cups of water afterwards (drinking lots of…
In our household, lady’s fingers or Okra is another staple green that we place on the dining table. Okra is inexpensive and it is a nutritional powerhouse used throughout history for both medicinal and culinary purpose Like the kiwi fruit (okra actually shares many kiwi fruit benefits), okra is known for its high vitamin C,…
Bitter gourd is another staple food in our household. We cook bitter gourd in a variety of interesting ways from the usual bitter gourd omelette to bitter gourd soup, stir-fried bitter gourd with pork slices, braised bitter gourd chicken, stir-fried bitter gourd with fermented soy bean or black bean and juicing with bitter gourd. Of…
Turmeric is an amazing root spice that not only adds so much flavor and color to your dishes. Turmeric is also one of the world’s healthiest food, used thousands of years ago. Turmeric is a spice that I almost never fail to use each time I marinate meat for grilling in the oven. For fish…
Nursing a bad strep throat, I cooked a big pot of ‘purple soup’ today. My ‘purple soup’ consists of 1 huge beet root, half a head of organic purple cabbage, 6 carrots, a big chunk of lean pork and several chicken feet. My kids will have ‘purple soup’ for dinner tonight together with oven-grilled…
I boiled a big pot of chickpeas yesterday. I love chickpeas in all edible fashion — from boiled to toasted or fried, in humus, cooked in curries, dhals, in Indian snacks and much more. I also like chickpeas thrown into salads and this is just what I did yesterday, in our broccoli salad. Chickpeas are…
One of our favorite soups is burdock root. The MIL would boil the root with radish and sometimes throw in some mushrooms and dried octopus for a more flavorful taste. The Chinese folks believe that the burdock root aka Gobo in Japanese or ngau pong in Cantonese is full of medicinal properties and health benefits….
Broccoli is choke-full with nutrients and fibre. It is high in calcium, Vitamin C, potassium, magnesium and also Vitamin K. Broccoli also contains glucoraphanin, which with the body processes into the anti-cancer compound sulforaphane. This compound rids the body of H. pylori, a bacterium found to highly increase the risk of gastric cancer. Furthermore, broccoli…