Seems to be quite common here, where the air is so moist, to have foot fungi. I know, because I saw it on the yoga and chi students, not mentioning the guys in town with the yellow, cracking, swollen painful feet. I had it for a time in Montana, but it left while on a fast. A reader asked me to post these recipes she found, so here they are, in her writing:
Recipes of the Day – Foot Fungus
-So, Vick’s Vapo Rub is good because of the mixture of Thymo (Thyme Oil), Camphor and Eucalyptus Oil. This you apply 2x a day for a few weeks, if it’s a mild case, or 5-16 months if extreme.
Joy’s Pickled Turmeric
A combination of two herbal powerhouses, this pickle makes a wonderful condiment that you can add to many common dishes such as scrambled eggs, rice, soups, curry, and many more.
Recipe of the Day – Turmeric and Ginger Pickle
Ingredients:
1 c chopped fresh turmeric
¼ c chopped fresh ginger
1 clove of garlic, chopped
1-2 fresh green or red chilies
½ c lemon juice
2 T orange juice
2 t apple cider vinegar
1 T evaporated cane juice sugar
½ t sea salt, adjust to taste
¼ c toasted sesame oil, to seal jars
Directions:
- Combine turmeric, ginger, and garlic in a food processor fitted with an S-blade and process until small chunks. Transfer mixture to a large bowl.
- Slice chilies into small strips and mix into turmeric mixture by hand.
- Add remaining ingredients except oil and mix everything together by hand. Fill into sterilized jars and cover with oil. Let sit for a week to blend flavors.
Word of the Day – Curcuma – Turmeric
Tip of the Day –Will keep refrigerated for several months.
Gluten-free Abadi Cookies
A couple came over to visit, and gave me the recipe for their Abadhi cookies, crackers, actually which they sell in town. Here is my gluten-free version.
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Repe Soup with Camote
My camote plants started producing! These are my first sweet potatoes, yum! They are so good, coming out of the dirt. Here’s my Repe Soup with camote..
Recipe of the Day – Repe with Camote
Ingredients:
- 6 green bananas, peeled and diced (about 4 cups)
- 2 T. coconut oil
- 6 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 medium sized finely chopped white onion
- 1 tsp. cumin
- 6 c. water, can also use the broth or cooking liquid from the peas
- 1 c. oat milk
- 4 T. finely chopped cilantro
- Salt and pepper
- Directions:
- Add the water or broth from the camote, bring to a boil and add the diced green bananas, simmer until the green bananas are soft, about 20-25 minutes.
- Add the camote, stir well and cook for 5 minutes. You can blend this for a creamy soup with the oat milk, if you like.
Word of the Day – repe – green banana soup
Tip of the Day – Serve with avocado and hot sauce, salsa or Aji! The traditional Ecuadorian recipe uses ½ tsp ground achiote (optional) mozzarrella and feta cheese.
Boldo Tea
This is an herb I got in the Otavlo Market – the Boldo leaf, used to treat mostly ailments of the liver, bladder and protate, but also for the gallbladder and gallstones. It’s also fo insomnia, rheumatism, cystitis, gonorrhea, syphilis, colds, constipation, indigestion and earache. It’s been used traditionally to rid the intestines of worms, as a mild sedative and nerve tonic..
Recipe of the Day – Boldo Tea
Ingredients: a couple leaves Boldo.
Directions. Take a couple leaves of Boldo and pour hot, almost boiling water over. Cover and let steep for 20 minutes. This cup also has a twig of horsetail in it!
Word of the Day – liver – higado
Tip of the Day – What I do, to see if herbs work well together, is to taste the tea of each individually, smell and taste both. If they’re both calm, or of the same feeling, I combine them!
Cherry Green Smoothie
My daughter says, I was watching a documentary about Mae West and one of her lines was “do you believe in love at first sight?” Mae says, “It certainly saves time…”
Recipe of the Day – Cherry Green Smoothie
Ingredients:
2 stalks organic celery, washed and chopped
1 frozen banana, chopped
1 handful cherries (strawberries or other berries)
1 c. tea, water, coconut milk or other seed/nut milk, even oat milk!
Directions: Blend all until creamy with a little water or rejuvelac, if desired.
Word/Phrase of the Day – amor a primera vista – love at first sight
Tip of the Day – Substitute other berries, if you like! Acai, blueberries, etc….
Diy Jamaican Jerk Seasoning
I saw C in town with a great new haircut from our neighbor, Phil, who has a new salon up from the JF. On her way back she said, “i bought you a haircut and you have to get it right now!” Which i did ($15) and he washed my air! I feel pretty!
Recipe of the Day – 
DIY Jamaican Jerk Seasoning
Ingredients:
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- 1/2 c. allspice
- 1/2 c. Panela
- 6 tsp. Powdered garlic
- 4 tsp. mild red pepper spice
- 1 T, ground thyme, (or 2 T. fresh leaves)
- 2 T. Powdered onions
- 1 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. Nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
- Add 2 T. Bragg’s Amino Acids or Soy Sauce to make a paste,
Directions: Put all of the ingredients into a food processor or a blender and process until smooth.
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Word of the Day – corte de pelo – hair cut
Tip of the Day – put whole allspice berries straight into the food processor or blender, if you like. Store this (if you added Bragg’s) sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator indefinitely.
Clare’s Midnight Pumpkin Cream Cheese Sandwich
Clare says, “19 min. exactly in a 13″x 9″ glass pan. Parchment paper down, ’cause you’re gonna flip it out and cut it half, then stack the two halves on top of each other. Frost the bottom one. Put the next one on top. Frost that one, then put sprinkles. The easiest cake recipe I’ve ever made in my life.”
I creamed the eggs, sugar and pumpkin together first. Then added 1/2 tsp. vanilla to the cake recipe. Added a dash of cardamom, too. I used “Apple Pie Spice,” instead of cinnamon, and was out of baking soda, so I used 4 tsp. baking powder instead , (which is 4x weaker than baking soda.) I was out of cinnamon because I’d used it as an anti-fungal to keep fungus gnats (a.k.a. fruit flies) away from my plants. This is all true.”
This is how Adam gets his midnight snacks. It was too hot to cook during the day, so we didn’t turn on the oven ’til 11:30 p.m. It was supposed to be a pumpkin roll, but I realized halfway through I don’t have a pumpkin roll pan. This is how Adam gets fed.”
Recipe of the Day-Pumpkin Roll
Ingredients:
3 eggs
2/3 c. Pumpkin
1 c. Sugar
1 tsp. Baking soda
1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
Dash cardamom
1/2 tsp. Vanilla
3 c. Flour
Bake this at 375 dgrees for 19 minutes in Montana.
Filling:
3 T. Butter
8 ou. Cream Cheese
3/4 tsp. Vanilla
I c. Sugar
Directions: Line a cake roll pan or other with parchment paper and follow directions abovd.
Word of the Day – Preocupada – worry
Tip of the Day – The batter looks super liquidy. But it’s okay. Don’t worry about it at all.
M’s Fried Rice
My sister, M wrote this: “
I was trying to make our favorite and fantastic fried rice recipe without the brown sugar and sesame oil and it turned out good! Who knew? I made the sauce in the blender instead of the pan and replaced the brown sugar with grapes and the sesame oil with tahini. I was so surprised that it was good! Dates would have worked too but I didn’t think of that and my grapes were about to turn bad.
Recipe of the Day – M’s fried Rice
SCRAMBLE
1/2 onion sliced, carmelized
Tofu block crumbled (regular size container)
1 T. nutritional yeast
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. turmeric
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
2 c. cooked brown rice
1/2 c. peas
1/2 medium carrot small cubes
SAUCE
2 T. Bragg’s or soy sauce low sodium
2 T. rice vinegar
2 T. grapes, panela or coconut crystal
1 tsp. smoked paprika
4 T. water
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp. red chili flakes
1 tsp. sea salt
1 tsp. black pepper
DIRECTIONS: Carmelize onion by sauteing for 15 minutes or so until crystal and sweet. Add tofu scramble. Move to bowl. Heat sauce, peas, carrots. Add rice. Reduce heat. Add scramble. Mix and serve.
Word/Phrase of the Day – te conoci – i met you
Tip of the Day – Add avocado!
How I Harvested My Cacao – DIY Cacao Tea and Nibs
I’m harvesting my first cacao pods! I’ve shelled the dried seeds to use as cacao tea. And the beans to ground for my desserts. The nibs to use in my oatmeal and cookies! It worked very well. No bitterness at all. Beautiful!
R
ecipe of the day – DIY Harvest Cacao
Ingredients:
3-4 Cacao Pods, slightly soft and dark red
Directions:
Cut the pods in half. You can cut off the ends first, if you like. Scoop out the insides. You can eat the white flesh around each seed, if you like. But you don’t have to! They dry in the dehydrator and taste like candy! Throw the whole mass on the dehydrator sheets and dry at 150 degrees F. for 20 hours. Put in a bag and mash with a mallet. The shells will come off and you put them in a bag for cacao tea. Put the nibs in another bag, and the white shells in a third. The shells are your tea!
Word of the Day – cosecha – harvest
Tip of the Day- You can put them in the sun. It’s just that the bugs come so fast. You can dry them under 105 degrees F, to keep them raw. But going over 150 degrees will make them bitter and burnt.