Why is seaweed healthy? Did you know that by adding seaweed to legumes while they are cooking helps to soften them and also helps to detoxify them? For improved flavour and digestion, more nutrients, and faster cooking, place soaked kombu or kelp seaweed in the bottom of the pot. Add 1 part seaweed to 6 or more parts legumes. Use seaweed soak water to cook grains and vegetables. In 2010 I was lucky enough to train with Paul Pitchford, author of Healing with Whole Foods who declares that sea … [Read more...] about How to use seaweed – why is seaweed healthy
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Broccoli, silverbeet and seaweed soup
The Brassicacasae, or cruciferous vegetable family as they were formerly known due to their crucifix-like appearance, include mostly pungent vegetables such as Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, turnip, broccoli, cauliflower and collard greens. Most of these we disliked as children. Perhaps it was due to the strong odour of sulphur when overcooked since children have such a keen, unadulterated sense of smell. Commonly on April Fools Day at boarding school, sulphur hyroxide (rotten egg gas) … [Read more...] about Broccoli, silverbeet and seaweed soup
Zucchini noodles, sea vegetables, nuts and seeds
This living salad is one of the highlights of my Surf Spa Food menu and was first published on this website in November 2012. In this episode of HealthtalksTV above Dr. Nat Kringoudis and I talk about the healing properties of sea vegetables. Here's a excerpt from my book The Healing Feeling which you can buy here. Sea vegetables have long being a source of great healing properties in the East since 3000 B.C., and now contemporary cuisine has begun to embrace these mineral rich marine algae … [Read more...] about Zucchini noodles, sea vegetables, nuts and seeds
How to make kelp noodle salad with seaweed
Seaweed has long been an essential part of the Japanese diet and noted for its healing properties in the East since 3000 BC, now modern cuisine has begun to embrace mineral rich marine algae with abundance. Seaweed, also known as sea vegetables, are predominantly edible with varieties that include wrack, kelp, laver (nori), sea lettuce and dulse. They possess a highly concentrated source of nutrients, including high protein and iron content, with high levels of manganese, potassium, phosphorous, … [Read more...] about How to make kelp noodle salad with seaweed