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My Wife Giving Recipes for Home Food to Our Daughter

1307 sats \ 8 comments \ @OgFOMK 10 Jan health

We eat "caposta" which is Russian Sauerkraut or Russian Kimchee (Or Uzbek / Tatar ). Anyway it is a probiotic food based on fermented cabbage. What inspired me to write about this was the fact that we are all eating more home food and the meals are healthy and have pure ingredients.

My wife now is making home bread, we eat a lot of salads, we are eating baked fish dishes, pancakes made with the home starter feedings of sour dough. Lot's of good stuff.

I was really proud to hear my wife speaking with our daughter about traditional recipes. Borscht, bread, baking and simple home foods that promote health, self sufficiency and saving money. My wife is speaking with all family and friends about food. She is even trading some of her food for fresh eggs from a local farm.

My fiat wage is no better than it was in the 1990s. That's my choice. I could get a job making more but I would be miserable. Been there, done that, hated life. I would like to have a better wage for stacking but instead I am not buying crap I don't need. All of us are.

What are some traditional foods that you are making?

Would a recipe area here be good?

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197 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Jan

My wife has been making lots of Hakka noodles with cabbage lately. She generally makes lots of Indian bean or lentil based meals. Very good, very healthy, very cheap. She calls it "recession food".

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 10 Jan

I would be very interested in recipes. Not sure if they warrant a whole territory or just a weekly recipe roundup here in ~health

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @OgFOMK OP 10 Jan

Maybe a title tag - RECIPE in this health section.

Now my logic is working, "Health" is like "Quality". As in, "We do quality work." What quality? Good or bad?

So, ~health is a great place for recipes.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 10 Jan

I hear you. Recipes for s'mores pie are not healthy, but may have relevance to youbill health.

However, I think it's healthy whenever people get interested in and spend time preparing food for themselves and others. Can't help but be healthy.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @OgFOMK OP 10 Jan

Yes, and we also have the disinterested vote of no sats for the recipes that aren't moving gastronomic mountains.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 10 Jan

Yogurt. I used to make kefir but was having issues (it would work for 4 - 10 batches, then couldn't get it to work anymore).

Yogurt is dead simple. Heat milk to 180 F to kill competing organisms, cool to 115 F, add a few tablespoons of yogurt, insulate for 8 hours or so, and it's done.

And if it's a fresh, unopened container of milk, I don't even bother to heat to 180 first.

For the rest of it - my cooking has been DRAMATICALLY reduced since I started going carnivore (#382289). I used to make all kinds of things, one of my staples was home baked bread made with fresh ground flour

Now I'm done with that. I no longer believe that whole grains are a net positive for me.

I'd be curious - does fermenting the cabbage make it less gassy? Previous to going carnivore, I ate a lot of cabbage, and the gassiness/bloating of cabbage was hidden in the general gassiness/bloating of eating a lot of fiber in fruits and vegetables.

After going mostly carnivore, I ate one dish that had a lot of cabbage in it, and wow, was the gassiness noticeable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OgFOMK OP 10 Jan

One of the key secrets to eating is mastication. For carnivore, herbivore, omnivore... you do a lot of pre-work in chewing and if you gulp food, especially vegetation there will be gas due to the breakdown. Cheap cheeses do it for me. The cabbage smells like a fart in process but once the pH is right there is no gas.

The yogurt thing is very fascinating. We love kefer and the curd cheese with probiotics, too.

I became vegetarian, lacto-ova in 1986. I started reading labels on everything. Within a few years reintroduced seafood because my family has been fishing for thousands of years along side of agriculture.

My opinion on the carnivore is that you have to do the hunting, dressing and or husbandry or at least be willing to do this. I fish. I get fresh eggs from a dude I know. Milk, I need a better source and I'd like to get the raw cheeses.

I like the Bitcoin Beef initiative but I haven't kept up with it since I left Twitter. I read Weston Price's book from the 1930s on nutrition. It's an excellent study on many peoples' who have thousands of years of knowledge uncorrupted by "civilization".

It's a great book.

https://archive.org/details/NutritionAndPhysicalDegeneration

I'd like to see an exchange of food ideas and practices that are by hand. I would love to have the knowledge of the land mushrooms, plant medicines and such.

All I can say is thank you for your information and I wish you good health.

Maybe you could post your yogurt recipe in ~health.

I'll start doing some of my wife's recipes, too.

To circle back on grains, my theory is that the most produced food is the worst. That's factory farming of meat, grains and whatever. No reason for factory farming when people claim to need jobs. We need to move away from the cities and start cultivating the lands with ruminating animals, chickens and a variety of ancient grains and agriculture.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 10 Jan freebie

Not really making traditional foods, as my own culture's trad foods are very heavily wheat based and we're not having wheat in our house any longer. But we are definitely getting back to basics, making lots from scratch. We eat a lot of spicy and foods with a robust flavour. We are avoiding the processed foods and oils that you buy in mainstream supermarkets. Seeds oils don't do my teenagers face any good (very bad acne that got better after avoiding those). It's a challenge, as you really do have to cook from scratch as they're in everything! It's very difficult when you go out to eat, so we avoid that too, but mostly can't afford that much anyways. Currently, we are making smoothies with organic lemon blended whole (pips, skin and all) with fruits like mango, pineapple, kiwi with coconut cream and spice (such as turmeric, black pepper, pinch of cayenne). Plus many other different blended drinks! I would love to know how to make Russian Sauerkraut! I was eating Russian Sauerkraut last time I was in New Zealand. It was amazing, it felt really healthy. I think a recipe section could be good.