The Complete Ayurvedic Cookbook - The Eumundi Medicine Man

Timeless Knowledge
THE 'MUESLI', 'CEREAL', 'SALAD WITH TUNA'
& 'STIR FRY' HEALTH FARCE!
19BThe healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner of a healthy nation is a daily realisation in a
clinical situation. Basically some individuals with partial knowledge have written a
book or appeared on Oprah. Now every one conceives such is the healthy way for all
nations, times and individuals. Actually the above heading is generally the idiots
guide to health in a nutshell. Why?
1. Muesli is stodgy, stale, denatured, hard to digest and pre-cooked.
21BYes, to purify and sterilise, manufacturers run the rolled oats through a heat process.
Do you crush a garlic, apple or grain and eat it 8 months later? Why should grain be
any different? The Simple Remedy is to roll your own fresh, soak them and create a
healthy muesli with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pepper. Only eat muesli when your
digestion is powerful, the weather is warm, and you are active. The oats must be fresh
& unprocessed and need to be soaked in hot water for ease of digestion.
40B2. Cereal is nothing but 100% sugar.
3BRead my book 'Safe and Unsafe Carbohydrates'. Cereal is so de-natured that one
needs sugar to eat it. One night the rats escaped in a friend’s laboratory. They were
found in the morning having left the great “Bix” instead preferring the nutrition of
the cardboard box, Yum! Western cereals are fools gold only, nothing worthwhile
just a little reflection.
30B3. Salad – Eat according to time, place, circumstance and individual.
31BSalad is wonderful; there is no doubt about that! However, your well-dressed, fresh
organic delight from Mother Nature’s pharmacy is a summer delight. To eat salad in
cool weather, undressed or with under active digestion is not recommended for
health. As for the tuna or fish, it is stale, denatured and some cats might have second
thoughts! Caned food was developed for soldiers at the battlefront ... ah the trophies
of war. The best source of protein is a poached egg or hommos with salt and pepper
with your salad in summer. In winter you may take soup, kitchari and pikelets to
work for ease of digestion.
4. Stir fry vs Stir, fry, steam, steam!
Everyone who lives in the East knows the difference between fried and steamed food.
But Western square brain has a problem with the Asian stir-fry. Most people toss it
all in the pot with oil and cook. This is delicious of course - all fried food is, but it is
heavy, channel blocking, more acidic and of course harder to digest. The idea is to fry
the spices in ghee or oil with the veggies, capturing the flavour of the spices and then
add a little water, whey or stock which then predominately steams the dish. This
technique makes the meal tasty, light, digestible and less acidic.
So we need to change the name from stirfry to ‘Stir, Fry, Steam, Steam’!
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