Tag: alimentazione

Ibiscus/karkadé🌺

IBISCUS, acrylics on wood board, LF 2007

Hibiscus Sabdariffa is the name of the flower that, when is dried up, becomes karkadé. It belongs to the Malvacee family and is originary from Abissinia, for this, it is also known as “tea of Abissinia”.

Karkadé is an excellent drink, rich in vitamin C, ideal for drinking during summer.

This drink isn’t just thirst-quenching, but it’s a real panacea! Beyond vitamin C, contain Iron, vitamin B6 and B 12, magnesium, calcium and  vitamin D, with beta carotenoid the picture is completed in a really healthy drink.

When we need a natural anti-inflammatory, to fight a cold to maintain a good cerebral health and keep immunitary defenses up, karkadé is good hot, in water infusion for about 8 minutes or is possible put it in a bottle of cold water waiting to see it become of an intense color red.

I like very much this flower, in fact at my parents home in Milan we had always on our balcony; the best are red or yellow with brilliant colors😀.

In Portugal, Algarve has very large plants of Ibiscus… This plants needs hot and light to grow well! I think is not the same specie to make karkadé but it’s healthy even just looking at it, elements of nature are miraculous.🌺

Once upon a time…Rosolio Candy🍬😋

What’s your favorite candy?

There was, once upon a time, near my house, in Milan, the Eusebio pastry shop; sometimes on Sunday morning, with my parents I went to buy a cake and meanwhile they looked for a cake to buy, I remained enchanted by small sugar candies, closed in glass vases, which seemed  like baubles of glasses, like those it find on the beach, corroded by the sea. Promptly I went back home with, in my hands, a little paper bag, my treasure.

At home, as a ritual, the candies were putted in centre of the low table, in living room,  in one of decorated bowls of my mom and the pure gold of the bowl, stood out the delicacy of their colors.

From that moment, walking around it I took one, then another and another…putted them in mouth, was impossible don’t break those candies with the teeth, they had, a thin delicate sugar shell, and I seem to remember that flowery taste mixed the sweet of sugar in my mouth, was given from its content, the Rosolio, a liquor from the Renaissance Italy.

In a moment, the candies in my mouth, disappeared, and they were really good.🍬😋

Pizza😋

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

My Street food

I made this pizza just a week ago. Like a “pugliese” with onions.

Recipe: wheat flour + salt + fresh brewer’s yeast + mozzarella + tomato sauce+ onions + my secret ingredients which I say just for you😃… Ginger and coriander.

And to cook it 🤔, in motorhome I don’t have oven, so I used a pan with lid, naturally with over low heat.👩‍🍳

What fruit is it?

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…from the <solinacee family> is an antioxidant, contain vitamin B group and potassium.

It’s good😋

Alimurgic food

Before the practice of agricolture, the man gathered food directly by the nature.

Taraxacum officinalis

When I walk on mountain or I am in the middle of a meadow, my eyes look always for a some sort of plant…it’s a mental deformation🙃because until when I was a child my mom taught me to recognize commestibile plants , Just like my grandmother did with her., Is a tradiction.

But in this century we don’t need to know wild plants, we have all the food we want from supermarket, why🤔 takes up wild plants?

The food from supermarket Is an industrial product: intensive coltivations, need to use substances to grow big and many despect to season, territory, climate…today food Is expensive but we can have Always in every season!

Wild plants are in the grasses, to take up needs of some fatigue and walking but Is special staying to contact of nature and these plants are much rich of nutrients and more I eat fastly after I took up and much more are healthy.

Gathered food directly from the nature Is called Alimurgic diet.

Almonds

Someone of these plants to take up Is taraxacum officinalis, ortica dioica, blackberries, raspberries,horsetail silica, blueberries…and slurp these are some of those I take up .

Raspberries

It’s important to learn about them! many plants in the nature are poisonous😮. If you aren’t sure, don’t take up!don’t eat!😉

It’s important too to be sure of the soil where Is growing the plant! Because vegetables to grow absorb the substances that also cannot be good for out healthy as heavy metals likes lead or others.

However it’s a big satisfaction go around the nature discovering all it’s richness.

Good discovering of nature😍