It’s alimurgic food
In these days, walking in the Santiago de Caçem wood, we found the first fruits of the season, medlars, very good!
Freshly harvested are rich of all their nutrients, mineral, vitamin A and flavonoids.
These medlars are the japanese quality, the most diffuse here, like in Italy.
Together with medlars we collected bay leaves, which we’ll dry and wild fennel, because we want to eat with pasta in Sicilian style😋.
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.🌺
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…from the <solinacee family> is an antioxidant, contain vitamin B group and potassium.
It’s good😋
In Italy but also in other countries, when you walk in a public garden in a city, in mountain or in the country side it’s easy to see at your feet a small plant called “portulaca”.
It makes flowers so, it stay very well on balcony 🌺but is an excellent food…from the street😆…omelette, salad,riches in omega 3 and cheap.
Easy to cook, in internet you can find many recipes.
Portulaca is part of tradition to recognize, pick up and to eat plants not cultivated, that grow wild.
Bon appetite!😃
Before the practice of agricolture, the man gathered food directly by the nature.
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.
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 .
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😍
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