Students commented on the smell of something good cooking. I told them it was mung bean kitcharee, one of our favorites. I got the particular recipe years ago from an old friend who needed the Ayurvedic food as medicine for her healing.
Its warm nutrition is comforting on these chili spring days. I seasoned it with seven spices for seven tissues called vagar. Fennel, turmeric, ginger,fenugreek, cumin, mustard and sesame seeds are all mingled within me now, tending to all my bones, muscles, blood, nerves, brain, organs and interstitial material.
Do you cook for yourself and others? What food is your medicine? Ki to Happiness cooks nutritious food to share the bounty of the Earth’s abundance as medicine for soul and body.