Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Recipe of the day

we're busy watching K dramas, and one of them, Jewel in the Palace, starts out as a cooking show with romance and intrigue, and here is the communal gossip scene with the village ladies from Crash landing on you:



But in most K Dramas, people eat KimChee with their meals.

Kimchee is Korean sauerkraut and/or pickled vegetables: here is one recipe to make it. and here are some more recipes.
and here are some videos explaining how to do it:




like European sauerkraut, it is a way to preserve cabbage and other vegetables to eat during the long winter: a source of Vitamin C, which prevents scurvy.

but in recent years, it has been used as a natural remedy to prevent or treat influenza, and more recently, Sars and Covid Virus and some have even claimed that was why Korea didn't have as bad an epidemic as nearby China.


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we don't have kimchi in the Philippines, but here the natural remedy being used against the virus is coconut oil

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