THE IRONY OF MEDICINAL COOKING is that when you need it most, you often have the least capability, desire or energy to do it for yourself. At which point one either needs to engage (or upgrade!) one's lover, or engage any available, vaguely willing hands. And so it was. Miss 13 @nabithecat was recruited to assist her injured solo mama, just out of the hospital with a triple fracture in the elbow after a recent car accident.
Thai-Fusion Spicy-Sour Green Mango Salad, it was. Quick, nutritious, cleansing to the liver & gallbadder after too many pain meds and hospital food. Incredibly high in vitamin C for bone healing. Tangy & spicy on a hot, monsoonal-deluge night. How to do?
Start with one large rock-hard organic green mango. Miss 13 ran out in the dark to pick it from one of our trees.
Already freshly rain-washed, it just needed peeling.
Apologies for the image quality and lighting. :) Our 100 year old Thai teak house blew two lights in yesterday's storm (ancient electrics) and the one handed photo thing not as easy as it seems. :)
Take a razor sharp cleaver and create loads of tiny deep vertical cuts. Thai-style. :) Nervous westerners have been known to use a grater.
And then simply shave off slivers of green mango. What does it taste like? Reminiscent of tart green apple, but a gentler, more rounded flavor.
A pure Thai version would add small ripe cherry tomatoes, sliced beans, herbs and maybe red onion. In tourist centres you often also see grated carrot. But seeing we are global girls and not enslaved by tradition, last night we opted for this:
Long beans, rocket, mild green chilies, coriander (cilantro), green spring onions and fresh lime juice.
Toss it all together. We sometimes use the traditional Thai fish sauce for authentic flavour, but a pinch or two of himalayan salt works just fine too. And a generous sprinkle of dried chili flakes (called 'prik bon' in thai) for added zing.
What did we eat it with? Very typical Thai fast food from a roadside place on the way home - a grilled fish and sticky rice. Because medicinal cooking also needs to be EASY! The fish phenomenal for helping my bones to heal.
So, a real-life, real-time glimpse into our Thai world and the type of medicinal cooking we share when one of us is in need. Actually, we eat like this most of the time, although I would normally have steamed some black organic riceberry rice instead.
Starting to feel a little better.
Grateful for nourishment and the willing hands of my sweet daughter, Ploi.
BlissednBlessed
Healing
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