LET FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE … It was Hippocrates who said:
” Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”.
In winter we are exposed to colds, flu and sundry bugs. Before rushing to the Chemist’ s, let’ s have a look at what we have in the kitchen!
MULTI-TALENTED GARLIC
Garlic is said to have an extraordinary number of positive properties-enough to make your head whirl!
It prevents arteriosclerosis and other age-related problems, lowers blood pressure, it’ s a natural anti-bacterial and Nature’ s anti-biotic.
My mother used to feed us row cloves of garlic whenever stomach bugs were going around; a bit extreme perhaps, but it worked!
One great garlic recipe is roasted garlic soup. Don’ t worry, you will not smell of garlic for a week! It actually has a very delicate taste, it’ s creamy and it’ s lovely and comforting in the cold of winter:
Ingredients for 4: 4-5 whole heads of garlic 1kg potatoes Salt Olive oil Chicken stock Bay leaves( optional) Peel and roughly chop the potatoes, peel the garlic. Put potatoes and garlic in a roasting tray, drizzle with olive oil and add salt
Put the tray in pre-heated oven at 200c and leave for 30 minutes or until the potatoes and garlic get a warm golden colour and your kitchen is filled with the delicious smell!
Fill a soup pot with chicken stock, add the potatoes and garlic and a couple of bay leaves and let it simmer for about 1 hour.
Once the soup is cooled down, blitz with a hand-held blender( take the bay leaves out first)
Enjoy with warm, crusty bread!
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