Depression meals
My mantra in making all these “recipes” is one of the most key phrases everyone should know in Mandarin: chabuduo (less, not more).
Author: SJZ
Kale salad with miso-lemon dressing
Most people who really know me will remember that for years I’ve hated kale. I’ve definitely called it “an overrated vegetable” more times than I can count, and I stand by that assessment. But then my friend Maya brought a salad to my house that …
Potato tacos
My secret to good non-meaty tacos: perfectly crisped and heavily seasoned potatoes a medley of yummy fats juuuust enough leafy greens to feel good about the first two – – – Do you ever get fixated on a food that is so perfectly satisfying, yet …
Salted kumquats
Kumquat is excellent for moving qi in the chest and stomach, clearing stagnation that causes coughing, likely with some phlegm, and improving a poor appetite. Obviously these qualities make kumquats really good to have on hand with a respiratory pandemic going around – not as some miracle cure, but as a small balm for the 85% of those who catch it, but will be fortunate enough to weather their illness at home.
Eating for Respiratory Health
Years from now I hope we’ll all look back on the great quarantine staycation of 2020 with nostalgic memories of how we learned to do more with less, turn our social networks into circles of mutual aid and concern, and catch up on sleep and cuddle-naps with family in a time of social distancing. But that is then. And this is now. And its panic-fucking-weirdos-hoarding-basic-necessities go time, fam.
Eating for Digestive Health
General Principles of Happy Digestion in CM: Warm and well-cooked dishes: think soups, porridge, oatmeal “Warm” here means two things, actually: the physical temperature a food is served at, and also its thermal nature. Things like ginger and garlic are warm-hot in nature, regardless of …
Understanding and Preventing Covid-19 in CM
In CM, diseases may arise from internal or external causes. Internal causes include things like overstaying one’s welcome in an emotion, over or under eating, or preexisting organ or channel dysfunction. These tend to be long-standing disharmonies in comparison with shorter-lived exterior conditions, but, they …
Dance Yourself Sane
Music creates mood. We may think of this as recent knowledge; for instance, I came of age singing En Vogue’s “Free your mind… and the rest will follow.” Later, when I moved from gateway genres like hip-hop and R&B straight into the hard stuff (disco, …
Organization and Procrastination
[This timely hottake on being the most organized, on top of your shit you in the new year is coming straight at you from the archives of my old website. I wrote it in January of 2015, while I was working several “gig-economy” acu jobs, …
Saucy cucumber side-salad*
*This is actually a Chinese dish called liangban huanggua 涼拌黃瓜, which more literally translates to “cucumbers [tossed] in cold sauce.” But although the dish is best served cold, its nature is downright firey. Spicy. Saucy, even, because this dish can and will sass you back …