Adlai Caldo

I miss tinola! I loooooooooved it growing up. It was my ultimate comfort food. Recently, I said goodbye to two American friends who have come to love chicken tinola as their favorite also.

This isn't tinola exactly, but it gives me the umami taste of tinola when I crave it. I loved having it in July 2021 with the nonstop rain! This recipe morphed into adlai caldo out of necessity hehe. 

Hope you try it and enjoy :) 

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Adlai Caldo :P

1 yellow onion, peeled and chopped (but sibuyas Tagalog works fine!) 

5-6 cloves garlic, crushed, peeled and chopped

2 1/2-3 inches ginger, peeled and chopped

1 head broccoli along with other veggies (optional) 

6 mushrooms, sliced

1 cup chili leaves or a bunch of malunggay leaves (I use more than 1 cup if I have malunggay)

2 whole sayote, peeled and cut into wedges

3 tablespoons veggie fish sauce 

6 cups distilled water (or rice or quinoa wash if you prefer)

Whole peppercorns (I love lots of peppercorns-use an amount you are comfortable with)

Salt to taste

2 pieces bird's eye chilis

1 cup adlai or 1/4 cup adlai and 3/4 cup quinoa (feel free to substitute with malagkit rice. Do not use jasmine rice) Soak overnight.

1. Saute the garlic, onion and ginger.
2. Add in sayote, broccoli and water, salt and peppercorns.
3. When the sayote is cooked, add mushrooms.
4. Total cook time: 40-45 minutes. When you hit the 42-minute mark, add the chili leaves/malunggay leaves. T
5. Add veggie fish sauce to taste.
6. Turn off the heat and enjoy! Leftovers may be frozen and reheated!
7. Enjoy! 

Adlai is a grain grown in Bukidnon, Philippines

Update: August 2021

Grains are a lot more acid-causing than fruit and veggies though. I am going to take a break from grains for the time being!

Adlai Caldo

Banana Avocado Dream with Tami

Tami, my blender is ten years old. Only 12 pesos a day. Sobrang sulit. She has outlasted my food processor, and two juicers. Huuuge fan. Here’s to more years making healthy smoothies, desserts and sauces. 💚

What’s something you invested in that has good returns?

Banana Avocado Dream with Tami

Green Goddess

Blend:
1/2 cup grated niyog

1 cup water

1 ripe saba

1 ripe avocado

maple syrup (or your
dave sweetener) or 3 dates

a little bit of vanilla extract or scrape the inside of an actual vanilla bean if you could get one

After blending, transfer to a mixing bowl. Add 2 tablespoons chia seed and mix. Wait a few minutes until the shake becomes a pudding :) Refrigerate or eat immediately 💚

Mixed unfried adlai

I had a craving for something sour and salty. Here’s a yummy side dish for your plant-based viand 💚

Ingredients:

1 cup steaming hot, cooked cracked adlai
1/4 cup red bell pepper, finely chopped
1/2 cup celery, finely chopped
1 cup  shiitake mushrooms, finely chopped
1-2 tablespoons capers
salt, to taste


Procedure:

1. Capers may be mashed, then chopped (optional)
2. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Serve.

Mixed unfried adlai

Coconut Oil Pulling

Coconut oil pulling is cleansing to your toxic system. 

Needed:

Tooth brush

Toothpaste

Tongue scraper

VCO

Mouth wash or colloidal silver 

Water 

Clock

Method: 

1. Brush your teeth/scrape your tongue.
2. Floss.
3. Put a tablespoon of virgin coconut oil in your mouth (more or less as is comfortable for you) and swish it around. After a few seconds, the VCO will become thinner as it gets mixed with your saliva. At a certain point, it will no longer be comfortable to be kept in your mouth. Spit this into tissue then your trash can (instead of the sink so that it doesn’t clog your drain) Repeat step 3 for 15-30 minutes. 
4. Use your mouth wash or colloidal silver as a final rinse.

The best time to do this is in the morning but I sometimes do it a different time of the day. 

I like the brand Peter Paul because it doesn’t have a weird smell, but use whichever brand you like.

Coconut Oil Pulling

Feeling fatigued? These helped me. Let me know if things improve with you.

Sleeping early and sleeping 8 hours a day. (If I sleep 8 hours but don’t sleep early enough, it still affects me somehow. I could never be in the BPO industry!) 

No cell phones, tablets, laptops or TV in the bedroom.

Using an actual alarm clock to wake you up.

Exercising 30 min a day but preferably not in the evening.

Coconut oil pulling once a day.

Deep breathing in nature.

Juicing greens. (Avoid buying grocery store juice which may contain sugars or preservatives.)

Eating more greens.

Forgiving other people. Unforgiveness causes acidity in the body.

No alcohol.

No candies and no sugar. (Lots of Pinoy food has sugar, even in seemingly unsweetened food like adobo and tapsilog)

No caffeine. 

No energy drinks.

Fasting. It could be juice fasting/water fasting  the entire day. 

Taking a food intolerance/allergy test (then avoiding food that causes my system stress and tiredness) 

Eating less restaurant food. More home cooked food from scratch. As close to nature as possible. Or raw if possible. (Actually my health mentor would say, 100% raw is best)

Eating less food that has unpronounceable ingredients. 

Eating more ripe fruit.

Using coconut oil in recipes that call for olive oil.

Drinking lots of water during the day. Less toward evening. You need to figure out your ideal no. of ml for yourself. For me it’s  more than a liter a day.

Dry skin brushing.

Walking barefoot on grass for a few minutes. 

And last but definitely not least: go raw for a week.

Let me know which items need more explaining. 

Would be happy to expound. 

Feeling fatigued? These helped me. Let me know if things improve with you.

What was that?

The other day I found pink marks on my skin that looked like mosquito bites. I was so scared that I was coming down with something because I felt feverish. However, when I would check the thermometer, my temperature was normal. 

What helped me? One day of lots of green juice,  water, and sleep, sleep, sleep. 

No drugs. Thank you God for the plants you created that are super healing to the body! 

Green Juice to get rid of whatever that was

Ingredients:

Cucumbers 

Celery

Ginger

Kale

Calamansi 

Carrot 

Juice everything!

It doesn’t taste like juice bar green juice but it worked. 

What was that?