Healthy Eats
This is the raison d’être (reason for being) for my garden: to eat clean and nutritious food to make the family healthy.
Here’s sharing dishes using food from my garden (recipes to follow):
Alugbati (malabar spinach), Balunggay (moringa), Kulitis (pigweed), Tugabang (saluyot or Nalta jute), and Tanglad (lemongrass) for Laswa dish
Basil for Basil Chicken dish
Basil for Basil Watermelon drink
Basil for Basil Peanut pesto
Bok Choy for Steamed Baby Bok Choy with Oyster Sauce dish
Eggplant for Eggplant Cheddar on Lettuce wrap
Kadyos (Pigeon Pea) and Kamote (Sweet Potato) leaves for KMK (Kadyos, Manok, Kamote) soup
Lettuce and Chives for Watermelon & Greens Salad
Lettuce and Chives for Mango & Greens Salad
Lettuce, Egg, Lantana, Begonia, and Wood Sorrel for Egg & Flowers salad
Mint for breath freshener
Pansit-pansitan (Peperomia pellucida) in sandwich
Rose Apple (Tambis) for fruit snack
Also:
- Food For the Soul!
Frangipani (Kalachuchi) for table decor
- Food For my African Nighcrawler (ANC) worms
Pigeon Pea (Kadyos) pods, unusable Bok Choy leaves, errant Pigweed, and grass clipping for worm fodder
