Cooking class Oct 26th 2013
We had another very successful cooking class last Saturday. Again turmeric took the lime light and the blending of spices with turmeric to reduce its negative side effects and bring up its benefits. We watched 2 short videos of my Ayurvedic teacher, Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra on you tube: "Benefits of Turmeric" and "How to use Turmeric Properly" The main point that stuck out was that if you have a powerful machine you have to know how to drive it safely or you can get into an accident. Similarly we understood that turmeric is a very powerful herb, a sacred herb that is revered in Ayurvedic medicine. The safe and best way to use it is to cook it into your food with an unctuous substance like ghee and blended with other spices like coriander, fennel and cumin. The ratio of 1 part Turmeric to 6 parts Coriander and 6 parts Fennel and 1 part Cumin. That is the best standard recipe for the spice mix that you add to your veggie stir fries, your dhal and your chicken or fish...