29/10/2025
Here’s one for midweek healthy, seasonally appropriate meals that reheat nicely (hello warm food and drink! 👋)
Ratatouille with rice (or congee!) and sauerkraut.
Why you would want this:
🥒 If you make Ratatouille right it’ll have plenty of culinary herbs (I used oregano, thyme, tarragon and rosemary) which are aromatic and amazing to dispel damp. Combined with oungenct action they also are fabulous to keep the system deodorised of parasites.
🥒 Most of the ingredients are sweet in nature and work to tonify the digestive organs (you want this for optimal gut health)
🥒 There’s also a note of sour. We are in Spring, the flavour is sour and a *little* harmonises the spring organs Liver and Gallbladder (too much will tip the wood organs out of balance by astringing the qi when we want movement, and expansion this time of year)
🥒…Which is why the pungency of the culinary herbs is welcome addition for taste AND function - pungent flavours move and circulate the Qi and Blood (health is flow people!)
🥒 It’s well cooked thus less taxing on the digestion
🥒 Neutral - slightly cool thermatic temperature to help the body cope with the rising temperatures (especially up here in SEQ).
🥒Reheats nicely for workday lunches
I love this French classic and it will be on high rotation through Spring and Summer.
