02/01/2026
Eat Your Medicine!
this is a new series of videos I’ll be making to illustrate Food as Medicine. Always vegetarian and herb-y.
Take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your community.
Mushroom Congee
This takes about 45 mins to make & is a delicious, warming, grounding, immune boosting, circulation mover, liver & kidney stimulating food.
(This 45 mins doesn’t included the time your cut mushrooms sit in the window or outside for at least 30 mins to hyper accumulate Vitamin D for you to ingest.)
In the broth
8 cups of water
2 large fingers of ginger thinly sliced & diced
2 fingers of fresh turmeric thinly sliced & diced(these are almost always smaller than ginger ones)
2 garlic cloves thinly sliced & diced
1/2 onion or whole shallot thinly sliced & diced
1/2 serrano pepper & 1/2 jalapeno pepper thinly sliced & diced
2 Tbsp burdock root & 2 Tbsp dandelion root in a teabag or tea ball
Mushroom Prep
6-8 oz oyster mushroom sliced
6-8 oz sh*take mushroom sliced
6-8 oz portobello mushroom sliced
(put all these sliced in a sunny window to hyper accumulate Vit D for at least 30 mins)
then in a bowl, toss with
1 tbsp miso paste,
1/4 cup peanut sauce or tamari sauce,
2 Tbsp corn starch
Let sit while you boil the 8 oz water (unless you have a vegetable broth)
Throw in the bag or ball of burdock & dandelion roots 1 cube of vegetable bouillon (you know your own sodium situation)
Rinse the rice 3 to 4 times massaging the rice with your hands in a bowl to loosen the extra dust & starch. The water should run clean. Let soak for at least 2 hrs, but over night is even better.
The water should well be boiling. Add the rice & stir gently until you reach a boil. Add the minced herbs & veggies. Reduces heat to a medium simmer. Loosely cover & let simmer for 25 mins.
Once you test the rice to make sure its soft and there is a good amount of liquid, stir in the sun tanned & marinated mushrooms. Let cook for another 4 or 5 mins.
Add your toppings and serve
I always use whatever seeds & nuts I have for crunch. I also love green onions, cilantro & peppers
