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Garden Weed Or TCM Herb for Urological Problems

I came across this post on Persicaria capitata and it seems this weed is really a herb. In many ways, I have often pondered on the fact- when is a weed a weed and when is it a herb? Even certain grasses function as herbs for cats. My cat loves to chew on grass when she's feeling a bit under the weather. In the past, we used to bring home grass for her (we used to live in an apartment where grass was scarce!) and she was too scaredy to go down to the park to chew some grass, well at least the kind cats can use for stomach problems.  Now Margaret has all the grass she can chew. We're still living in an apartment but it's on the ground floor and we have a tiny backyard where we grow quite a bit of herbs and stuff. The grass, all types, are plentiful. It's a veritable buffet. With grass, comes weeds.  What really are weeds anyway?  Weeds are just a name we give to plants which we feel we have no proper use for. To Margaret, grass is a herb. If we huma

Pumpkin Barley Dessert

Happy New Year folks! I have been so busy with business in between planning out stuff for this year that I've been quite guilty of not updating fast enough. Anyway, since this is the week before Chinese New Year, I'm going to be good and share some interesting dessert soup recipes. OK, onwards to this dessert made with two nourishing ingredients, pumpkin and barley. I had this as a drink recently when I was lunching with a good friend at a macrobiotic cafe. I enjoyed the taste very much and decided to replicate it at home. Pumpkin barley dessert - so nutritious and easy to make Pumpkin is one of my favourite vegetables but Nic doesn't like it much (especially cooked as a dish for dinner). But I do know that pumpkin is good for health and I try to incorporate it as much as I can into our food. Buying pumpkin whole is always better than buying halves but how else can you have pumpkin besides stir-fried with garlic? Hence this recipe! (Also I make pumpkin man