Celi Diet: growing good food in subzero temperatures

Yes, yes I know what you are about to say.  Just last week I would not even admit that autumn/fall was on its way, let alone begin to talk about winter.  Now I am heralding  the plummet, discussing sub zero temperatures, when only yesterday I was talking about a gypsy summer. What is she like. I can hear you say. Yes I heard that too!

Well, I am distracted. I am writing you a wee story and it is not ready. So I am popping this wee very important post in between. I will send your story into your little boxes tomorrow. It is another one of those little memories. It has been shuffling about in the front of my brain, peering down into my eyes, lifting my eyelids with its naughty little fingers and getting in the way of my REAL writing: that embryo Book. So out it must come. You may all thank yourselves that I have begun my true writing of The Book, at last. It is because of the  constant washing in encouragement  from my blog family that I have taken that shuddery breath and  finally started the Real Work. 

So today we are going to look at one of the best winter vegetables that you can grow at home when it is howling with winter outside. Winter makes me shudder. I am not built for the cold. Not the cold that we face out here on the plains anyway.  In the winter I will be sending you photographs of Daisy with her eyelashes covered in sparkling ice. Blinking and clinking.

So to Beansprouts.  We can all grow them. Just get a lid with holes in it.  And a nice clean jar. Pour some organic dry sprouting beans  into the bottom of the jar, usually I use the blue Ball Jars but the beans do not photograph as well through the blue! I love to eat Mung Beans but almost any seed will sprout, just ensure that they are specifically packaged as food. Cover with water and leave overnight. Drain.

I sit my jar on the kitchen bench with a TeaTowel draped over it. Rinse the beans  two or three times a day, leaving them to drain upside down in between. No sitting them in standing water except for the first night.

You can start munching on them once they sprout. You choose how long you will let them grow. Then into the fridge.  Beansprouts are live food so eat them soonest rather than latest. I usually have two jars going in succession. Once they have sprouted they really need to be consumed or refrigerated soon after. 

Quite possibly the cleanest and best food you can eat.  They go with everything. Massively better for you than dried seeds. High in Vitamins C, K and Folate. Plus Protein and of course fiber.  On a personal note I would not buy sprouts in a supermarket. I grow them myself and  store them in the refrigerator for up to three days. It is safer.

See you tomorrow!

c