Blog on the Lillypad
Sunday, September 07, 2003
 | Gaaaagh! Hot! Hot! Hot!
According to Norman Walker, the late king of vegetable juicing who lived to be something like 104, horseradish juice is far too potent to drink. Therefore, it should be pulverized in a juicer, mixed with lemon,and taken one half teaspoon at a time, twice per day. Horseradish is good for those of us with allergies and sinus troubles. In Chinese medicine, horseradish gets stagnant qi to move, most often by causing it to hop up and down shouting in pain. So I figured I should try this simple recipe. I ran some peeled horseradish through my Champion Juicer with the seive set for pureeing. Aaaaagh! It never even came to a matter of tasting it. I never even got the lemon into it. Huge clouds of invisible mustard gas rose up from the juicer. I hads to run out of the kitchen, eyes streaming. I got most of it out into a jar and sealed it. But cleaning the juicer prompted another flight from the kitchen. Now the ordeal is over (except I cannot make myself open that jar to put the lemon in). The juicer is clean, the horesradish has been pureed, and my sinuses are absolutely clear! |
