Mint & Basil from Garden TodayWhen our friend from India was here last week he told us a story about an Indian doctor in Illinois who seeing the good health of cows in India decided to be like them and only eat leaves. Now there are lots of green leaf good foods but that seemed to be going to an extreme.
I thought of this story tonight as I was picking mint and basil leaves from the garden today. They are both healthy food but rather than eat them directly I clean, take off the stems and dehydrate them. They add spice to salads and cooking and the mint makes good tea. The raw basil can be made into pesto, if need be, by my wife. Mint is used a lot in Middle Eastern dishes. But eating these leaves directly is another story.
Thinking about it and looking around the gardens green leaves dominate on tomato, bean, cucumber, zucchini, lettuce, eggplant and other plants. Maybe the Doctor is only eating plants that have green leaves. That is not too hard to believe. However, I am sure our friend meant that his doctor friend only eats green leaves. I believe in going green but not that green.
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Rev.Br.Antony Simon.S.J — 20 July 2011, 12:35
When we go to the garden we see different types of plants Almost all the plants have green leaves. that does not mean that you can eat all. In India green leaves means, we call it in Tamil longuage keerai which is short smooth and tender which will have tasty. we add salt condiments and we boil it and then only we eat. That is called greens. which healthy and nutritious. Not all the plant which look green.
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