I lived on rice porridge and onigiri with umeboshi when I was pregnant with twins years ago. The combination of rice, umeboshi, and seaweed in onigiri was one of the few foods I could reliably digest, so I ate them with the porridge almost every single day. It’s interesting that one child still adores those foods and asks for them whenever they don’t feel well or are feeling sad, but the other is not a fan of umeboshi or any type of seaweed.
The "Japanese food for when one is sick" is simple, easy on the stomach, and wonderful. That was a beautiful message you read for us. I am so glad that person has found a light at the end of the tunnel due to your inspiring videos. It is indeed a blessing to be able to help others. Keep the videos coming. You are a natural video artist. I really enjoy them and learn so much from you. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video. I have been terribly ill today and the only thing that didn't hurt to eat was this rice porrige. It's kept me hydrated and is super gentle on my stomach.
I’m getting a kick out of your “slurp alerts” 😂 Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what things taste like, like the fermented plum, but it’s all sounds like it tastes so good. I love the food my mom made me when I was sick too.
Good work! My childhood sick meal menu is Okayu with Umeboshi ( pickled plum), simmered cod (or other white meat fish), miso soup and grated apple. My grandmother sometimes gave me bite-sized soft bread in warm milk between meals.
Taiji: I was at a work training today and I had to rush home early, sick with food poisoning. I'm sitting on my couch watching your videos. This one was especially nice and salient. You have a new fan, and I've now subscribed. Cheers, kudos, and 加油！！
I cooked for a long time macrobiotic food, which came from Japan even to former Yugoslavia. I experienced unbelievable transformation not only health and physical appearance wise, but spiritual as well. Your cooking inspired me to go back to highly sophisticated yet simple cooking and food. I am so grateful for your channel. Michio Kushi spread the concept of organic, local and integral food that supporters our perfect health. I don’t know if he is still alive but I know that he had a Macrobiotic institute in Boston, precisely near Boston. For almost two decades North American experts in food are suggesting what healthy food is, but nobody is mentioning Michio Kushi, a pioneer of MB in N. America from whole all those ideas originated. He came here after the Second World War and I guess people were hesitant to acknowledge his contribution to nowadays healthy diet.
When we were kids and had colds or fever, my mom prepared rice porridge but with diced chicken. She would saute garlic, onions, ginger and later add the pieces of chicken and add some water to bring it to a boil. Then add half a cup of plain rice and half a cup of sticky rice. For taste you could add a teaspoon of fish sauce a lemon juice to taste. If you want it fancier, add some boiled eggs on tip, some fried garlic and cut up scallions and voila! Lynn Bergendahl from NYC
I watched this video as I’m home sick and fighting COVID. These recipes all sound perfect especially since I have no taste or smell. The rice porridge, scallion soup and ginger honey tea really appeal to me right now. Thank you 😊
Love this! I was recently super sick with a cold and this video came at the perfect time for me! I've been binging your channel and it's all been amazing, keep up the great work!!
Food is so powerful and a lot of health issue can be helped by eating healthy natural food. So thank you for giving us inspiration to try new healthy foods. I am happy to hear this person is doing better as well. Thank you for your vids Taiji. I hope you are doing well :)
There must be an universal truth to radishes with honey for colds. My grandma lives in rural germany and has a similar recipe🤭 I really enjoy your Videos🤗
Very interesting. In Spain rice porridge and grated apple is used when you have a loose stomach (with grilled chicken breast). Also, honey mixed with lemon or milk when you have a sore throat. I may try the scallion soup (it's a type of onion, and I don't like onion U_U, but I like the look of it).
I’m Filipino and my parents would make me rice porridge when I was sick as a kid but they would add sugar so it was sweet! That comment is so nice - how special! I’m new to your channel and I’ve been binging and having a blast! 🤩 So glad you started making videos!
Thank you for video ^^ in Russia i heard about another type of such honey food - honey with black radish, but i never tried it. It is so interesting that wordwide people have very similar recipes😊
The daikon radish, and the ginger honeys look amazing. I have never tried daikon radish but now I will have to, and make the ginger honey this winter. Ginger is very good for you.
Wow! I love your Japanese recipes and enjoy your cultural videos. This wellness video is actually essential knowledge for low energy days where mind and body need a soothing boost of nourishment. Thank you for sharing and celebrating your approach to embracing healthful and soulful nutrition. 🥰
Thank you for another wonderful video during fall & winter I make Ginger and daikon honey syrup and drink it regularly with lemon or shikuwasa next time gonna try scallion soup
As always it is an extreme comfort and joy to see what you will share with us next. Thank you so very much Taiji for your Beautiful recipes and pieces of your life. It really does make a difference. Namaste'
I’m a long time fan. Your videos have been amazing to watch back through over time and I really enjoy all the explanations and tid bits you give about Japanese culture. I’m currently making the rice porridge as I’m quite under the weather. I can’t wait to try this! Itadakimasu 👏🏻
I would think these foods would also be good for covid. And once you have the mindset that they are healing foods, they might work for any health issues to a greater or lesser degree. I find nourishing gentleness is key in so many issues including emotional ones. I, too, loved the the response of the viewer who received so much help from your instruction. People are often quick to criticize but slow to compliment. Gratitude is healing as well.
Thank you for sharing these skills, i look forward to raising my child with this for when she is not feeling well it looks so wholesome! This year we grew our first daikon radishes so im looking for different ways to use them!
You are so awesome!! Thanks for bringing childhood memories back to me. Best childhood friend's grandma made this and was the best. I am going to make all of these tonight!! Thank you 😊
Hello Taiji ☺️ Thank you for another wonderful video. The food seemed very soothing! In Portugal, we have a recipe similar to the one you did with daikon, except it's done with carrot, and it's a great cough syrup. 🌸🌲🌺
Thank for this video! Ironically, I'm feeling sick right now and these are some fantastic ideas! Even though I can buy apple sauce, nothing is beats homemade! That was a beautiful letter at the end! Food is medicine when you eat the right food. My diet is pretty limited and I've been trying to find inspiration and recipes from around the world to add to my repertoire of cooking. Thank you for all of your recipes and I look forward to seeing more of them.
Thanks for sharing the recipes with us. My Mom makes me the rice porridge whenever I’m not feeling well. She uses a little salt in hers when she makes it. It’s very soothing and it’s one of my favorite ways to eat rice when I’m under the weather. Today we are trying your spam musabi recipe I’ve never had it with the sugar and soy sauce however we put sugar and soy sauce in a small dish and use it to dip our omuchi in on New Years Day. Wishing you and your family happiness, great health and good fortune.
I’ve really been enjoying your videos! So far I have tried your okonomiyaki recipe and the cucumber salad from your cucumber side dish video. It was so good! I’m actually sick right now so I’m going to try this soup recipe tomorrow. Best wishes to you!
I’m not as sick as the infortunate people you quoted in this vidéo but I also have a stomack surgery 3 month ago. Something goes wrong and I was unable to eat and drink during weeks. I had to be food and hydrated by drip, my stomack completly block until an other surgery. During all this days in hospital, I was afraid to not be able to appreciate food someday. And then, I found your channel. Your videos motivated me I already love japanese food but I didn’t imagined It could be so simple to cook all this wonderfull dishes. And your enthousiasm, your care to share your cultur is so wonderfull. So thanks to you, I have stop mourning during this difficult days to focus on the futur and learn some new delicacy to cook to my family. Thanks a lot for your amazing videos ! (Sorry for my rusted english) Greetings from France
Bon jour e merci beaucoup pour le message! the rice porridge is also something we eat as the first meal to eat after fasting, but also for those recovering from surgery. i am sorry to hear that you have to have two surgeries, but glad that my videos could help you and give you inspiration to live and to focus on the future!!
@@taijiskitchen : thank you for your kind answer ! Yes, I though about rice porridge but for some weeks I had to stick only to liquid food. (So sad when I watch all your wonderfull recipes !) See you soon in another of your inspirating vidéo 😋
I saw Alpen Jodsalz and a Kuafland Jar and I was like...this seems very German :D Rice Porridge is really soothing but most times I just cook a very simple Miso Soup. It is just Soulfood.
You can put scallionss ingredients in your porridge instead to make soupe as well. Normally Ii add an egg into the porridge to get some protein as well.
thank you for this video, very interesting. I just have a question. You drink the radish+honey syroup, Once it is gone are you eating the radish? or once you drink all you just throw away it.
I do not know what Taiji is doing but I can tell you that I use black Spanish Radish to make the same honey syrup. I slice up the radish and add it to my salad. Or just chewing it away as snack. Black Spanish radish is more spicy, almost hot, daikon radish must have a much milder taste. Very suitable for adding to salads in small quantities.
no, don't throw away good food! I usually just eat it, kinda like a snack. or you could have it as a pickle, it kinda tastes similar, or as Stefi suggests, put it in other cooking, like salad or stir fry.
Hey Taiji ! At 1:58, you briefly show a screen about different rice porridges, can you tell me the book / website reference ? Looks like a great information source. Thank you :)
i made the chart myself, so there is no further information on this. but these are just the same except for the amount (ratio) of water to rice. if you are curious, try the different ration of water.
Just a question: if I don't have access to Dashi Powder for the soup, can I use miso? I know these are two different things, but I'm also vegetarian so I would like not to eat something such as dashi
@@taijiskitchen indeed! It relaxes the stomach lining and opens up our blood vessels! For that reason I also find it helpful for adjusting to high altitude
How d radish tastes with honey...sour ? Don't people use fat in ur culture when they r sick?In our culture ghee or butter is allowed while preparing khichdi(rice lentil mix) during sickness.
I’m Japanese-American. I made okayu for my American husband when he was sick and served it with umeboshi. To this day he claims I was trying to I kill him. And he loves pickles! (He also isn’t a fan of sushi 🤷🏻♀️)
I lived on rice porridge and onigiri with umeboshi when I was pregnant with twins years ago. The combination of rice, umeboshi, and seaweed in onigiri was one of the few foods I could reliably digest, so I ate them with the porridge almost every single day. It’s interesting that one child still adores those foods and asks for them whenever they don’t feel well or are feeling sad, but the other is not a fan of umeboshi or any type of seaweed.
The "Japanese food for when one is sick" is simple, easy on the stomach, and wonderful. That was a beautiful message you read for us. I am so glad that person has found a light at the end of the tunnel due to your inspiring videos. It is indeed a blessing to be able to help others. Keep the videos coming. You are a natural video artist. I really enjoy them and learn so much from you. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video. I have been terribly ill today and the only thing that didn't hurt to eat was this rice porrige. It's kept me hydrated and is super gentle on my stomach.
glad it was a perfect timing for you!
I am home with Covid. This is perfect timing. Thank you. I'm enjoying your culture so much. This really makes me want to move to Japan forever.
I also find Miso Soup to be very soothing when I don't feel well.
I was just thinking about when I made green onion soup with miso
I’m getting a kick out of your “slurp alerts” 😂
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what things taste like, like the fermented plum, but it’s all sounds like it tastes so good. I love the food my mom made me when I was sick too.
Good work! My childhood sick meal menu is Okayu with Umeboshi ( pickled plum), simmered cod (or other white meat fish), miso soup and grated apple. My grandmother sometimes gave me bite-sized soft bread in warm milk between meals.
Taiji: I was at a work training today and I had to rush home early, sick with food poisoning. I'm sitting on my couch watching your videos. This one was especially nice and salient. You have a new fan, and I've now subscribed. Cheers, kudos, and 加油！！
Thx for your work! Your channel is a great inspiration to make japanese food at home.
I cooked for a long time macrobiotic food, which came from Japan even to former Yugoslavia. I experienced unbelievable transformation not only health and physical appearance wise, but spiritual as well. Your cooking inspired me to go back to highly sophisticated yet simple cooking and food. I am so grateful for your channel. Michio Kushi spread the concept of organic, local and integral food that supporters our perfect health. I don’t know if he is still alive but I know that he had a Macrobiotic institute in Boston, precisely near Boston. For almost two decades North American experts in food are suggesting what healthy food is, but nobody is mentioning Michio Kushi, a pioneer of MB in N. America from whole all those ideas originated. He came here after the Second World War and I guess people were hesitant to acknowledge his contribution to nowadays healthy diet.
I am always so happy to learn things like this.
Thank you so very much for sharing it.
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Thank you for sharing!!!! 🤍😄🌺
When we were kids and had colds or fever, my mom prepared rice porridge but with diced chicken.
She would saute garlic, onions, ginger and later add the pieces of chicken and add some water to bring it to a boil. Then add half a cup of plain rice and half a cup of sticky rice. For taste you could add a teaspoon of fish sauce a lemon juice to taste.
If you want it fancier, add some boiled eggs on tip, some fried garlic and cut up scallions and voila!
Lynn Bergendahl from NYC
I watched this video as I’m home sick and fighting COVID. These recipes all sound perfect especially since I have no taste or smell. The rice porridge, scallion soup and ginger honey tea really appeal to me right now. Thank you 😊
Love this! I was recently super sick with a cold and this video came at the perfect time for me! I've been binging your channel and it's all been amazing, keep up the great work!!
Food is so powerful and a lot of health issue can be helped by eating healthy natural food. So thank you for giving us inspiration to try new healthy foods. I am happy to hear this person is doing better as well. Thank you for your vids Taiji. I hope you are doing well :)
There must be an universal truth to radishes with honey for colds. My grandma lives in rural germany and has a similar recipe🤭 I really enjoy your Videos🤗
Very interesting. In Spain rice porridge and grated apple is used when you have a loose stomach (with grilled chicken breast). Also, honey mixed with lemon or milk when you have a sore throat. I may try the scallion soup (it's a type of onion, and I don't like onion U_U, but I like the look of it).
Rice porridge and grated apple. My grandmother and mother ( in the Netherlands) made those when we were I’ll :) nice to see this
I’m Filipino and my parents would make me rice porridge when I was sick as a kid but they would add sugar so it was sweet! That comment is so nice - how special! I’m new to your channel and I’ve been binging and having a blast! 🤩 So glad you started making videos!
Some coconut 🥥 milk 🥛 cream would be nice in the rice 😋 Mmm with some cinnamon & cloves
Thank you for video ^^ in Russia i heard about another type of such honey food - honey with black radish, but i never tried it. It is so interesting that wordwide people have very similar recipes😊
The daikon radish, and the ginger honeys look amazing. I have never tried daikon radish but now I will have to, and make the ginger honey this winter. Ginger is very good for you.
When i was young we made rice porridge with cinnamon and sugar
It was very sweet and nice to eat when i was sick
Wow! I love your Japanese recipes and enjoy your cultural videos. This wellness video is actually essential knowledge for low energy days where mind and body need a soothing boost of nourishment. Thank you for sharing and celebrating your approach to embracing healthful and soulful nutrition. 🥰
Thank you for another wonderful video during fall & winter I make Ginger and daikon honey syrup and drink it regularly with lemon or shikuwasa next time gonna try scallion soup
Love this video! I have to try the scallion soup 👍
As always it is an extreme comfort and joy to see what you will share with us next. Thank you so very much Taiji for your Beautiful recipes and pieces of your life. It really does make a difference. Namaste'
I’m a long time fan. Your videos have been amazing to watch back through over time and I really enjoy all the explanations and tid bits you give about Japanese culture.
I’m currently making the rice porridge as I’m quite under the weather. I can’t wait to try this!
Itadakimasu 👏🏻
I really love your videos. Not only are you witty, but you are quite funny. Keep it up. Love all your recipes.
Awww Taiji dude you really do rock! Love your vids and well done on making someone’s life better. #feels
The scallions soup is nice with chicken wing tips and scrambled eggs put in slowly 😋my egg drop soup
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful healthy homemade recipes 😀 😊
Yes please doing videos!! 🌺
I would think these foods would also be good for covid. And once you have the mindset that they are healing foods, they might work for any health issues to a greater or lesser degree. I find nourishing gentleness is key in so many issues including emotional ones. I, too, loved the the response of the viewer who received so much help from your instruction. People are often quick to criticize but slow to compliment. Gratitude is healing as well.
Thanks for your no-fluff straightforward simple, yet nutritious recipes.
I hope you feel better soon! These all look very comforting. Thank you.
We make the rice dish in Bangladesh, sometimes we add few fenugreek seeds and ginger. Spring onion soup too.
thank you! great ideas
Thank you for sharing these skills, i look forward to raising my child with this for when she is not feeling well it looks so wholesome! This year we grew our first daikon radishes so im looking for different ways to use them!
You are so awesome!! Thanks for bringing childhood memories back to me. Best childhood friend's grandma made this and was the best. I am going to make all of these tonight!! Thank you 😊
Great appetite!
Hello Taiji ☺️
Thank you for another wonderful video. The food seemed very soothing! In Portugal, we have a recipe similar to the one you did with daikon, except it's done with carrot, and it's a great cough syrup. 🌸🌲🌺
with carrot sounds also good!
Thank for this video! Ironically, I'm feeling sick right now and these are some fantastic ideas! Even though I can buy apple sauce, nothing is beats homemade!
That was a beautiful letter at the end! Food is medicine when you eat the right food. My diet is pretty limited and I've been trying to find inspiration and recipes from around the world to add to my repertoire of cooking. Thank you for all of your recipes and I look forward to seeing more of them.
Thanks for sharing the recipes with us. My Mom makes me the rice porridge whenever I’m not feeling well. She uses a little salt in hers when she makes it. It’s very soothing and it’s one of my favorite ways to eat rice when I’m under the weather. Today we are trying your spam musabi recipe I’ve never had it with the sugar and soy sauce however we put sugar and soy sauce in a small dish and use it to dip our omuchi in on New Years Day. Wishing you and your family happiness, great health and good fortune.
I’ve really been enjoying your videos! So far I have tried your okonomiyaki recipe and the cucumber salad from your cucumber side dish video. It was so good! I’m actually sick right now so I’m going to try this soup recipe tomorrow. Best wishes to you!
I’m not as sick as the infortunate people you quoted in this vidéo but I also have a stomack surgery 3 month ago. Something goes wrong and I was unable to eat and drink during weeks. I had to be food and hydrated by drip, my stomack completly block until an other surgery.
During all this days in hospital, I was afraid to not be able to appreciate food someday.
And then, I found your channel.
Your videos motivated me
I already love japanese food but I didn’t imagined It could be so simple to cook all this wonderfull dishes.
And your enthousiasm, your care to share your cultur is so wonderfull.
So thanks to you, I have stop mourning during this difficult days to focus on the futur and learn some new delicacy to cook to my family.
Thanks a lot for your amazing videos !
(Sorry for my rusted english)
Greetings from France
Bon jour e merci beaucoup pour le message!
the rice porridge is also something we eat as the first meal to eat after fasting, but also for those recovering from surgery.
i am sorry to hear that you have to have two surgeries, but glad that my videos could help you and give you inspiration to live and to focus on the future!!
@@taijiskitchen : thank you for your kind answer !
Yes, I though about rice porridge but for some weeks I had to stick only to liquid food. (So sad when I watch all your wonderfull recipes !)
See you soon in another of your inspirating vidéo 😋
I know this recipe will work wonders, thanks a lot!
Super!
Thnx
very nice
I saw Alpen Jodsalz and a Kuafland Jar and I was like...this seems very German :D
Rice Porridge is really soothing but most times I just cook a very simple Miso Soup. It is just Soulfood.
Remedy Food. Very interesting name
That's exactly how I core an apple too, funny how something like that can be so universal. (For reference I'm in the USA)
You can put scallionss ingredients in your porridge instead to make soupe as well. Normally Ii add an egg into the porridge to get some protein as well.
Wow really love this....
Great Topic😀
Please tell me what type of rice you use for the soup. A small tip for the apples. To avoid them going brown you can rub their surface with lemon.
Thank you, so our rice porridge version (Filipino) has chicken and hard boiled egg yummm
Thanks for this video
In France, we use honey and lemon zest in hot water or just honey and hot milk to ease painfull throat.
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No need to apologise for the slurping, I would be slurping loudly too!
thank you for this video, very interesting. I just have a question. You drink the radish+honey syroup, Once it is gone are you eating the radish? or once you drink all you just throw away it.
I do not know what Taiji is doing but I can tell you that I use black Spanish Radish to make the same honey syrup. I slice up the radish and add it to my salad. Or just chewing it away as snack. Black Spanish radish is more spicy, almost hot, daikon radish must have a much milder taste. Very suitable for adding to salads in small quantities.
no, don't throw away good food!
I usually just eat it, kinda like a snack. or you could have it as a pickle, it kinda tastes similar, or as Stefi suggests, put it in other cooking, like salad or stir fry.
Hey Taiji ! At 1:58, you briefly show a screen about different rice porridges, can you tell me the book / website reference ? Looks like a great information source. Thank you :)
i made the chart myself, so there is no further information on this. but these are just the same except for the amount (ratio) of water to rice. if you are curious, try the different ration of water.
I sure got have used this menu for colds. This is the 3rd weekend of August 2022. Thank you. Can these recipes be consumed as a preventive measure?
all but porridge can be used as preventive, yes.
@@taijiskitchen the porridge is good food anytime! 😃
Can you make the rice porridge with basmati rice? I tend to have that on hand. If so, what ratio and cooking time would you use?
One question, what does spring onion soup help for sickness ??
Just a question: if I don't have access to Dashi Powder for the soup, can I use miso? I know these are two different things, but I'm also vegetarian so I would like not to eat something such as dashi
Ginger tea is amazing for menstrual pain as well
oh, really? that I didn't know, thanx!
@@taijiskitchen indeed! It relaxes the stomach lining and opens up our blood vessels! For that reason I also find it helpful for adjusting to high altitude
Does the ginger honey need to be refrigerated? Or is it ok to leave it in room temperature?
not it doesn't!
How d radish tastes with honey...sour ? Don't people use fat in ur culture when they r sick?In our culture ghee or butter is allowed while preparing khichdi(rice lentil mix) during sickness.
as much as I know, fat is a substance that is harder to digest, thus not suitable for when you are sick. so we try to avoid fat/oil in the cooking.
I’m Japanese-American. I made okayu for my American husband when he was sick and served it with umeboshi. To this day he claims I was trying to I kill him. And he loves pickles! (He also isn’t a fan of sushi 🤷🏻♀️)
😂🤣💥❤️
The grunt after every bite of food is a bit much.
sorry~
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(I love ❤️ the chef prep 😀!) Love the channel, keep it going. Please 🙏 🙂
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