Watch Don prepare the Summer Eight Treasures Congee recipe in the video below. Despite being over 105 degrees and muggy in the desert southwest right now, this congee is providing the perfect fuel without creating excess internal heat. The Summer Eight Treasures Congee, shown above, is the perfect blend of ingredients. There is a Summer Eight Treasures Congee, and a recipe that would be used during the other seasons. The Eight Treasures Congee consists of a variety of grains, beans, nuts and seeds, along with some other ingredients chosen for the therapeutic qualities, depending on the season the congee is being consumed, or the conditions being treated. We add a delicious brown rock sugar at the end~rich with minerals and a molasses taste~along with ground black sesame seeds and a few dry roasted peanuts tops it off. Assembling our Eight Treasures Summer Congee ingredients The congee includes brown rice, yi yi ren or Chinese barley (you can use pearl barley), lotus root seeds, goji berries, mung beans, adzuki or other small black turtle beans or black soy beans, and jujube’s or Chinese dates~Eight Treasures. We’ve been making the Eight Treasures Congee every morning, having tofu with 5-6 veggies and some brown rice for lunch, and a starchy meal of noodles, Don’s whole grain steamed buns, or steamed corn and potatoes for dinner. So we decided to try their routine on for size. Nice routine, eh? Who wouldn’t love to have hours to train or practice anything you love, including getting in the best shape, EVER?! At 5:30 p.m., noodles are served for dinner, with bread - the breads we eat are black or yellow wheat 6:30 p.m., Heart Sutra chanting for one hour - we call the heart the center of the Universe 8 p.m., quiet time for meditation 10 p.m., bedtime. There is no chanting before dinner out of respect for the dead. At approximately 3:00 p.m., another two-hour kung fu practice session begins.
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During this time the monks may meditate, relax or nap. Now it is back to chanting, then comes a two-hour break. We do not drink tea or liquids with our meals to aid in easy digestion. breakfast, which consists of a soup made of beans called eight treasures then more chanting and a half-hour break, followed by two hours of kung fu training… After practice, more chanting until at 11:30 a.m., lunchtime, which consists of five to six different vegetables, tofu and rice. Here is a bit more detail from an interview taken by Stacey Nemour of the Huffington Post with 21 year old Sifu Wang Bo, who entered the Shaolin monastery at age 11:īo: A typical daily schedule, including the vegetarian diet served at each meal, is up at 5:30 a.m., chanting 6 a.m. In a nutshell, they are up early chanting, they eat three set meals, they train hard, and end their day with more chanting. So how do they do it? How do they eat? What are their daily routines? Serve hot.The Shaolin monks have amazing integration of strength, flexibility, coordination, agility, speed, power, and focus. Add rock sugar and cook until the sugar is dissolved. Cook on stove until the yam is softened, about 20 minutes.
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Remember to put on a pair of gloves as its sticky juice might cause skin allergy.
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