I’ve been so busy – not just with work – but with my new house guests. Making extra space, ensuring they are comfortable and well fed is lots of work! Problem is that they are multiplying faster than bunnies and becoming permanent fixtures.
It all started at the Four Fold Path to Healing Conference where at one of the lunches we had Kombucha Tea … not to be confused with the Japanese green pumpkin – kabocha. Kombucha tea is a fermented tea chock full of lively gut friendly bacteria and nutrients.
Wow! What zing! So refreshing!
It happened that my nutrition instructor, N, from Bauman was also attending and I remembered that she made her own Kombucha tea and frequently had extra mushrooms. So I arranged to pick up a ‘baby’ or two.
After getting very detailed instructions from N and reading Betsy Pryor’s book on Kombucha I was ready to grow my own tea. N gave me two mushrooms so I started with two batches. Now, each mushroom makes a baby that you can use to make additional batches. I figured, why not make a few more batches so two became four
…then… P got into the act and figured that we needed to have in production six batches to keep us going with a pint a day. Off P went to get two more bowls. On the way back from the store P thought, hey no we need eight batches. My god, at this rate, in a few weeks we’d have 64 bowls of Kombucha fermenting away in the house! We’d need to make more shelves and probably buy tea and sugar in bulk, cases of bowls? I felt like my head was spinning from some kind of Kombucha tea high… maybe too many toxins were being released in my body. Luckily, before things got too carried away I had a gooseberry moment and snapped back into reality.
“That’s it! we’re stopping at 6!” I declared. Turn’s out P’s calculations were a bit off but it was an honest mistake.
Starting today we now have a steady supply of K-Tea to keep us both detox’ing away.
I encourage you to try it out – there are a few bottled K-Teas out there – I’ve tried GT’s Kombucha (stocked near the Kefir at Berkeley Bowl) and it was quite good.
To your health, Cheers!:)
