Greeting, Eric Bakker, thanks for coming back.
I just did a video on a candida cleanse broth, now were gonna talk about a candida cleanse
salad, which is especially relevant for me, living in the Southern Hemisphere now, because
we've got summertime coming up, and you poor guys up in the Northern Hemisphere got wintertime
coming up.
This is a good salad, especially for the warmer, the hotter climate weather.
You can eat this salad in wintertime, but I think it's best to eat it when the weather
is a little bit warmer.
Many people eat salads though, all year round.
Let's talk about some of the ingredients for this salad.
I tend to grow all of these ingredients myself in the garden, so that makes it super tasty.
If you've got space, try and grow some of your own stuff.
We made a really nice stir fry the other evening and my wife was just telling me how wonderful
tasty the stir fry was.
That's because of the bok choi, the Chinese vegetables, and the spring onions, and the
celery, everything cam fresh out of the garden.
The flavor is really, really good, which means that you can enjoy eating that quite a lot.
You've got a lot of good nutrients straight out of that soil that go into your tummy.
If you have space, of course it's wintertime now, you won't be able to grow much, but if
your gonna grow stuff in winter you can even get a glass house like some people do.
And you know you can sometimes grow stuff all year round.
What are we gonna put in this salad?
I love salads.
I don't know about you people, but in summertime I tend to make up anything like 10 different
types of salads and we just keep rotating them, and have two or three salads in one
day, little bit of this and a little bit of that.
It's nice when you've got all those colors and flavors on your plate.
Cucumber, tomato, olives, some people don't like olives, I love olives.
Especially the black Kalamata olives.
Goat's feta.
Feta cheese, it's a goat.
They tend to be a little bit saltier sometimes, than the cow feta cheese, but I find feta
and olive, and tomato, and cucumber, are a marriage.
They go together so perfectly.
Get a big red onion, chop that up, put that through it.
All these things you wanna cut into about the same size and mix them all together.
To really give zing to this salad, we're gonna add some fresh thyme leaves, or some oregano
or basil leaves.
Parsley's also good to add to this.
You need one or two, preferably two, leafy kind of herbaceous herbs to put in there.
These are anti-fungal, and it works quite well.
Or, you can do what I do, is grow these herbs in summertime, and then just get jars, two
or three different jars, and you can experiment.
You can get a really good apple cider vinegar, or balsamic vinegar, but apply cider's better.
Just pour.
Say you've got a cupful in each jar, and then each jar you're gonna stuff a different herb
in.
Thyme, Basil, Oregano, French tarragon, for example, and then you end up with all these
wonderful colors.
If you do chives, like a chive flower, in a white vinegar, you get a bright purple vinegar.
It's beautiful.
I've experimented and I've got end up with all these different colored vinegars.
It's quite tasty.
You're gonna extract a lot of goodness from herbs into solvents like vinegar or olive
oil.
Again, you need to experiment to see what tastes good, and what looks good for you.
But the best herbs for candida kind of salads in my opinion, would be oregano, would be
thyme, would be rosemary, and basil.
Those four are very, very good.
Parsley's a very good cleansing herb as well.
Now, to make this super effective, this salad, we need to make a salad dressing.
Don't use miracle whip or go down to the shop and buy that crap like Paul Newman's junk
in those bottles.
It's all crap.
Don't drink that kind of stuff, it's junk.
Not good.
How do you make a salad dressing?
Well, I knew you were gonna ask me that question, so I've thought I better answer for you.
How you make it, or how I make it anyway, I always start with lemon juice.
I'll juice one big lemon.
Again, I've experimented.
I prefer 50% lemon juice, 50% lime juice, and in my asian dishes I have much more lime
in there with chili.
I find that a great combination.
Lemon and lime go very well together.
They give it just that little twist.
I end up with a fair amount of lemon juice, and I'll mix equal parts extra virgin olive
oil.
Buy a good oil.
Don't get the crappy ones, they're not good, you know.
'Extra Lite' and junk like this, I mean come on?
That's like going to the $2.00 shoe barn and getting a pair of shoes for five bucks, you
know?
Don't do it.
When I have olive oil, I've got a big bottle for cooking, and that's a little bit cheaper
than the more expensive noes that I use for the salad dressings.
The salad dressings, I use good quality oil.
Avocado oil, walnut oil, extra virgin olive oil, first press.
We're lucky in this region because they grow olives here, so we know people who grow olives
and when they crush them into big ... we put a big press in this village, actually called
the Village Press, isn't it funny?
It actually crush the olives, and the smell and taste of that olive oil that comes off
the press is amazing.
When you mix really nice olive oil with lemon juice and lime juice, you get a couple little
bits of garlic, cloves of garlic, mince them, but that all through the broth, and then ... this
is the secret, okay?
Get some oregano oil.
A good one to get, Oil of Oregano, okay?
This one here.
I like this company.
North American Herb and Spice.
Oil of Oregano.
Now we're only going to put two or three drops of that into the lemon juice and the olive
oil mix in the salad dressing, mix it all up.
Now that's a food-grade oregano.
This North American Herb and Spice, and this gets grown in the higher regions of Italy.
It tends to be more medicinal than the one you're going to probably grow in your garden.
You only need a few drops, one or two drops, put that in with your salad dressing, mix
it all up.
Throw that liquid stuff on top of your salad and mix it all through.
I use my hands, just mix it all through.
You wait until you taste that, it's fantastic.
That's a really nice salad to have as a side.
If you're gonna have maybe some lentils or some beans or a piece of meat, whatever you
eat, it's really, really tasty and you'll enjoy that.
It's a very good anti-candida salad.
Give it a try.
Thanks for tuning in.