Parsnips help you get centered. Parsnips, which grow vertically under the ground, are another root vegetable from the most yang category of vegetables. In addition to a regular basic macrobiotic diet, they are included in the restricted list of vegetables for a macrobiotic centering diet. And they are delicious.
You can cook them like you would a carrot, or whip them up into a light and fluffy puree. And then there's my favorite, the parsnip chip. Julia Ferre has a good recipe for cooking baked parsnip chips in her cookbook, Basic Macrobiotic Cooking.
The first time I ever tasted a parsnip chip was in a bag of TERRA's Original Exotic Vegetable Chips from the grocery store. They taste lighter and more delicate than a potato chip, I think.
I like to cut parsnips up real small and cook them nitsuke style. And it's nice to know that I won't ever suffer from deprivation of tasty, delicious foods even when I'm on a centering diet!
Notes:
• TERRA's Exotic Vegetable Chips has an interesting web site, especially the page about how the company got started ("Our History").
• You can get Basic Macrobiotic Cooking by Julia Ferre from the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation's web site.
Related articles:
What Is The Macrobiotic Centering Diet?
Vegetables For Centering
My Notes Of The Macrobiotic Centering Diet
