Ginger and Lemon

A friend shared this ginger and lemon paste that keep him and family away from doctor. I was curious and asked him how he make the paste. After trying this home remedy,  find it is good for me. The ginger help me to clear the wind from the stomach and at the same source of vitamin C. Daughter likes it too. Ever since I learnt this new remedy, daughter and I have been drinking ginger and lemon water daily. Sometimes we add honey into the drink but most of the time we drink it without honey. Thanks to this brother who shared his home remedy that all can benefit from it. 

Few months ago we were away for family trip. 2 days after we touched down, 3 out of 4 in the family were down with sore throat  and unwell. As you know when we are in unfamiliar place or oversea, it is not easy to find clinic to visit doctor. Instead of looking for clinic, we went to the nearby supermarket and grap lemon and honey and ginger back to our apartment.  There was no blender at the apartment. Still we can have ginger lemon honey drink. We sliced the ginger and lemon and place them into  cups  and pour boiling hot water into the cups then add the local honey and drink. We recovered from sore throat within 1 or 2 days without medication. So throughout the trips we continue to buy lemon and ginger whenever we go supermarket and drink ginger lemon water.😊

Ingredients:

Old ginger about 3 fingers size (appr 100g-120g)

1 lemon

1/4 cup cold water

Method:

1. Wash the ginger and lemon. I scrub the surface of lemon with salt, rinsed, and soak with vinger added with water for 10mins. 

2. Slice ginger and lemon to small pieces and place into a blender. Add cold water. Blend until it become a soft paste. 

3. Store into a cleaned dry container and keep in fridge for use. 

4. Each time use a clean and dry spoon to scoop a spoon and add with warm water and drink. It is a good source of vitamin C and ginger help to remove wind from stomach. You may add some honey if you like it sweet. I drink just as it is. 

Enjoy!😊

Honey Lemon

By chance saw a blog which is in chinese some days ago. The blogger use lemon soak in honey. It inspired me to do the same as I want to know how would it taste like? I had tried squeezed lemon juice added into honey drink. I wonder what is the different?  Out of curiosity, since I have one lemon left I in my fridge, decided to make this sliced lemon soak in honey. After 2 days which is today...I can't wait to try. Past 2 days when I opened the fridge and saw the bottle of lemon soak in honey, I have the "prompting" wanted to "steal" some slices of lemon to eat. Which i did!  :)

Wow! It is very refreshing to eat the honey soaked lemon as its own. I eat like tidbits..haha. The honey after soak with lemon has become more watery because of the lemon juice. I use about a spoon of this honey and added into water..Wow! Nice! 

So this is another new way of eating the entire lemon with skin. After soaking, the whole lemon taste like those tidbits sold in tidbits shop. It is less sour with honey sweetness. Very nice.

This is the simple step to make this honey lemon:

Ingredients:

2 Lemons

Honey

Some salt (for washing lemon)

Other Required Things:

2 glass bottles with lid that can be tighten

A knife(must be sharp)

A chopping board

A clean spoon

A pair of chop sticks

Method:

1. Use the salt to rub the skin of lemon and wash with water thoroughly. This is to remove  the chemical on the lemon skin. 

2. Dry the lemons with a paper towel. Place it on the chopping board. Use the sharp knife to slice the lemon into thin pieces. 

3. In the cleaned bottle, put a spoon of honey. Then placr a slice of lemon into the bottle. Then spread another spoon of honey on top of lemon. Repeat this until you finish all the lemon slices. Make sure every slice of lemon is covered with honey. Honey need to cover the lemon.

4. Close the bottle with the lid. Tighten. Leave in the chiller for 2 days. 

Serve.