Cardoon wins ‘Best Mediterranean Restaurant on Long Island’ (Includes interview)

Cardoon bested some stiff competition from multiple deserving Mediterranean restaurants that are located in Nass…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanSeafood #bestoflongisland #Cardoon #grill #longisland #Mediterranean #restaurant #Seaford
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2242444/cardoon-wins-best-mediterranean-restaurant-on-long-island-includes-interview/

Cardoon wins ‘Best Mediterranean Restaurant on Long Island’ (Includes interview)

Cardoon bested some stiff competition from multiple deserving Mediterranean restaurants that are located in Nassau and Suffolk County. This marked Cardoon’s second “…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanSeafood #bestoflongisland #Cardoon #grill #longisland #Mediterranean #restaurant #Seaford
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2242444/cardoon-wins-best-mediterranean-restaurant-on-long-island-includes-interview/

Tonight is a lamb and cardoon tagine. I grew cardoon (related to artichoke but you use the stems) specifically to make this dish. Now just simmering it to reduce the liquid

#cooking #moroccan #tagine #lamb #cardoon

Starting today I'm swapping feverfew for a combination of cardoon leaf and ginger root extract - Integrative Therapeutics Motility Activator. The feverfew was for migraine; it was doing a reasonable job of reducing migraine attack frequency, severity, and duration.

However, I noticed a drop in mood and increase in constipation, the latter already being pretty bad. Parthenolide, one of the constituents of feverfew, is a serotonin antagonist.

Ginger is used for both migraine prevention and increasing upper GI motility.

Cardoon helps with lower GI motility, which is my main problem. I've tried homemade cardoon leaf tea and it does seem to get things going. Unfortunately my cardoon plant isn't doing too well - I can't seem to keep the aphids off of it. Using a supplement is more convenient; I don't think I could harvest enough from my cardoon plant anyway.

Here's hoping I can both reduce my migraines and constipation.

* Some sources seem to confuse artichoke with cardoon. Artichoke is Cynara scolymus; cardoon is Cynara cardunculus.

#NaturalProducts #migraine #constipation #Cardoon #Ginger