Prepare rice, cottage cheese enriched with horseradish, and a salad of four or five different fresh vegetables, not forgetting to season with a little garlic in order to benefit from its healing properties. In springtime you can replace the garlic with fresh ramsons (bear’s garlic). If you do not like the strong aftertaste or smell of garlic, be assured that this can usually be eliminated by eating parsley afterwards.

If you think up different ways of serving rice, it will not become tiresome. For example, it is possible to prepare tasty vegetable rice dishes, as they do in the Far East. This idea has endless possibilities, such as rice with courgettes, with tomatoes, with mushrooms, with aubergines, with chillies and with soybean sprouts. To all these dishes add creamed curds or cottage cheese with herbs, and don’t forget the salad.

For the sake of variety we may want to prepare a sweet rice dish with grapes and almonds, and eat this with a fresh fruit compote. Finish off the meal with Bambu Coffee and cream.

The rice should be cooked so that the grains do not stick together. If you overcook rice it will lose its tastiness and become starchy. It is true, the Japanese usually prepare it that way deliberately, but the Chinese take care to keep the grains separate. To enhance the flavour of a rice dish sprinkle it with finely chopped parsley and a little grated cheese and brown in the oven. This will make a welcome change.

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