(Self-care, Happiness, Inner peace, & your Time).
GAC – Gut Academy Community (December 2022). We explore Hygge, and make Christmas cake, Bliss Balls and festive Kimchi
Guaranteed to bring warmth and comfort into your life…Hygge
- Denmark has an international reputation for being one of the happiest nations in the world, and hygge is widely recognised to be the magic ingredient.
- It loosely translates as a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being.
- You know hygge when you feel it.
- It is when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends. Cake and a warm beverage displayed on an elegant but simple table setting with a lit candle.
- It is those crisp blue mornings when the light through your window is just right.
- It is about gratitude and savouring the simple pleasures in life.
- In short, it is the pursuit of everyday happiness.
- Hooga? Hhyooguh? Heurgh? It is not really important how you pronounce or even spell it.
- What is important is that you feel it…
hygge is about creating an atmosphere where you can let your guard down
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The Gut Academy Community will be making a quick Festive Kimchi, Christmas cake and yum balls.
Gifts are good things!
But, too much of anything isn’t good. Parents, think: Christmas toys.
A small amount of gift of fermentation with their sour flavour, incorporated into one’s menu helps you feel alive!
- Start with something easy to prepare and quick to ferment like medicine in a jar, tomato salsa or green papaw whilst waiting for the backbone of fermentation: Classic Kraut – cabbage massaged with Love, Himalayan salt and optional caraway / kelp and build from there.
- Milk kefir, Tibi, Kombucha are easy to add to your probiotic menu.
- Before long, you will have a collection of bottles in every room, the odd bubbling kraut crock or barrel and a kimchi fridge in your backyard and a zoo of microbial diversity fermenting away in your home.
- Once you learn how to combine fermented foods. Module 7 in our How to Ferment course.
- Like anything else – it takes many introductions to develop a taste for something new.
- We love that each time we make something fermented it comes out slightly different.
- The longer vegetables are allowed to ferment and the type of container used changes the end result – different flavour’s, textures and apparently optimized growth of probiotics.
HYGGE (Hoo-Gah)
As you embrace fermentation, internal “HYGGE” will be achieved!
- The history and practises of the Danish art of ‘hygge’ shouldn’t be lost on us.
- Through adopting hygge practices, the Danes bring happiness into their lives with comfort, cosiness, conviviality and contemplation.
- The concept of hygge has been embraced by several northern European countries
- Lagom in Sweden; koselig in Norway; gemütlichkeit in Germany; gezelig in Holland; còsagach in Scotland; cwtch in Wales.
Have fun experimenting, and enjoy the fruits of your fermenting fun with family and friends!
Light a candle and give thanks for life’s bounty.
Love & bacteria, Xo
