Well I have just spent an entire three day weekend putting together a SCD Thanksgiving Menu. Of course, I cooked it and my family and I had Thanksgiving when it apparently was originally celebrated, in the first week of September. Even though here in Australia we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, due to us being upside down with the seasons. So for us this would make the perfect Christmas Menu.

It wasn’t that hard finding a turkey, but what was hard was finding one which hadn’t been ‘flavor enhanced’. Some turkeys it seems have all sorts of flavor enhancer added, so it is wise to check the label before buying. I bought a four kilo turkey which was meant to feed 12 people. There was only four of us so the rest became sandwich meat for the rest of the week.

My challenge was to create a stuffing which could equal ‘normal’ stuffing made with bread and thanks to the SCD community I was able to make, what I think is the worlds best turkey stuffing.

The turkey is kept in brine for at least 10 hours. I just put it in the vegetable tray from the bottom of the fridge and filled that with the brine. The brine is made from some of my favorite spices. Let me tell you now, that the turkey was spectacular. It was juicy and had that crispy, spicy, sweet and salty taste that makes me wish we had Thanksgiving more than once a year. I might try it on chicken one day.

The lime bean mash is fabulous and my dad thought it was mashed potato, “the best I’ve ever had”. We didn’t correct him.

Leeks and prunes ‘wow’ that was really yummy, and after a big meal those prunes come in quite handy.

This was also the first time I used coconut flour to thicken gravy, and I must say it turned out fantastic. The juices from the turkey were so tasty and the coconut flour thickened it just the right amount.

For the glazed carrots, I bought the baby ones that come with the greenery still attached. They looked so beautiful and were extremely lovely to eat.

The Cranberry and Orange chutney is a must for turkey and luckily I made enough for the weeks sandwiches.

The piece de resistance, of course, was the pumpkin pie. Truly a rich desert, which we ate for breakfast the next day as well. The crust stayed nice and crispy on the top edges and even though the bottom became soft, it tasted perfect with the sweet pumpkin filling. We had it with SCD French Cream and dad though that it was carrot cake, “the best I’ve ever had”. We didn’t correct him, of course!

Download the SCD Thanksgiving Menu

Hering’s Law of Cure

Constantine Hering, M.D. (1800-1880) observed that healing occurs in a consistent pattern. He described this pattern in the form of three basic laws which homeopaths can use to recognize that healing is occurring. This pattern has been recognized by acupuncturists for hundreds of years and is also used by practitioners of herbalism and other healing disciplines.

1. According to the first of Hering’s laws, healing progresses from the deepest part of the organism - the mental and emotional levels and the vital organs - to the external parts, such as skin and extremities.
2. Hering’s second law states that, as healing progresses, symptoms appear and disappear in the reverse of their original chronological order of appearance. Homeopaths have consistently observed that their patients re-experience symptoms from past conditions.
3. According to Hering’s third law, healing progresses from the upper to the lower parts of the body. For instance, a person is considered to be on the mend if the arthritic pain in his neck has decreased although he now has pain in his finger joints.

As the symptoms change in accordance with Hering’s Law, it is common for individual symptoms to become worse than they had been before treatment. If healing is truly in progress, the patient feels stronger and generally better in spite of the aggravation. Before long, the symptoms of the aggravation pass, and leave the person healthier on all levels.

Sadly, most conventional medical doctors treat each symptom as a unique and unconnected phenomenon. A person’s skin rash generally would be treated with cortisone, thus suppressing it,and, possibly, reactivating the person’s asthma. The mentally ill person’s new physical symptom is also suppressed, leading to a relapse of the mental illness.

Sandra Ramacher