{"id":2005,"date":"2020-12-03T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2020-12-03T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:38:11","slug":"winter-narratives-by-naresh-swami-palak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/winter-narratives-by-naresh-swami-palak\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Narratives by Naresh Swami &#8211; Palak."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Winter brings all sorts of fresh vegetables into the market. Cauliflower, cabbage, radish, carrot, many leafy vegetables etc., all from the farms of foothill Himalaya, hence organic (almost). I am fond of leafy vegetables, notably spinach (Palak).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palak can be consumed raw as well as cooked. In the raw state it is with almost 90% of water content, hence having it during long treks helps in not getting dehydrated (carrying water is heavier than carrying Palak!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On winter days, at least twice a week, our radio lingo communicates \u201cDouble P\u201d, our code for Palak-Paneer. The combination is full of iron, calcium, Vitamin K, protein etc., and keeps the body warm also. I love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"352\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PL1.jpg\" alt=\"Palak.\" class=\"wp-image-2006\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PL1.jpg 650w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PL1-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>Palak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"554\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PL2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2007\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PL2.jpg 554w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PL2-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><figcaption>Palak Paneer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Post 2 &#8211; 20\/Nov\/2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter brings all sorts of fresh vegetables into the market. Cauliflower, cabbage, radish, carrot, many leafy vegetables etc., all from the farms of foothill Himalaya, hence organic (almost). I am fond of leafy vegetables, notably spinach (Palak).&nbsp; Palak can be consumed raw as well as cooked. In the raw state it is with almost 90% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/winter-narratives-by-naresh-swami-palak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Narratives by Naresh Swami &#8211; Palak.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[499],"tags":[542,544,543,505,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}