Best Self Magazine

Recipe: Indian Spiced Oyster & Shiitake Mushrooms Roasted in Coconut Milk (Plus A Few Tips for Foraging For Good Health)

Indian Spiced Oysters and Shiitakes Roasted in Coconut Milk, by Christine Moss. Photograph of recipe by Christine Moss
All photographs by Christine Moss

Chef Moss muses about spring’s awakenings, the onset of mushroom foraging — and some inspiration for making healthy choices

With the change of seasons, in this push-pull tango of warm and cold weather, it is important to keep our bodies and minds strong. When using food as medicine — the approach, the intention to heal and maintain health — is just as

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Best Self Magazine

Best Self Magazine3 min readCrime & Violence
An Invitation to Peace
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes — We live in a world where war coverage is live, social media keyboard warriors are loud and fierce, and racism and “anti-thisism” and “anti-thatism” ring loudly in our ears. Every day, we are bombarded with negativ
Best Self Magazine4 min read
When a Pregnancy Follows a Loss
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — She was a beautiful baby, with long black eyelashes and big dark lips. I will never know the sound of her coo or the color of her eyes. They never opened. My first child was born dead. Stillborn. She moved and gre
Best Self Magazine7 min read
How I Left: Reflections on My Journey into Marriage…and Out
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — My grandmother was fourteen when a man in her Southern Italian village asked to marry her. He was twenty-eight, a stranger to Gramma. She said, No! But her mother told her, “Marry him. He’ll take you to America.”

Related Books & Audiobooks