It’s official. I no longer like fried okra. When I was a kid, I used to eat fried okra like candy. But compared to the Indian way to cook okra, it just isn’t the same! I only wish I’d discovered it sooner! Last week, I bought two pounds of okra, but had run out of…
I saw a bean and corn salad at Costco, but it was WAY too expensive, and there were a few ingredients I didn’t agree with, so I decided to make my own. Cold veggie salads are always so easy and quick to put together. Here’s how I made mine! Ingredients: -2 cans organic black beans…
Soak 2-3 cups of sprouted mung beans in water while you start the broth. Don’t worry about the hulls. You can leave them in there. They get soft. I bought my mung beans from the bulk bean section at Whole Foods. In a 6 qt stock pot, ADD: -4 cups of organic chicken stock/broth -2…
Making my own butter has long been something I’ve wanted to do but never really got around to. Now that we are getting raw milk every week, I figured I had no more excuses not to! This was my first attempt at making raw butter, and it worked amazingly. I filled a pint mason jar…
Tonight’s dinner made me feel super Asian, like my ancestors were nodding in approval. I’ve been thinking about my dad lately, who is full Vietnamese, and I have this vague memory of my Grandmother Chau making phở when I was little. The combination of these thoughts made me crave some phở to bring back some…
For some reason, I’ve really been in the mood for a moist, gritty muffin. Maybe it’s the fall air that’s got me wanting comfort food, or maybe it’s because I haven’t had bread in so long, but by golly when I woke up this morning, I told myself I was making muffins! Now, I don’t…