A brilliant article about the power of enzymes, which we mainly lose when cooking foods. This is my main reason for choosing a diet that is high in raw food. Great writing from the Dodhisattva, a blog bursting with incredible information and love. Peace and Happiness, leeX
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This will make a great cold/ raw soup. We’d be using soya yoghurt for this delicious sounding recipe. Yum!
“Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food.” Hippocrates
On warm days we crave for cool and refreshing dishes. Recipes that require minimum or no cooking to avoid heat in the kitchen seem most desirable. Salads, smoothies, cold soups, and sandwiches take center stage to make our lives a little easier.
One such recipe I enjoy a lot on warm days is cold yogurt soup. With possibility of several variations, it is always a welcome relief to beat the heat. It is simple and refreshing with no cooking at all which is an added bonus. Moreover, health benefits of yogurt makes it even more worthwhile. It’s good for digestion, and is a powerhouse of beneficial bacteria. But I say it is a do good friend, and I enjoy it everyday.
This soup is a healthy package of good ingredients served in a bowl. Creamy yogurt is mixed…
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This sounds like a really interesting combination. I am getting loads of inspiration from the brilliant Almost Raw Vegan blog for our raw June. Which starts tomorrow!
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Dear Spatula……My Favourite Cooking Utensil
I must stress, this is a post for cooks only. Non-cooks will find this kind of adoration for a utensil a little odd (if not worrying).
What a beauty!
If you cook, you will have your favourite kitchen tools. Like a good chisel to a joiner or a trusty trowel to a bricklayer, without them, our work would be tough; our craft difficult to form.
My all time favourite cooking tool is my trusty red spatula, without it, cooking would just not be the same. Of course, you need a decent set of pans and a sharp knife (maybe a little heat), but after that, this red spatula is king.
It is an unglamorous and underrated member of the utensil stand, but it is essential in so many ways. My red spatula is a silicon-like thing, bendy and yet resistant. Good for stirring, spreading and an amazing scraper (scrapping being one of the most important part of the cooking process), getting all those little bits from the sides and corners of your dishes and leaving them almost clean for the washing up.
It is also seemingly indestructible, an essential quality in any tool. I’ve left it near an open flame and stood on to no ill-effect. That is my kind of durability. I can see this love affair continuing for many years…..
What is your favourite cooking tool (you can’t say knife or pans)?
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Hello There Good Folk,
I was going to write a post about making paneer, but why bother when desi chick at kolpona cuisine has done such a grand job. Paneer is so expensive in the shops and yet so easy to whip up at home. It makes sense to get some muslin/ cheesecloth and have a go yourself. I will be making my favourite paneer curry soon, there are so many options. Thank you desi chick and happy cheese makingX
For quite a while now I’ve been wanting to make my own paneer instead of paying $6 for a 12 oz package at my local ethnic grocery store. So I decided I’d call a friend who’s really good at cooking all kinds of stuff and ask if she’s ever made paneer, no such luck. Next, I called my mom (Ma or Amma). She gave me some super vague directions, “get some milk and then curdle it.” Then this last Saturday as I was sitting through an annual volunteer training at the State Penitentiary (I volunteer regularly at the State women’s prison) and the facilitator mentioned that there was an outbreak of prisoners making their own cheese and then bartering it for other valuables. Whaaat? So, I asked the facilitator “how did the inmate make cheese without a heat source or acid?” (I wanted answers, dang it) ~ the answer? “you…
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GRAZE – Get free nuts
Do you like free nuts?
I’ve just ordered some on the GRAZE website (I know this sounds like some cheap marketing ploy. That’s because it is.).
You get to select from loads of interesting combinations of nuts, seeds, dried fruit, olives, foccacia(!) and they send you a box every week in the post.
I got my first box free and the next one half price. Hoorah!
It’s difficult to source mint infused raisins and vanilla coated sunflower seeds in these parts. They also seem to have a good project helping kids in Uganda and I get one pound off my next box if you order one. Clever people.
Just go to the site:
http://www.graze.com/p/NTKFCTC
and stick in this code if they ask you:
NTKFCTC
And have a good nibbleX
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