Recipes

For the second edition of “Food That Makes America great,” I bring to you a well-known classic but of a lesser-hailed and lesser-known immigrant group.  While at least one restaurant in most American towns serves some version of Japanese miso soup, it’s often overlooked and misunderstood: The Jan Brady of soups. And, while most of us have visited that local Japanese or Asian-themed restaurant and eaten miso soup prior to a meal of sushi, most of us have not thought to create this unpolished gem for our own dinner table.  I tell you Hengies, you are missing out. Homemade miso...

Why is it that we only eat cranberry sauce once a year for Thanksgiving? It's such a vibrant, versatile, and beautiful sauce or condiment or topping! Last week I concocted a large batch of Cranberry Sauce With Asian Pears & Orange Zest for my friend Jazmin's Thanksgiving dinner and have been eating leftovers on top of yogurt, mixed into overnight oats, and added to sandwiches. My cranberry

This is a quick and easy Thai peanut sauce recipe is made with creamy peanut butter, chili-garlic sauce and lots of seasonings. Ready in 5 minutes. Great as a dipping sauce, drizzling sauce, or for hot and spicy meals. I was invited to a gathering recently and it was requested that I bring some type […] The post Easy Thai Peanut Sauce appeared first on Chili Pepper Madness.

If you ever find yourself in Bali and you can only do one thing, make it a Balinese cooking class. My recommendation? Paon Bali Cooking Class is hosted by Puspa, one of the most charming and satirical people on the planet. Puspa and her family made the experience even better than I anticipated. During our class we made several traditional Balinese dishes, all of which were absolutely delicious. We were also taught the Balinese cooking methods to creating these dishes. To cook the fish we wrapped them in banana leaves and steamed them in a basket; to create the sauces...

I’ve made 500 posts here (counting this one), through thick and through thin.  My diet went from general (but mostly whole foods), through mostly Paleo / Weston-Price, through needing MORE fiber in my life (more legumes and grains/pseudograins), to retirement and moving north, adding in homesteading posts, to what I’ll call a Paleo-Influenced food plan.  And suddenly less healthy, higher glycemic carbs, which are influencing my bathroom scale, often due to racing back and forth to the old home to get it sold.  Even so, along the way, I’ve happily avoided margarine, TVP, “vegetable” oil. and standard deli meats  (okay,...