Kanten…so many reasons I love it:
it’s a naturally ZERO calorie food. That’s right. I said, ZERO!
it’s filling and yet not wiggly-jiggly (unlike gelatin);
even the laziest prep yields yummilicious results; and
I grew up eating it!
Below is a picture of agar agar in stick form.
At any Asian market you can find premixed packets of almond kanten for [...]
Cream puffs = fabulousness. And now, I know that they can also be easy, as in, E-Z. My mother made them, after being inspired by the $1.75 cream puffs at at Osaka-based Beard Papa’s in Aberdeen Centre. (And frankly, hers were better than those pros!!!) This post content comes by way of my mother. If [...]
Sssssh. I have a secret. Dessert can be nutritious. And, in the old countries, it frequently is. Recipes for yōkan, burfi, and halva routinely use beans, sesame seeds, and even carrots to establish foundations for sweets. They are dense dessert formats, just like fudge.
And what if such a dessert were to be made of chickpeas? [...]
Maybe I shouldn’t even tell you about this. When I served this, I saw my friends taking seconds and THIRDS. No lie!
The major work of this consists of the chopping, chopping, chopping. And removing the pith and peel from the oranges takes quite a while. Or maybe I’m just slow with the motor skills. And [...]
People love this salad. It’s my third grandma’s. Red-headed woman from Nebraska. Force of nature. And cook extraordinaire. Here’s my rendition.
My Third Grandma’s Cranberry Salad
1 bag of fresh cranberries;
1 cup of chopped walnuts;
3 organic navel oranges, sectioned and chopped broadly after removing pith and skin – save the skin for zest*;
3 Granny Smith or other [...]
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