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Frogboots' Nepalese Curry Soup

5 cups butternut squash, peeled and chopped
2 tbsps canola oil
1 large onion, chopped
6 large cloves garlic, chopped
2 tbsps fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
2 cups fresh broccoli (stems peeled & chopped, florets chopped)
2 – 3 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped into ½” cubes
2 medium carrots, chopped
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 cup peas (fresh or frozen)
1 tsp seasoned salt
2 tsps ground coriander
2 tsps ground cumin
1 tsp ground cardamom
Cayenne to taste

1.Bring 5 cups water to boil, dissolve 2 cubes vegetable broth, and cook squash, garlic and ginger until squash is soft, 15 – 20 mins.

2.Purée squash with broth in a blender or food processor, and return to soup pot.


3.Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. Sauté onion, broccoli stems, potatoes and carrots until tender, about 5 minutes.

4.Add the sautéed vegetables to the soup pot, along with 2 more cups of vegetable broth, tomatoes, peas, salt, coriander, cumin, cardamom and cayenne.


5.Bring the soup to simmer, cook about 20 mins, stirring occasionally. Add broccoli florets, stir, and turn off heat. Add seasoning to taste, if desired.

PRAIRIE BREAD


(Frogboots' recipe for use with Zojirushi bread machine)

Liquid ingredients:
1 3/4 cups + 2 tbsp water
2 tbsp canola oil (can use butter)

Dry ingredients:
3 ¼ cups organic bread flour
¾ cup organic whole-wheat flour
4 tbsp Vital Wheat Gluten
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. dry whole milk
2 tbsp. each rolled oats, wheat germ, chopped pumpkin and sunflower seeds, sesame & poppy seeds, ground flaxseed, mixed together
1 tbsp organic corn meal
1 ½ tsp sea salt

2 ½ tsp Active Dry Yeast


1.Remove baking pan.
2.Attach kneading blades to the baking pan, pushing down firmly.
3.Precisely measure ingredients and add to the baking pan in the following order:
-Wet ingredient
-Combined dry ingredients (& butter, if used)
-Make a depression in the middle of dry ingredients & sprinkle yeast into it, with yeast not touching liquid ingredients
4.Insert baking pan into unit and close lid.
5.Plug unit into outlet, select desired setting(s) and bake.




Nectarine Cheese Pie

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Nectarine Cheese Pie

Filling:
8 oz cream cheese (organic neufchatel, best for you and the planet)
2 large organic eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp whole milk maple yoghurt (I use Brown Cow)
1 tsp vanilla

Topping:
2-3 large ripe organic nectarines
1 cup organic fruit juice (I like Trader Joe's Mango-Acai Berry)
1 tbsp cornstarch
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp almond extract

1 unbaked 9" pie shell

Beat the cream cheese in a bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, until smooth. Gradually add the eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, milk and vanilla, beating well after each addition. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake in 375 degrees F. (190 degrees C.) oven. for 30 minutes or until set. Cool on a wire rack.

Wash and slice nectarines. Arrange slices on top of cheese filling.

Combine cornstarch and 3/4 cup sugar in a small saucepan. Gradually stir in the fruit juice, lemon juice and almond extract. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils and thickens. Remove from the heat and spoon the glaze over the nectarines. Cover and chill for at least one hour or until set.

Please Call Me By My True Names (poem by Thich Nhat Hanh)

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PLEASE CALL ME BY MY TRUE NAMES

Don't say that I will depart tomorrow --
even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.

The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing
on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily
in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake
that silently feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant,
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.

I am a member of the politburo,
with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay
his "debt of blood" to my people
dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.

My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart
can be left open,
the door of compassion.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Green Jade Soup

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Here is my recipe for Green Jade Soup, an adaptation of a traditional Chinese veggie recipe:

GREEN JADE SOUP

15 or 16 oz chopped spinach (fresh or frozen)
15 oz can creamed corn
6 cups vegetable broth (or hot water and 3 chopped Rapunzel Vegetable Bouillon cubes)
3/4 tablespoon cornstarch, blended with 2 tablespoons of water (use a little more if you want soup thicker)
2-3 tablespoons butter or canola oil
2 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons yeast extract (Vegemite or Marmite)
Salt and pepper to taste (I like to use freshly ground Szechuan pepper, which is wonderfully fragrant, rather than spicy-hot…especially since tuong ot toi already makes it spicy-hot, if you like that.)

Optional ingredients: (I usually use all of these, as long as I have them)
1 cup chopped onion
1 large clove chopped garlic
1 teaspoon Tuong Ot Toi (Vietnamese Chili and Garlic Paste; add this in small amounts, to taste)
1 block tofu, diced or cut in strips (Mori-Nu boxed tofu, silken soft, works well in this soup)
2 x- 2oz packages of cellophane noodles (also known as bean thread, bai fun)
½ cup white Chinese cooking wine

Melt the butter in a large saucepan, then stir in the onions and spinach. Stir fry for a few minutes (longer if using frozen spinach). Add garlic and stir.
Pour in the creamed corn and broth. Add the soy sauce and yeast extract, and stir until the spinach is well blended with the liquid. Add tofu, if desired. Adjust for seasoning. Simmer for a few minutes, add Chinese cooking wine (if used) and serve.
If desired, this soup may be served over cellophane noodles (softened in hot water for 15 minutes) or rice vermicelli, boiled briefly (till al dente) and drained.






(The photo above shows Green Jade Soup blended till smooth, to make "Green Soup a la Clangers" for Phil:
http://my.opera.com/365/albums/showpic.dml?album=392478&picture=6469203 ):lol:

Tagged: Six things about myself

Tuesday, 29. January 2008, 18:19:34



I was just TAGGED by Ze Torres
http://my.opera.com/zetorres/blog/show.dml/1704579
who sent me these RULES:

*Link to the person that tagged you.)

*Post the rules on your blog.

*Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.

*Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.

*Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.




SIX non-important things/habits/quirks about myself:

1. I LOVE chocolate...but only really GOOD chocolate!
2. I love to read...but only WELL-WRITTEN books!
3. I love to see films...as long as they are WELL-CRAFTED ones (and not violent)!
4. I love FROGS...but you already knew that!
5. I love to take lots of photos.
6. I long to live near water and mountains.

I am tagging the following people:

http://my.opera.com/BitzyMe/info/

http://my.opera.com/Rain%20Mosq/info/

http://my.opera.com/SittingFox/info/

http://my.opera.com/ALLY_G/info/

http://my.opera.com/phiznlil/info/

http://my.opera.com/soulfulheart/info/

KPBS interactive map on Google of fires in Southern California

KPBS interactive map on Google of fires in Southern California

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571&ll=32.990236,-116.930237&spn=0.946815,1.842957&z=9&om=1

If you search on Google for Deer Park at 2499 Melru Lane, Escondido, CA. 92026 you can see where they are, and then can locate the area of the monastery fairly easily on the KPBS map, just north and east of Escondido...to the right of the bend in Rte 15.

May all beings be safe and peaceful!
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