Thursday, October 02, 2014

Eating Fresh Vegetables and Fruits in a Glass

This is so easy to make.   If you have Organic Kales, Spinach, and some fruits, then you are in the business.  Wash and rinse veges of your choices and chop them up or tear them apart.  Place them in a blender.  Add crushed ice as much as you like--1cup may be, add squeezed orange juice 1/4 Cup or lemon or lime juice; add sliced avocado if you like it smooth.  Top it off with cut fruits - apple, pear, 1 Tbsp of honey.  Blend until the desired consistency is achieved.  Serve.  
Alternative:  Freeze extras in the ice tray.   30 - 40 minutes before serving, place frozen cubes in the glass with a cover and allow to defrost.  Stir with a spoon. Serve snd enjoy your vege and fruit fir the day. 

Monday, September 29, 2014

My New Gadget - Spiral Vegetable Cutter

never thought frying French Fries can be this easy.   I actually kind of have given up on frying veges, but with this new gadget, cutting is simple, interesting, and fun to eat.  This spiral vegetable cutter is constructed with fairly light plastic.  But I carefully let the blade do the slicing without much force.   It did a great job.  You can make all kinds of fresh vege spaghetti salad to eat.  Thus far my potato chips tossed in kosher salt, paprika, and cayenne pepper is a hit.

Fry for 3 to 4 minutes and take it out.  Fry the next small batch for 3 to 4 minutes, then take it out.  Put the 1st batch back to fry until crisp.  Place on rack to allow excess oil to drip back to frying NABE (pot). Then transfer to a large bowl with kosher salt, paprika, and pinch of cayenne pepper.  Toss.  Serve.  Enjoy!
Other wonderful dish it turned out are beautiful cucumber noodles, etc.  It adds the 'fun' to the cooking.
 After slicing, you could place the cucumbers between your palms to squeeze out the excess water.   Then, add them to your favorite salad, etc.
 Frying Apple slices.


Polly's Homemade Honey Mead

Finally found a way to make time spent blog posting easier - Mobile phone posting to this blog.   The service has been available for a while, but I never got around doing it.  So much to do, with so little time.  And since I hate sitting down again after work to spend time blogging, this is a helpful alternative. Tonight I finally transferred my homemade Honey Mead to a bottle that it will ripe for a couple of months.   If you have made honey mead before at home, please share your experience.
By-the-way, my honey mead does not have yeast.  It's all natural - raw honey, water, and sunshine.
After a month of fermentation, it stopped fizzling as much when stirred, it's time to bottle it.  I hope it will be fantastic .   Need to get right kind of bottle and cap soon though.
Finally got the right bottle with flip cap.   Had to drink a couple of Grolsch lager but that was okay.   
The bottle didn't fit all in.  That was too bad, but honey mead on the rock tasted really good.  In fact I think it is ready as the way it is without waiting for 2 months.      I also started the two more quarts of new honey mead.  They are fizzing just fine.  Can't wait to enjoy it.