A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche
A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche
A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche

Category - Food

Photo of Greek Roasted Chicken Salad with Tzatziki Sauce.
Food

Greek Roasted Chicken Salad with Tzatziki Sauce

Greek Roasted Chicken Salad with Tzatziki Sauce. The cucumber-yogurt-dill (tzatziki) sauce was perfect for the Greek oregano chicken roasted with olives, artichoke hearts, and red onions. You can also add some feta as...

February 4, 2025
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Photo of Japanese Udon Noodles.
Food

New Year’s Noodles-Yaki Udon

Japanese Udon Noodles. Happy New Year! We welcomed the Chinese New Year today with a big skillet of Yaki Udon—a stir fried dish of vegetables, different proteins, and very long plump wheat noodles. In Chinese culture...

January 29, 2025
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Braised Beets

Beautiful Braised Beets. This simple and tasty dish is a perfect way to use all the greens and roots of the three beet package I get when I have Walmart do my shopping. I am trying to shift from butter to polyphenol...

January 29, 2025
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Cauliflower Steaks with Greek Dressing

Last week I found another delicious way to eat cauliflower. I already have a lemon-grass and cauliflower soup that is wonderful, but this roasted seasoned slab of vegetable marinated in and topped with more Greek...

January 23, 2025
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Photo of Holy Miracles Temple Food and Goods Drive outside the Heart of Compassion Food Bank-2024.
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Charity at the Holy Miracles Temple

Holy Miracles Temple Food and Goods Drive-2024. Between February 10 and 21, 2024, the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California held a food and goods drive to help living beings in southern California. Volunteers...

December 20, 2024
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Mustard Greens

Tired of broccoli and kale? Want something a bit spicier? Mustard greens may be right for you. Actually this recipe would work with most greens, but you may need to adjust the timing. Like spinach and other greens, a...

December 16, 2024
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Tomato-Egg Salad Sandwiches

Egg-Salad Sandwich. Great for breakfast or snack. I didn’t have fresh lettuce leaves, but would add if available, especially if I was using two slices of bread per sandwich. Actually, I prefer open face sandwiches...

December 11, 2024
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INDEX of Blog Recipes

Magical Chili. I got tired of checking each time I wanted to post a new recipe to see if I had already posted it so I compiled a master list of what I had posted and wanted to share it. I was surprised to see how many...

December 7, 2024
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Photo of Eihei Dogen watching the moon at the Hokyo-ji Monastery, Japan, ca 1250.
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Three Virtues & Six Tastes

Eihei Dogen watching the moon at the Hokyo-ji Monastery, Japan, ca 1250. Patriarch Dogen is the author of the “Teno Kyokun” often translated as “Instructions to a Zen Cook.” The following is an...

December 7, 2024
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QUOTE-The Six Tastes and Three Virtues”

“If the six tastes are not suitable and if the food lacks the three virtues, the tenzo’s offering to the assembly is not complete.”  Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), Teno Kyokun (How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to...

December 7, 2024
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