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

Category - Food

Creamy Sweet Potato Soup
Food

Creamy Cauliflower-Sweet Potato Soup

Creamy Cauliflower- Sweet Potato Soup. This is an excellent tasty soup that can be easily adapted to monastic and/or vegan diners. A chopped fennel bulb or stalks of lovage could also be substituted for the onion. It’s...

July 30, 2021
Add comment
40 views
2 min read
Food

Japanese Sesame Salt (Gormasio)

Gomasio, Japanese Sesame Salt This is a basic condiment at the Temple. It helps me reduce my salt intake and it makes just about everything taste wonderful! I love it on rice, soups, potatoes, any vegetable, etc. We try...

July 22, 2021
Add comment
151 views
2 min read
Japanese Salad with Ginger Dressing.
Food

Japanese Salad with Ginger Dressing

Japanese Salad with Ginger Dressing. Enjoy this orange dressing on romaine or iceberg lettuce for a classic Japanese restaurant-style salad, but other vegetables may be added as well. It is the salad you usually find in...

July 13, 2021
Add comment
76 views
2 min read
Food

Sausage Biscuit Breakfast Bake

Sausage Biscuit Breakfast Bake. This a very tasty and easy savory breakfast pastry that can also be made with fruit for an equally good sweet version. I like the bit of sweet taste with the maple syrup, but it is fine...

June 23, 2021
Add comment
27 views
1 min read
Food

Broiled Grapefruit with Cardamom

Broiled Grapefruit with Cardamom. This is best if you use freshly crushed cardamom seeds, but the whole pods of whole seeds may be hard to find. The prepackaged cardamom powders are good, but not as flavorful. You can...

June 20, 2021
Add comment
39 views
1 min read
Guny's Slaw.
Food

Guny’s Slaw

Guny’s Slaw. When Bhikkhu Gunaratana stayed at the temple, I would make this salad for him. He liked it so much and could eat so much of it, I named it for him. It is a road map type of recipe that can go in...

June 13, 2021
Add comment
62 views
2 min read
Food

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox. Another lovage recipe that turned out very well. The original was made with bacon, but it is very good with lox. You can leave out the lox for a vegan version, but I would add a drop or...

June 4, 2021
Add comment
71 views
2 min read
Food

Mushroom, Lovage, and Wild Rice Soup

Just made this wonderful soup with the lovage I now have growing inside. I had the lovage in a pot on my patio, but the 107 degree heat caused it to wilt so badly, I needed to harvest the limp leaves and bring the rest...

June 4, 2021
Add comment
177 views
3 min read
Food

Spring Salad

Spring Salad. Very simple salad made with whatever happened to be in my fridge. It has just the right combination of sour, sweet, and crunchy. This version uses a little canned chicken and cheese, but you can also make...

May 18, 2021
Add comment
40 views
1 min read