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Category - Food

Pickled Eggs & Beets.

Pickled Beets and Eggs

Pickled Beets and Eggs. I really like to keep a few of these around for snacks. They are great as is, but a little mayonnaise doesn’t hurt them. Plain mayo is fine, but you can season with dry mustard or other...

Wild Rice Salad with Citrus Dressing and Hazelnuts

Wild Rice Salad. This has been a favorite of mine for decades, especially at Thanksgiving. It is a complex dish that requires too many ingredients to fix for just one person. I used to bring this to our Thanksgiving and...

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Roasted Sweet Potato. This is one of the best ways I have found to eat sweet potatoes. You simply cook them like a baking potato and serve with any number of toppings. I listed my favorites including an onion that is...

Breakfast Salad

Breakfast Salad. This salad is not limited to Breakfast, but I like it then. You can make it many ways. Baby Arugula is now available at the Sanger WallMart, so I like that for the greens, but you could go with iceberg...

Smokey Cajun Cauliflower Soup

Smokey Cajun Cauliflower Soup. A very simple soup that can be made with different spices, but the original recipe used Cajun spices. I have fallen for za’atar, the savory Middle-Eastern spice that is a blend of...

Gersang's Stirfry.

Gesang’s Stir-fry (Non-Vegetarian option)

Gesang’s Stirfry. This is absolutely the best way to do stir-fry. Gesang Suolang Rinpoche often prepared it when she cooked at the temple. She doesn’t really use a recipe, but this is roughly how she does it...

Sonya’s Baked and Stuffed Apples

We have a lot of apples at the temple and this is one of Sonya’s favorite ways of serving them. They are very nice for breakfast on a cold winter morning. The last time she fixed them, I think she added coco or...