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

Category - Food

Pickled Eggs & Beets.
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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...

January 12, 2021
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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...

December 29, 2020
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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...

December 13, 2020
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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...

December 13, 2020
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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...

December 6, 2020
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Gersang's Stirfry.
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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...

December 6, 2020
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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...

December 5, 2020
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Japanese Souffle Pancake (Non-Vegan)

Japanese Souffle Pancake. I first tried this trendy dish in San Diego, but I first heard of it in the New York Times when it featured a delightful source in Pasadena. It is a delightful, if a bit difficult dish to...

November 28, 2020
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Carrot Soup with Miso, Ginger, and Lime

Carrot Soup with Miso, Ginger, and Lime. This is a tasty little soup that is full of healthy spices and other ingredients: Turmeric powder, miso, cinnamon, as well as carrots, ginger and onions (for the non-monastics)...

November 27, 2020
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