Coconut milk

Homemade Coconut Milk

  Palm trees line either side of the driveway, ushering me toward the little round house that is to be our home for the next few weeks. We are tired. Sprinting across the east coast of the United States for eight weeks left us exhausted. So we stop.  At the little round house on Pine […]

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Citrus Explosion

  Happy Spring! I love Spring for a plethora of reasons. I live in Minnesota and have for most of my life. Maybe this phenomenon happens in other parts of the country too, but here Spring always feels like we suddenly are able to come out of hibernation and get reacquainted with friends, neighbors, and

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Curried Beans and Rice

  Hello! I have returned. 🙂   Halloween is my favorite holiday, so this year my husband and I ended up doing something really special for Halloween, which consumed the two weeks before the holiday and caused us to need a week of recuperation afterward. We performed in the 18th annual BareBones Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza! 

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Big Curry Noodle Pot

  Deliciously messy and soul comforting. What more could you ask from a recipe?!  Curry is wonderfully versatile. Most curry dishes are soup or stew-like, and just like soups and stews, they can have any range of flavors. Curry is simply a blend of spices. You can buy the spices already blended, and the brand of

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Thai-inspired Butternut Squash Soup

This soup is subtle. And interesting. So much so that I find myself taking another spoonful just to discover another flavor. Overall, this soup is just pureed butternut squash. But then I added traditional Thai spices (like lemongrass, ginger, curry, and coconut) and suddenly it became one of the most interesting soups I’ve ever tasted. Surprisingly,

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