I needed to boost my iron supply and one of the best vegan source is kidney beans or beans in general, I suppose. Luckily I’ve got beans that had been soaked and frozen for future use. It didn’t take me long to come to a palatable recipe according to my not-so-fuzzy palate. The good thing [...]
Read more »Potato and Vegetables Soup, All Fresh Ingredients
It’s a rainy Easter holiday so I made my favorite potato soup with vegetables. Some people prefer to blend or make a puree with the soup but I prefer to bite some chunks and make my sets of grinder work. Oh by the way, I made it from scratch so not even an organic vegetable [...]
Read more »Mixed Cannelloni and Kidney Beans Recipe
This recipe is a good winter warmer. I made it during the late winter chill when I learned how to make beans soft. I was so excited I wanted to cook beans everyday. Today is officially the first day of spring but in some places it’s still cold and it’s good to have beans once [...]
Read more »How to Make Beans Super Soft and Black Bean Recipe
I finally figured out how to make beans soft –I mean really soft, it actually melts between your tongue and palate — without using a pressure cooker by just adding a little bicarbonate of soda. Thanks to my cooking guru, Pearly, who told my cooking team that baking soda will soften the super dried dates [...]
Read more »Mushroom Pasta Soup
It’s a freezing winter outside and I made this soup to warm myself up. Using wholewheat penne, I had to cook it longer to complement the soupy-ness of my soup. I made that word up. I know you’re smart enough to get my point. Cheers! Ingredients: (Doesn’t have to be exact but just a bit [...]
Read more »Vegan Corn Soup with Celery
This Vegan Corn Soup is similar to the vegan potato soup I posted the other day. We have just harvested all the corns from the allotment and what better way to use them than to make a soup? ***This recipe yields 4-6 servings. Ingredients: 500G Corn Kernel 1L Water Potato 2 Celery stem with leaves [...]
Read more »Potato Soup with Celery
Who else loves soup apart from me? Potato soup is one of my best faves. I tasted it in a church pot luck and asked the cook what the ingredients are. Then I modified it and voila! I normally don’t measure the ingredients but for the sake of my dear visitors, I did just [...]
Read more »Mung Bean Soup with Spinach
When I recovered from dengue and the IV was finally pulled out of my system because I started eating orally, the first food I craved was monggo with alugbati or mung bean soup with vine spinach. Just the mere thought of it was making me drool. I requested the food department to make it for [...]
Read more »Pre-soaking Legumes, An Essential Must
pre-soaked beans and frozen for future use What are Legumes? Legumes are carob bean, chick pea, and all other peas, kidney beans, lentils, lima bean, mung bean, broad bean, peanuts, soya bean, etc. Why we need to soak legumes I’ve always read that it’s a must to soak legumes before cooking them but I could [...]
Read more »Cannellini Beans Stew with Asian Vegetables
Cannellini beans with okra, pumpkin flowers and courgette (zucchini) Cannellini beans are one of my most favourite beans. This recipe is similar to the one we use back home except we use local Asian beans like mung beans or string beans. According to Today’s Women and Health, “Cannellini beans are low-fat, high in fiber and [...]
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