I have been missing home, a lot, lately. That is one of the reasons why you are and will be seeing a lot of bread / Naan/ Indian bread related posts on Spiceroots. There is something in those not so distant mountains that I see from my kitchen window that speaks of home to me. Its almost hypnotic. How they change from the time the first rays of sun touch them to the time the sun hides behind them almost feels like a conversation. I do feel very blessed to live in Colorado. It feels like home and yet makes …
Banana Bread with Pecans and Hemp seeds
It’s the 38 Power Foods Blog Friday and our ingredient for today is the Pecans. A daily handful of pecans is said to reduce the overall risk of heart disease. The unsaturated fats in pecans help lower the LDL cholesterol. Pecan nuts are rich source of many phyto-chemical substances that may contribute to their overall antioxidant activity, including polyphenolic antioxidant ellagic acid, vitamin E, beta-carotene, lutein and zea-xanthin. Research studies have been suggestive of that these compounds help the body remove toxic oxygen-free radicals and thus, protect the body from diseases, cancers, as well as infections. The nuts are very rich …
Almond Milk – homemade
For the world, Almonds are a healthy & tasty nut/seed. For me they are a thing of pride, joy and memories. As a kid, I had a difficult time deciding if I wanted the long hard winter to end. While the end of winter meant that the dreary school will reopen its gates and herd me back in, it also meant the Almond trees will soon blossom and set my mind free. And it meant a picnic in the almond orchards would soon happen and I could just lay on the flowers and breathe their essence in and let myself …
Sun Dried Tomatoes and Gruyere Pull Apart Bread
I learned the joy of eating home made bread from my daughter. It started with the butternut Squash rolls that I made in a bread baking session with a friend and brought some home. After having tasted those, each fall she would merrily point to the butternut squash and look at me with a twinkle in her eyes and ask me if we could buy it. Despite knowing why she wanted it, I would still ask her, “ Hmm! I wonder what we can make with that!” And she would always reply with a gleeful smile and a dimple on …
Steamed Edmame with copy cat Xo Sauce
American Football Season! The perfect time to cook a lot of fun finger foods. If the rest of the world can stop saying that this is a game where the “foot” part of the anatomy is used occasionally for a punt or a field goal and a lot of running, it actually is a fun sport to watch. But I don’t live in the rest of the world anymore and I sometimes do watch American Football. I am not sure if I like the game more or the food involved with it. Let’s not get into those uncomfortable details. For …
Fougasse with Herbes de Provence
[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells…there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.” M. F. K. Fisher, ‘The Art of Eating’ When we were young girls, a little younger than my daughter is right now, my sister and I used to take turns buying the morning bread from the neighborhood baker. It wasn’t something I looked forward …