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Soy Joy....

April 8th, 2005 at 04:25 am

I have a big batch of homemade soymilk simmering on the stove right now as I type. I haven't made my own in years, but have had these old soybeans in a jar in my pantry for ages -- and finally decided it was time to actually DO something with them (mainly because I need the big glass jar I was keeping them in, in order to store a chunk of my 50 pounds of bulk-purchased brown rice). Homemade soymilk is supah cheap, and it's really not that difficult or time consuming to make. Hmmm, maybe I should go back to making my own again on a regular basis. Still, the kids haven't had the homemade stuff in their recent memory, so who knows how they'll receive it. DH will obligingly use it up though -- on the granola I made a few days ago.... And of course, there will be the leftover soy 'okara' to deal with (note: not 'okra'). This is what's left behind after the straining the soymilk -- essentially blended up, cooked soybeans. There are various things one can make from okara -- I'll just google up a few recipes and go from there....

More gardening today out at our plot. T'was more on the overcast and cool/blustery side of spring weather, but DS and I could hardly be deterred. We're having too much fun. This time we prepared our potato bed, by measuring out and digging trenches, plus hoeing out any and all clumps. We're ready to plant the seed potatoes anytime now --although I'm still trying to figure out if we ought to do the 'pre-sprouting' thing or not. That's were one lets the potatoes sit around on trays in the warm, lighted house for a week or so. It's said doing this can give good results -- but bleh, potatoes-potatoes everywhere. And trying to keep our ever-curious, free-range house bunny out of them during that time too. Huh, not likely. I'm thinking of just getting them in the ground tomorrow instead, and being done with it. That's the thing about potatoes -- you plant them, and then mostly leave them alone for the next ... oh, 50 - 70 days or so .....



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