Peachy Keen Green

In 2020, I bought an instant pot to get the Yogurt button, and made some batches following this  blog post on soy yogurt . I also tried soaked almonds processed in my ninja blender; it was pretty good but a little gritty and more work. Oat and coconut milk did not thicken. With soy, it's critical that the milk you use has zero additives; Trader Joe's soy milk works great. Even so, it was hard to get it to be as thick as I'd like. Cooking longer - I tried up to 15 hours -- helps, but was super tangy! My brother Jeff bought an instant pot and experimented with combinations of soy milk and thickeners (like soy flour & cornstarch) and syrup for the yeasties to eat, dissolved in the boiling milk. His winning combo then was to boil 1 qt soy milk with 4T almond flour and 2T ginger syrup, cool, add 3 TJ  probiotics  pills, and then cook in the instant pot with water around the jars to better distribute the heat. It took almost half the time (roughly 9 hours) and was ama...

One of our favorite restaurants, Cafe Sprout , has a spicy red curry soup that we love -- with chickpeas, tomatoes, carrots, celery, onion, red lentils, and quinoa. Isa also has a  Sweet Potato and Red Curry Soup  that looks good. So I made up a recipe that pulls from both. Larry said it was fantastic! (Originally posted September 2015; updated February 2020 to be even better :) Ingredients 1T canola oil 1 small hot pepper (like serrano), diced 1 medium onion, chopped 3 stalks celery, chopped 3 medium carrots, chopped 1 medium potato, chopped 2-3 cups cauliflower, chopped 1 can diced tomatoes (or 2 cans if big batch) 6 cups vegetable broth 1 lb (16 oz) dried red lentils, washed 1/2 C quinoa (dry, uncooked) 1 can or 2 cups chickpeas, cooked 1/2 to 1 can lite coconut milk 3T fresh lime juice Spices: 2 tsp cumin seeds (or ground & add w/other spices) 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 T fresh ginger, minced 1 T curry powder 2 tsp turmeric 1 tsp coriand...