As you know, I love to visit ethnic food markets. Recently I discovered that my favorite SE Asian market carries dried rosebuds and something I hadn’t seen before: bael fruit. Bael fruit is known by many names: Bengal quince, golden apple, Japanese bitter orange, stone apple, and wood apple. Native to India, it is often used in a popular summer drink. The package…
Category: Beverages
Powerful Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
Hey, it’s national pumpkin month! I had planned to offer up my pumpkin pancake recipe, but a recent technical failure caused me to lose all recent photos… (UPDATE: Here’s the pancake recipe now.) So, I made a pumpkin pie smoothie instead. It is so good, I’ve been drinking one nearly every day, and almost prefer it…
Home-made Coffee Liqueur
On a trip to Mexico several years ago, I bought a large bottle of Kahlua coffee liqueur. When I came back, I was gifted another bottle. I don’t drink Kahlua often, so I found other uses for it and it became a favorite. So much so, that I now make coffee liqueur at home. A…
La chia y la india
Last summer, I heard an interview with Christopher McDougall, the author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super-athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. At the time, I was training for a half marathon and thought I’d try out the mid-foot running style I heard him describe. Probably not the best…