 Back when we were younger, we were excited when the family made a bowl of popcorn. Not just because it’s so yummy, but also because our parent’s air poppers were just so cool to watch! One of our dear friends, Erin, told us that she used a pot with a handle to make kettle corn. We [Continue reading Wok Corn]  After Hubs and I were married, I asked him what he ate for breakfast. He casually replied, “Oatmeal.” I didn’t understand his commitment to oatmeal until we made our first married trip to Costco and Hubs picked up two gigantic tubs of oatmeal. Even though I never ate breakfast, it didn’t take long before Hubs converted [Continue reading Baked Oatmeal]  When we first moved to JiuJiang, Hubs met Farmer Hu while on a bike ride. Farmer Hu lived out in the countryside. He had about 6 milk cows. His price on milk was excellent (3rmb/liter), but the problem was that he had to borrow a car to deliver fresh milk to our home. Sometimes he [Continue reading Dairy Adventures Continue: Buttermilk]  There’s a small space beside the microwave that holds all my cookbooks. For a while now, I’ve been printing off recipes and placing them in the blue binder. (Hubs: Where they’ve been growing like bowl of rising bread dough.) Whenever I needed a recipe, I just grabbed it from the blue binder (the pages do not remove) [Continue reading Nesting: Our Family Cookbook] 
Making cheese is a highly stressful activity – for the cheese that is. Previously, I placed the cheese in a large pot and delicately balanced various weights on top. The weights were a combination of water bottles and [Continue reading Homemade Cheese Press]  When we first moved to China, I e-mailed my Grandmaw and asked for her vegetable soup recipe. If there’s anything we can get here, it’s fresh vegetables! In making vegetable soup for my family for the past 6 years or so, I’ve learned that you really can’t mess it up… except recently when I forgot it [Continue reading Vegetable Soup] |
|
|
|
Copyright © 2012 On The Eastern Journey - All Rights Reserved 51 queries. 0.296 seconds. |
||
Depending on the type, some cheeses need to be pressed for 24 hours with 50Lbs of weight.
