Sweet Potato Bisque, Veruka_Dolls

SWEET POTATO BISQUE


I think thats a misnomer - 'cause there's no dairy, the cream-y taste comes from coconut milk. You could add what you like, this would be a vegan version, delicious and Very Cheap to make. People say sometimes its real expensive to eat good food, but its ready-made food that's expensive. I spend less than I did before, even with the higher prices.



I took: 3 nice sweet potatoes and peeled them (i think it was about a pound) and boiled them in water with some seasoning - I would use at LEAST salt, chili powder and tumeric, I used one of those inexpensive seasoning mixes - I think this one's called "Soul Seasoning" Marcum Gourmet Spices - its like a buck per 8 ounces, its mostly salt I imagine so I use it sparingly. It doesn't say exactly what's in it, but it tastes like it has celery, pepper, chili powder, and cumin in it - then it mentions having red pepper, onion and paprika.

I let a good amount of the water boil out (maybe a quarter to half), and mashed the potatoes with the water that was left when they were soft, added a can of coconut milk, and ran it through my blender to make it smooth. Its a lovely colour, too. I guess you could add butter if you eat butter.

3 sweet potatoes, peeled
about 6 cups of water
3/4 teaspoon of soul seasoning
1 can coconut milk.
so that's about $2.50 for the four servings...

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Apple Wine from Veruka_dolls

Apple wine

It seemed to come out pretty good - my father had this AWESOME idea, I guess they used to put balloons over the tops of the bottles! How clever is that? No air getting in, no chasing corks all over creation and scrambling to get 'im back in afore the air sours things - it doesn't look classy, but its working out pretty good. He was thinking I would have had a problem 'cause I didn't add yeast, but the balloons are filling up, so it must be fermenting - I had to have been successful in attacting wild yeast. I ended up with a decent amount. I guess it'll be a Merry Christmas as there should be enough wine for a nice party.

I think I might try lemons next - actually lemons are kinda dear, maybe i should consider orange or grapefruit. The book was talking about an orange wine (that took a year or so before it was ready to drink) but the author was saying she used to get the oldest, mouldiest oranges she could find - her green-groccer would just give them to her. The worse-for-wear the orange the better the wine, apparently. I don't have enough tea or dandelions yet for either of those wines. I think one of those will be the third batch.

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