Reviving Traditional Foods
Mangoes and sticky rice – oh how my heart swoons! After a heated meal of Thai food – heightened by the bright flavors of kaffir lime, lemongrass and painfully hot chili peppers – nothing soothes the palate quite like a warm bowl of gently sweet and slightly salty mangoes and sticky rice. I like to [...]
My family has been battling a wicked flu, so rather than bludgeon them with a heavy meal–the kind I love to offer on Sunday evenings–I made this simple-to-prepare but complexly flavored soup in combination with steamed brown sweet rice. It was a simple, light dinner, but who wants to choke down a buffalo roast with [...]
My family has been battling the flu, and I needed a delicious, nourishing soup to nurse them back to health and decided to create this Thai-inspired coconut shrimp soup. The soup features infamous flu buster: chicken stock in addition to coconut milk and coconut oil which help to fight infection as well as other [...]
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Jenny McGruther is a wife, mother and cooking instructor specializing in real and traditional foods. Her work has been featured on CNN, the Globe & Mail, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and WebMD. Click here to learn more.
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