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Soy Milk & Rice Cereal Maker
Introducing to you the latest gadget in my kitchen- soy milk/rice cereal maker!
I bought it from http://english.hsuginseng.com for $90 while it was on sale. What a great deal. 🙂
Ricemilk maker
This wonderful little machine can make perfect soy milk, rice milk, and rice cereal.
Mung bean, full bean, five cereals, rice paste
I grew up on soy milk. I have been looking for tasty soy milk here in the U.S., but just couldn’t find one with the perfect taste. So, why not make my own soy milk?
It has built-in blender and heater.
Test Run: Soy Milk
Soy beans soaked in water overnight
Select Full Bean
It first heats up the beans and water, and then blends them. The cooking time is only 20 minutes from start to finish!
20 minutes later …
Strain the juice (strainer & cup came with the machine)
Easy! Breezy!
Homemade organic soy milk - just add some sugar (vanilla - optional)
Red Bean & Wild Rice Cereal
It’s great for breakfast or snack! Yum! and super nutritious.
Red bean & wild rice cereal
How about almond rice milk? barley milk? sounds good, huh! Try it out.
Big Bowl
It’s no secret that calamari is one of my favorite dishes.
Thai herb calamari at Big Bowl (Chicago) has (hands-down) the best calamari I’ve ever had.
The calamari is tender, and the lemongrass spice is exotic and unique.
Thai herb calamari. Do you like the presentation?
Transformer 3 filming, Chicago Downtown
Nice ride!
Hello Cucumbers
Cucumber plants in my garden are going wild.
Cucumbers going vertical
The ones in my garden are English cucumbers. They have little seeds and can grow up to two feet long.
English cucumbers - ready to be harvested
I just harvested seven huge ones today!! I can hardly keep up with them.
After harvesting, keep cucumbers cool or it will be soggy. Either keep it refrigerated or keep it away from direct sunlight.
Cucumbers have tons of health benefits (reduce heartburn or sooth acid stomach, reduce heat and inflammation on skin, helps control cases of eczema, rich in minerals, etc).
Let’s see what we can do with cucumbers.
1. Eyes, eyes, baby.
Placing a cucumber slice over the eyes not only soothes them, but also reduces swelling.
ultraman.... hahahaha
2. Thirst quencher
a glass of coolness
Juice the cucumbers, add some lime, mint, ice, sugar. Try it!
3. Salad that goes with everything
These cucumbers are so juicy and crunchy that can be eaten without adding anything. If you want to try something new, add some white vinegar (I use Spectrum white vinegar) and some sugar to the sliced cucumbers. This is a great side dish that goes well with any western/eastern dishes. I love it!
4. …
hmm... err...
Err… use cucumbers to massage your shoulders? Well, you would have to check with Karan on this one. I have no idea what he was trying to do.
If you have more ideas on using cucumbers, let me know. Happy summer!
Sun Energy – Free for All
Summer in Fairfield is heavenly.
The warm sun and the long day, there’s nothing not to like about summer.
I did laundry today and washed all puppy’s sheets and all the mats.
I dried all these under the sun.
Drying clothes under the sun
How wonderful it is to use the sun energy which is free and readily available for all to consume? It could have taken me 2 hours of drying time if I used the dryer. Hooray for energy saving. Â Thank you, Sun.