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| posted Feb 27, 2008 9:32:08 PM | To All |
As I was sitting here after a very long day, blissfully engrossed in a nice and warm steamy bowl of French cut green beans topped with Yucatan hot sauce, it got me thinking about how wonderful soul foods are. Here I am eating something so simple, yet it warms my heart as much as my tummy.
I figure everyone must have at least several special foods or dishes that makes them smile and feel wonderful, and that it would be interesting to learn what some of them are? What cuisine turns other folks on the way cooked organic green beans and Yucatan hot sauce does me?
Soul food is a very personal thing you see. Almost like a soul mate. 
Who are your soul foods? |
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| posted Feb 28, 2008 11:48:14 AM | To All |
That's a great questions Joy. I think for me, believe it or not, it would be good Chinese food. I grew up in an area that had a large Asian population and had tons of really good Chinese restaurants. We probably had Chinese food about once a week in my home and it was always a treat. I remember we usually ordered the same things:
Won ton soup for the kids, egg rolls (my sister would eat the middle and my brother would eat the fried outside) and egg drop soup for my dad, spareribs, chicken and broccoli and usually some sort of beef dish and a veggie dish.
But, it has to be good Chinese food to evoke my childhood : ) |
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| posted Mar 4, 2008 8:33:47 AM | To All |
Thank you for your reply!
Oh, yes in deed! I had never tried Pozole until my Boyfriend and I started dating. He makes great homemade Pozole. I am very fortunate that I not only met someone who loves to cook as much as I, but who is so well traveled and has been able to introduce me to some wonderful dishes. I am looking forward to going to Mexico to try the real deal some day. 
The leftover Pazole never lasts more than one day around here. lol
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| posted Mar 6, 2008 7:50:50 AM | To All |
Wow!! If there is anything I like discussing it's food!! I love to cook--and since I am diabetic, I have been tweeking around with some of my favorite dishes to make them more low fat and less in sodiom. I think-however -that the greatest soul food is --homade soup. It can be made from practically anything you have left over in the fridge(accept that stuff in the back that is growing mold ) I have also been thinking lately that soup is a better way to use your resorses and take care of the envorment. Look at it this way, using leftovers makes for less waste in the garbage can. Even bones can be boiled down into stock, and for you vegitarians-there are some very good recipes for a veg based stock around. You save gas-because it's one less trip to the store. It developes your creativity--gives you a chance to explore differnt flavors--combinations of meats , veggies, herbs, and spices. You can follow any basic recipie and make it your own-and any one can do it-If you can boil water and throw a few things in a pot-you can have a savory meal that nurishes the body and the soul.
Add some home made bread or biscuts-and a salad !
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| posted Mar 6, 2008 9:27:30 PM | To All |
The fable "Stone Soup" came to my mind reading your response just now. The only limits in making soup is your imagination's! Yes, you can't go wrong with soup, that's for sure. 
I love making a big pot of hot soup in the fall and winter time. My first pot of the season I make always makes me feel so cozy, relaxed, and loved. And then sometimes in the summer months when the mood strikes I'll have fun and chill out with some homemade gazpacho. 
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| posted Mar 24, 2008 9:00:26 AM | To All |
I know the Stone soup story to , Joy--one of my childhood favorites.--along with "Horton hears a Who" and "The Five hundred Hats of Barthomew Cubbins"
I have never tried gazpacho--but I am going too soon. I am opening myself for all sorts of new experences these days |
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Edited by: Joy Jackson, Life & Wellness Coach on Feb 28, 2008 1:55:40 PM