Eternal Hippies A Year Homemade and Beyond

So I made coleslaw several days ago and now I’m getting are tired of it. Can’t really freeze it and I don’t have farm animals to enjoy it. What to do? Stir-fry to the rescue! Yes, I simply place the leftover coleslaw in a strainer to drain. While draining, I go ahead and fry some uncured bacon cut into small pieces and cook rice. Typically, I rinse the rice before soaking the it in filtered water and a teaspoon of white vinegar for at least on hour.   After soaking, I drain and rinse again. Then I use a rice cooker to cook the rice. So for today, as soon as I get home I will start soaking the rice. While the rice is cooking and the bacon pieces are frying on our cast iron skillet, I cut up half a green bell pepper and a zucchini into bite size pieces. I have some left over chicken I pulled from the freezer to add to the dish. Now for the fun part. After the bacon has cooked through, I drain the bacon fat into a mason jar. To the bacon in the skillet I add the b...

So last Monday I started sprouting some mung beans to go with dinner later in the week. It takes longer for them to be ready. 1/4 cup mung beans went into a wide mouth mason jar with about 1/2 cup filtered water to rinse. After rinsing, I soaked them in filtered water for 8 hours, then drained the beans and put the mason jar on my wooden rack.  Every 12 hours or so I add water, swish them and then drain. Couldn't be simpler. The plan is to use them in stir-fry either Thursday or Friday for dinner. Mung beans need to be de-hulled before using them to cook. I've seen people use a salad spinner but I haven't much luck using one. I usually put my colander in a bigger bowl and fill both with water and the beans. I swish the beans/water around gently letting the hulls naturally come off. Because the mung beans are relatively big (compared to broccoli sprouts) it is easy to separate the sprouts from the hulls. The key is to be gentle..gentle. After the sprouts are separated ...