This recipe for lemon potato salad with mint sounds easy and yummy for an upcoming summer meal on the patio. I always cut any oil in a recipe right back, sometimes even to zero. For example, I brown onions without oil. Instead I add a tablespoon of water or veggie stock. Add more as it dries out. The onions caramelize just the same and you save yourself a lot of calories and, according to the experts at Forks Over Knives, damage to your cardiovascular system, specifically the endothelial cell lining of your arteries.
In my last post on making soy milk at home I mentioned that you are going to end up with soy bean pulp, which is known as "okara" in Japanese. It's full of soy protein and fiber as well as calcium, iron, and riboflavin, so it just seems such a waste to throw it away. Correction: it is a waste to throw it away! Huge volumes of okara are left over from the commercial production of soy milk and tofu, most of which is fed to cows and pigs because for some reason people seem to prefer to eat okara only after it's been turned into the flesh of an animal. But we are not about to feed the okara left over from our soy-milk-making efforts to the pigs when it can curl our hair. We have experimented with a few ways to use our okara - add it to oatmeal for breakfast, add it to soup, or substitute it for 1/3 of the flour in any recipe. But our favorite thing is to use it to make chocolate chip cookies. Is it any wonder when we are such chocoholics! The result is a healthy co
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