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Broiled Grapefruit with Cardamom

Broiled Grapefruit with Cardamom. This is best if you use freshly crushed cardamom seeds, but the whole pods of whole seeds may be hard to find. The prepackaged cardamom powders are good, but not as flavorful. You can...

Buddhist camp in back near trees with orange TIbetan door.

Keystone Pipeline Dead

Buddhist camp in back near trees with maroon and saffron TIbetan door. On June 9. 2021 TransCanada (TC) Energy cancelled all their remaining plans for the Keystone XL pipeline. This came as good news to the native...

Guny's Slaw.

Guny’s Slaw

Guny’s Slaw. When Bhikkhu Gunaratana stayed at the temple, I would make this salad for him. He liked it so much and could eat so much of it, I named it for him. It is a road map type of recipe that can go in...

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox. Another lovage recipe that turned out very well. The original was made with bacon, but it is very good with lox. You can leave out the lox for a vegan version, but I would add a drop or...

Mushroom, Lovage, and Wild Rice Soup

Just made this wonderful soup with the lovage I now have growing inside. I had the lovage in a pot on my patio, but the 107 degree heat caused it to wilt so badly, I needed to harvest the limp leaves and bring the rest...