The Daily Momo Revived - And Now With Recipe Ideas!

 Hello fans of the Daily Momo. I'm sorry I have not posted in so long. I had the idea recently of trying to do more postings about food, since everyone in the family (especially Susie!) is always asking me for recipes. Fixing food is a huge focus of my life, so that I can eat healthy and also feed my family well. Do I sound like a 1950s housewife? Well, that's by choice! Which makes me NOT exactly a 1950s housewife, but that's another conversation.

One of the great things I did recently is make GHEE, and I would like to share that process with you. I cannot tolerate dairy products (says

an immunological test I took awhile back). Ghee is an excellent substance -- dairy-intolerant or not. I actually prefer it to butter. I decided to make my own because I am trying to eat all pastured foods (which for butter means grassfed, basically, as opposed to grain-fed cattle). But you can't get pastured ghee in the store. But you CAN get pastured butter, at least here in Portland, so I decided to make ghee myself so that it would be from a pastured source. If you want to know why pastured animal products are better for you, I can't go into that in detail here, but there are a number of resources out there that explain this (just google around about it). Not to mention countless books. Anyway, so the first time I made ghee it was a disaster - I ended up with a pot of black sludge. Clearly the instructions I'd been given were not working. So I did some online research and found this recipe, which worked brilliantly:

What I realized from this recipe is that the key is you have to STIR the ghee. I did not do this before and that seems to be why I didn't succeed. Anyway, check it out and give it a try, family. I fully buy into the healing properties of ghee (Ayurvedic medicine has a lot to say about this, and this is where I first learned about and started loving ghee - long before I knew I had an issue with dairy). It's a lot of fun when you get it right, and the results are absolutely sublime. But follow the instructions carefully! You will end up with a beautiful, heavenly-smelling pot of golden creamy dreamy ghee. YUM! I even put it in my creamy coconut-turneric tea every evening - recipe here (and by the way Mark's Daily Apple is awesome!)

Enjoy!