Cold Ginger and Butter

These two kitchen tips come to us from a local friend, Gabrielle.

#1 — I love to use fresh ginger, but I don’t use it often enough to go through a whole root before it spoils. Also, it can be difficult to mince. So when I buy a fresh ginger root, I break it into two-inch pieces and freeze it all. When I want to use it, I take a chunk out of the freezer and it easily peels and shreds into tiny bits with a regular handheld cheese-grater (smallest holes). [...]

Ginger Chicken, Rice & Lentil Soup

Ginger Chicken, Rice & Lentil Soup This soup is heart-warming, healthy and delicious. Serve it on after a day spent outside in cool winter or fall weather. It makes a large quantity — great for company or for wonderfully nourishing leftovers. Even though the soup will be cooking in part all day long, it is [...]

Ginger Pear Crisp

I made two of these yesterday, one for us to enjoy and one to take to a mother-daughter breakfast for local homeschoolers. We gobbled ours up! I adapted a recipe from The ‘I Can’t Believe This Has No Sugar’ Cookbook by Deborah E. Buhr. I made small changes, but the biggest was adding ground ginger [...]

Ginger Chicken Stir Fry

We ate this for dinner last night. Oh, it was yummy. The sauce is what makes it so flavorful. I was out of fresh ginger, so I used the good quality powdered ginger from my spice cupboard. Wardeh's Ginger Chicken Stir Fry 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 red onion, quartered then sliced Assortment [...]