You Ate What...?

I was inspired to write because we are having a new ingredient with our dinner tonight. Unfortunately neither asparagus nor stewed chicken and rice is weird enough for this blog. So, I decided to go with pho (pronounced like "fun" without the 'n'), a food we've eaten for years but is relatively unknown to most of our friends. The Wikipedia image for Pho Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup. Usually it has a variety of beef cuts (typically you can choose which cuts you want), rice noodles, onions, broth, and comes with condiments of bean sprouts, basil, lime and jalapenos. The broth takes a really long time to make and the taste varies wildly between recipes and places. It's a beef broth with things like charred onion and ginger, star anise, cardamom, coriander, fennel, and clove. I enjoy the ones that are more full-bodied. I've been to one place where it tasted like powdered soup packets. The sheer size of servings are amazing, particularly when (at lea...

I know, I know...I am horribly late writing this post. I'm sorry. My current New Year's Resolution is to write more often. Okay, now that's taken care of... Let's turn our subject to milk. I will start out by saying I love cow's milk. I have tried all types of cow's milk from raw to ultra skim. I prefer Braum's lowfat milk. I am okay with raw milk if it has chocolate. I do not like soy milk much. I just don't like the taste, and I have more than enough estrogen without adding xeno-estrogen or whatever it's called. We hadn't really tried other milks other than soy, but there is such as large selection at the fancy natural/health food stores we currently frequent that we had to try them out. John's lactose-intolerant, so it works out well. He can drink these milks without taking any sort of pill. What we drank: A variety of non-dairy "milks" What we thought: Soymilk seems to be most popular. It's okay in a pinch, but if I d...