My Maui Zaui Polynesian Pizza Sauce recipe is a work in progress, but I’m glad to share my progress with you! This recipe is much closer than my last go-round. The recipe still is not quite right, but pretty close & pretty tasty! As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, we love Round Table Pizza’s … Continue reading
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Caramelized Onion Gravy
This is very similar to my French onion soup recipe (which you can also find here on cookplantmeditate). It made dynamite gravy. I poured it over caramelized onion stuffed pork chops, and mashed potatoes mixed with cream cheese, jack cheese, parsley & green onion. You will need: 3 tbs butter 4 tbs olive oil 3 … Continue reading
Jack & Coke BBQ Sauce
I made up a BBQ sauce recipe on the fly last summer using Coke. It was so good! But the more times I tried to re-create it, the further and further the recipe got away. I’ve realized on my winter BBQ sauce making break that I was using too much Coke. There is a very fine line … Continue reading
Simple Breathing Exercise
Here’s a simple breathing exercise that I learned in a pain management course. It works for almost anything you need it for – pain, stress, meditation. Deep breathing is the fastest way to balance your brain and your body. When we regulate our breathing, we supply our blood with necessary oxygen to regulate our blood … Continue reading
The Flow of Chi – Food for Thought: Controlling Clutter
In today’s society, we have spawned a need to accumulate things. Even worse, we have spawned a need to keep all of the things we accumulate. This creates clutter! Yes, the clutter has energy! All things possess of energy – both good and bad. Surround yourself with things you love and use frequently and those … Continue reading
Chinese Cooking: A Work in Progress
It was homemade stir fry & chow mein night at our house last night. It certainly wasn’t authentic Chinese food, but each time I get a little closer. Thanks largely to the show Easy Chinese, San Francisco. I really need to get a wok! My tip today: drop your sliced veggies for chow mein into … Continue reading
Pizza Night
This is another great homemade pizza but a failed attempt at recreating the Maui Zaui sauce recipe. We love Round Table Pizza’s Maui Zaui pizza with Polynesian Sauce. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy. Maybe citrusy? Never has recreating a recipe been quite so difficult for me! Today I tried about 1/2 cup each orange … Continue reading
French Onion Soup
My first homemade French onion soup. Oh yeah. It was good. My version: Creamy Dreamy Sweet “French” Onion Soup 2 lg sweet onions 2-4 tbs Olive oil 2 tbs Butter 1 tbs Flour 30 oz Beef stock (or stock and consumme – approximately 2 15 oz cans) Salt Pepper Fresh thyme sprigs 1/4 cup Milk … Continue reading