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Features: A Different Kind of Grain Brew: Toasted grains make other refreshing beverages, too

When the mercury in the thermometer creeps up and your throat feels like a furnace, try reaching for some barley or rice to quench the fire – and we don’t mean beer. Grains in the form of teas, tisanes and coffee substitutes can double as refreshing, often low-cal beverages. Steeped cereals are termed teas or tisanes. But when they’re blended together with roots and other grains…Continue reading at SauceMagazine.com

Features: Box Lunch: Pack your bento with healthful Japanese rice balls

Whatever happened to the days when we looked forward to cracking open our lunchboxes and found food we wanted to eat? Bento, translated as “boxed lunch,” has been the answer in Japan to “What’s for lunch?” for hundreds of years. Bento were originally simple, portable meals but have evolved into something of an art. A bento is composed of a small, divided box filled with portions of rice, meat…Continue reading at SauceMagazine.com

Features: Trendy kombucha from your own kitchen

Kombucha has been drawing a lot of attention lately as a tasty beverage capable of healing all that ails. Miraculous claims aside, kombucha is a delicious fermented tea. It’s available at health food stores in a range of flavors – albeit for a steep price. However, it’s neither difficult nor dangerous to make large amounts of kombucha cheaply at home. It’s made by adding a kombucha culture, ca…
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Features: Dumplings Divine: Welcome spring with Japanese dango

Finally, winter is on its way out; crocuses have appeared and bare trees aren’t so bare anymore. Nothing says “spring” like cherry blossoms, though. It’s been a long-standing dream of mine to be in Japan when the cherry blossoms bloom. Each year, during March and April, cherry trees burst into clouds of pink throughout the country. The blossoming occurs in a wave…Continue Reading at SauceMagazine.com

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