Jon and Geli are at BC Children’s today. We have no idea if they’ll be coming home today or not. She is still vomiting and still has a headache. She is scheduled for a lumbar puncture and one dose of chemo and then……..ya, I have no clue.
She ate some yesterday, but she’s obviously not well. I really hate seeing her like she is. It’s pretty brutal.
Yesterday while Geli and Judah slept, I cooked.
I bought this recipe book on the advice of my naturopathic doctor and it’s probably one of my favorite recipe books ever.
The author, Cynthia Lair, has her own Amazon page where you can read blog posts and you can even subscribe to her You Tube Channel….where she hosts her cooking show – Cookus Interruptus.
We have found some of our all time family favorite meals and snacks from this book and yesterday, Josiah and I decided to try making the rice balls.
I know it sounds funny and honestly, its as simple as it sounds, but totally healthy and DELICIOUS. Even better, Siah had a ton of fun helping and then eating them.
Here you can see what’s involved…
I prepared the sesame salt in advance by toasting sesame seeds and then grinding them with sea salt.
I also steamed the rice which is a blend of brown and sweet rice and let it cool to room temperature.
That’s is the total of the ingredients involved. Rice, sesame seeds and sea salt. AWESOME!
One the rice was cooled to room temperature we started.
You need a bowl of water to keep your hands moist so that the rice won’t stick to them. You wet your hands and take a small ball sized amount of rice and roll and press it into a ball and then you roll it in the sesame salt…
It’s pretty much that simple.
They are ready to eat right away. Here Siah shows that you can dip them in soy sauce. We use Braggs Aminos. So SO delicious!
You can see by looking at his shirt that we really jump into cooking….like totally and completely….or maybe he just had a dirty shirt from lunch!
Mmmmmmm! They are so delicious.
These would be fabulous for school lunches and they last for 5 days in a sealed container in the fridge.
We’ll definitely be making more of these in the future.
I’d totally recommend this recipe book to anyone. It has tons of delicious whole foods recipes and they are easy to prepare.