{"id":1229,"date":"2010-08-16T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:50:53","slug":"rice-balls-just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/rice-balls-just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Balls just for fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

She ate some yesterday, but she’s obviously not well. I really hate seeing her like she is. It’s pretty brutal.<\/p>\n

Yesterday while Geli and Judah slept, I cooked.<\/p>\n

I bought this recipe book<\/a> on the advice of my naturopathic doctor and it’s probably one of my favorite recipe books ever.<\/p>\n

The author, Cynthia Lair, has her own Amazon page<\/a> where you can read blog posts and you can even subscribe to her You Tube Channel….where she hosts her cooking show – Cookus Interruptus<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see what’s involved…<\/p>\n

I prepared the sesame salt in advance by toasting sesame seeds and then grinding them with sea salt. <\/p>\n

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I also steamed the rice which is a blend of brown and sweet rice and let it cool to room temperature.<\/p>\n

That’s is the total of the ingredients involved. Rice, sesame seeds and sea salt. AWESOME!<\/p>\n

One the rice was cooled to room temperature we started.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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It’s pretty much that simple.<\/p>\n

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They are ready to eat right away. Here Siah shows that you can dip them in soy sauce. We use Braggs Aminos<\/a>. So SO delicious!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Mmmmmmm! They are so delicious. <\/p>\n

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These would be fabulous for school lunches and they last for 5 days in a sealed container in the fridge.<\/p>\n

We’ll definitely be making more of these in the future.<\/p>\n

I’d totally recommend this recipe book to anyone. It has tons of delicious whole foods recipes and they are easy to prepare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Rice Balls just for fun”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life","category-siah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}