rice milk

I made rice milk today. It was pretty easy. Here's the recipe I used, which I found online:

1 cup cooked brown rice
4 cups water
blend
strain

To strain I used my big shallow strainer and a double layer of cheesecloth over a bowl - that seemed to work well. Towards the end I squeezed some more out with the cheesecloth. Then I used my roommates single cup coffee funnel thingy to get it into the containers. I ended up with quite a bit of quality rice milk, more than anticipated, so I had to find containers. I use it when I make french toast, tea, oatmeal, or for smoothies/vegan ice-cream. I'm pretty happy with it. Now I don't have to waste any more money on rice dream, and I don't have the added oil either.

I cleaned out an old dressing bottle and filled it with the rice milk so I can take it to work.

I also want to learn how to cook beans properly. Besides my salsa hummus, I like Amy's brand of low-fat black bean chili, but it'd be much cheaper if I learned to make it myself. I have a lot of cans of beans right now so I'm going to search for some recipes so I can just use what I have. Eventually I want to get to the point where I use dry beans rather than canned - that'd save me a lot of money also.

I want to get better about bringing my lunch to work and eating in. Save la moola.

The other delicious recipe I want to make myself is the kale avocado salad from Whole Foods. Minus the avocado. I can eat it everyday but it does have flax seed oil and anyways it'd be cheaper to make it myself. I think I read somewhere for kale you have to boil it for 2 minutes. I'll try. I also got a book called Greens, Glorious Greens so I'm gonna poke in there also.