I made some homemade soy milk yesterday. The method isn't too difficult -- you just soak/grind/boil/strain soy beans -- but it's rather time-consuming without a soymilk machine, which I did not have. It's worth it though, if you have some time. The resulting fresh, homemade soy milk is delicious.
The mushy ground-up soybeans you strain out of the soymilk is called okara. I had a ton and I didn't want to waste it, so I looked up some okara recipes and made delicious carrot-raisin muffins from a recipe I found on an okara blog -- they are SO GOOD! They taste exactly like Lou's Earth Muffins (delicious, amazing muffins from a local bakery in Hanover, NH) and they're really healthy! (Here's the recipe.)
Then I made granola with the leftover okara.
I'm soaking soy beans now to make more soy milk tomorrow and I'm going to try making okara crab cakes and okara 'potato' salad, which I hope tastes like the tofu salad they have in Collis kitchen at Dartmouth. I love soy!!
Just chronicling my adventures in baking a bit... I've never really baked before, so this is new for me. Cooking is fun! I've begun to see the joy in cooking this year.
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