NEW PALEO RECIPE: Creamy Chicken Soup

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I primarily cook Paleo/real food meals and am looking to expand my repertoire this year. I tried I Heart Umami’s Creamy Chicken Kale Soup recipe although I omitted the kale; partly because I genuinely forgot, and partly because I’m not a big fan of kale so I don’t make an effort to remember to buy it! It’s simple to make and a great way of using up any leftover chicken or turkey you may have. Creamy Chicken Soup

One of the ingredients that intrigued me is cassava flour. I’ve never cooked with it before, and there’s another recipe I’d like to try one day that uses it. According to the comment section of the recipe, those who don’t want to use cassava flour can use arrowroot powder as a substitute although the proportions would be different: 1 tbsp cassava flour = 1 tsp arrowroot powder.

Everything was made from scratch including the bone broth which I always have one hand because I make a batch about once a week using Nom Nom Paleo’s Bone Broth Recipe and then store it as 3oz frozen cubes for whenever I need to use any.

This was a huge hit with D! He said it would be perfect for eating after a cold day on the slopes.

Imaginary Worlds Podcast

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I’m an avid podcast listener, and one of my favorites is Imaginary Worlds by Eric Molinsky where he talks about science fiction and fantasy.

I haven’t read nearly enough books about Greek mythology so I learned a lot from his interview with author Madeline Miller. I admire how she published her reimagined tales even though she was initially dissuaded from doing so by an ex-boyfriend who chided her for writing “fan fiction”. Speaking of which, I only learned from the podcast that the story of Achilles being held by the ankle and dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis to obtain invulnerability wasn’t in the Iliad; that side note appears in poems written many years later.

In the Iliad, Achilles refuses to fight Agamemnon until Hector kills Patroclus, after which he drags Hector’s body around the streets. Who is Patroclus, and why the seemingly disproportionate reaction over his death? Miller is thoughtful about Achilles’ motivations and pieces together clues about their relationship. I was so fascinated by all this I rushed out to put a hold on her book “A Song of Achilles” at my local library but there’s an extended waitlist.

Fortunately, today’s Amazon Gold Box sale has the Kindle version discounted to only $1.99 so I insta bought it. I hope it’s nearly as good as it sounds in the podcast.

P.S. If you enjoy Imaginary Worlds please consider joining me as their Patreon subscriber.

Relaunching My Blog!

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It’s been several years since I’ve written anything in my blog. My old website still exists on Blogger, and miraculously it still all resolves correctly using the beautiful custom CSS templates and Javascript menu items I coded myself!

Instead of updating that blog however, I’m creating a new one on WordPress via the free tools available with my hosting provider, Inmotion Hosting. I thought it would be relatively straightforward but it still took several hours to set things up the way I wanted. I think one of my first posts will be to document how to create a blog if you have Inmotion Hosting as a provider, how to resolve some of the errors I encountered, etc.

In the intervening years since my previous blog post, I had two kids (hence I didn’t have time to blog) and instead of being employed by a big corporation, I manage money for a family office based in Asia.

My interests have remained similar but have shifted somewhat…

  • On the gaming front, I stopped playing World of Warcraft and switched to Heroes of the Storm although I’ve since quit that game too. I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THAT!
  • Regarding fitness, instead of road biking, triathlons, and teaching group exercise, I do CrossFit
  • When it comes to arts & crafts, I’m still very much a knitter!

Come back soon at which point I hope to have built up more posts to read!