okara zine

[frandroid]

About 6 to 9 months ago, my partner decided to buy a "soymilk maker", which is a combination blender-pressure cooker where you put in soaked soybeans with water, you turn it on, and it cooks and grinds your soybeans into a pulp. You filter the resulting product and you get soymilk. What gets cast off is a sludge that the Japanese call okara. Personally, I would just throw it in the compost, because there really aren't many great recipes for the stuff out there. It's mostly flavourless bean filler. BUT it should not be wasted, and now we have surplus rapidly filling up our freezer.

In spite of selling zines for 20+ years (!!!!!), I've never made a zine myself. I've had a few ideas over the years, and I have one project that's a bit more advanced than others, but nothing close to completion.

Of course, to a zinester, "can't find this anywhere" is a publishing opportunity! So I've decided that I will put together a cookzine of okara recipes. I've already made veggie sausage, some sort of yemiser w'et (Ethiopian dish), and okara-augmented mashed potatoes. This seems a lot more straight-forward endeavour than my other zine ideas. I should aim to make a beta version for the anarchist bookfair in Montréal in May... I have to stay on top of the surplus, so huh, lack of storage is the mother of creation... *grumble*

Your suggestions and ideas are welcome.

Comments

[ioplokon]

There is a recipe on one of my fav cooking sites: https://www.justonecookbook.com/okara-unohana/

[frandroid]

Thank you! I love the crazy amount of detail she goes into :)

[ioplokon]

It's really impressive bc it's awesome SEO & gives her space to plug sponsored products but also like, is genuinely helpful & relevant, especially if you're learning a new technique or want to adapt the recipe.