{"id":1570,"date":"2009-12-10T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T00:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2009-12-10T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T00:43:49","slug":"healthy-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Healthy gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cashew-gravy.JPG' title='cashew-gravy.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cashew-gravy.JPG' alt='cashew-gravy.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Cashew gravy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gravy is one of my favorite comfort foods, but it&#8217;s a sin &#8212; all that fat and carb. I&#8217;ve rediscovered Rosalie Hurd&#8217;s cashew gravy from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1552\">Ten Talents<\/a><\/em> cookbook. It&#8217;s based on cashew nuts whizzed in a blender with liquid. The cashews thicken the gravy when it starts to boil, just like flour. I use soy milk instead of water to make the gravy richer and boost the protein.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this gravy would work very well for something like biscuits and gravy (one of my favorite comfort foods). But it&#8217;s great as a sauce for things like basmati rice. Make a lot and use the leftover in casseroles of the type that call for canned cream of mushroom soup.<\/p>\n<p>You can also used blanched almonds. Cashews and almonds, by the way, are the least expensive nuts right now at Whole Foods. The price of walnuts has jumped all of a sudden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cashew gravy Gravy is one of my favorite comfort foods, but it&#8217;s a sin &#8212; all that fat and carb. I&#8217;ve rediscovered Rosalie Hurd&#8217;s cashew gravy from the Ten Talents cookbook. It&#8217;s based on cashew nuts whizzed in a blender with liquid. The cashews thicken the gravy when it starts to boil, just like flour. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthy gravy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}