%title From Floid.
%date 2006-11-21 04:39:50
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Fox nuts are infinitely better cooked in soup.  Takes out the dirt/bitter and they puff up not entirely unlike barley or bulgur or rice or whatever.  Recipe follows.

~1/3 cup fox nuts, 
~5 cups water, 
one skinless chicken breast snipped up with kitchen scissors, 
powdered ginger, 
two astragalus shaved-twig things, 
green onion/scallion, 
two pods cardamom, 
"dried black fungus" (shredded), 
1 cup orange juice, 

alternatingly boil and simmer all that crap together for a few hours until the chicken falls apart like in Campbell's soup.  == Yum.  Makes like 2-4 servings after the broth's boiled down.