One of the things I have always liked to do is to make sure there substantial things on hand to always be able to throw a good meal together on the fly. There’s nearly always a grain on hand in the fridge and some sort of bean/legume/pulse that…
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I love nothing more than the taste of tender fresh stalks of asparagus this time of year. Asparagus and delicate onion seem to go well together. This simple, quick and easy soup came together in under 20 minutes from start to finish and is a delicious and elegant…
I wasn’t able to post anything for the past few days, because boy was this a lot of work. Friday and Saturday were both about 11 hour days and that was in addition to all of the time that was also spent Monday through Thursday. It was worth…
Here’s the menu. Much of it comes from Eric Tucker’s The Millennium Cookbook and The Artful Vegan. Both of them seem to have excellent ideas, though I find, in all honesty, that I can’t follow the recipes as written. Each one that I tried in advance has needed…
I’ve been working on planning a dinner party for next weekend. I’m super excited. I tested out a couple of the recipes last week to pretty good results once I was willing to tweak them to my one taste. I did most of the shopping for the rest…
More flour = more dough for biscuits = bigger, fluffier biscuits
I’ve posted a new video, this time for a South Indian dish known as a poriyal. This simple means a dish that is started with mustard seeds and urad dal that is toasted, or classically fried in oil, then cooked with chiles, turmeric, asafoetida, and curry leaves and…
I knew I wanted to make some chickpeas, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do with them. I did a quick search on the searchy thing looking for someone else’s idea of the 10 best chickpea recipes out there to see what came up. I found…
Traditional comfort food can be a challenge in an all plant-based diet but we have a winning solution. Avocado provides all the fat necessary to create amazingly light and fluffy biscuits and the cashew cream gravy would satisfy even the most devoted fan of this American classic. Throw…
Around Christmas, either as gifts or because we were out shopping, we picked up a bunch of new cookbooks to give us some new ideas for things to make. One of them was Forks Over Knives – The Cookbook, which has “over 300 recipes for plant-based eating all…