A last-minute minute potluck dinner party, I’m hosting, and I find that I do not have the phyllo dough in the freezer that I thought I had. Nevermind, I decided to make a risotto instead. But the aborio box only has a cup of rice in it! A quick ingredient search on epicurious.com (squash, onions, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘kale’
14 Jun
Savory CousCous Salad
I love grain salads, but I often want them to pack a little more punch. This simple salad (really!) included fried chard and garlic, along with chopped carrots, red onions, green onions, sun-dried tomatoes in oil, capers, diced carrots and some raw sprouted chickpeas. I added (of course) some oil to the couscous and a [...]
30 Mar
Spring is Coming, but until then….
Folks, we are still in the dark days. I wish I could say that it wasn’t true, but as much as those few beautiful Philly days two weekends ago had me dreaming of summer tomatoes, it;’s just not that time yet. While those of us who are trying to eat seasonally are more than a [...]
8 Nov
Delicious Greens and Faux-Southen food
What to do with a pile of greens that’s interesting, fast and delicious? I had a huge pile of kale and bored with all my old ideas. A little flip through Simply in Season saved the night with their kale with peanut sauce recipe. Organic peanut butter, garlic, red onions, and the result was delicious [...]
30 Apr
Raw Beet Slaw
“Slaw” is a pretty loose term. Finely chop some veggies up, add vinegar, and you have one. I had some beautiful beets and remembering a raw beet, carrot and apple slaw I once sampled at the Prospect Park farmer’s market, I set to work. Of course, because I had a fridge full of greens, I [...]
14 Apr
Kale Chips
I’ve seen so many mentions of kale chips recently, I finally had to break down and find out how hard they actually are to make. The answer – easy! Super easy! So easy I don’t even need to write a recipe, I’m just going to describe the process. Take a big old bunch of kale, [...]
15 Mar
Senegalese Peanut Soup
I made this Senegalese Peanut Soup from Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian for an annual work soup event. Somehow, this simple soup (I doubled the hot peppers and added additional peanut butter) got even better reviews than my spicy udon shitake soup. The key to the soup (besides the fresh kale and good quality [...]
25 Jan
Orange Pan-Glazed Tempeh with kale and soy-miso carrots
I made this orange pan-seared tempeh from the recipe on 101 Cookbooks. While the flavor was fine, the tempeh didn’t really glaze – it more like boiled in the sauce and softened. Maybe a bit more sugar, or less orange sauce, and I would have gotten the results I was looking for. I served the [...]
1 Dec
Tempeh, Greens, and Zucchini
For a delicious and (fairly) easy Sunday night dinner, I whipped up a the Smoky Grilled Tempeh from Veganomican, though I omitted the liquid smoke added a little extra maple syrup, and threw in a splash of tequila. Veganomican advises boiling the tempeh before marinating it, and I think it makes all the difference, removing [...]
