meatless monday | white bean ragout with toast
everyone knows that bruschetta is the perfect appetizer. it’s basically a blank slate for any number of delicious toppings. everyone’s super familiar with the old tomatoes & basil standby. we’ve even made a couple varieties here & here. for this week’s recipe, i wanted to take the this typical starter & elevate it into something [...]
meatless monday | black bean cakes with corn salsa & avocado cream
a great salsa has the ability to kick a dish up a few notches & that’s exactly the premise of this week’s food matters project recipe. with a simple fruit {or vegetable}-herb-acid combination, you’ll easily have an endless variety of salsas at your fingertips. we took this week”s original salsa recipe & swapped out the [...]
meatless monday | roasted asparagus & white bean soup
i realize that a lot of the fun with the food matters project is checking in to see all the creative ways the other participants tweak & personalize each week’s recipe, but when it sounds so good as written, sometimes it’s ok to leave well enough alone. we don’t always do that, but it was [...]
meatless monday | no work, mostly whole wheat pizza
pizza is a food that we usually order out for, unless there’s a certain topping combination that we know we can only get if we do it ourselves. even then, we typically cheat & buy our dough somewhere, instead of making it. we’ve just never really found a recipe for dough that we’ve loved enough [...]
cassoulet with lots of vegetables
this was another winning recipe from the food matters project. cassoulet is a traditionally french dish, made up of beans & meat, slow cooked for hours & hours & hours. mark bittman’s food matters version lightens the dish up, using just a pound of meat for the entire dish, but adds other veggies, like zucchini, [...]
vegetables au vin with coq
this week’s food matters project recipe was chosen by eve & sam of fifth floor kitchen. it’s a twist on traditional coq au vin, nutritionally beefed up with more veggies than the classic dish. this time, we didn’t stray from the original recipe for this one. & while we both really liked it {i especially [...]
meatless monday | curried tomato soup with hard boiled eggs
simply judging from the title, i thought this week’s food matters project recipe was going to be good. i didn’t read the recipe beforehand & tom put together the grocery list, so i didn’t give it another thought until we set out to make it. tom started pulling out the ingredients, tomatoes, onions, garlic…regular tomato [...]
seared bean sprouts with pork & sesame orange sauce
well that was an unintended absence. last week, my macbook pro met an untimely death at the hands of my husband & a full oskar blues g’knight beer. it was in standby mode, so we threw it in a bag full of rice, made a genius bar appointment & cried hoped for the best. $1300 [...]
meatless monday | baked rigatoni with brussels sprouts, figs & blue cheese
around this time last year, tom & i embarked on a new food journey…giving up meat for lent. we had gotten too used to the idea that a piece of chicken, or pork tenderloin, or something similar, should be the anchor of every meal & had fallen victim to the convenience of running to the [...]
tomatillo chicken stew
i was really hoping this stew wouldn’t be all that great. i mean, i wanted it to taste good, but just didn’t feel like the plating & the garnishing & the photographing…i was tired & hungry & just wanted to slop it in a bowl & eat. so I went over to the stove, where [...]
