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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
meatless monday | chipotle spiced winter chili
last year around this time, tom & i took to roasting sheet after sheet of sweet potatoes, turnips, celeriac & parsnips to try to get in some daily doses of fresh veggies. it can be kind of hard {& depressing} to try to eat well in the depths of winter when the only fresh things [...]
meatless monday | cauliflower soup
i hope everyone had a fabulous thanksgiving. i know we did & with my birthday last week too, we had cake & pizza & beer & thanksgiving & leftovers & biscuits & gravy to celebrate. & while i don’t necessarily feel guilty about that {remind me i said that next week when my pants no [...]
meatless monday | posole
i’ve always been a toppings person. baked potato? load it up. whole foods salad bar? i’ll make you a $10 salad in no time, with very few leafy greens. so when i read the recipe for this soup, i knew i was going to like it. i mean, check out that plate of toppings. now [...]
meatless monday | spicy black bean soup
so, our garden really does well with no human intervention. first the basil, now the chiles. they are out of control. we’ve candied them {i’ll have to share that soon. sooo good.} & have a big batch of pepper vodka steeping, but there’s still a ton, so we’ve been on the hunt for recipes that [...]
summer vegetable chili
i know i said it last week, but i am resisting the urge to dive head first into all the fall lattes, beers, coffee creamers, scarves, etc. that burst onto the market as soon as we kissed labor day goodbye. i’m not ready. it’s not cool enough. you can still get a good sunburn. & [...]
sweet corn & peach soup
my coworker sent me this recipe just in time for our iron chef: battle peach. i found it oddly intriguing. it was a vegan recipe to begin with, sweet corn, peaches, fresh basil…all the fresh flavors of summer cooked together with almond milk {i’m sure regular milk would be fine, but the husband seems to [...]
lighter loaded potato soup
i’m not entirely sure what’s happened to spring, but the weather has been pretty horrawful for the past few days, & promises to continue up until the weekend. in the meantime, i’ll settle for a good, quick bowl of hearty potato soup, lightened up with milk, but that’s every bit as creamy as a super [...]
