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 [...]
butternut squash macaroni & cheese
i’ve had this recipe bookmarked for almost two years now. every now & then i’d look at it, but ultimately decide against making it for one reason or another, but i never could forget about it completely. i love macaroni & cheese, but adding squash to it just sounded weird. tom agreed, but last week [...]
meatless monday | quinoa, chickpea & spinach salad with smoked paprika dressing
who doesn’t love something quick, healthy, simple & delicious to start the week? i won’t complain, because monday can certainly be…well, monday. the most difficult thing going on here is rinsing & cooking the quinoa, which is pretty much perfect after a long day has rendered you useless. QUINOA & SPINACH SALAD WITH SMOKED PAPRIKA [...]
meatless monday | grilled brie sandwiches with peach chutney
You remember that time when the husband & I ran off to Mexico & the California coast without scheduling any posts, or so much as mentioning anything about it here because I was too busy having panic attacks about the cross country flight (Even though I’ve flown that far before. Several times.) & using up [...]
meatless monday | dilled egg salad
i tried to make cupcakes yesterday & my “room temperature” frosting ingredients were liquid before they even hit the mixing bowl. that has nothing to do with this recipe, except to let you know that it’s still entirely too hot to think about cooking. or icing cupcakes, for that matter. luckily, hard boiling a few [...]
meatless monday | spicy quinoa salad
check out that forecast. we’ve got triple digits tomorrow, folks. & as refreshing as it sounds to eat ice cream for every meal, summer = swimsuit season. so yeah, there’s that. even though the title of this recipe suggests “spicy”, the cucumber, tomato & citrusy dressing keep it nice & light, yet satisfying enough {thanks [...]
sea salt baked potatoes
here we are on the home stretch of this week & i can’t even remember where all the time has gone. it’s been so busy & so full of things that you couldn’t even make up if you tried… …a serious blur. my friend/coworker blair & i were kidding that we’re going to have ptsd [...]
