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 | 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 [...]
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 [...]
the cornbread
amazing picture? no, but the cornbread in the skillet is the. best. ever. moist, cheesy, filled with chiles & corn & the slightest hint of nuttiness from brown butter. mmmmm. we’re totally guilty of making the jiffy from a box cornbread to serve alongside chili & soups, because the 44¢ convenience of not having to [...]
jicama salad
we have a whole slew of soups & good warm, wintery dishes to share with you, but the weather is just so nice & warm that i just can’t bring myself to write about them right now. i’m sure winter will be back to it’s regular bone chilling self soon enough. we’ll get to them [...]
cajun shrimp bisque
don’t let the name fool you…this isn’t a thick, rich & full of cream kind of bisque. it’s more like a welcome back to reality after a holiday, your pants are a little tight & you don’t need the guilt kind of bisque. lightened up with lowfat, or even skim milk, this subtly spicy soup, [...]
southwestern wagon wheel pasta salad
I have had this recipe starred in my Google Reader since last August and various mishaps (not bringing the recipe with me to the mountains, not having the correct spices on hand, etc, etc) have prevented us from trying it. Well, with the pantry and the spice cabinet fully stocked, company coming in from out [...]
corn dip
This is, by far, the EASIEST, EASIEST, EASIEST thing you could EVER make. Got that? The EASIEST. Even if you are a complete disaster in the kitchen YOU CAN DO THIS and people will LOVE IT. It gets devoured every time. Proof? We have made this several times before this post, and this is the [...]
