Tonight’s dinner is an everything-in-the-pot spiced stew: onions, garlic, tomato sauce, sweet red peppers, serrano chillies, collard greens, tempeh, black beans, yams, zucchini, cilantro, cumin, and coriander. Not too shabby.

Loaded baked potato

This wasn’t photogenic, but it was delicious. I made some quick tempeh-black bean chili with an onion, jar of whole tomatoes, red pepper flakes, ground ancho chilies, cayenne pepper, cumin, coriander, three cloves of crushed garlic, and a splash of soy sauce to season. It came together very quickly and cooked down to a fairly…