The usual Saturday morning pancakes with a hint of nutmeg, served with apples and walnuts cooked in brown sugar and lemon juice
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Red beans and rice with steamed greens and salsa
You may have observed that all my food ends up as a “bowl.” It’s not that I never do anything more elaborate; weeknights just don’t lend themselves to it, in my experience. It’s enough to throw things in a pot/pan/oven and give it a little sauce to pull it together. That’s more than a lot…
Orange-cashew tofu with cabbage and kale
Making dinner for myself again tonight and I didn’t want to wait on rice to cook, so I made this tofu stir-fry to go with some wilted greens. Tofu: pan-fried in my trusty cast-iron skillet with a little olive oil and a pinch of salt, then set aside. Greens: shredded green cabbage and half a…
I’m not sure if this will taste any good. The onions burned. The basil-mint coulis looks like green water. The lemon risotto is gunky. Sometimes I try and I fail. EDIT: OK, but actually, the flavor is not bad. I managed to avoid the burnt bits when I mixed the onions/greens with the beans, the…
My boyfriend had dinner at work, so I was cooking just for me. So … It’s just some stuff. Roasted slices of delicata squash, sauteed spinach and garlic, pan-fried tempeh (i kinda burned it) , and some tomato and avocado. Also: black pepper. Boyfriend dislikes black pepper. It’s only for me. Mmmm, black pepper.
Vegan Chopped! Channa masala with plums, radish salad, and oolong basmati rice
I LOVE watching Chopped! even though it involves a lot of reverence for dead animal “proteins.” The creativity in throwing together random ingredients in a short period of time isn’t too far off from how I often cook dinner, albeit with less totally obscure ingredients (by vegan standards). So when they announced the ingredients for…
Because I didn’t cook at all on Friday, this is my Saturday breakfast. Pan-roasted fingerling potatoes, scrambled tempeh and kale, heirloom tomatoes and avocado. Yum.
It started with a stalk of sprouts
I don’t usually like to get the stalks of brussels sprouts because the damn things already so much work to prep, but it called to me. I cradled it like a baby–a silent, green, nodule-covered, leafy baby. Mmm. And now you know too much about how my brain works. So I prepared the brussels, starting…
Tempeh sausage pizza with fresh heirloom tomato sauce and onions and peppers with a simple side salad
Not entirely successful, but still pretty good
Not every meal is a winner. Sometimes things don’t quite gel. It happens. It’s still good. We all gotta eat. Goddamn this is blurry. Like I said, nothing’s perfect. This was a roasted tofu, kari squash, and red onion dish from Big Vegan by Robin Asbell. This is pretty tasty, though my squash took longer…
Vegans Need Sauce 