One of my co-workers had a particularly productive spaghetti squash harvest and as a result, I’ve been gifted with a couple dozen the beautiful gourds. When you’ve got 21 spaghetti squash hanging about, there’s only so much squash and tomato sauce a person can take. So I’ve been branching out, finding other ways to use…
Tag: vegan food
Harvest Tempeh Bake
This is the recipe you take out when you want to impress for Thanksgiving dinner and take advantage of the late-season harvest. Tasty, savory, 100% comfort food – this bake doesn’t only look pretty! Consider yourself warned however: this is not a recipe you make on a weeknight when you’re pressed for time. It also…
Almond Meal Veggie Pâté
If you make your own strained almond (or other nut) milk, then you know that nut meal multiplies quickly and that the freezer can only hold so much of it before you run out of space for other stuff. I’m therefore eternally looking for things to do with nut mulch since I abhor wasting food….
Arugula-Pistachio Pesto Pasta
Arugula grows like a weed in the garden and there’s only so much salad that one can take. Luckily, it can be used in much the same way as spinach or basil, with an extra peppery punch that is. It can also bulk out pesto and combines beautifully with whatever herbs are fresh and in…
Apple-Sprout Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
Summer has sprung and the young kale and arugula in the garden are ready for the first of many harvests! Combined with whatever small sprout is ready in the kitchen, this signals the time for one of my favourite salads. The sweet, spicy, crunchy and creamy all explode in the mouth with every bite and…
Cherry Chocolate Macaroons
I’m always looking for new ways to use the strained dregs of my home-made almond milk. This was a really successful kitchen experiment, particularly if you like a chewy macaroon without too much sweetness. The subtle flavour of the almond and coconut really shine while the chocolate and dried cherries add an irresistible decadence. They’re…
Incorporating Herbs into Daily Life: Herbal Soups, Broths and Porridge
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the word for herbal tea and the word for soup are the same: tang. This isn’t surprising since the herbal decoctions of that system of medicine are indeed quite thick, heavy and broth-like when they aren’t being cooked directly into meat or water-based soups or rice porridge – both of which…
Awesome Indian-Style Veggies and Grains
As so often happens, the recipe I ended up making was nothing like the one I’d initially planned on. For starters there isn’t even any pineapple in it and the point of the exercise when I began was to use some of the pineapple that’s ready on the kitchen counter. But it’s a good thing…
Quinoa-Bean Burgers (and Variations)
I’ve been dithering about whether on not to post this recipe for a few days now. It’s good, it’s reliable, but it isn’t fabulous. It is quick to put together and freezes well. It does use up leftovers. But what really tipped the scales in favour of posting is that it illustrates a basic veggie-burger…
Banana-Date-Pinto Bean Cookies (don’t knock’em ’til you try’em)
While I haven’t forgotten about the last installment of the articles on caffeine-containing herbs, I have had to temporarily put it on hold in order to prepare the cooking classes that I’ve been giving in the local community of late. This week’s class is on cooking with beans, above and beyond the pea soup and…
Riced Cauliflower Salad
When you’re home alone with the baby (or if you’re the only one in the house that eats vegetables), then a full head of cauliflower is a lot to get through. This salad is what happened as a result of wanting to save half a head of the stuff from certain doom as a compost…
Black Chana Hummus
The first thing I learnt to make in the kitchen was hummus. It only involved the use of the food processor, a can opener and a knife: no crapping up my Mother’s oven range, no splattering the walls with the side effects of an enthusiastically but inexpertly wielded egg-beater. It was a perfect compromise in her…
Crunchy Cooking 