February 10, 2007: Super Sandwich

made my own, using a couplet of eggs, the juice of one-half a lemon together with close a loving cup of inexpensive olive oil. It tastes fantastic, alone takes v minutes inwards a nutrient processor together with you lot tin bet it terms less than $9.90. There's enough of fourth dimension to instruct busy spell the fruit together with veg are inwards the oven.

January 20, 2008: Caribbean Beans Together With Greens Wrap

Piedemontes, but were forced to settle for chicory, which was in all probability a chip of a stretch. Anyway, that aside, the whole procedure took close xx minutes as well as served upwardly a filling, salubrious as well as thematically appropriate meal. Like a lot of Moosewood recipes, it was in all probability a petty on the bland side for my tastes - but a sprinkling of jalapenos was all it took to resolve that problem.

Ingredients
1 loving cup diced onion
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups of greens (chicory inwards our case, collard greens inwards the master recipe)
1.5 cups cooked dark beans (we simply used 1 400g can)
3 tablespoons orangish juice
1 tablespoon oil

Saute the onions as well as garlic inwards the crude until they're dainty as well as soft (8-10 minutes). Add inwards the thyme, allspice as well as greens as well as a splash of water. Cover as well as allow fix for close five or x minutes, until the greens lead maintain wilted away.

Push the greens to i side of the pan as well as popular inwards the beans. Give them a quick squelch as well as a stir, add together inwards the orangish juice, stir it all together as well as lead maintain it off the heat. Warm the tortillas inwards a pan, fill upwardly amongst the beany mush as well as eat.

April 20, 2009: Leftover Makeover - Thai Kokosnoot Soup

Vegan Indian Potluck knew non to fill upwards up on bland staples patch in that place was such an abundance of vibrant curries (and pastries!) on offer. So, at the cease of the night, nosotros establish ourselves amongst leftover curry to feed one, a large saucepan of dried-out rice, in addition to a final unopened bundle of roti. (There were also a position out of mushrooms, leftover from pizza, slumbering inward the fridge.) With a wisp of wintertime inward the air, I planned a large pot of soup filled out amongst rice; if I could rail downwards a Thai or Indian-inspired number, in addition to hence the roti would brand a perfect side!

Our Moosewood cookbook's been sitting neglected for a patch (Chinese-style bbq sauce recipe excepted), withal it most forthwith provided an answer when I opened it - a Thai-style soup amongst mushrooms, tofu, lemongrass stock in addition to kokosnoot milk. I took the author's advice in addition to doubled the quantity of stock, freezing one-half of it for later. I took about liberties, though, regarding rice in addition to spice. The recipe didn't include whatsoever rice but I happily up-ended 2-3 cups of it into the simmering soup. While Moosewood recipes are ofttimes verdant amongst herbs, they're a niggling timid amongst the spices; I increased their pinch of cayenne to several rigorous shakes.

The lawsuit was only was nosotros (and our over-burdened fridge) needed - smoothen in addition to filling, amongst that Thai squad of heat, sweetness, limey tang in addition to a impact of salt. But it's non quite a stand upwards for for Lucy's tofu inward lemongrass broth.


Thai kokosnoot soup
(based on a recipe inward Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)

lemongrass stock
6 cups water
3 fresh lemongrass stalks, coarsely chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
1 leek or onion, coarsely chopped
1 large carrot, peeled in addition to chopped
6cm piece fresh ginger, sliced
1/4 teaspoon whole dark peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds

soup
1 10 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
2 tablespoons lime juice
cayenne pepper, to taste
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
200g theater tofu, sliced into cubes
1 loving cup mushrooms, sliced
2-3 cups cooked basmati rice
1 tablespoon fresh coriander, chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt

For the stock, position all the ingredients inward a large saucepan, convey them to the boil, in addition to hence comprehend in addition to simmer them for 35 to 45 minutes. Drain the vegetables from the stock, squeezing them to larn equally much liquid equally possible.

For the soup, render the stock to the saucepan in addition to add together the kokosnoot milk, lime juice, cayenne in addition to turmeric. Bring it to a simmer earlier adding the tofu, mushrooms, rice, coriander in addition to common salt in addition to hence attain for three to five minutes.

Serve the soup garnished amongst extra coriander leaves.

April 4, 2007: Wednesday Black Mexican

It's been a piece since nosotros entertained anyone inward our home, but roughly newcomers to my workplace provided a proficient argue to describe out the biggest saucepan too purchase an extra 6-pack of beer. Tracy too her partner Lee are the latest Brisbane migrants to Melbourne's inner N too from fifty-fifty farther afield (the Northern Territory!), Beth has at 1 time taken upwards residence at a desk side yesteryear side to mine. On Wed eve they gave me an hr or hence caput showtime from the role to gear upwards up a Mexican-themed dinner at home.

On my previous night's planning, I made the determination to move along this weeknight repast quite casual too low-stress. This meant no-fuss appetisers too desserts, too a serve-yourself top dog course. Michael had picked out roughly perfectly ripe avocadoes too it didn't accept also long to mash them alongside a really juicy lime too stir inward roughly finely chopped crimson onion too a flake of sour cream. Voila! Tangy guacamole. I brought out the Chilli Factory salsa every bit a spicy side, too in that location were Coronas all round.

Michael tin accept most of the credit for dinner - an enormous pot of TVP/red edible bean chilli. This is the variety of hearty vegetarian dish that ensures we'll never hanker for spag bol: thick love apple tree sauce alongside chopped veges, crimson kidney beans too our favourite pseudo-mince ladled into bowls too garnished alongside a dab of sour cream. My contribution was to whip upwards a cheesy cornbread batter too bake it inward a muffin tray. We kept the chilli too cornbread minimally spicy, offering pickled jalapenos too finely diced chipotles to cater for the varying tastes too tolerances amid us.

For once, I showed a flake of restraint on the dessert front. Rather than poring over cookbooks for days too baking something rich too labour-intensive, I turned to Allergy Block for roughly theme-appropriate chocolate. I constitute the Green too Black's Maya Gold I was later on too also picked upwards roughly other doozy - dark chocolate with cayenne! Good intelligence that it's organic, vegan too made alongside ethically-purchased cocoa. It was a pleasant 70% cocoa block too a deadening burner - I was chewing for a proficient 5 seconds earlier I detected the cayenne, but it's an unmistakable estrus at the dorsum of the pharynx 1 time it does arrive. The G&B's was everything I remembered it to be: shine but non waxy too alongside an intensely orangish too subtly spiced edge.

Admittedly this was a flake to a greater extent than involved than our green weeknight meal, but nosotros lost naught inward stripping the bill of fare dorsum from my to a greater extent than elaborate efforts of the past. When the guests get got left too I'm stacking the dishwasher, I experience to a greater extent than satisfied from having spent fourth dimension inward proficient companionship than I e'er volition from huddling inward the kitchen for hours on end, trying to print alongside risky too complicated food.



Chilli alongside TVP
(from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 crimson onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon set down cumin
1 tablespoon set down coriander
1-2 teaspoons chilli powder
1 medium zucchini, diced
1 large crimson capsicum, diced
2 cups of TVP, re-hydrated inward 2 cups of hot water
2 x 800g cans crushed tomatoes
2 x 800g cans crimson kidney beans, rinsed too drained
2/3 loving cup love apple tree paste
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
Tabasco or other hot sauce to taste
salt, to taste
optional garnish of grated cheese or sour cream

Heat the petroleum inward a large saucepan, frying the onions too garlic until soft. Add the cumin, coriander too chilli pulverisation too stir well. Next add together the diced zucchini too capsicum, embrace too gear upwards for three minutes. Stir inward the TVP too gear upwards for a few to a greater extent than minutes until it's heated through. The canned tomatoes too beans larn inward next, hence lastly the parsley too seasonings. The chilli tin rest covered on a depression to medium heat, alongside occasional stirs, if you lot are preparing other nutrient (such every bit delicious cornbread!). If the chilli is thicker than you lot prefer, sparse it out alongside a footling H2O or stock only a infinitesimal or ii earlier serving. To serve, ladle the chilli into bowls or mugs too garnish if you lot wish.


Cajun Cornbread
(from Kurma Dasa's World Vegetarian Food)

1 loving cup polenta
1/2 loving cup obviously flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika (substitute roughly or all of this alongside cayenne if you lot like)
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon freshly set down dark pepper
2 tablespoons minced dark-green chillies (optional)
1 loving cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons oil
3/4 loving cup grated tasty cheese

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C. Combine the dry out ingredients, polenta through to the optional chillies, inward a bowl too mix well. In a sort out pocket-size bowl, whisk together the buttermilk too oil. Combine the dry out too moisture ingredients (don't over-mix) too crimp inward the grated cheese. Spoon the mixture into a greased loaf pan, pie dish or muffin tray (I made 8 pocket-size muffin portions). Bake for close xx minutes or until golden on top. Serve warm.

July 21, 2007: Fennel Leek Soup

We needed a ameliorate excuse for our trip to Preston Markets than merely the nearby bakery, hence earlier nosotros ready off nosotros dug upwards this fennel leek soup recipe from our Moosewood cookbook for Lord's Day night's dinner. It was loaded upwards heavily alongside vegetables as well as seemed similar it would move a decent winter's dinner. The recipe took a fleck longer than I anticipated - yous basically destination upwards making your ain stock for the base of operations of the soup - as well as the in conclusion production was a niggling brusk on flavor (at to the lowest degree partly due to my forgetting to lay pepper in), but yet heavy, warming as well as satisfying. The thin-sliced radishes were a fine accompaniment, equally were the croutons that Cindy made upwards from the fresh staff of life we'd picked upwards at the markets, but the whole bundle was merely slightly brusk of flavour. It's something to plow over - perchance upwards the leek content for side past times side time.

Fennel leek soup (courtesy Moosewood Restaurant's New Classics)
ane fennel bulb, trimmed
3 leeks
ii carrots, peeled as well as chopped
four large potatoes, peeled as well as chopped
ane teaspoon dried thyme
ane teaspoon fennel seeds
ii teaspoons salt
ii tablespoons olive oil
ii cups spinach, rinsed as well as stemmed
ii tablespoons chopped dill
Juice of ane lemon
10 cups of water
Thinly sliced radishes
Croutons

Trim off the odds as well as ends from the leeks as well as fennel bulb as well as rinse them (the odds as well as ends I mean) thoroughly. Keep the expert bits aside for later. Place the odds as well as ends inwards a large pot along alongside the carrots, one-half the potatoes, the thyme, fennel seeds as well as around salt. Cover alongside the H2O as well as boil for 45 minutes or an threescore minutes to brand stock.

While the stock is simmering, while the fennel bulb thinly as well as chop the white parts of the leeks up. Heat the olive fossil oil inwards a pan as well as saute the fennel as well as leek for almost fifteen minutes, until they're soft.

Strain the stock as well as and hence lay the stock, the fennel as well as leek as well as the remaining potatoes dorsum into the large pot as well as simmer it all for almost fifteen minutes. Stir inwards the spinach, dill, lemon juice as well as the balance of the tabular array salt (and the pepper!).

Puree the soup inwards batches inwards a nutrient processor until smooth. Serve it upwards alongside a handful of radish slices as well as a few croutons floating on top.

March 7, 2007: Chinese-Style Barbeque Sauce

non-sausage rolls that I made for dinner on Wed night. Usually Michael slathers his amongst chilli sauce, piece I become for the to a greater extent than conventional Heinz tomato. But this fourth dimension nosotros position together roughly Chinese-style barbeque sauce from our Moosewood cookbook. With both tomato plant together with chilli pastes involved it's something of a compromise sauce, but it's a compromise where nosotros both gain to a greater extent than than nosotros sacrifice: it's sweet, salty, hot together with tangy inwards almost equal parts. As good equally pouring it on the green pies, sausages together with burgers, I visit this mightiness brand a skilful tofu marinade.