Vegan Lunch – Green Celery Soup and Purple Cauliflower
When the weather starts to cool, the soups come out. Creamy, brothy, chunky, smooth, they are all good. They warm us up all the way down to our toes and give us that comforting nourishing feeling of sitting wrapped in a blanket with slippers in front of a fireplace with a good book. I like […]
Vegan Lunch – White Bean Quesadillas
While I am on a vegan lunch roll, here is another one! These babies are packed with protein, good fats, and vitamins. These lunches are really more “idea” than “recipe”. These ideas are not just for vegans and vegetarians; they are also for all those nonvegans out there who want to just incorporate more veggies in their […]
Vegan Lunch – Ciabatta with Italian Adzuki
Less meat, more vegetables is a generally a pretty good idea for everyone. Even cavemen. Variety in ingredients, tons of flavor and texture, and interest… again, good for everybody. Who wants a boring diet? Here is another vegan lunch idea, which happens to be great for vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores. This italian adzuki is not […]
Vegan Lunch – Creamy Cool Almond Pinwheels
Doing vegan lunch on a budget and on the run can be challenging. If you limit or eliminate animal consumption, planning ahead is a must! For most of us, lunch needs to be easy, quick, nutritious, and oh… tasty. Maybe tasty first, you know, so we actually eat it. Organic vegan flour tortillas were on […]
Classic Falafel – Vegan, and Gluten-Optional!
Eat a good falafel once and you understand why they are so loved. Crunchy on the outside, fluffy and bread-like on the inside. Packed with earthy, fresh, lemony herbaceous flavor, they taste sinful, but are actually all good! If you dip them into cool creamy tzatziki sauce, you have taken them to yet another level. Add […]
Tender Octopus with Orange Butter Sauce
Octopus is intimidating until you actually cook one. Admittedly, cleaning octopus is not the most fun experience you will ever have. But after that, a couple of simple tricks will yield glorious results. You get credit for an amazing presentation and tender sweet delicate bite, when frankly, octopus just comes that way. [pinterest] Here’s how… […]
Orange Beurre Blanc Sauce
Citrus and seafood = a synergistic pairing. Sweetness in seafood marries harmoniously with citrus without being overpowered by it. Those flavors work and play well with each other. Lemon is the usual go-to seafood citrus, but orange is also beautiful, especially fresh bright oranges in season. And of course, butter and seafood is a no-brainer. Starting […]
Frog Leg Lollipops
Why I almost didn’t post this… Recently, while perusing… well, pretty much everything… in my favorite Asian foods market, I picked up a pack of frog legs to use in a recipe for an ebook. Because I never eat these things, I didn’t give it much thought. (Other than an intent to research these little guys […]
Easy Frugal Gourmet Biscuits
Jeff Smith, aka the Frugal Gourmet, said that these biscuits are so easy that “if you are still making biscuits from a can, I am ashamed of you!” He pleads… “please don’t use instant biscuit doughs”. You can watch him make biscuits here. This super simple method came from “Mrs. Field in Arkansas”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIWJU6R_kOE Gotta […]
Apple Pie Wontons
This is an idea – a very good idea! … but just an idea, nonetheless. Not a precisely measured recipe. Why? Because my kids are great cooks who do not measure. To be fair, I do not measure either, unless I am writing recipes. But sometimes somebody in my house will do something so delicious […]