Since we’ve had a pretty rainy and cold spring here in the Pacific Northwest I am still putting on a pot of soup regularly. It’s always nice to have soup for dinner on chilly evenings , but I also love having a bowl for breakfast. […]
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Tasty Tuesday … Vegan Black Bean & Mushroom Tortilla Soup
Last week I’d come across this recipe in the WaPo and since I had all the ingredients, I decided to give it a try. While the list of ingredients looks rather long, I can assure you that it comes together fairly quickly for such a […]
Tasty Tuesday … Tomato Sambal with Bok Choy and Tempeh
If you’ve ever been to Bali or any of the other Indonesian islands, you probably noticed tempeh on most of their restaurant menus. Tempeh, a traditional Indonesian food is made from fermented soybeans. It’s made using a special fungus to begin a natural culturing process […]
Tasty Tuesday … Vegan Red Lentil Chili
The weather here is getting colder and wetter. That means soup time at our house. I’m a huge fan of lentils, especially the versatile red ones. They turn a beautiful salmon red when cooked and are popular in many cuisines around the world. Here, in […]
Tasty Tuesday … Fresh Farm Market Vegetable Paella
Paella always reminds me of Tarragona, the fascinating Spanish city we visited seven years ago. It’s right on the Mediterranean Sea, about an hour south of Barcelona. There, El Pigot quickly became our favorite place to eat! It was right on the town square which […]
Tasty Tuesday … Homemade Summer Pizza
Having a small bag of fresh pizza dough in the fridge has been a life saver this summer. It’s an easy supper solution on nights where I don’t feel like whipping out a bunch of pots and ingredients but still want a relatively healthy meal. […]
Tasty Tuesday … Chilled Cherry and Beet Gazpacho
Yup!! You read that right! As strange as it sounds, I strongly encourage you to give this chilled summer soup a try. It’s one of the tastiest soups I’ve ever made. When we returned from a few days in the Puget Sound area, we were […]
Tasty Tuesday … South of the Border Grits and Greens
A couple of weeks ago, I met my friend Marlene at the mall for a cup of coffee. After coffee and conversation, we walked a few laps around the mall and then headed straight to the bookstore. We both love books, and it’s always fun to browse […]
Tasty Tuesday … Roasted Tomato Soup with Black Garlic
On my last trip to the grocery store, I came across Black Garlic. I’ve read about it before, but had never actually bought any. This time however, I decided to change that! Once at home, I did a little more research, and discovered that Black […]
Tasty Tuesday … Spicy Squash and Vegetable Soup
A few weeks ago, we were invited to attend a farm dinner hosted by Ryan and Allison of Dirt Rich Farm. Needless to say, it was a wonderful gathering of interesting people in a gorgeous country setting. Of course there also was a lot of […]
Tasty Tuesday … End of the Summer Farm Dinner
Dirt Rich Farm, a vegetable stand run by Ryan and Allison, is my very favorite stop at my local farmers market. Their produce is beautiful, fresh and grown with a passion that one can taste in every bite! All season long, I lugged home cases of […]
Tasty Tuesday … Marinated Dehydrated Tomatoes
Each spring, I get excited about planting one of my all-time favorite vegetables, which is really a fruit, the humble tomato. While it took a while for the plants to get going this spring, now they seem to be taking over the yard! My favorite new […]
Tasty Tuesday … Spanish Salmorejo
When summer is in full swing, and the temperatures rise, there are quite a few days where even I don’t feel like cooking dinner! So when I stopped by the farmers market on Saturday morning, I noticed several vegetable stands overflowing with perfectly ripe tomatoes. […]
Tasty Tuesday … South Indian Vegetable Salad
Here is another quick and delicious South Indian style salad. The sizzling tarka takes the ordinary vegetables to a whole new level! There is really no recipe for this, other than using quality vegetables and cutting them into roughly the same size pieces. Most of […]
Tasty Tuesday … South Indian Tomato Rasam
Rasam is a spicy South Indian lentil soup, flavored with curry or rasam powder, fresh curry leaves and either tamarind or tomatoes. Traditionally, rasam is served as a second course. This fiery, thin soup is eaten with a little rice or plain. I’ve been making […]
Tasty Tuesday … Roasted Red Pepper Soup and Asparagus Sugar Snap-Pea Salad
For the last few weeks, I’ve been sorting through my collection of books, in hopes of reducing their numbers on my bookshelves. While moving some of the books around, I discovered a cookbook I hadn’t used in a while. An old sticky note peeked my curiosity! […]
Tasty Tuesday … Vegan Quinoa Chile and Corn Bread
It has been cold and rainy here! Soup weather to me! A blustery, wet day is a perfect time to eat some hot soup to warm you up on the inside. This quinoa chile was incredibly delicious! I love spicy hot, so I used about 4 or 5 […]
Tasty Tuesday … Shakshuka
Summer has come to an end, and with it, I harvested the last of this season’s tomatoes, peppers, chiles and eggplant in my garden. Not sure how to prepare this bounty, I started looking at some of my cookbooks. The Shakshuka recipe in Yotam Ottolenghi’s “Plenty” cookbook looked […]
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