Pasta with sliced brussels sprouts: sprouts were sauteed and a little browned with shallots, garlic, thyme, red pepper flakes, and a little balsamic vinegar, then dusted with a a mix of hemp seeds and nutritional yeast. Pretty good.
Roasted romesco cauliflower tips and while carrots with baked tofu, quinoa, and tahini sauce
Black beans with onion and garlic cooked in my VitaClay multicooker. The smell is intoxicating. This thing is seriously going to expand my use of dried beans.
The winter may be far too dry and mild, but I can enjoy these lovely flowers
Healthy, meaty sushi without the fish. Tomato Sushi is a natural, eco-friendly alternative to raw tuna, invented by one of America’s top chefs.
This sounds kind of amazing.
Perfect weekend breakfast
Blueberry pancakes to lift the spirits and get this weekend restarted right.
Thanksgiving prep is being documented over on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyca/
Our menu is non-traditional, as usual: Greek theme on Thanksgiving proper; Mexican-inspired the night before. Different guests for each (different sides of boyfriend’s family). My mom came down on Saturday to prep with me. It’s a blast.
Last dinner of Vegan MoFo! Homemade bean snausages, roasted delicata squash and red onion, steamed kale and cabbage, and white bean gravy with basil and sun-dried tomatoes.
White bean and sweet potato soup with kale and spices
The boyfriend is sick, and it’s finally fall, so I figured it was a soup night. Here’s what went in the pot:
To garnish:
I’m pretty pleased. It’s warm, a bit spicy (though not that much), colorful, comforting.
Hottie greens and black eyed peas from Appetite for Reduction over polenta.
When I don’t have it in me to make a more complicated savory breakfast and I don’t feel like pancakes (as sacrilegious as that may sound), the Swiss chard tofu frittata from Vegan Brunch is a go-to. Comes together super fast and bakes up in 20 minutes. Also makes a good weeknight dinner in a pinch, with salad and bread.
Mushroom-cherry tomato sauce with spaghetti and wilted pea shoots
Sauce:
Also threw a half pound bag of pea shoots in a pan with a little oil and a tiny bit of leftover pasta cooking water ‘til they got wilted.
This was actually pretty tasty, despite some questionable stages during the saucing process.
Late work thing where they served pizza. Pfft. I had to wait until I came home to make food. Which turned out to be somewhat overcooked broccoli with garlic and chickpeas ove brown rice. The simplest thing I could muster.
Fresh San Marzano tomato sauce, tempeh sausage crumble, wilted kale, and cherry tomatoes pizza. Needs a fork. Yum yum.