January 26, 2012
I resisited calling it that last time I did a pantry challenge, but I could resist no longer. It’s a pantry raid this Friday. Deal with that, homies.
This week we’ll be having something along the lines of bubble & squeak (vegan adaptation with wheat roast or some-such sausages)
A side of roasted broccoli & cauliflower with garlic
Plus some orange cookies
January 26, 2012
Garlic Soup with homemade grilled toast (put a toast in your bowl and ladle soup over)
Just White Beans Salad with Pickled Red Onions, on a bed of Fresh Spinach
January 25, 2012
Curried tofu with broccoli and carrots (no recipe)
brown rice with peas
cucumber salad
small jar – hyderabadi (mixed pickle) store-bought
big jar – love
January 22, 2012
January 22, 2012
Eva has requested Pesto Pasta. These things are best tossed in a bowl together.
Whole Wheat Rigate – I swore I bought three bags of pasta. When I started cooking, only found two. So two I cooked. The other bag of pasta mysteriously showed up in Lydian’s bed. If you don’t have enough pasta, blame Lydian- however, it seemed be the perfect amount for four rounds.
Garbanzo Beans with Lemon – 2# garbanzo beans, cooked in the pressure cooker. I don’t usually cook garbanzos from scratch, so I followed this method pretty much, but I think they are a little too mushy. Oh well, if you don’t finish them, they’ll make good hummus. There’s a squeeze of lemon on there, too.
Roasted Broccoli and Garlic – 4# of broccoli with a bunch of chopped garlic, tossed c olive oil and salt, roasted @ 425′ for about 25 minutes.
Cherry Tomatoes – just that.
Walnut Pesto – I bought a big container of basil at HEB, but I could’ve used two. I didn’t even think about needing two. The pesto is made with 4 oz container of basil, a handful of walnuts (toasted), about 1/3 cup olive oil, about a tsp salt, and the juice from half a lemon. Hopefully it will be plenty since the broccoli is also seasoned.
January 19, 2012
Pho based on this recipe://www.food.com/recipe/vegetarian-pho-238765
(weird, I couldn’t get a live link to work…)
Whatever deliscious sweet buns I can find at Central Market
Next Week: Po’boys & potato salad
January 19, 2012
Lentil Barley Chili kinda like this but without all the legume/grain variation – I just used 2 kinds of green lentils and pearled barley – and no serrano or chipotle, just some canned green chiles.
Chopped Onions and Oregano Olive Oil to top and drizzle
Bread made in our new-to-us bread machine. 1/2 white flour, 1/2 whole wheat.
Sauteed Sesame Lemon Kale – an attempt to recreate the “juicy” kale from a while ago.
January 17, 2012
January 16, 2012
Pad Sea Ew–made with wide noodles, seitan and the broccoli from our garden.
Green Bean, cucumber and tomato salad.
Stir fried brussels sprouts with garlic and chile–I will try not to make it too spicy. I am hoping that this is the recipe that will make me love brussel sprouts! Turns out that brussel sprouts are really expensive. So I went with bok choy–same preparation, except I decided not to use any chiles at all.
1st recipe from my thai cooking class with Jam that I took long ago. second and third recipes from Jan. issue of Bon Appetit
January 16, 2012
Groundnut Soup (peanut soup) x2
Efo with Egusi – I actually got actual egusi seeds from Fiesta!
Oat Fufu – to eat with food, like mashed potato bread
Chopped Scallions
Chopped Peanuts
btw, this meal was coincidentally planned for MLK day.
January 12, 2012
Sorry I never posted about what we had last weekend. I thought it was pretty good, myself. The BBQ suace mellowed after a couple days & now has a great flavor if you still have some. We had smothered BBQ seitan patties, braised brussels sprouts, and sweet potato home fries. I also threw is some pickles, onions & extra sauce in case you wanted to make sandwiches.
Fun bonus fact: the sweet potatoes for our entire dinner share came from one MASSIVE sweet potato. I should have taken a picture of it. It was bigger than my head.
This week:
Enchiladas suizas (may turn out to be casserole depending on my time)
Pinto Beans
& Green salad with a zesty dressing
Coming in January:
1/20 ~ pho with sweet buns
1/27 ~ tofu poboys
January 11, 2012
Banh Mi sandwiches with Lemongrass tofu, cucumber, cilantro, and daikon and carrot pickles (extras in jar) *I’ve been really wanting a banh mi sandwich lately–so I decided to make them.
Spinach noodle soup
Kale chips
extra info: does anyone want a very large turnip? I bought it at the asian market thinking it was daikon but I am pretty sure it is some kind of turnip.
also, the asian market on Airport near lamar is moving and all grocery items are 20% off
January 10, 2012
Just occurred to me that maybe I should be delivering to the people Alicia delivers to? Will check on that and fix the post if necessary. Nah, decided to keep it usually unusual.
I’m going back again to my old standby.
Spiced Chickpeas with Spinach
Brown Rice with Turmeric
Cucumber and Onion Salad
One Date Each
January 10, 2012
The cold front won’t hit until later that night, but we’re having a cozy meal anyway…
Shepherd’s Pie
Green Salad
Something else…
Big jar – empty
Small jar – red wine vinaigrette
January 7, 2012
Sorry about the lateness. I was already cutting it close when I went to HEB. After I put all of my stuff up to check out, I realized I had forgotten my wallet! Felt like a real winner.
Vegan Menudo – Essentially a flavorful red chile soup, without beef intestine. Something similar to this recipe. I wanted to use those bean curd skin things but didn’t make it all the way to My Thanh. I used chick’n strips instead.
Nopalitos con Papas – fresh nopalitos, potatoes, veggie chorizo. They were taking forever to cook! Also, HEB didn’t have fresh nopalitos so I used jarred. I swear they always have fresh nopalitos, I guess unless I want them.
Cilanto, Chopped Onion & Lime Wedges for garnish
Extra chile/menudo seasoning for the grown-ups to spice it up if they want
Corn Tortillas
January 5, 2012
Ringing in the new year with some simplicity.
Tofu and Veggie Stir-fry
Brown Rice
Miso Soup
Toasted Cinnamon Raisin Mochi Squares
January 5, 2012
Sorry, guys – I had posted this, and was monkeying with it to get it in the right order after Alicia’s, and must have accidentally zapped it.
Lasagna
Salad with red wine vinaigrette
Peasant Bread
January 2, 2012
Cauliflower steaks–a recipe in the newest Bon Apetit magazine 195 calories 14 g fat 15 g carbs
Risotto balls wrapped in swiss chard– adapted from an emiril recipe. I ended up putting some italian sausage in the risotto-yum.
Italian baked beans–from Nonna’s Italian cookbook. 236 calories, 9 g protein, 28 g carbs, 9 g fat
January 2, 2012
I was truly surprised by this meal, as David, who generally favors fakes over beans, genuinely liked this meal. He very rarely has a genuine interest in the food I cook, so I was a bit taken aback by his like of this. And grateful.
Also- in case anyone was wondering- I love some slow-cooked grains and scratch beans for dinnershare. Those things that aren’t necessarily entirely difficult, but time-consuming, kindly prepared. The things that are healthy and whole and delicious but take too long to cook for just one night’s dinner, especially on a week day. That, to me, is the perfect dinnershare gift.
Gracious Grains- a combination of short grain brown rice, forbidden rice (the black one) and toasted millet/amaranth. Cooked with a bit of salt and oil in the rice cooker. I like the addition of the toasted amaranth and millet because it changes up the texture of the rice a bit.
Beautiful Beans- I let the kids help me decide on the beans from Whole Foods “fancy beans” section (they have all these weird beans in bulk that are intriguing). I made this up as I went. They were Scarlet Runner Beans and Christmas Lima Beans. I quick-soaked the runners but not the lima beans, I imagined the limas would get mushy and provide a background for the runners. I then pressure-cooked them together for about 15 minutes, slow release, with an onion I had carmelized in olive oil, some salt and bay leaves. They weren’t exactly right when the pressure cooking was done, so I added some oregano and veggie bullion, put them in the dinnershare dishes covered with aluminum foil and baked them for 2 hrs @ 300′.
Garlicky Greens – well, the sauce was garlicky! I steamed these kales with salt water. I pressure-cooked the beets. My original intention was dandelion greens, but they didn’t have any dandelion greens, so we got kale.
Sassy Sauce- I made this one up after thinking dill would go well with beets. It was miso paste, canola oil, lots of garlic, dried onion, lemon juice, dill & water. I think that’s it.
Salady Seaweed- Hannah pointed out to me that this was odd, but we happened to be at Costco and they happened to have seaweed salad and the kids were like ‘oh! seaweed salad! I want seaweed salad!’ and I was like, ‘ok’. So yall got seaweed salad for the mix. Alicia, does your family eat any seaweed salad?
Also, I’m going to try and post the days that I will cook in advance. I know that’s kind of crazy:
Next week (1/8) – I will be cooking on Sunday.
Week of the 15th – taking dshare off
New jars have been purchased and the circulation has begun. I like them! Go ahead and rotate the older pint jars back to me if you have them and eventually they should all be switched up to the new pint jars. New dinnershare set has been rotated in to Alicia. We should be totally on track. I think it’s about $6 per family. Whenever you happen to have $6 in cash. I’ll never deposit a check.
December 23, 2011
On this eve of Christmas Eve the Angels will bring down to your tables:
Sweet potato chorizo hash
Braised garlic bok choi
Graperfruit fennel salad
Joy and love unto all!
December 21, 2011
Ho Ho Ho!
Quick Sauteed Kale
Mashed Potatoes
Red Wine Lentils, Mushrooms, and Leeks – can’t find the cookbook I use for this one (30 minute vegetarian)… musta lent it out. (in other news, I have two other cookbooks that aren’t mine – R-M’s Garden of Vegan and somebody’s 20 minutes to dinner, that I’d be happy to deliver with dinner if I knew whose it was) ANYWAYS, I’ll be winging this one. Can’t be terribly hard.
and Carrot Cake squares in the big jar.
December 19, 2011
Mediterranean White Bean Soup from More Recipes from Moosewood (main ingredients: navy beans, onions, carrots, olive oil, parsley…) Note: found myself without bell peppers (damn!) so I’m gonna omit them from the recipe and see how it goes. Seems to taste pretty good.)
Green Salad w/ Sun-dried tomato vinaigrette
Sweetish Hill Baguette
Big jar – empty I think
Small jar – salad dressing
December 18, 2011
Italian White Bean Soup – x2. Soup with Canellini Beans, Collard Greens, Diced Tomatoes & Fennel. I was pleased with this soup; add minestrone noodles and it would’ve been near perfect.
Carmelized Shallots with Red Wine Vinegar & Parsley – x1. Made in the cast iron skillet. A bit too carmelized (ok, burned-ish) in spots but delightful.
Potato Foccacia with Tomatoes & Oregano – x3. Never made a potato dough before! Turned out more like bread loaves than foccacia, I could’ve put less in each container, but it looked & tasted good in its own right.
Olive oil with Red Pepper Flakes, Salt & Italian Seasonings
Il Tricolore Antipasto – grocery store ingredients did not cooperate with my menu plan. So empty jar. I’m kind of over my jar-filling obsession anyhow.
December 16, 2011
I said I was gonna make bagels & soup, but I changed my mind.
Tonight we’ll have
Brothy, delicious pinto bean (with no-sour-cream & green onion)
Cornbread waffles or maybe sweet-potato-cornbread waffles, we’ll see
Sweet potato pancakes!
Mixed sauteed greens
Baked cinnamon pears apples
Next week I’ll make shepherds pie. Then we’ll be out the week after Christmas
December 13, 2011
It’s Sylvan’s birthday!
Rice noodles with veggies and peanut sauce, extra sauce in the big jar
Gyoza, with dipping sauce in the little jar. Kaleb’s request.
Edamame
December 12, 2011
Trying to use what I have in the house. Here is what I have come up with:
Spinach and mushroom crepes with a white sauce
Cauliflower/broccoli hash
a potato dish of some sort–Potato pancakes with a little zucchini and carrot mixed in.
I may deliver early–like right before 5
December 12, 2011
veggies, marinated tofu cubes, and sun-dried tomato pesto on a bed of whole wheat pasta
green salad w/ vinaigrette
bread
December 11, 2011
What I’ve realized that I love about dinnershare is the scratch-made stuff that takes a long time but is all wholesome and stuff. Like beans and rice. I missed some beans and rice because I couldn’t get it together to put the rice in the rice cooker earlier. As a result we made a lot of wheat/tomato/soy combos.
This week I’m stealing off Jessica. We’ll be having
Black Beans & Rice (Moros y Cristianos) – Rice cooked in the black bean liquor.
Fried plantains
Chimichurri Sauce x2 – this is tasty, made exactly two cups, but I think I like Jessica’s better.
Tossed Salad with Vinaigrette – mixed greens, tomatoes…
Next week I think we’re having Italian White Bean Soup, bread, spread, orzo or something?
December 9, 2011
I’m roasting stuffed roasts that I will buy from the store. I’ll roast the roasts with traditional roasty vegetables like carrots, onions, celery & potatoes.
We’ll also have some kind of nice bread & butter.
And a salad with pears & balsamic dressing.
Coming in Dec (note that we’re taking off 12/25-30):
12/16 – Garlic soup with bagels & stuff (like “cream cheese”, roasted peppers, capers, tomatoes & onions… and other stuff Jessica might actually like), and maybe a super simple soup
12/23 – Shepherds pie for Christmas
12/30 – Then we’ll take the week of 12/25 to 12/30 off
December 8, 2011
Roasted Garlic Broccoli
Banana Black Beans (except I am apparently out of coconut milk. So I just used coconut milk drink for all the liquid, and added a little bit of coconut oil)
Black Quinoa Jicama Salad with Lime Cilantro Dressing (the awesome dressing from Alicia’s recent mixed veg salad)
Corn Tortillas
I was gonna add Green & Black’s brand fancy chocolate bars for everyone, but jeez, none of it is vegan! The idea was too good not to follow through on, though, so you do get individually wrapped morsels of Intensely Dark Chocolate.
