4 families share dinner.

I’m making some Indian food.  Dal palak (lentils and spinach), cabbage koftas, rice.  I messed up the naan, so we will see if it comes out.

Jeff

Menu:
Spinach artichoke dip, butternut squash dip, baba ganoush dip, roasted tomatoes and peppers with bread and corn chips.

Recipe:
1 pkg frozen spinach, 1 8oz cream cheese, 3-4 garlic cloves, spices, artichokes cut up – 1 cup about. bake at 350 then mix together and put back in the oven till melty.
roast butternut squash (cut lengthwise in half and oiled) at 350 until soft (1 hour). put peeled squash, garlic, little sugar in blender with sour cream, nutmeg, salt, pepper. Just blend and add sour cream till you like the color and taste.
roast eggplants (cut lengthwise in half and oiled and salted) at 350 until soft (1-1 1/2 hours). I followed RM’s recipe but in general I never measure things out!! Sorry. I love RM’s recipe. Best baba ganoush ever.
I added peppers while roasting and you can roast the garlic too if you want.

Roasted tomatoes at 220 for 4 hours. Cut in half and put salt and pepper and herb de provence on them and were slightly oiled.

Time:
Pretty simple but timely. I worked for about 2.5 hours but I did move slowly.

Rating:
4.5/5 I really liked this meal.

Square- cornbread zucchinni waffles – these are a favorite of my kids. Right now I am waiting for them to finish up, so I hope the rest of the dinner stays warm enough. Underestimated how much time each batch of waffle would take!
Round 1- Bush’s Baked Beans w/ onions. I’ve tried making my own and it’s just not worth it! Bush’s are better! Put them on top of the cornbread waffles. Seriously.
Round 2- CSA veggies in an Indian-type curry thing.
Sauce – Sauteed beets, beet greens, chard from CSA. I also used the kohlrabi greens and carrot tops in there, so the texture is a little different.

Cupcakes and frosting shots! Happy birthday Mia!

Cost- 15.37 + all of the CSA veggies

Friday, Dec 11 – Caramelized onion lentil pottage, roasted veggie medley, other good stuff to compliment
Friday, Dec18 – Miso soup, roll-yer-own sushi

I’d like to exclude myself from the following two weeks for the holidays – weeks of Monday, December 21st and Monday, December 28. My night falls on both Christmas Day and New Years Day. We’ll have family in town and will generally be very busy with holiday stuff. I’ll resume FS the following week on Monday, January 4.

Potato Leek Soup (probably a variation of a Deborah Madison recipe – 2 rounds? We’ll see). I’m using a simple recipe and adding some fennel. I hope it will be comforting and delicious.

Salad – I’ll try to make it exciting

Roasted Carrots

Crusty Garlic Bread – This will be purchased rustic sour dough loaves – totally wheat-y.

Menu:
Tomato-Tofu-3bean chili
corn fritters
green beans

Recipe: Canned beans with chili powder, salt, pepper, cumin, added sauteed onions and garlic, then celery and fresh tomatoes. I fried some tofu up and added it.
Corn fritters – canned corn with cornmeal, rice milk, xantham gum and oil (egg replacer) then fried in just a bit of oil
Green beans with margarine, garlic and lemon juice in oven for a while at 350.

Cost:
Not sure – just beans mostly so $15?

Easy to make and was really delicious (i think – i made a different chili for me).

I’m going to post this bc we loved it so much we couldn’t NOT comment…

sauce- green beans
rounds- chili soup?
square- fried cornbread?

Spinach, Mushroom and onion enchiladas with a red enchilada sauce (says medium spicy on the can)

Refried black beans

Spanish rice

jicama? in the small sauce container–No jicama, it had weird brown spots.  So I put extra enchilada sauce in the sauce containers.  I had opened two cans per family and only needed one each.  So I had to do something with it anyways.  Not sure if you will need it, but if the enchiladas seem dry or just need more sauce, there it is.

sorry I was late yall! David’s dad is in town. Made time management more difficult. excuses excuses.

Sauce- pears from Cassandra’s grandma’s tree, vanilla soy yogurt, pecans and dried cranberries. Was going to have candied pecans, but I burned the first round and then said f* it, it was already 530!
Round 1- raw kale avocado salad with raw shredded beets, raw shredded kohlrabi, diced red peppers and garbanzos. Looked so pretty.
Round 2- Cabbage soup. Onions, celery, cabbage, green beans sauteed with cumin, turmeric, salt. Added just enough water/nutritional yeast (nutritional yeast = veggie broth!) and garbanzos to fit in all of our containers and cooked for about an hourish.
Square – Sweet potato biscuits

Cost- I spent 20.37 at HEB but that included Veganaise and pickle relish that I didn’t end up using since I didn’t make chickpea salad. I had olive oil, sweet potatoes, green beans, kohlrabi, pears, cranberries, pecans, flour, spices, etc. on hand.

Menu: Soy Pizza, soy yogurt with granola and strawberries.

Easy but a little more expensive. I hope the pizzas were not too overly cooked.

Happy Vegan Day tomorrow!