Month: July 2009
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Tofu Stroganoff
Tonight I tried another new recipe, this one from the Moosewood Classics cookbook, which our good friend Melanie gave us. It has many great recipes. This one did not disappoint. It was a little different than what I remembered as stroganoff as a kid, which was mostly just noodles in a creamy sauce with hamburger…
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Penne with sweet and spicy pepper, mushroom and cannellini sauce
Tonight I wasn’t really sure what to make for dinner. I wasn’t really in the mood for any standards, nor did I find any recipes that sounded good to me. I kind of wanted burritos, but we didn’t have any avocados, and they are much better with avocados. I was also a bit in the…
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Mock pork with curried apricot and napa cabbage
Yesterday I tried another new dish, this one inspired by a recipe I found on the internet. It was for pork, but I subsituted mock pork (seitan). I had half a head of napa cabbage that needed to be used, and I found this recipe looking around for napa cabbage recipes. I thought that apricots…
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Lentil, ginger, and coconut soup
Last week I tried another recipe from the Bold Vegetarian Chef. Again, I mostly stuck to the recipe, but modified some of the quantities. This one called for one carrot and one celery stalk. That seemed odd to me, so I used about 3 of each. It also called for 1 tablespoon of tomato paste,…