Category: cooking
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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,…
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Somen noodles with napa cabbage and seitan
Last night I tried another new recipe from the Bold Vegetarian Chef which I am borrowing from the library. I stuck to the recipe for the most part, except I used somen noodles instead of udon, because that is what I had on hand. I stir fried these things in this order:: 2 inch piece…
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Creamy red lentil chowder
Creamy red lentil chowder Tonight I made creamy red lentil chowder from the Bold Vegetarian Chef cookbook by Ken Charney, which I checked out from the library. Besides changing the proportions (I hate recipes which call for half a package of tofu or half a can of tomato paste), I made the recipe verbatim, and…