Category: cooking
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Baingan Bharta
Baingan Bharta One of my favorite Indian dishes is Baingan Bharta, which is an eggplant dish. I decided to finally try to make it at home. After browsing through several recipes, I mostly followed this one from Dil Se. I was actually very surprised to discover that none of the recipes I found had any…
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Hoisin eggplant bok choy stir-fry
hoisin eggplant and bok choy Sunday I made a tasty stir fry with eggplant, bok choy, and mock chicken (seitan). It’s the first time I have tried eggplant in stir-fry. It turned out very nicely. First I cut the eggplant, then salted it, and let it sit for a few minutes (to remove bitterness). Then…
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Pistou recipe
Pistou – a hearty french soup. It seems that I have been on a soup kick lately. On Monday I tried out this recipe from the Nutritional Yeast Cookbook by Joanne Stepaniak. She describes it as a hearty french soup. I modified the recipe some to start off with, especially the quantities, since the original…
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Tom Kha — Yum!
Tom Kha-Yum soup Last night I tried out another new recipe. We bought some lemongrass awhile ago, and I have been meaning to try to make Tom Yum. I searched around the internet and found a variety of different vegetarian versions. Many of them included coconut milk, which is usually only found in Tom Kha.…
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French lentil soup and beer-braised red cabbage
French lentil soup and beer-braised red cabbage Now that our kitchen is mostly assembled again, I decided to make some more new recipes tonight. I ended up deciding on two recipes from The Voluptuous Vegan. I chose recipes that only required what we had on hand, since it was cold and snowy, and I didn’t…