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Category Archives: Legumes
Raw vegetable salad with tofu. 9/6/22
We have been eating a lot of these bowls lately. Given the fact that we are under this unrelenting heat dome (113F again, yikes!), this vegetable salad with tofu seemed like the best choice. I had planned on Thai basil … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Hot weather meals, Legumes, Methods, Salad, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
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Sunday supper salad. 9/4/22
My recent Sunday suppers have been more salad-like and less egg-like. Since it was VERY HOT yesterday, I cooked the egg in the morning and blanched the broccoli in the microwave. Along with the egg and the broccoli I had … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Eggs, Fish, Hot weather meals, Legumes, pescatarian, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
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Asian tofu salad bowl. 9/2/22
We are in the midst of a very hot spell which is forecast to last for a week! Since we are expecting many triple digit days and we are supposed to be conserving electricity, John and I will be trying … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Hot weather meals, Legumes, Methods, rice, Salad, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
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Tilapia tacos with beans and rice. 8/23/22
Tonight was Taco Tuesday at our house. In order to keep the dinner healthy and the calories down, I had one open face taco with a tortilla which is simply seared over the flame on our cooktop. John cooks the … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Fish, Healthy tips, Hot weather meals, Legumes, Mexican, pescatarian, rice, Southwest U.S., Vegetables
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Salmon bowl. 8/22/22
We have been making some sort of bowl almost every week. The last one featured tofu but this week our daughter asked for salmon. After a short brine John cooks the salmon on a low flame starting from a cold … Continue reading
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Vegan split chickpea stew with cauli-rice and kale. 8/20/22
After eating mostly salads all week, I was ready for something a little more substantial. We decided on this chickpea stew (also known as chana dal) because we make it in the Instant Pot so it doesn’t heat up the … Continue reading
Posted in Indian, Instant Pot, Legumes, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Cannellini beans with tuna. 8/16/22
It is hard to know exactly what the temperature is going to be where we live. The San Francisco Bay Area is made up of many micro climates. It can be 105F 35 miles inland where we live and under … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Fish, Hot weather meals, Legumes, pescatarian, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
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Chicken enchiladas, spicy beans, salsa slaw. 8/11/22
I used a number of shortcuts to make this plateful of yummy Mexican flavors doable for a weeknight dinner. The chicken came from a packet of pulled white meat from the famous rotisserie chickens at Costco. John heated up some … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Kitchen tips, Legumes, Methods, Mexican, Poultry, Southwest U.S., Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
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Surf and turf bowl. 8/8/22
We used Sunday night’s leftovers from our all-appetizer family dinner to create our surf and turf bowls. We had leftover bbq ribs meat for our turf and shrimp cocktail shrimp for the surf. Sliced up cucumbers from our veggie platter … Continue reading
No-cook vegan tofu sesame bowl. 8/6/22
This is the ultimate hot summer night dish! I have been making these bowls primarily with salmon and shrimp but decided I wanted a vegan version. The family voted three thumbs up for this marinated extra-firm tofu bowl with cucumbers, … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Hot weather meals, Legumes, Methods, rice, Salad, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
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