Category Archives: Recipes
🥬 New recipe! Vegan lentils with roasted root vegetables. 1/5/20
This is my take on a recipe by Melissa Clark of NY Times Cooking. I wanted more vegetables and to make it a little less fussy. It turned out really tasty even with my shortcuts like pre-chopped butternut squash, bottled … Continue reading
🥬 I served a vegetarian meal to guests and they liked it! 1/2/20
We had old out-of-town friends whom we have not seen for a while over for dinner last night. I made my chickpea stew and a fabulous blood orange and roasted golden beet over hearty greens salad. I served this with … Continue reading
⚓️ Vietnamese sour soup, Take 2. 12/19/19
We re-made our authentic Vietnamese sour soup a little less authentic on the second try. This time we made it more to our liking adding a vegetable broth and more vegetables, a little less tamarind, and a more balanced fish … Continue reading
🍗 White chicken chili. 12/17/19
Our take on white chicken chili is based on a recipe from Food Network that you can find here. It is super easy utilizing such time savers as rotisserie chicken and canned cannellini beans. Instead of two cans of the … Continue reading
⚓️ Vietnamese (sweet and) sour soup with prawn. 12/14/19
Making this dish was quite an adventure when we prepared it in Ho Chi Minh City during a cooking class. It was also quite an adventure preparing it at home. There are a lot of ingredients and some are not … Continue reading
🦃 Peppers stuffed with ground turkey and farro. 12/11/19
Inspired by a blog post by Cooking Without Limits for stuffed peppers, I decided to try making some myself. John was busy installing a new modem and router so I had to come up with a recipe on my own. … Continue reading
🥩 Linguine with meat sauce and salad. 9/19/19
In deference to my diet I made less pasta and filled half my bowl with salad. I made the spaghetti sauce in July and I do not know the exact amounts of the ingredients so I could not assign a … Continue reading
