Omnivore

Last night we unfortunately ate pizza. It tasted quite good with the exception of most of the components provided by the pizzeria. Why can’t a decent pizza be made somewhere outside of Italy, and the New York/New Jersey area?! It’s a poor crust that is the culprit here and a pizza is really all about the crust. The toppings are just window dressing. Anyway, the allure of having someone deliver dinner to the front door took over and I submitted to that allure. Mea culpa.

Getting back on the track of a real food, today I use up the rest of my white beans in a soupy stew with various basic vegetables and collard greens. With a drizzle of olive oil it is really good.

White bean soup with collard greens

Tonight’s dinner is vegetarian again! The ravioli are from Costco and are filled with mushrooms and cheese. I serve them in a chicken broth with various vegetables.

Mushroom ravioli in broth with vegetables

It seems that we are having a lot more meatless days than just Meatless Monday. Tonight’s dinner is a stew of chickpeas, that I had soaked and cooked, with sweet potato, prunes, and various other vegetables. It is really too sweet a stew for me but John likes it.

Chickpeas and sweet potato stew with couscous

Jonathan, Nathan and Sam are over today so dinner planning takes a back seat. After they leave we try to figure out what we have on hand to make some sort of dinner with. I still have two containers of chickpeas from the pound I soaked so one of those will be the basis of dinner. I saute some onions and add whatever vegetables I can find in the refrigerator. This turns out to be celery, parsley and Brussels sprouts. The chickpea cooking liquid is the stock for the soup. As it turns out this dish is really good! So good, in fact, that I am in too much of a hurry to eat it to take a picture!