Comprise dishes that include the main protein component. So you’ll see soups, stews, whole-meal salads — items in standard cookery that would have their own category.
During the cooler months, I make this vegan soup for us at least monthly. It’s a big recipe, for taking to lunch several days etc. (Amounts updated February 2020) 4 cups hot water (start heating in the kettle while getting everything ready), to start 1 cup brown, green or black lentils, checked for foreign matter, […]
Along with stylish cupcakes and food trucks, there’s been a trend in breakfast tacos. Wraps long have been popular. My vegan version of the handheld meal can be made in either form, but I like the toasty accent of quesadillas, and it’s only another five minutes. Plus, a folded-once tortilla can hold more fillings than […]
The Web didn’t give me exactly what I wanted: A recipe for a quick, from-scratch skillet full of vegan sausage patties. Fat free. Cheap. Pantry ingredients. Well, my pantry, at least. The goal was a healthy version of the memory of sausage, mild and from the supermarket. While these brown, you can put together pancake […]
I love roasted vegetables, but to me they’re a nuisance. Fill two cookie sheets with chunks of veggies, after tossing with oil and herbs in a big bowl, bake nearly an hour, returning to toss a few times, and you get at most three servings. So finding comparable flavor in Mark Bittman’s “Panfried Pumpkin” inspired […]
The problem with home baked pizzas is crispiness, because who has a oven that goes to 700 degrees? I’ve figured out a solution: Make the tomato sauce on the pizza while it’s baking. (If you are fine with thick crusts or pan pizzas, best if you move along now, as you have it easy.) The […]
Thanksgiving. America’s Feast Day. It was yesterday. Before I forget what my notes mean, here are two of the dishes whose recipes I’ve been tinkering with for years and now have just about settled on. We don’t eat meat, so we keep experimenting with the holiday meal — no turkey so the entree is one […]