Dinner

I thought of making a chickpea dish to take to some friends who just had twin babies. Alas, they had to move our get together, so we reserved some cooked chickpeas for a future dish and made a smaller course for ourselves. Ingredients 4 cups cooked chickpeas, rinsed 3 cups cabbage cut into 1/2" or so long strips (about a small quarter of a cabbage head) 2 medium tomatillas cut into 3/8" cubes (about 1 1/2 cups) 1/4 t turmeric 1 t ground cumin 1T miso (I used chickpea miso, but any kind would be fine) 1/4 cup water 2 cups onion cut into half moon slices approx. 1/4" x 1 1/4" ( maybe 2/3 of a medium onion) 1 1/4 cups carrot cut into 3/8" slices (3 small-medium carrots) Process While I was out today, my wife made a batch of chickpeas in the  Instant Pot  pressure cooker, so I had that as a starting point. I put the rinsed chickpeas back in the pressure cooker, along with the cabbage, tomatilla, turmeric, cumin, miso, and water, and cooked for 0 minutes (i.e., just...

I picked up on sale some nice simmer sauces today, including a Moroccan one . I made a simple vegetable dish of tempeh, broccoli, onion, potato, and carrot cooked with the simmer sauce. The sauce packet claims to serve 7, but I think it's more like 4. Each serving has 1/2 gram of fat, so, even with larger servings, I'll describe this meal as "almost no added fat".

We are having a snowy weekend with cold weather, so soup is in order. I don't usually make a straight up vegetable soup, typically including beans. I decided to make a simple vegetable soup in my Instant Pot  pressure cooker. It has a "Soup" button that cooks for 30m; I was going to cook just for 20m to have firmer vegetables, but my daughter was helping me cook and wanted softer vegetables, so we stuck with 30m. I've been meaning to make a pasta e fagioli  bean and pasta soup sometime; this wasn't a bean soup, but I still used whole wheat pasta in this non-fagioli. Here is what I did. Ingredients 3 small Yukon Gold potatoes cut into large 1" or so chunks 1 small sweet potato also cut into large 1" or so chunks 2 carrots cut into 1/2" wide discs 4 cloves garlic, finely (1/8") diced 1/2 cup onion cut into approx. 1 1/4" x 1/4" half moons 1 cup whole wheat pasta 2 vegan bouillon cubes (I wanted a strong broth, so used two cubes) 1/2 t d...

I recently bought a nice looking product, organic green lentil lasagne from Explore Cuisine  and decided to make lasagne. These noodles are 50% green lentil flour, and otherwise are made of green pea four and brown rice flour. I like Rao's pasta sauces but have only bought them a few times as they are expensive. They were recently on sale, and I purchased their artichoke sauce . Here is what I did. Ingredients 8 ounce dry uncooked lasagne noodles 2 ounces tempeh cut into thin slices approx. 1/4" x 3" x 3" About 20 ounces marinara or other favorite tomato based sauce Ingredient 2 8 ounces of seitan Vegan bouillon cube 2 cups onion cut into half moon slices approx. 1/4" x 1 1/4" ( maybe 2/3 of a medium onion) 1 1/4 cups carrot cut into 3/8" slices (3 small-medium carrots) Process In a glass baking dish, I put one noodle down and covered it with ample sauce. I repeated, with less sauce in the middle, and ample sauce again atop. In between two of the top...