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Category: Entree

  • 21 Feb 2011 White Bean and Collard Green Soup

    Adapted from Katzen, M. New enchanted broccoli forest. (2000). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. page 21. My Comment: In Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest, this soup is called White Bean and Escarole Soup — on Mollie’s website, she has renamed it. In my version, I used neither white beans or escarole 🙂  In fact, this…

  • 19 Feb 2011 Lentils, Brown Rice and Carmelized Onions

    Adapted from Whole Foods Market. Lentils, brown rice and carmelized onions. Downloaded from the web on Feb. 5, 2011. My Comment: Frances Moore Lappe always reminded readers that in order to complete a protein, one needed to include a food like rice with beans or lentils. This is, then, a complete protein meal. I had…

  • 17 Feb 2011 Tomato Bulgur Soup with Warm Spices

    Adapted from Whole Foods Market. Tomato bulgur soup with warm spices. Downloaded from the web on February 5, 2011. My Comment: The addition of cinnamon to this tomato based soup make it quite interesting. Whole Foods suggests that, if reheating leftovers, you will most likely need to add additional liquid — the bulgur soaks it…

  • 15 Feb 2011 Warm Winter Greens Salad

    Adapted from Whole Foods Market. Warm winter greens salad. Downloaded from the web on February 5, 2011. My Comment: A piece of advice – don’t heat those greens too much and if you use radicchio, give that a head start in the pan. The first time around with the recipe, I tried to follow the…

  • Happy Valentine’s Day!

    Adapted from: Vegetarian Times. Cheese-stuffed love apples. (February 1, 2005). p 77. Downloaded from the web on 2/11/2011. Vegetarian Times. Roasted red pepper and tomato soup. (February 1, 2007). p 41. Downloaded from the web on 2/11/2011. Vegetarian Times. Spinach-mushroom strata. (February 1, 2007). p 42. Downloaded from the web on 2/11/2011. My Comment: Ignore…

  • 09 Feb 2011 Butternut Squash with Wilted Spinach and Blue Cheese

    Adapted from Whole Foods Market. Butternut Squash with Spinach. Downloaded from the web on February 5, 2011. My Comment: Butternut Squash and blue cheese – delicious! Ingredients 1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles 3 TBSP lemon juice Salt and ground pepper to taste 1 1/2 tsp olive oil 1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced 1 5-oz.…

  • Feb 06 2011 Greens and Soft Polenta

    Adapted from Moosewood Collective. Moosewood restaurant new classics. (2001). New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers. Page 262. My Comments: Someday I hope to go to the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York. This polenta recipe originally calls for corn meal — which is technically what polenta is — I prefer to use the real Italian food product,…

  • 3 Feb. 2011 Winter Vegetable Stew

    Adapted from The Moosewood Collective. Moosewood restaurant cooks at home. (1994). New York: Simon & Schuster. Page 220. My Comments: The Moosewood recipe calls for beer or vegetable stock. The beer would have been an intriguing addition, but I wimped out and used vegetable stock here — less Weight Watcher points.  Our New England weather…

  • 31 Jan. 2011 Stuffed Eggplant “Hippie-Style”

    Adapted from Katzen, M. Moosewood Cookbook. (1977). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. p 115. My comment: Does the fact that I have an original edition of the Moosewood Cookbook make me an old hippie? I guess it might. Tonight I made the Hippie-Style Stuffed Eggplant (there are 2 other versions in this book). I’ve adapted…

  • 29 Jan. 2011 Red Pepper – Carrot Soup

    Adapted from Prag, E. “We Love Soup” Vegetarian Times. (February 2010) Issue 374, Vol. 36, No. 3. Page 34. My Comments: In my school, we have been teaching our students to “eat a rainbow” — here’s a beautiful, colorful soup for a cold winter night, although I’ll try it again in the summer and eat…