My grandmothers always made a big pot of Southern style green beans with a Virginia ham bone in it when we came to visit, and I would eat multiple helpings of those flavorful beans. The ham bone lent a smoky flavor to the beans that stuck in my memory and remains to this day. You [...]
The Daring Cooks Make Vegan Dosas
September 14, 2009 By 8 Comments
For the Daring Cooks September challenge, we made vegan dosas adapted from the reFresh cookbook by Ruth Tal. Fresh is a popular chain of vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Toronto, Canada with three published cookbooks teaching how to cook Fresh food at home. Our host Debyi of Healthy Vegan Kitchen chose this fun challenge for us, and [...]
Roasted Garlic Hummus
July 24, 2009 By 10 Comments
This is our first year for growing garlic and now we are slapping ourselves for not trying it years ago because it was so easy. We planted the garlic cloves back in October and then just let them do their thing, no difficult maintenance required. They sprouted before winter set in, then the real growth [...]
Cannellini Bean Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette
June 4, 2009 By 8 Comments
Bean salads are an essential part of any recipe file and are great for summer picnic salads since they are often dressed with dairy-free vinaigrettes. I like to mix up my own vinaigrettes, usually tasting and estimating until I get a flavor I like. In his new book, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft [...]
Spicy Black Beans and Ham
March 25, 2009 By 4 Comments
Slow Roasted Tomato Hummus
January 8, 2009 By 17 Comments
Slow Cooker Squash Stew with Garbanzo Beans and Red Lentils
November 13, 2008 By 12 Comments
Our kitchen counter is covered with five different types of squash, a few steps up from our normal routine of acorn and butternut squash. On my last squash run, I came home with sweet dumpling, delicata, buttercup, acorn, and butternut and plans for all of them, mostly revolving around roasting and soups. And of course [...]
Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup with Five Peppers and Ham
May 11, 2008 By 10 Comments
It’s May and I want to dream about picnics and cooking outdoors. We thought summer was well on it’s way when temperatures climbed into the 80s a couple weeks ago, then we were startled with the cold front that came through yesterday bringing lots of rain and dropping temperatures back into the 40s. Everything is [...]
Cannellini Bean Dip with Herbed Pita
April 24, 2008 By 3 Comments
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