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Broccoli in Sauce

Boiling up some broccoli.

Whipping up some cheddary-cheese sauce to go over the fresh broccoli.

Red Potatoes

Baby red potatoes baked half an hour come out of the oven. Equally creamy is the boiled acorn squash (so much better than baked!). Thats topped with a sprinkle of anise seed. Green beans round it off.

KD

Kraft dinner, peas and ketchup. Cuz ain’t always glam but it’s always real and usually yummy.

Savory Pancakes

Savory pancakes with
- as much thyme as you’ve got
- shelled hemp seed
- small cubes of medium cheddar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder,
1/2 Tbs sugar
- sprinkle of salt
- 1 1/2 cup unbleached flour.

This mixed with the wet:
- 2 beaten eggs,
- 3 Tbs melted butter and
- a cup of skim milk

Bowtie Affair

Small whole wheat bowties tossed with olive oil, dried thyme, woodear mushroom and fried zucchini and button mushrooms. Mini boccocini with tomato, pureed basil and drizzled with rosemary infused olive oil.

Minestrone Soup

Why don’t I cook this more often? It only takes a little over a half hour.
A dry mix of minestrone pasta was supplemented with chopped veggies.

Carrots, squash, onions, zucchini, celery, and brown lentils out of scene.

Cranberry Bread Pudding

This variation, lower in salt, sugar and fat than the Bread Pudding from a 1973 version of Joy of Cooking has:
3 cups of stale bread, made into soft crumbs
3 cups of skim milk
3 eggs beaten (to be fancy and light, one could whip the eggs and yolks separately and fold as for a souffle but […]