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At the Junction of Summer and Fall

The end products: cauliflower/sweet potato sauce over orzo and in the pots of the squashes. Green beans and cucumber salad with sunflower seeds.

After boiling the cauliflower and sweet potato, puree.

After making a roux, seasoned with dried sage, fresh oregano and pepper, adding almond milk and scoops of the veggie puree.

Last of my aunt’s […]

A 3-minute Cake for Breakfast

This recipe for microwaved cake sounds too good to not try.
I like the simplicity of one pot cooking. I modified to what I happen to have:
3-minute cake in a cup
4 Tbs white flour (instead of cake flour)
4 Tbs sugar
2 Tbs cocoa
1 egg
2 Tbsp almond milk
1 Tbsp sour cream (instead of 3 Tbsp milk)
3 Tbsp oil
sprinkle […]

Spelt Linguine Topped with Greens

Started with Pasta Della California from PostPunkKitchen and made it more this way:
Ingredients
spelt linguine
all head of broccoli, tops cut into small florets
most of a tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic
shake of red pepper flakes
splash of white wine vinegar
1/2 cup herb-cube broth
splash of whisky
couple grates of fresh black pepper
leftover cooked spinach
1 avocado in chunks

Fry the garlic […]

Couscous Salad and Almost Eggless Omelet

Couscous with dill and rosemary, yellow and green sweet peppers, cooked onion, indian corn and romano beans.

The spinach omelet is 300 g of chopped frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed not quite dry and 2 eggs. Also chopped in green olives, sundried tomato in oil, sesame and cubed firm tofu.

Some tofu marinaded for the future […]

Fiddleheads and Chives

Fiddleheads tossed in butter, golden fingerling potatoes tossed in butter and crosshatched with chives. Yellow beans on a bed of arugula.

This is why some advise cooking fiddleheads twice briefly. In first wash some of the tannins come out as you wash off the light husk. In first 5 minutes cook, you can change the water […]

Starchy Keen: Pancakes

Dark misty day ideal for pancakes:

Chocolate chip, raspberry and cranberry ones, and a Montreal-style sesame bagel.

Raspberry and chocolate to go on the top of the batter.
dry:
1 cup white flour
1/2 cup whole wheat four
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
wet:
2 eggs
1 cup almond milk
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
Mix them and stir/beat for 2 minutes until […]

Spicy Triangles

First outdoor balcony meal of the season with hot tofu triangles and oatbread with pecans and cream cheese.

Herbed tofu with tumeric, garam marsala, hot pepper flakes, cipolline onions (look like spanish onions on shallot-scale), a plum tomato, tomato sauce and sweet red pepper puree for 2 days.

Heated with brown and white mushrooms cooked in butter […]