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Pearl Barley and Veggies

( On the Table and Lentils and Soups and Grains and Veggies )

Barley is so filling in a good sense. Boil a cup of veggie broth, half a cup of pearl barley, turn in some chips off the old turnip, half a roughly chopped tomato, half a stem of celery. Boil for a few minutes then bake at 350 degrees for an hour.
Beside that is 1/2 a […]

Oyster Mushrooms on Rice

There’s this kind of mushroom called oyster. This too is vegetarian.

The oyster mushrooms can be bought fresh but it’s more flexible to get them dried and re-hydrate them according to need.

The sauce recipe is this:
2 Tbs olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves (or to your taste)
2 plum tomatoes, chopped
4-6 button mushrooms, chopped
1 14 […]

Quinoa Keener

1/2 cup quinoa
2 Tbs slivered almonds
smudge curry
100 g white mushrooms
1 Tbs butter
Beside that organic broccoli and organic cauliflower (so pesticides are only incidental, blow in from surrounding farms?) with a cheese sauce with savory, virgin olive oil and Belgian bread.

Spinach Pancakes

A savory pancake with parmigiano-Reggiano, finely mincely spinach and broccoli. Beside it red cabbage cooked with fennel and anise and thirdly, red kidney beans in a sauce with thyme, lemon juice, candied lemon, plum sauce and a few taps of rajmah masala blend.

Pretty Pancakes

Pancakes for 2
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 egg
3/4 tsp baking powder
dash salt
1 cup skim milk
2 Tbs no-salt butter
4 or 5 cubes of ginger in syrup, diced
1/2 cup blackberries, chopped
Mix all together for 2 minutes. Fry in butter.
Constrast of sweet and hot gives a lovely contrast to the tongue.

Almond Curry

This used an Indian Home Gourmet curry spice packet intended for chicken. The curry was fried for a few minutes with 1/2 a large onion chopped, a large grated potato. It was cooked to a sauce by adding 1/2 cup of water, 1 cup of almond milk and served over fragrant rice with those ever […]

Jasmine Rice

Jasmine rice is said to be fragrant but its got a stickiness, less than risotto or glutinous rice to be sure but it isn’t any basmati grain. It’s got a bit of soy while up in the top corner is chopped red cabbage microwaved with butter and anise seeds and to the front left is […]