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Spinached Potatoes

Small serving for light appetite, some thawed garlic bread and some potato tosses in spinach and sauce.
recipe:
a few red potatoes, washed and quartered and baked
big handful of spinach leaves, torn to bite sized
sauce:
1/4 onion, chopped
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1.2 tsp each fennel, cumin, turmeric, red pepper, powdered ginger, cinnamon and hot pepper seeds
2 Tbp peanut butter
1/4 […]

Zucchini Lasagna

The root vegetables (carrots, parsnips) and squash were put in the oven to bake at the same time as the lasagna.
Lasagna recipe:
250 ml cottage cheese (1%)
1 egg
1 package frozen chopped spinach, thawed, squeezed dry
3/4 jar of tomato sauce
1 zucchini, thinly sliced
slice of onion
2 inches off the cube of brick cheese, grated (used allegro low fat […]

Corn and Potato Chowder

Corn and potato chowder soup surrounded by kidney bean salad, cous cous with savory leaves and thick flavorul stalks of asparagus. The soup recipe is this:
1 1/2 cups raw potato, in cubes (about one really large one)
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup onion, chopped
3 tbs butter
1 1/2 Tbs whole wheat flour
2 cups skim milk
14 ounce, or […]

Scallopped and ‘roomed.

Savory leaf and mushroom sauce over gemelli pasta, sour cream, chives and cheese scalloped potatoes and those small flowering trees we munch steamed.

Sweet Strips and Chopped Tubers

A variation on the sweet strips recipe with some cucumber salad, indian spiced rice and an assortment of tubers and squash (carrots, parsnips, acorn squash and batata) all in lovely squares tossed in olive oil and oregano and kelp

Sweet Strips

Cous cous is the bed for the veggies — an hour ahead the zucchini, onion, acorn squash popped in a pot and baked at 300 degrees to get themselves ready to sit beside the so soya.
The So soya strips were soaked to rehydrate and then fried to brown in a pan with olive oil. […]

Gemelli

( On the Table and Lentils and Pasta and Veggies )

Gemelli and sauce, brown lentils, broccoli and peas. Ah, nutrition and fibre, color and flavor.

Gemelli is a folk pasta that cooks in 6 minutes. Good when on the run or relaxing in the sun.