stuff it

November 30, 2011 1 Comment

I’m a creature of habit. If I like a song I play it over and over and over until I kill it. I’m kind of the same way with my food. If I find something I like I abuse it. I have been dreaming about the roast chickpea and edamame dinner I made last week, so I decided to do it up again with a few modifications. No mint, and I roasted an acorn squash and stuffed the roast chickpeas and edamame inside. I will abuse this recipe again. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but delicious!!

I made one for manfriend as well using chicken sausage, the thought of him removing meat from his diet is laughable, but at least I can have him eat most of the dishes I make as side dishes.

Tonight I tackle artichokes, which I’ve never done before. I’ll be searching for recipes this afternoon so if you’ve got a great one let me know where to find it !

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easy peasy

November 15, 2011 2 Comments

While I consider myself somewhat creative, I’m not at all creative in the kitchen.  I need instructions.   Very. Basic.  Instructions.   A few weeks ago I mentioned this adorable website I found via Pinterest, The Vegan Stoner.   I don’t think I could ever go full on vegan, but I’m trying to eat as clean as humanly possible.   I decided to try  some of the recipes from this ridiculously cute site.   It’s like I hit the jackpot.  Delicious and stupid easy (because I can’t just have it easy, it’s gotta be stupid easy.)

First up was Peanut Stew

Mine didn’t come out quite as pretty as their picture, but it was phenomenal.   Slightly on the heavy side, but you wouldn’t believe how amazing peanut butter and tomatoes work together.  So flavorful!

I also tried the Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares (obviously I’ve got a thing for PB:

This is like a homemade peanut butter cup.   If you can melt things and freeze things, you can make this:

I want to try to tackle just about every recipe from the Vegan Stoner, and as soon as their cookbook hits stores, I’m all over it.  LOVE easy!!!


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basil bailout

January 26, 2011 2 Comments

Spaghetti and Turkey-balls were on the menu last night (turkey-balls sounds so wrong doesn’t it?)  I forgot to pick up fresh basil on my food shopping day so I ducked into Hannaford to grab a little, except a little didn’t exist.   Somehow this was branded the “value-size” fresh basil:

I see no value in waaaaay too much, I usually buy a 1/4 of this once every month but it was the only fresh basil they had so I grabbed it.   It was $3.99, I used maybe an 1/8th of this in my recipe last night.   I hate hate hate when herbs are wasted or go bad so I’m calling on any lurkers with cooking skills.  I’ve got a big ass bag of basil to use by….Friday?  I’m guessing that’s when it’ll take a turn for stank.  Do you have any great recipes that I can use fresh basil in?   I’m a novice cooker but I’ll try anything, and manfriend is actually a genius in the kitchen so if I get stuck he can usually guide me back to the correct path.   Pretty please?

The only requirement is that the recipe can’t involve tree nuts (kiddo and his dad are allergic.)  But if it’s a dealbreaker in the recipe I just won’t share with them. :)

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