Eating locally, FoodJuly 13, 2008 9:21 pm
I haven’t been focusing on eating locally as much these days since I’m trying to finish up the stuff in our pantry. I finally finished the arrow root powder today and most of the muffin paper cups.
Today I made blueberry corn muffins. Receipe is from Vegan with a Vengeance(VwaV). This will be our breakfast for the week. I also made Spicy Chickpea Curry using the recipe from Vegetarian cooking (its actually a vegan dish) and I made cobbler using plums and apricots using the recipe from VwaV. The dessert was most satisfying. But then again I just have a sweet tooth.
YUM, all three of those look delicious! I just passed up an opportunity to get a cheap copy of VwaV, thinking I’d decided I wanted Veganomicon instead. Now you’re making me rethink…
Yum and double yum!
Comment by Sue in the Western Great Basin — July 13, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Thank you!
I liked Veganomicon too (borrowed from the library). The dishes I made from Veganomicon for a party were a huge hit with the non vegans (chickpea cutlets, lemon roasted potatoes, smlove pie). I just have put off buying the book for the time being. But VwaV really made me love cooking as it lets me make mistakes and substitute without ruining the dish.
Comment by Beany — July 13, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
They all look good, but I keep looking back at those muffins. Hmm. I think I’m going to need a muffin tin…
Comment by Heather @ SGF — July 13, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
Nice food porn, as Arduous would say. I may need to try that curry - but that damn kids won’t eat that kind of stuff! Tell me, was it delicious???
Comment by Green Bean — July 14, 2008 @ 1:40 am
I, too, am focusing on using up the things from my pantry and freezer. It’s not just good for the earth, it’s also easy on my stretched-tight budget!
That chickpea curry looks wonderful!
Comment by rapunzel — July 14, 2008 @ 7:19 am
Yes the chickpea curry was delicious! Its dishes like it that make me wish I was more of a glutton. Its incredibly easy to make but I can see kids not being interested in spicy food if its not a regular part of their diet. It starts out the same way all curry dishes do: fry onions and garlic in oil.
And I decided to put this post up with pictures because I didn’t want to get arduous all pissy.
Thanks Rapunzel!
Comment by Beany — July 14, 2008 @ 8:04 am
Haha! I appreciate the pictures. Everything looks sooooooooooo good.
Comment by arduous — July 14, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Beany, you are too funny. I know what you mean about that Arduous. All moaning and groaning if she can’t get her food porn fix. Can you post a link to the recipe for the curry or specify what is Vegetarian Cooking? Oddly, I’ve been a vegetarian all my life but haven’t heard of that. Oh, and I know you’re all busy planning your bicycling trip which is super super cool but can you end up in my neck of the woods and open an Organic Personal Chef business? At reallllly reasonable prices?
Comment by Green Bean — July 16, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
Vegetarian Cooking is a cookbook by Linda Fraser. I got it from the bargain bin in B&N about eight years ago when I first began to live on my own and didn’t know how to cook anything. There are some really fantastic dishes in there (I love the potato/feta fritters). Amazon has the book listed and used ones cost as little as $0.44. I’ll try to email the recipe to you tonight or tomorrow.
One of my many business ideas is to have a business geared toward food and offer cooking classes (for those too thrifty to pay to eat my food) for the amateur cook. I am no celebrity chef, but I’d like to have people cook more and appreciate food more.
In fact if anyone reading this wants to steal/borrow this idea feel free: I wanted to offer delivery service of meals via bicycle messenger and meals will be delivered in reusable containers. Steep fines for those who don’t return the containers. And a lecture from FPF on waste.
Comment by Beany — July 17, 2008 @ 8:45 am