It has been super-hectic around here between how busy I've been with my preschool board position, the preschool fundraiser, and a couple of bouts of illness. The menus reflect that, but it still has been good eating around here.

10/03/10: Pasta with tomato-mushroom sauce, green beans Caesar (from my new "Church Suppers" cookbook I scored at the ( Read more... )

I am still keeping track of all our dinners, I just have failed to post publicly. I am going to try to catch up. Here's the past couple of weeks:

09/11/10: Bow-tie pasta with red sauce, green salad, and garlic-Parmesan bread
09/10/10: Burritos with black beans, bell peppers, and onions and tomato rice
09/09/10: Summer squash and tomato risotto ( Read more... )

I made basil-hazelnut pesto tonight and it was great. I did it totally on the fly and it is a keeper. I threw ~two cups fresh basil leaves, four cloves of garlic, ~1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, ~1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes that had been soaking in hot water for a while, and ~1/2 cup roasted hazelnuts in the food processor and blended it while I ( Read more... )

4/25/10: Dinner out
4/24/10: late lunch/early dinner out after rehearsal
04/23/10: Snobby Joe's (lentil-based Sloppy Joe's), baked potato wedges, green salad. The Snobby Joe's were made from a recipe in Veganomicon and were awesome. Really good--it's a keeper
04/22/10: dinner out after shopping trip
04/21/10: skillet mole pie and corn on the cob ( Read more... )

Just more catching up...

04/18/10: Bean burgers on sprouted wheat buns and corn on the cob. I used this recipe, more or less, for the burgers. Left out the olives and peppers and used egg replacer instead of egg. Also only used black beans and chickpeas. They were quite good
04/17/10: Out at parties
04/16/10: Dinner out after cleaning the ( Read more... )

Our meals last week
04/11/10: Black Bean and Vegetable Soup from Veganomicon and baked potato wedges. I left out the peppers and celery in the soup (we were out) and omitted the cumin because I wanted a non-cumin black bean soup. It turned out beautifully and I finally have a black bean soup recipe I really like. Yay!
04/10/10: Leftovers
04/09/10 ( Read more... )

04/04/10: Potato Leek soup, roasted Brussels sprouts and cauliflower with lemon pepper, rye soda bread ( Read more... )

03/28/10: Blueberry pancakes, veggie bacon, mushroom-onion-Parmesan polenta, and orange slices.
03/27/10: Leftovers.
03/26/10: Leek and Bean Cassalouet (used cannelinni beans instead of navy beans and omitted the peas) with biscuits (from Veganomicon, green salad with granny smith apples
03/25/10: Lentil soup (based on Greek Lentil Soup in New ( Read more... )

Playing catch-up here, working backwards...

03/21/10: Penne with mushrooms, leeks, and carrots in a champagne sauce (based off recipe in Fields of Greens, roasted cauliflower with lemon pepper, and green salad with radicchio and walnuts.
03/20/10: Potato-chard-cheese enchiladas, refried beans, and tomato rice. Did the beans from scratch and they ( Read more... )

Despite my lack of focus (and time!) to post about it, we are still eating and I am still cooking most nights. We've been having lots of soup because it is soup weather and it is something I can put together and leave on the stove--essential these days. Here is some of what we've been eating:

• 02/01/10: Black-eyed pea gumbo over brown rice with a ( Read more... )