I’m very lucky in that my husband also enjoys cooking as much as I do.  I worked on Saturday and, when I came home, he had made a Vegetable Biryani adapted from La Dolce Vegan:

1 onion chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground turmeric
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
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Well, yesterday I had some extra hours at the library so I packed a lunch of leftover split pea soup, a rice & bean salad I made, a Clementine, some mixed nuts/dried fruit, & a vanilla cupcake.

Today I’m off so had time to cook.  I made jasmine rice, black beans, & a little stir-fry of carrots, peas, & corn.

I’ve had a lot of people tell me ( Read more... )

Once again, since I don’t work until this evening I have time to make something a little different.  Sort of burritos, but I’ll have little bowls of ingredients out to make each one individually.  I will reheat some brown rice I made on Sunday & make some refried beans to serve on corn tortillas with baby spinach & homemade salsa (see blog post ( Read more... )

Today we had minestrone soup (that we froze from that huge monastery soup batch) & I reheated the herbed oven fries from the other night.  But I cut mine up & made a sort of warmed potato salad with mixed baby greens & herbs, sliced onions, & avocado with lemon juice, sea salt & pepper.  Delish!

Yesterday I met a friend for lunch with takeout from ( Read more... )

I can’t believe how warm it is outside!  They say we’ll hit 55 degrees (or even break a record).  While it feels nice I’m a little worried about the freeze-thaw effect on my plants.  J. says that snow helps protect the plants during very cold weather.  And as it’s only February 10 there’s a lot more cold weather to come.

But it feels like spring ( Read more... )

I admit that I do not like grocery shopping.  I hate the cart-jostling, people talking loudly on their cell phones about absolutely nothing, and the loading and unloading of bags.  But since I only work part-time and my husband works full-time (and is also taking classes towards a degree), I feel that I should be the one to do the shopping.  I try ( Read more... )