Archive for July, 2009
Apricot BBQ Tofu, Avocado Marinated Kale Salad and Southwestern Corn Pudding
Jul 25th
This was an excellent meal. The Apricot BBQ Tofu is a repeat from Veganomicon. Good stuff. The southwestern corn pudding is the obvious standout in this meal. It was from Veganomicon. We love this recipe and we love this cookbook! We are also trying to get more kale recipies because how vitamin rich kale apparently is. This salad was excellent. We got the recipe from a friend’s friend. Thanks for passing it along, Brenda!
Avocado Marinated Kale Salad
Ingredients
1 head kale, destemmed- we used dino
2 avocados (can use 2 Tbsp olive oil instead- we didn’t)
3 lemons (or lemon juice)
2 large tomatoes
handful of mung bean sprouts (I usually don’t use, mostly because I don’t have them on hand)
sea salt to taste
cayenne pepper to taste
Method
Wash kale very well. Remove leaves for inner stem with you hands or knife. Place into a large mixing bowl and with yourhands rip the kale into small bite size pieces. Scoop out the avocado into the bowl. Juice the lemons into the bowl. Dice the tomatoes and add. Add the sea salt and cayenne and then dig your hands in an mush it all up until the kale softens. Add the sprouts about half way through to get them incorporated, but not demolished. This is good right away and also saves well.
Notes
Kale has the highest level of antioxidants of all the greens. The kids will eat it as well. They prefer dino kale- which we got for this salad at the farmer’s market.
Slug Traps
Jul 25th
This is the first summer that we have tried red cabbage. The cabbages and our lettuces have been covered in slugs looking for a meal. I have been going out with a flashlight in the evening when they come out to pick them off. With all the vacations and time away, I needed more tricks. I decided to make beer slug traps, which after only a couple days caught several dozen slugs and a bunch of earwigs. I refined the design with some larger openings and added a couple more and they worked pretty well. It seems like a ton of work for a couple cabbages. I think next summer it makes sense to rotate through different quick lettuces and greens.
Cleveland Wok
Jul 20th
This is a really excellent buffet, however there weren’t a ton of meat free options and while the food was extremely fresh and yummy, this won’t become a routine. The hot and sour soup was amazing. I mean amazing. I found this on a website that was supposed to be vegan friendly. I am not really sure why. They had excellent egg foo yung, green beans, chinese potatoes, and noodles. I also really liked their egg rolls. Yummy. Most everything else was meat based.
Stuffed Artichokes with Italian Tofu and Pasta
Jul 8th
Our neighbor gave us some old issues of Vegetarian Times, which we discontinued several years ago- but we have decided to renew our subscription. We found a great recipe for stuffed artichokes. We found some nice artichokes at Kowalski’s, which were great (more expensive, but far superior). We had two from Kowalski’s Market and two from Whole Foods. The ones from Whole Foods were local and organic, but were like cardboard and flavorless. Obviously the artichokes weren’t a hit with the kids… I guess we kind of knew that going into it. Our oldest, 5, tried them at least. Our middle, 2, passed.
The pasta was obviously the biggest hit with the kids as was the Italian marinated tofu which was from Veganomicon. So far everything that we have really liked has been from this cookbook. It is quite a find.