Christmas Dinner 2009
This year’s Christmas dinner:
Soup: Winter White soup from the book Voluptuous Vegan. It is a creamy pureed soup with roasted cauliflower, roasted garlic, potatoes, celery, etc. We garnished it with soy bacon, caramelized shallots, and chopped chives.
First Course: Fried spinach-basil ravioli stuffed with oyster and chanterelle mushrooms sauteed with shallots. Served with pepper aioli, okra [...]
DailyPhoto 12-24-09
Thursday December 24, 2009.
Prep work for Christmas dinner! From upper left: Caramel sauce, green herb sauce, Winter White soup, red onions, candied Buddha hand citron, seitan filling for red pepper ravioli, oyster and chanterelle mushroom filling for basil-spinach ravioli, finished candied Buddha hand, red and green ravioli.
Vegan MoFo! Panko-crusted tofu with roasted-garlic Guajillo quinoa and acorn squash
Dinner, Friday October 16.
This time I was smart and started preparing things for this dinner in advance the evening before. I roasted the two pretty acorn squashes from the CSA, and also two heads of garlic, so they’d be ready to go for Friday evening and preparing dinner wouldn’t take two hours.
I also marinated some [...]
Dinner: Goodbye Summer
Today I picked up some fresh corn, zucchini, and tomatos from the farmer’s market. Autumn is upon us, so I’m thinking this will probably be the last of the corn on the cob and super-fresh tomatos for a while. I griddled the tomatos with a little bit of olive oil until they were soft and [...]
Dinner: Chard, Kale, and Lentil Soup (CSA Veggies)
Second attempt at using up lots of CSA veggies. I’m sad to say that I don’t really like leafy green things like kale and chard that much, although I’m trying to learn to like them more since I know they are fantastically good for you. Soup is a great way to incorporate ingredients that you [...]
Dinner: Spicy Pac Choi (CSA veggies)
This year I am making a concerted effort at actually using up all the veggies I get from the CSA. We get a full share, which is a lot of veggies, even for two vegans! Delivery is every week, so unless I’m careful, I end up with a backlog of kale or lettuce. Things only [...]
Two Potato Vindaloo
Saturday night I made Two Potato Vindaloo, using this recipe from The Guardian (thanks Mike!). I don’t think I’ve ever had a curry with sweet potato in it, but it worked well and was quite tasty. I made some substitutions for ingredients that Whole Foods did not have (cardamom pods, coriander seeds, curry leaves). I [...]
Seitan “Beef” Pot Pies- Christmas Dinner 2008
For Christmas dinner this year, we wanted to make individual beef-style seitan pot pies. All the vegan pot pie recipes in my cookbooks are chicken-style, and I didn’t find any recipes online that were quite what I was looking for. One had no seasonings except a teaspoon of vegetable bouillon! I even looked for real [...]
