Bean tostada Here’s an other “it’s too hot to bother with cooking” summer meal. The tortilla was crisped in the oven instead of fried then topped with homemade bean chili which was kicking around the back of the freezer. I added chopped up lettuce, tomatoes, avocado and onions then some chipotle salsa and garnished it [...]
Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category
Mexican tostada
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged bean, Mexican, summer, Vegan, Vegan recipe on July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Roasted cauliflower
Posted in Recipes, Vegetables, tagged cauliflower, simple vegetable recipe, Vegan recipe on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not much of a recipe here, just a beautiful cauliflower roasted to perfection. I find that roasting cauliflower brings out its sweet nuttiness. And it looks great too. Clean the cauliflower and leave it whole. Spay an oven proof dish with a little olive oil, put the cauliflower in it and spray with olive oil [...]
Pasta al limone with crispy baby artichokes
Posted in Italian, Pasta, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged baby artichokes, Pasta, spring recipe, Vegan recipe on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I love baby artichokes! Specially the tiny purple artichokes from Provence called “Poivrade”, so tender they can be eaten raw. They’re hard to find on this side of the ocean but so worth the hunt. Here’s a simple recipe that lets them shine. Spaghetti with crispy baby artichokes, lemon, capers and parsley. Ingredients 16 baby [...]
Lemon risotto with sautéed morels and grilled asparagus
Posted in Italian, Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged asparagus, lemon risotto, morels, spring recipe, Vegan recipe on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes more morels and asparagus! This is the last one for a while I think, unless I dig up an other one from my archive folder… Lemon risotto with sautéed morels and grilled asparagus. For risotto Ingredients 350 ml (1 1/2 cups) short grain rice preferably Carnaroli or Vialone Nano 750 ml (3 cups) homemade [...]
Baby purple artichoke salad
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Italian, Raw food, Recipes, Salads, Vegetables, tagged baby artichokes, poivrade, spring recipe, Vegan recipe on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Choose smallest, most tender, violet or poivrade baby artichokes for this recipe. This smaller variety has almost no choke and the inner half is very tender and are entirely edible. They have a mild bitter taste with notes of hazelnut. Baby purple artichoke salad Ingredients 16 baby artichokes cleaned and very thinly sliced Vinegar or [...]
Ramps soufflés
Posted in Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged foraged food, ramps, spring recipe, Vegan recipe on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is from 3 weeks ago. It was my last ramps dish of the year and my first try making vegan soufflé. It worked out quite well. Unfortunately I was so eager to serve them before they cooled and collapsed that I forgot to take an after picture! Sorry about that. I’ll make it again [...]
Wild asparagus risotto, foraged greens and stuffed morels
Posted in Italian, Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged foraged food, morels, rice, risotto, Vegan recipe, wild asparagus on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yup, an other rice and morels recipe… This one is from last year. I’m posting it now as it is seasonal. I can’t remember for the life of me what these foraged greens were. It was a bit like purslane but slightly bigger and had a very mild bitter taste. Any other greens would work [...]
An other spring salad
Posted in Salads, Vegetables, tagged forage food, greens, salad, sassafras, Vegan recipe, violets, wild edibles, wild garlic mustard on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been too busy to blog lately so I’ve got some catching to do with the spring recipes… This one is from mid-April when the wild violets were in bloom. I love cooking and eating wild food. This simple salad is made of market bought “wild” arugula and small pea shoots augmented with foraged wild [...]
Polenta with sautéed morels, sunchoke chips and herbed oil
Posted in Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables, tagged morels, mushrooms, polenta, Spring, sunchoke, Vegan recipe on May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Here’s an other super easy spring inspired dish. Cheap to make if you forage your own morels but can get quite pricy if you buy them. This would also work just as well with chanterelles or other wild mushrooms. Polenta with morels, sunchoke chips and herbed oil Polenta Ingredients 1 L (4 1/4 cups) water [...]
Pink mashed potatoes
Posted in Recipes, Vegetables, tagged culinary humour, pink mash potatoes, Vegan recipe on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
And now for a little culinary humour… Pink mashed potatoes, sautéed asparagus and sugar snap peas, roasted tomato. Ingredients 4 large potatoes, peeled and cut 4 cloves of garlic, whole 1 small red beet, peeled and cut into cubes 125 ml (1/2 cup) non-dairy milk 125 ml (1/2 cup) vegetable stock salt and pepper to [...]
