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Goat Cheese, Parsley, and Chive Gougères

Photo by KAY (thanks sis!)
Goat Cheese, Parsley, and Chive Gougères
The best way to describe these little puffs of goodness is to think of them as a savoury, warm cousin of the profiterole. They were good as an accompaniment to the soup below, but would have been just fine by their own.  You can make them [...]

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Fancy Soup

The T-giving feast was a veritable success.   Strangely though, I felt I put far more effort into the appetizer than anything else, and that’s OKAY, as I view Thanksgiving as a practice run for the Christmas feast.  It was good though, the best soup I have ever made, and I think the best mushroom soup [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

On the Menu:

Wild mushroom soup with truffle oil, served with Goat’s Cheese Gougeres.
Roasted Baby Artichokes with Quinoa Salad
Crunchy Brussel Sprouts
Sauteed Winter Greens with Soyrizo
Broccoli
Roast Potatoes and Parsnips
Mashed Parsnips
Cranberry Sauce
Bisto Gravy
Soysage and Apple Stuffing
Treacle Pudding
Recipes and Pictures to come later!  Thanks to Jon for the Thanksgiving Bean- isn’t he cute?

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Bean Bake with Parsley-Walnut Pesto

This recipe  comes from 101 Cookbooks, one of my favourite sites.  I absolutely love this dish.  Heidi makes it with giant white beans, which are definitely much better, but I was unable to find them.  Be creative with the pesto.  This time, I used a Parsley-Walnut-Sun-dried tomato combination which was very good.  Heidi recommended a [...]

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Quinoa Stuffed Butternut Squash

In case you hadn’t already noticed, I like squash, a lot.  This recipe is so filling.  If you can find a smaller butternut squash it isn’t such an impossible fete.  1 small squash is definitely enough for two people, IMO (my favourite acronym).
Quinoa Stuffed Butternut Squash
Makes 2 Servings

1 Small Butternut squash
1 Cup of Quinoa
A handful [...]

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Polenta Casserole

I buy the polenta that comes in one of those jimmy-dean-sausage-tube looking things.  Because it’s easy, and tastes yummy.  You can find it in the vegetable section, strangely.  It has to be refrigerated- maybe that’s why? The influence of this dish came from ALBION COOKS.
POLENTA CASSEROLE
1 Tube of Ready-Made-Polenta
1/2 an Onion
1 Clove of garlic
8-10 Baby [...]

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THE Lasagne

This is one of my favourite dishes to cook.  It takes a bit of time, though, so be ready to give yourself about 2 hours of cooking and prep time.  I like mine to be spicy, because I like the combination of the sweet squash with some spicy red chili, and a creamy (fake) bechamel [...]

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Can a proper English Breakfast be vegetarian?

Another egg post from my ‘weekend.’
After reading the Guardian’s spurning (but hilarious) response to the New York Magazine’s proclamation that the English Breakfast has infiltrated The City, I had to wonder, can a proper English Breakfast be vegetarian? No, probably not.  The essence of an English Breakfast is grease- mushrooms, toast, egg, tomato.. all fried [...]

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It’s not Sunday…

But it’s my weekend and Virginia weather is emanating a lazy Sunday feeling, which means.. EGGS!!! I couldn’t agree more with the blog entitled Eggs on Sunday. Everybody should have eggs on Sunday.  Sometimes I eat eggs on Saturday, too.
We had some eggplant (or aubergine) going off.  It desperately needed eating up, so I pricked [...]

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Hooray for non-microwaved food: Boozy Leek and Butternut Squash PIE

So this temp job I have requires eight consecutive ten-hour work days, followed by 6 days off.  For those 8 days, I am confined to hotel-room microwave cooking.  Hence the gap between posts.  During the first eight day session I subsisted off of microwaved baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, couscous, and soup.  I tried one frozen [...]