Author Archives: ds331
Spiral Vegetable Tart
Here’s a beautiful vegetarian showstopper for your Thanksgiving table. Continue reading
‘Beyond’ Kofta Experiment
We’ve been experimenting with plant-based meat substitutes for years…and several of them have been quite good. Lately, the “Beyond” and “Impossible” burgers have been getting all the headlines and we’ve been trying them and their make your own versions (faux … Continue reading
A Green Zebra: Dark Chocolate Pistachio Cake
The birthday boy sheepishly asked if I’d make him a cake the other day. Sheepish because even though most years, I make a cake, last year I ordered cupcakes from a local cupcake shop. This year, with a little boy … Continue reading
Homemade Greek Yogurt
I’ve been experimenting with yogurt making again. This time, I wanted to make greek yogurt. I found out it was pretty easy. The hardest part for me in yogurt making is incubating it. My oven doesn’t have a pilot light that … Continue reading
Summery Gazpacho Experiment
Our garden suddenly produced a bounty of small tomatoes and tomatillos. We were also going to be entertaining a bunch of people on our rooftop, so I needed to find something cooling to serve. We thought, gazpacho…but I wanted to … Continue reading
Easiest Dulce De Leche
Last winter, I was looking for good cookie recipes, and came up a great dark chocolate shortbread cookie with dulce de leche inside. (In an upcoming post, i’ll give you that recipe). But today, i’ll give you the first step. It’s … Continue reading
Peoples’ Choice Cornbread
The blog hiatus is over…I now work normal hours again and have time to do things like cook and write! This week, my husband once again nudged me to enter a cooking contest–this time a really fun neighborhood event–and I … Continue reading
Homemade Cultured Butter
About a year ago, I started buying “fancy” butter–by fancy I mean European cultured butter. It was creamier and tangier (that’s the “cultured” part–it is made with yogurt and the cultures are left to grow for a day or two). The … Continue reading
The Award Winning Moussaka
Thanks to my publicist and sous-chef, aka my husband’s encouragement and assistance, I entered a cooking contest the other day, and I was crowned the best home cook in DC yesterday (thanks CookNook!). I’ll share the recipe here, but first … Continue reading
Squash curry experiment
A few weeks ago I went to the garden and picked a monster squash. It was gigantic and it was bumpy and yellow. I had no idea what it was– I think it’s some kind of fall winter squash. Anyway … Continue reading
Moroccan Lemon, Olive, and Cinnamon Chick’n
This recipe was inspired by a recipe on epicurious and is part of an effort to turn expand our palates and adapt meat recipes that my husband might like into vegetarian ones. Ingredients: 1 onion 1/4 preserved lemon (original … Continue reading
Edamame burgers
I received this recipe from Cooking.com in my inbox and thought “hey I have all of the ingredients!” It seems like a lot of stuff but you probably have a lot of it. And then as I got to cooking, I did … Continue reading
Coconut Faro
This is a versatile dish–change out veggies or flavoring to go with different meals. I served this version with the mango tofu. And subsequently made a version with more Indian flavors to go with the daal I posted the other … Continue reading
Mango Tofu
A taste of summer and the islands, brought to you by that perennial question: what do I do with these overripe mangos? Ingredients for sauce (for blender) 1 ripe mango 1/2 green mango 1 lime 1 jalapeno 2 T … Continue reading
Squash Daal
Inspired by a recipe from my father-in-law with some modifications from me–like squash instead of carrots. serves 4 3 small yellow squash (zucchini, butternut, Accorn, or carrots all would work) 1.5 cups Masoor Daal (red lentils) 5 cups water (it … Continue reading
Zucchini Pad Thai
Pad thai minus the noodles. Zucchini in long strings forms the base of this version. Ingredients 2 T tamarind concentrate 1/2 c water 2 T soy sauce 2 T brown sugar (if you have palm sugar, use it) dates would … Continue reading
Vegetarian Moussaka
This is a modified version of the recipe found in Carla Hall’s book, “Carla’s Comfort Foods”, which itself is a modification of another recipe. My changes: Using soy (aka “groundless groundbeef”) and seitan (Field roast sausage-style links) instead of bulgar … Continue reading
Portland, ME: Veggie options done right
We’re loving Portland, Maine. It makes the list of places I’d like to live (summer home)–it has ocean (beautiful views from our house), is an interesting, eclectic small city, and has great food. Vinland a locavore, small plates restaurant–food is 100% … Continue reading
Multigrain Seeded Bread experiment
I know it has been quite a while–a new shift schedule has wreaked havoc on my free time, making blogging hard. But stay tuned. I’m on vacation and I’ve got ideas. This post is inspired by our trip to Vermont, … Continue reading
Flour-free biscuit experiment
I came home from work wanting a biscuit. Why? Who knows. But it’s what I wanted. But I didn’t really want a carby biscuit. Here’s what I came up with, an amalgam of a few different recipes. It was really, … Continue reading
A Happy Veggie Foodie 