Pistou – a hearty french soup. It seems that I have been on a soup kick lately. On Monday I tried out this recipe from the Nutritional Yeast Cookbook by Joanne Stepaniak. She describes it as a hearty french soup. I modified the recipe some to start off with, especially the quantities, since the original recipe would not have yielded much soup, and I like to have leftovers. Here is what I used: 2 leeks 6 medium white potatoes 9 […] (Read more)

Tom Kha-Yum soup Last night I tried out another new recipe. We bought some lemongrass awhile ago, and I have been meaning to try to make Tom Yum. I searched around the internet and found a variety of different vegetarian versions. Many of them included coconut milk, which is usually only found in Tom Kha. From what I read, it seemed like Tom Yum without fish sauce would not be very tasty. So I ultimately decided to do a bit […] (Read more)

French lentil soup and beer-braised red cabbage Now that our kitchen is mostly assembled again, I decided to make some more new recipes tonight. I ended up deciding on two recipes from The Voluptuous Vegan. I chose recipes that only required what we had on hand, since it was cold and snowy, and I didn’t feel like going to the store. I did make a couple substitutions. The french lentil soup called for swiss chard, but I used bok choy, […] (Read more)

stove-top stuffing We recently found ourselves with a lot of stale bread. What does one do with stale bread? Make stuffing! We weren’t about to actually stuff anything (besides our bellies), so I just made it on the stove in a pan. Clare came up with the idea to make it, and with the brilliant idea of adding some vegetarian sausage crumbles. We were very happy to discover that the grocery store right by our new house in Colorado carries […] (Read more)

vegetarian pho Today I made the second new recipe of the year. Clare has been very excited about pho lately, but most pho restaurants don’t seem to offer a vegetarian option, so we thought we would give it a try. We mostly followed the recipe from the ellie may website, which was the first google hit for “vegetarian pho”. Clare actually did much of the work on this one. We found an Asian grocery store today, which among other things […] (Read more)