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Midweek Munchies: What Danielle D is contributing this week I've been in a major food (and everything else) rut lately and I have not felt like getting groceries or cooking. After living on practically nothing for the past couple of weeks, I finally broke down and picked up a few things at the store: |
- Green Beans
- Bok Choy
- Romaine Lettuce
- Bean Sprouts
- Zucchini
- Tomato
- Bananas
- Butternut Squash
- Diced Tomatoes
- Canned Chickpeas
- Canned Kidney Beans
- Red Lentils
- Crispy Rice Cereal
- Taco Kit
- Microwave Popcorn
- Blackberry Jam
- Frozen Edamame
- Frozen Berries
- Ground "Beef"
- Brown Rice Tortillas
I still don't know what I am going to make (other than the tacos that I had for dinner), but at least I have something to work with now.
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In my opinion, there is nothing better on a cold, rainy night than a nice, hearty bowl of chili. Luckily, like soup, chili is one of my favourite things to make, as it is as easy as simply throwing a few ingredients into a pot and letting it do its thing. While I can make chili without a recipe, I sometimes like to follow one. Last night, I decided to follow a recipe and make the Three Bean Chili from 125 Best Vegan Recipes (which I borrowed from the public library a while back).
While I was not too impressed with this cookbook (as it uses too many prepackaged products), I really like this chili recipe. Though it's not an especially spicy chili, it has a nice, deep flavour that really hits the spot.
I have to admit that I am not really a big fan of tomato soup. I always liked the Campbell's variety (which I can no longer eat on account of the gluten), but I find that "real" tomato soup is just too tomato-y for my tastes. Nevertheless, I still crave tomato soup at least once a month (weird, huh?). This month's craving came a few days ago when I saw MadeinAlaska's blog post about creamy tomato soup and veganrella quesadillas. Unfortunately, I didn't have the necessary ingredients to make MadeinAlaska's recipe (I didn't have any tomato sauce or cornstarch), so I had to go digging through my cookbooks to find another one.
I ended up finding the Spicy Creamy Tomato Soup (p. 55) recipe in How it all Vegan. Though I didn't really want spicy tomato soup, this recipe looked just about perfect: it had few ingredients, lots of garlic and some soy milk (to make it creamy). I decided to make the soup and to simply minimize the spiciness (I only used 1/4 tsp. of pepper and a pinch of cayenne). The results were fantastic! The soup was creamy and had a nice deep, warm taste to it (likely from all of the garlic).
Here's a picture of the finished soup in the pot:
And here's a close-up of it (still in the pot):
I will definitely be making this soup again. I think that next time, though, I will use a little less garlic - as much as I love garlic, six cloves was a little too much for three small servings of soup (which is what this recipe makes).
Earlier today, Nava Atlas posed the following question to her blog readers: "What's Your Favorite Food Movie?" Though I had never considered this question before, the answer came to me almost immediately. My favourite food movie (broadly defined as a movie that has something to do with a type of food) would have to be the Peanut Butter Solution (1985).
Did anyone else watch this as a kid? No?! Are you sure? Maybe this summary will jog your memory:
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two 'friendly' ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael looses all of his hair when he gets a 'fright' and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit 'hairy'.
As you might have guessed, it really is a bizarre movie. I recommend it to anyone who likes weird, kid's movies from the eighties.
What's your favorite thing to shop for?
Submitted by JadedButterfly.
Not surprisingly, my favourite things to shop for are food and books. While I really, really dislike shopping for clothes, I can spend hours browsing grocery and book stores. This is especially true for overstocked, seemingly chaotic used book stores, which are my absolute favourite stores to visit.
Convenient foods aren't the same as convenience foods, which are already prepared and need only be heated up (like frozen pizza, frozen egg rolls, ready-made veggie burgers, or the like)...our most frequently used convenient foods are products such as canned beans, quick-cooking grains, and certain frozen or good-quality canned items...ready-to-use fresh vegetables...
Like Nava, I too like to save time by using products such as canned beans, frozen veggies (especially peas, carrots, spinach, asian stirfry mixes, young beans), and pre-packaged salads.
In recent years, I have also started to use pre-chopped/minced garlic. Now I know that some real foodies turn their nose up at jarred garlic, but I have always found it to be a decent substitute for the real thing (and it has the added benefit of not stinking up your fingers from all of the chopping). And while I stand by this belief, I am here to report that I have discovered that not all jarred garlic is alike and that some brands are definitely better than others.
Last week, I bought organic chopped garlic for the first time - Green Organic Chopped Garlic to be exact (shown in the pictures above) - and it was so much better than all of the non-organic brands that I have tried. When compared to the non-organic brands, this brand was much closer to fresh garlic, as it had larger, more fragrant pieces of garlic and much less juice. All in all, if you are a fan of convenient food (like me) and/or if you like to avoid pesticides, I highly recommend that you check out this product (or if you can't find this brand, try another organic brand).
As some of you might know, Thanksgiving comes a little early in Canada. Rather than celebrating in November, we celebrate on the second Monday of October. And while I am not big on celebrations and big family dinners, I do love fall foods. As a result, I decided to make my own small Thanksgiving feast. Since I was just cooking for myself, I did not make all of the things that I would have liked to have made (e.g. a fancier rice dish, some squash, parsnips, sweet potatoes, etc.), but I enjoyed it nonetheless (well, I enjoyed the food - not the cooking it or cleaning up after it).
After thinking about it for some time, I decided to make:
- Brown rice with nuts (almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds) and raisins
- Orange roasted asparagus
- -Steamed baby carrots
- Bryanna's cranberry sauce
- -Mashed potatoes
- -Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy (from Vegan with a Vengeance)
Put together by a small group of Veg Women, we hope to spread the word about healthy vegetarianism while obtaining idea starters for meals, recipes, learn about new products, and meet other female veg*n bloggers. Visiting and commenting on other participants lists are encouraged but not required. Have fun and Go Veg!
Ultimately, what it amounts to (or at least what I have observed) is various bloggers posting what groceries they have purchased for the week and occasionally meal ideas/recipes. Usually, the posts all have a uniform look as they are all written using the same code. So, here's my contribution for this week:
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Midweek Munchies: What Danielle D. is contributing for the week
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- frozen asian veggie mix
- frozen corn
- frozen green beans, yellow beans and baby corn mix
- Nature's Path Crispy Rice cereal
- plain potato chips
- plain rice cakes
- Nature's Path Vanilla Animal Crackers
- Thai Kitchen Pad Thai Noodle Cart (for lunch)
- sesame rice crisps
- vanilla sesame snaps
- canned kidney beans
- canned black beans
- canned diced tomatoes
- 2 lbs carrots
- 2 lbs baby carrots
- new potatoes
- parsnips
- kale
- broccoli
- bananas
- strawberries
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