Food(less) Journey

Can you believe what is happening outside? It seems like only a few days ago I was saying goodbye to the last wave of the tomato harvest. Waving goodbye to the beautiful leaves of summer as they beautifully decayed in splendid shades of yellow, orange and red. And now it looks like this outside. Beautiful! Right? I need some coffee.... Oh there it is! Tall skinny blonde with soy milk... With one pump of vanilla. Yum! This calls for a big bowl of soup! 1/4 cup of quinoa, 1/2 zucchini chopped, 1/4 cup chopped kale and 1/4 c pepper sauce (pinjur or salsa) 1) throw it all in the pot 2) let it simmer until the quinoa is done 3) warm your insides! Look at the creepy snow outside! Now it's time for chocolate truffle bar. 1/4 c cocoa powder, 4 T sweetened vanilla coconut milk, 1t coconut oil 1) mix the ingredients in a bowl then place in baggie and pop it in the freezer 2) after a 3 or 4 hours (or overnig...

Red Lentils and Kale on Olive Pane Do you ever get meal inspiration from something you read? There are some literary works that purposely attempt to inspire hunger, but there are times when my culinary imagination is set afire accidentally. This particular meal was inspired by my Bible reading and research. Can you guess what I was reading about? I'll give you a clue: Twins, Birthright, Red. Got it? You guessed it! Our Sunday lesson revolved around valuing spiritual things and we were discussing the experience of Jacob and Esau at Genesis 25: 27-34. Well, while I was reading this it popped into my head that I had some red lentils in the cupboard and the idea sort of grew from there. I made the red lentils and added kale in the final minutes of cooking along with a sprinkle of lemon pepper and sea salt. Finished with a drizzle of oil. Interestingly, I found out that this olive Pane, which I bought as a splurge item is $3 cheaper at Whole Foods than...

Accidental chili! With avocado! Exclamation point!   I have been craving chili like crazy. And you know how I love accidentally creating things. So I was going to make more lentil soup.   Like this:     Using this:   Pinjur by Konex Foods   But I added too much in my zealousness to get more veggies in. And it amazingly turned into chili (see pic above). When I tasted it and realized how much it tasted like chili I did the only natural thing you do when you realize you have accidentally made chili..... grab an avocado!!!!!   Get you some!   I got this accidental chili starter at Big Lots. It's loaded with: peppers, eggplant, tomato paste, garlic. Some of the best things in the world! It tastes great on bread, on sandwiches, in soup, as a chili, on pasta or just on some rice.   Side note: It's from Bulgaria. I suddenly want to go to Bulgaria and eat things. Who knew they had such y...