Whoa! I’ll have to remember that… 
Ooh! I bet mashed carrot would make an interesting crust for a few things, too. .
Mashed carrot, flour, butter, pumpkin or sweet potato pie. Ooh! Perhaps even a savory, spiced/herbed sweet potato/pumpkin pie.
mashed apples, cinnamon crust for a smooth bread pudding.
Stop it. I need to sleep. Shut up stomach.
This book is great, every recipe we’ve tried so far has been a winner.
The chickpea curry is in weekly rotation & we regularly make a double batch to happily have it for lunches. Here it is with red rice, an egg & hemp seeds for about 30g of whole food protein.
Looks amazing!
It does look so comforting and warm for cold times! Nourishing the body as well with whole foods!
The problem cooking anything out of that book is it makes the whole house smell so danged delicious, you can barely sleep all night! I wake up from hungry dreams, lol. That picture above was my breakfast 
I bet! I love the smell of curry and most fragrant spices used in cooking.
Haven’t made a… …spaghetti sauce pizza in quite some time. Can’t say if it’s good or not, I just don’t know. 
Well, it looks tasty, that’s for sure!
A couple things I’m making tonight.
BBQ beans and hamburger.
A can of pork n’ beans, probably half pound of hamburger, mustard, more mustard, and more mustard (i like mustard, 
), a little worsterchester…wore her chest deer…werscheister…(Let me go read that)…worcestershire sauce, some brown sugar, and a little red pepper flakes to give it a little kick.
Finally got some Pan to make arepas. Also, a good way to use Kroger brand butter (oof! I don’t know why, but man I don’t like kroger brand foods hardly at all. I think the traditional crab dip is about the only thing I like of theirs).
Also, I had finally found unsalted pumpkin seeds. So naturally I had to put a few in my mortar, which the remainder I didn’t scoop out to eat went into the arepa dough, heh.
Oh wow! My erratic tastes let me taste the pumpkin seeds quite well in them. Ooh, this is good.
Stress baking. A huge batch of non-spectacular gnocchi and just started a small batch of rolls that I’ll slather in herbs and butter when I bake them. (OOH! I still have a little bit of aiolli, I’ll have to remember to slather that on them before baking).
Rolls are done. Nothing fancy, just something to soak up pasta sauce.
Looks delicious!
it’s still maddening that I can’t taste so well any more, and so I can’t write recipes, buuut on the other hand, the erratic tastes do offer a lot of options for healthy eating. I really need to try and get me some grinders and a blender, then so many nuts and veggies can be used to make a whole assortment of snacks that I could carry around with me.
These little pan cakes are buckwheat, pumpkin seed, and honey.
(I had used my ninja smoothy mixer to chop up the pumpkin seeds, along with a little milk. Eh, it worked, but would definitely be better in something larger. The smoothy cups are just too small to make a large batch).
Last week was Italian pastas. This week, TexMex. Have enough Spanish rice and meat cooked up for four to five days, and when the beans finish cooking tomorrow, perhaps a day more will be added.
@AIMR this cashew based cheeze spread recipe looks like it will be good. Cashews are a lower fat nut, and they blend up completely smooth after soaking so that there aren’t any gritty bits left over like other nuts and seeds.
Here is a receipt for oil-free salad dressing using aquafaba for a very creamy result that has that classic oil-based dressing mouth-feel. That site has lots of oil-free recipes.
I made sambal oelek for the first time! Sambal is a hot sauce from the Indonesian cuisine. Indonesian cuisine is very popular in the NL because in the past Indonesia was part of the Dutch colonial empire.
The basic recipe is very simple, peppers, onion and garlic are cut up, vinegar, ketjap manis (sweet soy sauce), trassi (shrimp paste), sugar and salt are added and thid paste is then fried in sunflower oil. It’s common to make it at home, but I had never done it before, until last week’s veggie box included 10 red peppers.
It tastes quite good! It’s not that spicy because it only has chilli peppers, to make it hotter you’d need to add other varieties of pepper. I’m not a fan of “so hot you can’t taste it” so this works fine for me. 10 peppers only makes a small amount of sambal, but that’s fine, you only eat a little bit at a time so you don’t need big jars.
The burritos lasted til a couple days ago. So on o the next meal, bean soup with cornbread. 
Have no idea how it tastes, I can taste the salt, a tiny bit of the jalopenos, I can feel the sugar in the cornbread, and I can taste the beans, and sometimes the cornmeal. 
, also, I think I can taste the baking powder, not sure what that flavor is. Meh, it’s food, 
Kosher! I had made the cornbread with butter rather than shortening, in hopes that I wouldn’t need to warm them up and wait for the butter to melt (as I still don’t have a microwave). Anyway, I just boiled some of the bean soup and poured it over the fridge chilled cornbread (sliced in twain), and my erratic tastes are letting me taste most of the flavors today. So, 
WOOT , heh.
Made some more water noods, and made a simple milk sauce with parmisan and caramelized onions. (Not touching my savings, so going to be thin eating for a while). I do have some black beans soaking to make chili tomorrow.
It looks delicious! Cooking well on a low budget is a skill not enough people have, but I know you’re great at it.
Whoa! I don’t know if it’s my erratic tastes, or one severe error, but this is the tastiest batch of chili I have made in a long time.
I had this in the slow cooker while I was doordashing, and thought the beans had to have been over cooked (add not testing the beans to my list of mishaps today, 
). Anyway, I tossed in all the ingredients then once the meat was cooked I tested a bean. Not done, 
. So stayed up late letting it cook a little longer.
Finally too tired to stay awake (let’s say, too tired to stay upright, because I know I won’t sleep any time soon regardless how tired I am, ). Anyway, I made a bowl. Holy mackeral it tastes gooooooood.
