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Post by mrswaz on Oct 23, 2016 12:52:05 GMT -5
Oooh, you're going to challenge me! I had determined I was going to play this time, however, yesterday I severely sprained my thumb and it's now in a splint. So my cooking abilities are limited, but maybe that will add to the challenge of the game?
My #71 cookbook is a vegan cookbook called The Easy Vegan by Janet Hudson. I will go through it a little more thoroughly later on today and see what I can find to make this week. Turmeric shouldn't be a problem, but I don't expect to find guava anywhere inside. Works for me, actually, because I've discovered I don't really care for guava. I've never cooked out of this cookbook, I bought it simply to add to the scant vegan resources I had at the time. I will be sure and report back.
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Post by mrswaz on Oct 23, 2016 16:32:31 GMT -5
Well now I know why I haven't cooked from this book! It's lame! 440 recipes and a vast majority of them call for veggie substitutes like veggie shrimp and chik'n and soy crumbles. Oh, and lots of egg replacer and vegan mayo.  However, there are a few simple soup recipes that I'm looking at that will work so I may make one for lunches this week. Specifically, there is a split pea soup that calls for veggie ham that I could use a smoked hock from the freezer for. |
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Post by mrswaz on Oct 25, 2016 9:31:34 GMT -5
Well, I made my split pea soup yesterday. It was a good choice, because it was mostly inattentive cooking, and other than grinding fresh pepper I could get it all done myself. I tweaked it to add real meat, as well as some cumin and turmeric. Those spices were a great addition. Overall, I was surprised with the soup. It was very good, and didn't taste like just another split pea soup. The kids still didn't like it. I simply called it a fall vegetable soup with croutons, and they ate it dabbed on some bread, but were not fans. Oh well, they tried.
I realize the game doesn't specifically call for having the chosen ingredients be part of the cookbook game, but I thought it added to the fun of the game to try and combine them. There were a few recipes in the book that called for turmeric, but they were a little tedious for me this week.
I still don't know what to think of this cookbook. There are some decent looking recipes, but it heavily relies on fake meat, egg and dairy products, and when I eat vegan, I prefer a whole foods way of eating over substitutions. There are times where I think this author was simply copying a 1980's cookbook and veganizing it as she went. With recipe titles like "Festive Acorn Rings", "Squash Blossom Special" and "Jeannie's Waffle Surprise" I'm just not that interested. I will keep it on the shelf for now, but should a purge come up, this one would be a candidate.
Split Pea Soup
from The Easy Vegan: Over 440 Delicious Recipes and Menus for Every Day of the Year by Janet Hudson
1 1/2 cups split peas, rinsed and sorted (I used yellow split peas)
6 cups vegetable broth
1 yellow onion, diced
2 yukon gold potatoes, peeled and diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 carrots, diced
1/2 teaspoon dried turmeric (my addition)
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin (my addition)
2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro (I omitted)
1 cup diced veggie ham (I used meat from 1 smoked ham hock)
salt and pepper
Place the peas and broth in a soup kettle, bring to a boil and them simmer for one hour.
Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer an hour more. Puree and reheat.
Serve with croutons and veggie sour cream. (We did use the croutons, but I thought sour cream was un-necessary.)
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Post by mrswaz on Oct 25, 2016 12:08:38 GMT -5
I forgot to post the picture!  |
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Post by mrswaz on Oct 25, 2016 14:54:15 GMT -5
Yes, homemade croutons. I used the end of a loaf of roasted garlic & cheese bread from Costco.
The thumb is...taking it's time to heal. The bruising is subsiding, so that's good, but if I do much without a splint, I have a lot of pain. So I continue with the splint all day and night. I definitely think it's healing faster being splinted than if I just trusted myself to not use it.
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Post by mrswaz on Oct 26, 2016 9:31:40 GMT -5
Mmmmm, no wonder they looked so good.
Pain, splint, didn't know it was that BAD. How the heck did you hurt it? If it's not being to nosey again.
This place is sooo dead, it could use some conversation LOL. Remember the old game, people used to say there was too much chit chat. Here, they are asking for more of it.LOL
Lol, not being too nosy, but I sure wish it was something exciting! I totally slipped and fell down the stairs Saturday morning. Somehow I tried to catch myself with my thumb and hyperextended it. I also have a massive bruise across my lower back, so I am very thankful that I walked away with only a severely sprained thumb. I slipped on absolutely nothing. One minute I'm walking down the stairs on a mission to get the coffee pot going, and the next minute I'm sitting at the bottom of the steps.  I just had the splint off for a while this morning and was stretching my thumb in painful directions. I can get farther today than yesterday, so I am encouraged. In the meantime, it's been kind of fun having the kids help me with various tasks that they don't usually do. And they don't give me any grief about it. |
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