Ok, you guys. Here we go with my first Weekly Vegetarian Menu of the year, leaving you plenty of time to pick up groceries and plan over the weekend. As many of you might remember, I was part of a group with some friends last year where we jointly provided weekly menu plans for you. I offered up vegetarian spins on meat and fish dishes, but I got a lot of pushback from readers who preferred to see vegetarian dinner ideas. I totally get it - you want dishes that were originally created to be ...
Old-Fashioned Potato Gratin | #SundaySupper
This is a traditional, old-fashioned potato gratin my great-grandmother, Mamma, might have made. She was a fantastic baker and cook, and her dinners and brunches were legendary. But this is a dish that invites your own stamp, so feel free to riff away. What we call potato gratin today originated in the Dauphiné region of France as gratin dauphinois, and has as many variations as there are cooks who make it. The original recipe, going back to the late 1700's, calls for thinly sliced raw ...
Potato Leek Soup with Hatch Chiles
It's been awhile since I've posted anything here for you. It's hard to believe how quickly the summer slipped by. I could blame it on the fact that we spent the summer painfully searching, finding, buying, and moving into a new home. And let's not forget that whole unpacking-getting settled thing, which may continue until my grandchildren graduate from college (the youngest are currently slaving over multiplication tables). I could blame my absence on the fact that until recently, much of my ...
Cauliflower and Crispy Chickpeas with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Olives and Miso Dressing
Warm salad of roasted cauliflower and crispy chickpeas sautéed with sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamata olives, all tossed with a miso dressing. Do you have certain ingredients you always go to? The Italians, IMHO, have this nailed. Tomatoes, pasta, garlic, basil, and Parmesan. Those five ingredients can make several days of meals for me. Nothing against this winning combination, but I have my own favorites I often go to year-round. Cauliflower. Sun-dried tomatoes. Kalamata olives. ...
Butternut Squash Soup with Apple Cider & Crème Fraîche
My husband was under the weather last week, and weakly pleaded for this soup from underneath a mountain of quilts one afternoon. I nearly fainted. He wasn't begging for a burger or ice cream topped with hot fudge. He was requesting, sit down for it, a vegetable based soup. That's when I realized just how sick he was. He was hallucinating that he wanted vegetables. I didn't waste any time, and set out to make this one I posted on my blog a few years ago. I love how the apple cider brightens ...
15-Minute Chile con Queso Dip
"Anyone over 60, raise your hand!" I looked up to my husband and said, "That's you!" And then after a moment, I realized, oh wait, that's me too! Ack!! I still don’t think of myself at a 60-plusser. Our hands shot up along with almost half the group, and we were all waved over to join a stocky Hawaiian in non-descript baggy pants. His shaggy dark hair whipped around him in the wind as he belted out his questions. "Have any of you had any recent surgeries? Any bad backs? Disc issues? Knee or ...
Vegan Barley Soup with Potatoes, Lime, and Mint
Years ago, I went through an intensive docent training to lead tours at a nearby Audubon ranch where egrets historically nest. If you haven't seen it for yourself, I'm here to tell you it's very moving to watch eggs suddenly appear on top of tall trees and hatch, followed by squawking open mouths, and weeks later witness awkward, tentative fledglings learn to fly with their new wispy feathers. Our training lasted for several months while we learned about snakes (which, for the record, still ...
Eggnog Crème Anglaise | #SundaySupper
Eggnog flavored crème anglaise stirred custard for either drinking or pouring over cake. Both crème anglaise (French for English cream, also known as a pouring custard) and eggnog are stirred custards, making them cousins. In fact, upon a close look, they look like fraternal twins with only slight differences. And yet they taste nothing at all alike. Check it out for yourself. Both involve whisking egg yolks together with sugar. Both call for heating up a combination of milk and ...
Miso Mashed Idaho® Potato Stuffed Mushrooms
This recipe was created in partnership with the Idaho Potato Commission. Thank you for supporting the foods and brands that support The Wimpy Vegetarian. It’s that time of year when party invitations show up, and we plan intimate get-togethers of our own. It’s interesting to me that as we march into the darkest days of the year, we become our most festive. We are at our most sparkly glitteriness, and over-the-top socially engaged at a time that historically – thousands of years ago - ...
Calabrese-Style Fried Potatoes with Peppers
I was living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts the first time I ate a searing hot pepper. It was one of those long, pointy, skinny numbers popular in Asian dishes. Since it arrived on my plate at a neighborhood Thai restaurant, I figured I was supposed to eat it. Who knew? Seconds after chewing it up and swallowing part of it, a volcano erupted in my stomach all the way up to my throat. Water was absolutely useless. A friend sitting across from me had an untouched Piña Colada in front ...
Baked Pomme Rösti – and the 2016 Idaho® Potato Commission Harvest Tour
Travel is good for the soul. When we travel, we open ourselves to new experiences, to meeting new people, and if we're lucky we learn something new about ourselves. One of my favorite parts of travel, no big surprise here, is the food. It's entwined in its culture, rituals, and stories. Take the potato. The potato is deeply embedded in more countries around the world than any other I can think of. As far as we know, potatoes were first grown in Peru and Bolivia. They traveled from ...
(Delicious!) Braised Napa Cabbage
Cabbage is an unsung hero. It marries well with a wide range of ingredients - after all, it's popular in both German and Asian dishes. This little recipe is a huge winner you'll want in your back pocket as we roll into the comfort food months of the year. Huge, gigantic thanks to Katie at the Thyme for Cooking blog for this new favorite. Yes, my friends, it's time for The Secret Recipe Club. For the uninitiated, The Secret Recipe Club is a group of around 100 food bloggers, separated ...
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