The weather has turned cooler, the leaves are turning brilliant shades of red, orange, and yellow, and the days are noticeably shorter. While I am not a fan of shorter days, I love fall and winter cooking because they involve…
Category: Food
Attention Shoppers! We have a lost adult on aisle 9…
I have come to realize in the past few weeks that I really like having a routine. I also like my grocery stores to be part of that routine. And I am a little lost without that routine. While I…
Spaghetti Squash with Fire Roasted Marinara and Zucchini
It has been a while since I have posted. Life has this way of challenging even the best plans. Starting in July, our family did most of our eating out – as in Mom is not cooking, mostly because the…
Banana Bread
I love to cook. My family loves to eat what I cook. I have a tendency to “improve recipes as I go. I often make notes on cookbook pages to document my changes as you can see in the photo.…
Posole! Ole!
I am a huge fan of posole. A Mexican stew made with hominy, chilis and pork. It is spicy and hearty and wonderful. The best posole I have ever eaten is found in Santa Fe, New Mexico at a little…
Modifying Family Favorites
One of the obstacles facing a family changing their diet to vegetarian is the loss of favorite meals. As we changed our diet, I considered at the favorite recipes and looked for ways to modify them to be vegetarian. I…
Chicken and Dumplings – Vegetarian Style
It has been a few months since I posted recipes. I have been busy writing my PhD exams and I have neglected the blog and even cooking. Life often interferes with our ability to do some of the everyday things…
Vegetarian – it’s not about finding a meat substitute
In our vegetarian experiment we have tried a number of meat substitutes. We have tried tofu, tempeh, and seitan. Now for the confession. We hate them all. No one in the family likes the texture or the taste. I have…
Vegan Ravioli
Here is one of the challenges I have been facing our vegetarian diet. My husband love ravioli. He is also lactose intolerant. The challenge has been to find a no cheese ravioli. You can easily find ravioli filled with meat…
Veggie Fried Rice
I had the most delicious vegetarian fried rice at a little place call Sunflower Vegetarian in Vienna, VA (http://www.crystalsunflower.com/Vienna/index_normal.htm) It gave me such a taste for vegetarian fried rice that I started searching recipes. Trust me, there are lots. I…
Pizza Potatoes
Let’s face it, the potato is a practically perfect food. It is abundant, inexpensive and a fantastic base for all kinds of other foods. I found this recipe for Pizza Potatoes on the Whole Foods site. I have made it…
Stop making excuses!
Stop making excuses! I wrote a post essentially refuting the study done that said that healthy eating is a privilege of the rich. The main stream media pick up on this study and ran with it. Study: Healthy eating is…
Po’ Food – Or Eating Healthy Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive
There was a study done recently that came to the conclusion that healthy eating is a privilege for the rich (http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2011/08/03/hlthaff.2010.1273.abstract). I disagree and I am going to show how you can have healthy vegetarian meals for cheap at the…
The vegetarian recipes experiment
I have been trying out a number of vegetarian recipes from a number of sources. My favorite sources so far are the Whole Foods Market recipes (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/) and Vegan YumYum (http://veganyumyum.com/). I am trying to avoid a heavy reliance on…
My Journey to vegetarian
First, this is NOT about cyber warfare and contrary to popular belief the Selil website has never been about just what we do at work. This website is our endeavor to share with others our life. I am currently transitioning…