Last week for “coffee talk Sunday,” my coffee talk friend suggested soup from Uncle Cheetah’s Soup Shop. I don’t know why I don’t go here more often, it’s basically genius. The atmosphere is perfect, the soup is hot, and they have grilled cheese prime for dunking. We split a Goat Cheese and Rosemary Scented Grilled Cheese to dunk in our respective soups: Creamy Tomato Basil and Roasted Red Pepper Asiago. I had the Roasted Red Pepper and wanted to re-create it at home, in fact I almost took it home with me as I may have had a slight spill 🙂 oops!
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Category: Recipes
Seitan Shiitake and Leek Roast with Chickpea Gravy
Having had a successful first attempt at seitan I decided to venture from the cutlet onto something bigger—a roast, and a stuffed roast at that! I followed Isa Chandra’s recipe from PPK to a T and it turned out wonderfully. A nicely, browned, seitan roast stuffed with meaty mushrooms, herbs, and leeks. The roast solo is a bit dry for my taste so I paired it with Isa’s Chickpea Gravy, lending some moisture to the seitan.
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Barbecued Tofu, Black Beans, Pineapple and Basmati Brown Rice
I get a kick out of playing the game—let’s see what I can make out of whatever I find in my fridge and cupboard. I love surprises and this game typically results in amazement or more wine…. The game is to be played with loud music and an adult beverage of sorts. Tonight it was One Day the Reckoning Song and Grand Traverse Semi-Dry Reisling a pretty good mix!
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Meat-less Meatloaf Muffins Topped with Kale Mashed Potatoes
Finger food isn’t only for kids, grab ahold of these muffins and channel your inner-child! Fun to eat and tasty to pack and reheat for a brown-bagged lunch, you’ll be thinking of ways to minimize all of your favourite foods.
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Scrambled Tofu Breakfast Bahn Mi
The title may say breakfast but this bahn mi can be enjoyed at any meal.
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Feast Your Eyes
(For Playful Lovers)
As with physical attraction, the food experience begins with the eyes. This Valentine’s Day, dish out the love with the aphrodisiac vigor of food and drink. Whether you’re hitched or single, incorporate any of the following into your V-Day meal for tantalizing effects.
Spaghetti and “Beanballs”
Aha! A vegetarian meatball that holds itself together, this is good news!
Spaghetti and “Beanballs” makes for a great weeknight meal that can be made ahead and reheated to serve. I’m looking forward to noshing on this protein and fiber-rich dish after my run tonight.
Defining The Bitter End
Merriam Webster’s Definition
: the last extremity however painful or calamitous
: the inboard end of a ship’s anchoring cable
Grand Rapids’s Definition
: a coffee house open 24/7
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Black Bean + Avocado + Goat Cheese Tacos with a Hint of Honey-Lime
This taco recipe is simple, quick to prepare and satisfying. Filled with real food and notes of sweet, sour and spicy paired with buttery textures of avocado and goat cheese. The honey compliments the tangy-ness of goat cheese while the lime, coriander and cumin lend a zing to the palette. This will be a go-to meal again and again.
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Seitan Gyros + Cucumber Tzatziki
Gyear-ose
Yee-roh
JUST NEVER SAY—Jy-roh!
No matter the pronunciation how can anyone pass up such delish street food fare!
These gyros are vegetarian— swapping in seitan cutlets for the lamb and beef.
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Nutritional Yeast Popcorn
Sometimes dinner may consist of popcorn + red wine and it’s perfectly okay!
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Seitan Coriander Cutlets
I’ve never made seitan before much less knew what its ingredients consisted of. Upon research I’ve discovered that its simply vital wheat gluten, the natural protein (75%) found in wheat. Vital wheat gluten is known as the “meat” made from wheat, a vegan/vegetarian cutlet with the consistency of meat and the versatility of grilling, steaming or simmering.
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Shchi
Borscht is what comes to mind when talking about Russian cuisine, however shchi is just as distinguishable. Shchi is a hot soup with cabbage as the main ingredient and even more favorably sauerkraut, lending it an appealing sour taste. With a myriad of recipes shchi can be made with meat or without, with cabbage or with sauerkraut but one thing remains the same, the soup should cure before eating. Most cooks wait at least a day or two before serving it hot alongside rye bread and butter.
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Getting Lucky
Getting Lucky
By Michelle Swift
Published in January 2013 issue of Flavor616
How to Determine if an Avocado is Ripe
In the veggie aisle at the Rodriguez Market, elbows deep in avocados in search of the ripe one, the perfect sense between firm and soft, the bright green flesh that Mexican’s refer to as, poor man’s butter.
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Green Goddess
The last grilled cheese I ate was so DELISH, I’m trending a kick. I do recall mentioning that I could survive on bread and cheese! Texting a photo of my previous Tomato, Avocado, Spinach Grilled Cheese to a friend (because all the cool kids share photos of their dinner) sparked another spin on grilled cheese that he had stumbled upon. The Green Goddess Grilled Cheese, green it is and GOOD. I made it the next night and approve.
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Table Without Borders 