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My potato, carrot and kohlrabi curry with yogurt gravy. 100% vegetarian!

If you are familiar with me, you know I loves me some bacon. Which is why it comes as just as much of a surprise to me as it is to you that my husband and I decided to eat vegetarian once a week for the entire year in an effort to get healthy. I literally don’t know how to make food taste delicious without bacon fat, so this will be a challenge, but hopefully a fun one. Recently, one of my Indian aunts told me about a web site that homesick Indians turn to when they want to know how to make vegetarian cuisine from home: Manjula’s Kitchen. Not only is the name awesome (my own grandmother’s name was Manjula), it offers a wide array of Indian vegetarian dishes from scratch. For our first week, I went with a potato curry with yogurt gravy that I supplemented with my own carrots and kohlrabi. No pork was hurt in the making of this meal. More food porn and the recipe after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »

Crispy Roasted Kale with garlic and olive oil.

Look! I cooked! And it didn’t suck! I also love exclamation marks!!! No more cooking rut for me, and I have one cooking method and one vegetable to thank: roasting and bacon. For some reason, kale and brussels sprouts, two veggies I already love, taste even better when you roast them. They get all crispy and brown in a most delicious way. Not quite sure why, but my current theory is that there are tiny elves of yumminess that live in the oven, and whenever something green enters, they moonwalk to Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel, creating a chain reaction that ends in crispy brown veggies. Or maybe it’s just a bit of the old Maillard reaction at work. (I think it is the elves) (And in my head, they look like that Indian Oompa Loompa in the latest Willy Wonka movie) Read the rest of this entry »

the makings of tomato confit: a big pan of kick-ass

So I got a big ass bag of tomatoes from my CSA last week, the last of summer’s finest in a wide range of shapes, sizes, colors and varieties. What’s a lady to do with a big ass bag of summer tomatoes? The way I saw it, my only real options were: *eat a caprese salad at every meal for the next week *throw them at the cat *make a pan of kick-ass Basil makes me gassy and the cat is wicked fast, so really, the decision was already made for me. Read the rest of this entry »

With spring just around the corner, I?ve been keen to start working a wider variety of vegetables into our diet. We?ve been rocking the corn and carrots pretty hard lately, so a slight change was more than welcome. Read the rest of this entry »