Chaat

With potatoes, chickpeas, soy yogurt, tamarind sauce, cilantro, and crispy chickpea snacks. Serve cold.

St. Patrick’s Day Stew

We used this recipe from The Kitchn and added an extra teaspoon of mustard and a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. Delicious!

Vegetable Curry, Chutney, and Samosa-Smashed Potatoes

Not the most traditional meal, but inspired by Indian-restaurants and some of Isa’s delicious recipes.
The curry is adapted from Appetite for Reduction‘s 2nd Avenue Vegetable Korma and the potatoes from Veganomicon. The chutney is super easy and really makes the dish!

If you have various kinds of curry powder on hand, choose different ones for the curry and the potatoes. It really gives a different flavor to the dishes.

Just a lazy, sleety night.

Greek Casserole

This is a good casserole for breakfast or anytime. It’s easy to throw together on Sunday night and eat it for lunch all week!

1 package frozen spinach
1 pound potatoes, chopped into 1/2 inch cubes
1 16 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 cup plain, unsweetened soy yogurt
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 red onion, diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup sliced olives (Kalamata)
1 medium tomato, chopped
1/2 TBL parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
olive oil for greasing the baking dish

Preheat oven to 400 F. Boil chopped potatoes (or cook in the microwave) until tender. Drain and set aside.
While the potatoes are cooking, saute the red onion and garlic with the spinach. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Mix together the yogurt and lemon juice.

Prepare a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with a little olive oil. Layer half of the ingredients in this order: (drained) potatoes, spinach mixture, chickpeas, yogurt, and olives. Repeat the layering and finish with tomatoes and the parsley. Cover with foil and bake 30-45 minutes.

Vegan breakfast for dinner

Not quite a full English breakfast, but quite a bit tastier and lower in cholesterol. Spinach with pepper jack Daiya, roasted tomatoes and mushrooms, Heinz beans!, faux sausage patties, and very special garlic homefries. OMG.

Roasted harissa potatoes and chickpea curry

For the potatoes: preheat oven to 450, chop 3 yukon gold potatoes into 2-inch pieces. mix together 1 small onion diced, 1/4 cup harissa, potatoes, and water to cover. sprinkle with smoked salt. bake 50 minutes or until most of the liquid is absorbed.

For the curry: dice 1 onion and sautee in olive oil. chop 2 TBL ginger and 2 TBL garlic, and 1 tomato add to onions, and cook for 2-3 minutes until very fragrant. add 2 tsp cumin, 2 tsp coriander, and 4 tsp madras curry powder. season with a little salt. add 1 drained/rinsed can of chickpeas, 3 cups frozen spinach, and 3 cups broccoli. add about 1/4 cup water if needed. cook covered on medium heat 10 minutes, then reduce heat to simmer for 30.

Vegan spinach and potato enchiladas

Ok, enchilada with chili and vegan slaw of awesomeness. It’s a complete meal.

For the enchiladas:
Preheat oven to 400.
Saute 1 onion and 2-3 garlic cloves with about 3 cups of spinach (I used frozen). Meanwhile, boil and mash two smallish potatoes. Season with salt and pepper.

For the enchilada sauce: blend together 1 can (small) chilies in adobo sauce, 3 cups of water, 4 garlic cloves, 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp sugar, 1 TBL vinegar, salt and pepper. Blend until very smooth. Then blend in 2 TBL cornstarch.

Pour 1/2 inch of sauce into a large baking dish (9 x 12 is good). Then roll your enchiladas, this should make about 10 with small corn tortillas. Pour additional sauce on top. Bake about 15-20 minutes or until crisp.

Mushrooms and potatoes with red wine vinegar

This recipe is adapted (or at least inspired by) Herbavoracious’s Potatoes, Chantrelles, Shallots in Red Wine Sauce. We only had one bottle of wine in the house and it was expensive, and moreover neither of us wanted to go out and buy more wine, or shallots, or chantrelles (if you can even get them this time of year). We did, however, have potatoes, onions, garlic, red wine vinegar, cremini mushrooms, and half a bag of dried porcinis. Anyway, this was amazing and it went perfectly with the richness from the cauliflower gratin.

2 TBL Earth Balance
4 yukon potatoes, chopped
8 oz. cremini mushrooms, chopped into quarters or eighths
1 small onion, diced
4 garlic cloves, minced
½ tsp dried rosemary
½ tsp dried sage
1 tsp parsley
3 oz. dried porcini mushrooms hydrated with 1 cup water (do not discard the water)
salt and pepper to taste
4 TBL red wine vinegar

In a dutch oven, melt the butter, then add potatoes, creminis, onion, garlic, and spices. Cook on medium 8-10 minutes until the potatoes begin to change color. Add porcinis and soaking liquid, cover the pot and reduce heat to simmer. Cook about 15 minutes until potatoes are very tender and liquid is mostly absorbed. Add red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Cook 1-2 more minutes until the sauce has thickened. Garnish with extra parsley.

Swiss chard with potatoes and mushrooms, homemade refried black beans, and guacamole

The chard, potatoes, and mushrooms are cooked in a spicy tomato sauce. And this is why it doesn’t pay to wait to update the blog. I remember this was very tasty, but I don’t recall the seasonings.

That said, the key to the recipe not being a pile of mush is to cook the vegetables separately. First, pan sear the mushrooms until they release their juices, then set them aside. Cook the potatoes in the tomato sauce, then add the chard when the potatoes are very soft. Add the mushrooms back and cook about 5 minutes. Voila.

For the beans, cook the beans for a long time and season well with salt, pepper, and garlic.

Spiced red lentils with cabbage and spinach AND potato-cado salad

For the cabbage and spinach: Heat Earth Balance in a dutch oven and add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, allow the seeds to pop. Then add 1 diced onion with 2 garlic cloves and saute 1-2 minutes. Add ginger, cumin, and turmeric. Add 2 cups cabbage and 2 cups spinach. Cover and cook on medium-low for 1 hour until soft. Do not add water.

For the lentils: Saute 1 diced onion with 3-4 garlic cloves and 1 inch of chopped fresh ginger. Add 1 TBL paprika, 1 TBL cayenne, and 1/2 tsp turmeric. Add 2 cups red lentils, 6 cups water, and 1 faux chicken bullion. Bring to a boil, the cook covered on medium until lentils are soft. Uncover slightly and allow lentils to thicken about 30 minutes. Add salt to taste.

Serve with potato-cado salad.

This picture sucks, which is the main reason I didn’t give this dish its own post. Sorry about that.

Chop 4 yukon gold potatoes and boil 10-15 minutes until tender. Drain and rinse in cold water.

While the potatoes cook, chop 4 TBL fresh cilantro, 1/2 cup white onion, and 1 ripe avocado. Pour 2 TBL lemon juice and 2 TBL white vinegar into a small bowl and season generously with salt and pepper. Add onion and cilantro and mix well.

When the potatoes are done, mix them together with the avocado and salad dressing. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.