Seasonal Sundays (Week 8) Mid February
Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ...
if ever there's a fourth dimension to grasp the futurity together with lean into the future, this is it, no thing how wearing together with wearying the calendar week behind. Spring is near, literally together with figuratively.
I'm non wishing away a unmarried day, a unmarried hr nor a unmarried pocket-size 2nd to celebrate something, anything.
Join me, volition you?
About the Photo By Popular Request, a Little Insight into the Top Image: Masks! All these black, medicinal bluish together with white masks, mayhap we've got it all wrong. More glitter, to a greater extent than glam?
PICK ONE
Pick One is for those of us overwhelmed yesteryear life's unending choices. If that resonates, thus cheque out this i recipe together with thus telephone hollo upward it a day. It's i that I intend could brand the most difference, the i I promise volition operate a regular inwards your kitchen, equally it is inwards mine.
- THE RECIPE Lifetime Pancakes Tiny, small, medium together with large batches, whatever the size of the table.
Compliments!
- "I didn't direct hold a crimson pepper together with didn't desire to exercise my tofu since lentils direct hold enough of protein, thus I subbed a BIG chopped carrot for the pepper together with 4 diced Yukon gilded potatoes for the tofu, tossed amongst the petroleum together with spices together with roasted at 450F till crispy. SO GOOD!" Michelle
- Michelle's Irish Gaelic patato take in is brilliant! At to the lowest degree here, we're agency to a greater extent than probable to direct hold potatoes on manus than tofu. But thus direct hold it a piddling further. Sweet potatoes? Butternut squash? Eggplant? So many possibilities!
- THE RECIPE Lentil, Pepper & Spinach Supper amongst Crispy Tofu & Indian Spices
IQF: I Quit Facebook
Oh I thus dear hearing from readers. Thank you!
A particular cheers to Joyce who took it upon herself to attempt out the children's mass amongst a crimson together with low-cal bluish quilt that has embedded itself inwards my encephalon for decades. The kindness of (almost) strangers! Can it live a coincidence that this calendar week I became re-connected amongst a childhood acquaintance who simply happens to blueprint quilts?!
Last week, I gave some ideas on how to pause upward amongst Facebook. But what if you lot made the breakup permanent? A reader named Karen wrote to remind me that privacy plays a role equally well. Here's her thinking:
"It is also possible to completely delete one's concern human relationship together with halt the time-wasting permanently. I did that virtually 5 years ago, rarely fifty-fifty intend virtually it. It seemed that fifty-fifty friends were also oftentimes posting curated, slightly made up, visions of what they hoped others take in their lives were like. A few friends who are nonetheless heavy users volition ship me the same information (say virtually a immature lady getting engaged) via text or email, when it's of import to us both. I practise the same, simply without the FB step. I value privacy highly, together with that's at cross purposes amongst FB intent."
What a corking reminder. I read her Federal Reserve notation together with deleted Instagram from my phone. Now all that's left is FB on my desktop which is thus so slow. I am this around next Karen's Pb ...
Anyone else? Who's done it? Who's figured out their ain way?
Last-Minute Chocolate Ideas
Mardi Gras At Home
- THE RECIPE Gumbo A classic Cajun gumbo, except that the roux is cooked inwards the oven.
- ANOTHER TAKE Vegan Chickpea Gumbo
- THE RECIPE Cajun Dirty Rice amongst Eggplant
- ANOTHER TAKE Mexican Cauliflower "Rice"
- THE RECIPE Bourbon Pralines The famous praline recipe from the New Orleans School of Cooking.
- THEN MAKE Mini Tiramisu Cups amongst Pralines Tiramisu made amongst eggs that are cooked, non raw.
Pancakes Are Traditional on Shrove Tuesday
- Make Tonight a Pancake Night Move over Taco Tuesday together with Pizza Friday.
- THE RECIPE Cornmeal Pancakes amongst Blueberry Compote My uncomplicated recipe for cornmeal pancakes.
- ANOTHER TAKE Easy Baked Oatmeal amongst Blueberries & Bananas
- THE RECIPE Triple-Banana Oat Pancakes Just oats, banana together with egg but the pancake gustation together with texture nosotros love!
- ANOTHER TAKE A Birthday Cake for Jesus: A Story My sister's gentle agency of keeping the spirit of Christmas.
The Dinner Bell
Seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, the dinner bell rings. If we're gonna eat, somebody's gotta cook. Let's arrive good, a welcome halt to our days.
- THE RECIPE Hamburger Casserole Weeknight comfort nutrient lightened up.
- ANOTHER TAKE
- THE RECIPE Chicken Stew amongst Chickpeas & Kale A hearty, one-pot supper amongst warm spices together with fresh vegetables.
- ANOTHER TAKE Spiced Chicken amongst Roasted Cauliflower Tagine A one-pot supper amongst warm spices.
- THE RECIPE Greens & Grits Spinach cooked amongst love apple tree together with mushrooms atop quick-cooked grits.
- ANOTHER TAKE Slow-Cooked Greens & Smoked Turkey So good, you'll desire to consume the pot.
Feedback, Please?
I'm non looking for compliments but I'd definitely appreciate some feedback. As long-time followers know, I direct hold ii sites, (you're here) together with A Veggie Venture, the month-long lark that almost 16! years afterwards remains an verifiable obsession amongst all things vegetable.
This calendar week I invested the equivalent of a 24-hour interval updating the A-Z of Vegetables. But it nonetheless doesn't strike me equally quite correct but I'm having a difficult fourth dimension putting my finger on it.
Maybe you'd direct hold a expect together with plough over me your thoughts? Your emails via recipes@kitchen-parade.com are e'er welcome.
TIA! Thanks inwards advance!
Recipes That Stand the Test of Time
To grade A Veggie Venture's 15th anniversary inwards 2020, I took a difficult expect at the firstly 365 vegetable recipes from the firstly yr to pick out simply xv which, all these many years together with recipes later, rest ever thus useful. The effect is a fascinating collection of recipes, 15 Favorite Vegetable Recipes, Still Useful After xv Years. Here's simply one.
- THE RECIPE Greek Greens (Flash Cook to Eat Later)
- ANOTHER TAKE Asian Greens
PS Who's noticed? I'm large on "usefulness". See? Best-Ever “Most Useful” Recipes 2002 – Present, simply i recipe per yr from .
Soups & Salads Especially for February
What sparks us inwards February? Seed catalogs, of course. But for many of us, Feb is the concluding existent calendar month of winter, almost the concluding direct chances for a seasonal educate to revel inwards cold-weather specialties. So there's soup, of course! And salads, of course! That's why I spent a yr gathering all of A Veggie Venture's best soup together with salad recipes into easy-to-scan month-by-month collections.
Dig into Seasonal Soup & Salad Recipes for February, tons of ideas!
Here's a sample!
- THE RECIPE Spicy Cauliflower Soup
- ANOTHER TAKE No-Cream Creamy Cauliflower Soup
Timehop
Who else loves seeing one-time photos popular up, quick memories from years past? Welcome to a recipe timehop ...
- THE RECIPE Beef Barley Soup amongst Mushrooms Root vegetables, earthy mushrooms together with nutty barley.
- ANOTHER TAKE Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup A concept recipe, all virtually the vegetables.
- THE RECIPE Kalamata Tuna Salad Bok Choy Wraps
- ANOTHER TAKE Chicken Salad for Sandwiches
Trending
My Top 10 Recipes are predictable, howdy Should Cooked Pork Be Pink? together with (Sloooow) Baked Potatoes (How Long to Bake a Baked Potato). But every week, seasonal recipes grab the internet's attending together with start to trend.
The Sweet Potato Recipes are hot at A Veggie Venture this week!
Something to Read
Did you lot hear? The wonderful Fredrik Backman mass Bear Town volition before long live an HBO series?! My mass social club loved this mass together with its sequel Us Against You.
These direct hold that Scandinavian darkness, the existent contemporary issues come upward out of nowhere, it seems.
But Backman's latest book, Anxious People, is outright funny. And sweet. And uplifting. Much recommended! Pay particular attending to Jim, the police line component father.
I haven't recommended a mass for almost a year. I don't intend I'm solitary here, but the pandemic has affected my reading. It's simply harder to concentrate. I've started to a greater extent than books than I've finished. Plots help but fifty-fifty then, I tin goal a mass i calendar week together with non call upward its basic storey business a calendar week later.
As far equally troubles go, it's depression on the listing but still, for mortal who loves to read, makes a priority to read, my life is less without existence immersed inwards a skillful book.
- THE BOOK Bear Town (affiliate link)
- THE SEQUEL Us Against You
- THE LATEST Anxious People
What's New?!
Wondering virtually a recipe from the concluding while? Check Recent Recipes from together with Recent Vegetable Recipes from A Veggie Venture.
- THE RECIPE Orange & Avocado Salad Simple but sumptuous.
- ANOTHER TAKE Savory Orange Slices A uncomplicated together with surprising orangish salad.
Don't Be a Stranger ...
I'd dear to hear from you. Comment, ship me a quick e-mail via recipes@kitchen-parade.com, dot-dash inwards Morse code, create a burn downwardly for smoke signals, launch a message inwards a bottle, ship a Christmas letter, larn the domestic dog to yip, toss me a Federal Reserve notation wrapped inwards a rubberband, write a message inwards the sky, scratch a Federal Reserve notation inwards the sand, remove heed to a seashell, whatever.
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