Today I am making, smooth cauliflower soup with cilantro and cumin, corn and potato chowder, Black eyed peas with sweet potatoes( garnet yams), mustard greens and these will be poured over rice pancakes.
Also a spaghetti squash and red bell pepper saute with cheesy polenta triangles; ( it is interesting how corn meal is used in different countries for the same dish, in Southern American cooking, cornmeal is cooked in water with oil/or butter and salt and pepper, allowed to cool and then cut into pieces, dusted in more corn meal then fried and is called "corn mush", the same dish cooked in Italy is called fried polenta!..a bit like the Patagonian tooth fish that could not be sold in markets until they changed it's name to Sea Bass and now it it heading for extinction!)) I like to add sauteed corn, and onions to my polenta and sometimes cheese as in this dish today.
A very spicy "3 alarm" vegetable chili with pinto beans, red bell pepper, chipotle and green chili and broccoli, this comes with corn bread and salsa;
Also an egg plant parmigiana with gf pasta.
For desserts I have noodle pudding with fresh mango, cinnamon apple cobbler and fresh banana-cranberry oatmeal cookies ( these are great as ice cream sandwiches), I also made the walnut -caraway breads on Friday, before the storm hit.
Tomorrow I am also making up 3 side dishes:
kale with garlic & fresh thyme, collard greens with fresh tomatoes and Cheddar cheese and Spicy broccoli with red pepper flakes and toasted garlic.
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| The rain pouring off my house roof...news here as we rarely see rain like this in Southern California |
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| Black Eyed Peas cooking for the sweet potato and greens to be added later |
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| Cauliflower soup boiling away |
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| "3 alarm" chili with broccoli packaged |
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| Black eyed pea dish with greens and sweet potato added |
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| Fresh tomato sauce for the Eggplant Parmigiana |
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| eggplant sauteed ready for the sauce and cheese |
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| the cooked down black eyed pea mix cooling and thickening up |
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| Black eyed pea dish, cooled & packed |
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| cornbread |
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| polenta/cornmeal mush with cheese being added |
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| have to keep stirring for 10 minutes |
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| Noodles for the pudding |
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| wild rosemary and olive oil on sheet pan for the polenta to cool |
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| polenta/cornmeal mush cooling (overnight) |
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| 2 great ways to use cornmeal |
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| noodle pudding with fresh mango..has to be baked |
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| baked spaghetti squash |
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| fresh banana-cranberry oatmeal cookie dough |
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| the completed cookie..these won't last long..:) |
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