Fresh Veggies

Fresh Veggies
great produce=Great eating

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Purple Yams and pluots...a very global Vegan Menu

Curly Kale, Carrots, Yukon gold Potatoes, purple yams

red bell peppers, yellow Summer squash, broccoli crowns

pluots ( cross between a plum & an apricot) ripe Bartlet pears, strawberries and black plums for the fresh fruit Eve's pudding special request for Monday

Roasted sunflower seed butter in place of peanut butter..less alllergies

Fabulous, crispy field grown beans


broccoli, Fuji apples and yellow Summer Squash

Curly kale

The menu my client's have chosen for Monday is a global vegan feast, featuring dishes from many lands:

2 fabulous dips:
From the South West and Far East
a black bean and own grown and dried tomato

a tahini ( sesame seed paste) and spinach ( I am actually using kale as it is more nutritious and safer in these hot months..yes it is getting warmer now)

Both come with carrot and celery sticks

The soups are 
Minestrone 

Broccoli with buckwheat noodles

Mushroom with red wine

The entrees:

Penne pasta with chopped salad and chickpeas, steamed kale and fresh rosemary

African inspired red bean and yam  ragout with couscous..spicy and totally delicious it is finished with the roasted nut butter..this is a wonderful dish

A purple sweet potato Vegetable Shepherd's pie

The sides are

Summer squash is a chuncky tomato sauce

The desserts are:
Chocolate-banana."bread and butter" pudding ( actually made with chocolate cake instead of bread), with eggs and creamcheese..very yummy.

3 fresh fruit Eve's puddings ( poached fresh fruit topped with a vanilla sponge cake..a very English dessert and lighter than the American Cobbler) by request, special order

The bread is whole wheat sour dough with  dried apricots & almonds

More photographs to follow tomorrow as all produce is air drying today, and it is 80f in the shade..this afternoon I am re-potting my Fall tomato plants and picking  bell peppers.





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