I love this time of year, we are having cooler evenings, with a lot of sea mists and warm days, with darkness creeping in earlier.
I have not had the central heating on for over 8 months but will soon have to "air out the house" when I turn it on.
The menu for Tomorrow is a simple one using very seasonal, warming, almost "comfort" foods
A light and chunky ( partially blended) yam and carrot soup, with celery, brown onion and thyme
Vegan vegetable strudels..carrots, yams, potatoes, peas, onions, celery, mushrooms, chickpeas in a vegetable stock in a flax seed-whole wheat pastry..almond milk washed with poppy seed
Vegetable strudels with cheese (same vegetable mix as above with sharp Cheddar inside and outside, and egg washed)
My own version of enchiladas without spicy chile's..using a tomato base only, with vegetables and cheese...corn tortillas (always heat the corn tortillas first either in a skillet or directly over the flame and keep warm in a clean kitchen towel..this releases more flavor and keeps them flexible to soak in sauce and stuff)
This dish will have 3 types of cheese.
Then an unusual side dish of a cornbread..this is made with blue cornmeal, flax seed, prunes, oatmeal and comes out almost looking like a pale pound cake..delicious with any meal and not too sweet.
Oatmeal-pecan-vanilla crispy cookies
Traditional "made from scratch" sweet potato/yam pie (I will post again the recipe and photos tomorrow when I bake them).
I prefer yams to sweet potatoes for these pies for the color and flavor and honestly prefer it to any pumpkin pie, hands down.
My prep so far:
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| The carrot-yam soup |
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| The cooked enchilada filling |
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| The drained, cooked vegetable strudel filling |
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| Blue cornmeal-oatmeal-flax seed-prune-pecan topped loaf |
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| The vegetable strudel mix will soak in it's cooking liquor overnight and be drained again before filling the strudels |
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| Oven-baked garnet yam for the pie |
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| Previous 2 the cookie dough before and after baking |
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| Mashed yam and the sugar and spices |
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| The yam custard with eggs and milk added to"marinate overnight to allow flavors to develop & spices to "bloom"..recipe & photos how to's will be posted again tomorrow under it's own blog page |
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| Ready to eat oatmeal-pecan-vanilla cookies |
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