Black bean and own sundried tomato soup; Mixed vegetable and rice soup; Mushroom & new World Vegetable Ragout; Peruvian style Vegetable stew with Lima Beans, annatto seeds and Corn, Poppy seed whole wheat sour dough breads and peanut butter cookies...A menu Celebrating The America's For Martin Luther King Day, tomorrow

Celebrating Martin Luther King day tomorrow with lots of dishes featuring foods from "The New World", peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, yams, squashes, corn and peanuts.



The menu and Prep so far in photos:

The fresh vegetable soup topped with scallions and cilantro

The New World vegetable stew with mushrooms to be served with steamed brown rice, squash, tomatoes yams, carrots, garlic peas,oregano, onions, celery and corn

The Peruvian style vegetable stew base, completed dish is further down this page

Ground annatto seeds. Known in Brazil as Urucum, and used there for body painting, heartburn, warding off evil, stomach distress, sunscreen, repelling insects and in South America known as Achiote or Bija and used in food to add deep saffron colors, In England it has been used since  16th century to color Gloucester cheese.

 black bean and 

own sun-dried tomato soup

 

Butternut squash and yams

The Annatto, Squash, Corn and Lima Bean side dish

There is also a turkey shepherd's pie but that will be shown on my other blog chorleycakes.blogspot.com tomorrow before delivery, The  breads are proving and the cookie batter is chilling. And the weather is finally cooling down, we have a great ocean breeze now and the day time temps will be just 80f's..great!