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.





Thursday, August 1, 2013

This is the ONLY place you will find this recipe..CARAMELIZED TOMATO AND FRESH MOZZARELLA TARTS..AS I CREATED IT TODAY!!






The recipe that makes 2 x 9inch tarts can be found on my Summer Specials Page on my website..just scroll down to the bottom of the page and impress your friends and family this weekend.

Footnote: It is official..ALL MY CLIENT'S SAY THIS IS A TREMENDOUS DISH..you HAVE to try the recipe..it is brilliant!!


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Caramelized tomato tarts are out of the oven, "Triple Threat" Brownies cut, all orders ready for delivery..PHOTOS

The whole wheat-flax seed 'cracker" crust for the caramelized tomato-cheese tart

Fresh fruit filling for the Eve's puddings

The tarts prior to baking, with capers

greens with black beans

Greens with Portobello Mushrooms

Roasted root vegetables, base for the chef's salad with chipotle dressing and the lentil and watermelon salad

Roasted vegetables, with added white squash and red onion, black olives

Fresh watermelon with lime juice, avocado oil and mint for the lentil-roast vegetable salad

Smoked tempeh strips for the Chef's salad ( also known as Bakon)

Napa cabbage, own grown cherry tomatoes, dried basil, celery, scallions ..base for the Chef's salad with chipotle dressing, bakon and roasted vegetables


These 2 ..the baked Tomato-mozzarella tarts, topped with olive oil & torn basil leaves

Baked vanilla sponge topped poached fresh fruit- Eve's pudding


Triple Threat Brownie Bar cookies cut...they are not too sweet and very crunchy-chocolatey