Whole wheat breads; Double chocolate chip oatmeal cookies; steamed brown rice with turmeric; whole wheat banana bread..photos for delivery tomorrow

This fantastic  bread recipe is in my book "Baking a Name for Yourself" on amazon kindle..I used 50:50 whole wheat and plain flour instead of 100% plain flour.

Fresh bread "from scratch" in under "2 hours!

All Butter, cocoa, chocolate chips and peanut butter candies in an oatmeal cookie batter..recipe in "Gobsmacking cookies  and other treats" recipe  Book also on kindle

50% Fresh Fruit whole wheat banana bread

Sauteed Vegetables with Farro; Braised Red Cabbage with apples and walnuts; Kale & Chickpeas with Bok Choy; Stuffed Peppers with rice and cheese; Hummus; Red bell Pepper and potato Soup; making the most with REAL beer. Photos of prep for tomorrow's Labor Day Deliveries all Vegan-Vegetarian

Kale and white Mexican Squash soaking in clean water

Cooked Pinto beans..high protein and magnesium great earthy flavor

Cooked chickpeas for the hommus, tender and sweet "beans"

Blanched Kale

Red Pepper and Potato soup base

Fantastic slow braised in beer & cinnamon, Red Cabbage with apples, walnuts and raisins, will be served over cooked flat noodles, no need to tell anyone this is a delicious and nutritionally dense, dish.

The completed Red Bell Pepper soup..all Vegan

The kale, bok choy and chickpea dish that will be served with the cooked farro (wheat berries), hints of ginger and cardamon

Vegetable packed "saute" actually sauteed then also braised in beer and thyme, will be served with turmeric scented brown rice

Hommus

Rice and vegetable stuffed peppers topped with cheese to be baked at Client's home

The cooked/steamed wheat berries for the kale and chickpea dish

When cooking for Vegan-Vegetarians, I use a lot of different flavor "tricks" one is flaked nutritional yeast and the other is that I prefer to use real beer (usually a lager type, for heartier stews I will use a dark stout) instead of wine in most dishes.
Beer adds "depth" to any dish, without adding any acidity. It also compliments the nutritional yeast.
Just adding 1/4-1/2 cup to the beginning any soup or stew and boiling (destroys the alcohol) and it makes a lot of difference..honestly. This is also a great tool to use when you have no vegetable stock, cut it 50:50 with hot water.
I prefer to use flat beer, open the bottle or can and pour out and leave fro an hour or 2 then use.

Now we in Los Angeles are enjoying some great cooler temps. just low 80f's and nice sea breezes, this menu is perfect for the time of year, not quite Fall yet not as blazing hot as Summer.
I have also made/making some whole wheat bread ( the recipe is in my book "BAKING A NAME FOR YOURSELF" all bread recipes and recipes to USE bread, on amazon kindle and is a no fuss and 100% guarantee, fresh bread in almost 2 hours from scratch); some double chocolate oatmeal cookies and  right now I have a whole wheat, banana bread in the oven, so will post those photos later today.

LENTIL & TOMATO SOUP; PASTA PRIMAVERA WITH A TWIST OR 2; YAM AND RED ONION SAUCE FOR GNOCCHI; TWICE BAKED POTATOES WITH YAMS AND CHEESE; SOME OF THE PHOTOS OF PREP FOR AN "ALMOST" FALL MENU

Above and below the sauce with yams and red onion

The base for the Primavera, I have "tweeked" the recipe and have used artichokes, peppers, garlic and onions...as I run a custom catering service a lot of my dishes feed several clients and all eat different things, so I begin with a good base sauce and then add different vegetables per client wishes

Lentil and tomato soup made with fresh tomatoes

Pasta Primavera without greens

Pasta Primavera with greens

Twice baked potatoes with yams and cheese

Garlic mushrooms with onion and parsley, salt free and cooked in olive oil and lemon juice, will be served with toasted pita breads

Pasta Primavera with greens and walnuts

Great, cooler daytime temps of almost mid 80f's are making it almost feel like Fall in Southern California and such a break from the triple digits of past few weeks.
Now I have lots of Sweet Bell peppers and tomatoes in the garden, plus all my own aromatic herbs, so I can  go out to the garden and pick my vegetables, as I need them, for sauces and dishes; one of the benefits of own organic gardening.

Have a great weekend, Here in America it is Labor Day weekend celebrating the end of summer!