We are waiting for a 4 day storm to hit Southern California,it's just low 70f's today, the first big storm of the season ( but the forecasters keep promising these and nothing happens).
So my clients have chosen a fully international menu to cope with this odd weather ( it was 86f on Sunday!).
A "meaty" broccoli, bean barley soup with hints of sage and basil, this is a great soup and very adaptable can be made with a good vegetable-white wine base as this is or with a canned tomato base, sometimes adding mushrooms.
Carrots, garlic, onions and celery form the base, and then I added black eyed peas, and pearl barley,later cooked black beans and broccoli florets and cooked for about an hour.
Finished with fresh chopped parsley
A rich and "creamy" (Vegan) carrot and potato..partially blended and finished with coconut milk & ground nutmeg. This is the artist Mr. David Hockney's favorite type of soup. A base of celery and onions, sometimes white of leek.
Then I am making curried vegetable turnovers..a samosa vegetable type filling with sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, celery, broccoli, carrots, peas, cumin, garam masala and curry powder with a turmeric-poppy seed whole wheat pastry.
These are served with my own made tomato- peach chutney from the summer.
I prefer the larger type of turnovers than the 2 bite original samosas, this way you get more variety and more vegetables per portion.
I am also making a mild,fresh basil packed, tomato-sweet potato sauce for pasta, and comes with grated Parmesan cheese.
And tomorrow a stir-steamed side dish( sugar snap peas, carrots, celery, green beans and wild asparagus with cashew nuts)
Apricot, almond and sunflower seed, oatmeal cookies
Then own grown bean sprouts and rejuvelak ( sprouted rye berries in spring water allowed to ferment for 3 days..a natural non-Dairy probiotic)) with spiralina( green algae)
some photos:
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| 2 day old sprouts..takes 5 days to produce good sized |
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| Sprouted Rye Berries also 2 days |
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| Great large fresh carrots, Russet potatoes & brown, Spanish onions |
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| The curried vegetable mix for the samosa turnovers |
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| The pastry for the turnovers..whole wheat flour with turmeric and poppy seeds |
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| The bean, barley, broccoli soup |
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| These 2, the apricot-almond, sunflower seed, oatmeal cookies |
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| keeping the cookies on parchment until cool prevents breaking | Newmans Own Organics 35494 Organic Mediterranean Dried Apricots (Google Affiliate Ad) |
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