My sister and a few friends avoid gluten for various reasons and I strive to make most baked goods vegan. The result is a lot of overly complicated recipes that never seem to have the right texture. Using vinegar seems a little scary– strong smell, strong flavor– but neither carry through to the final product […]
Read moreI became a vegetarian long before the age most people grow to like meatloaf. I’ve tried a lot of veggie loaf recipes out there and have never been happy with just throwing a bunch of soy in a pan, but lentil loafs just haven’t grown on me, either. The recipe below has a nice meaty […]
Read moreI canned pasta sauce for the first time this last summer using tomatoes from my garden. My yard only gets about 2 square feet of sunlight, so I really didn’t grow very many! Now that the sauce is gone, I find myself craving the flavors of a richly developed sauce without buying a pile of […]
Read moreThis recipe is where I first learned to love lentils. To be fair to the legume, I think previously I had only eaten them in canned soups and weird lentil loafs. The sweetness from the molasses and tang from mustard really pull the sauce together in a I-wanna-lick-it-off-my-fingers kind of way. I like to load […]
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