Although I love to cook- it becomes more of a chore in the summer when its already too hot to breathe. So minimal heat meals are a godsend. Today I managed a delicious meal using ONLY things in the cupboards, and had the burners on for 5 minutes total. Curried Chickpea Couscous Ingredients 1 1/2 [...]
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Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili
Happy summer solstice everyone! For dinner we had the least summery meal you could imagine. Yummy sweet potato and black bean chili and cornbread. Hey, if the weather isn’t going to behave like it’s summer why should I? This is perfect rainy day food- and probably more appropriate for autumn. Sweet Potato & Black Bean [...]
Black Bean & Sweet Corn Quesadillas
This is one of my favourite quick and cheap dishes. We threw it together last night because just happened to have all of the ingredients on hand (another reason I love it so much!). 1 Large Spanish Onion (roughly chopped) 2 Tomatoes (roughly chopped) Spices to taste (paprika, cayenne pepper, chili powder, etc.) 1 Can [...]
Rainbow Lasagna – The Current Disaster in My Kitchen
Although it’s over a week late- Rainbow Food Day (week?) is here! It started last year, in an attempt to gobble down as much fresh veg in a day that we could. Now we’re revisiting it, as a belated Beltane celebration. Today’s rainbow meal is a yummy sloppy lasagna. It started out as a nice [...]
Chunky Sweet Potato Fries
+1 sweet potato for each person +1 tablespoon EVOO per sweet potato +garlic sea salt to taste Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Chop the sweet potato into thick chunks, approximately all the same size. Lightly toss chunks of sweet potato, olive oil and garlic sea salt in a bowl until all potatoes have a [...]
