Whole wheat zucchini almond muffins. It is cold and grey outside, but in my kitchen it is warm and smells yummy. I try to spend at least half a day each weekend cooking so that when I come home from work, all I need to do is warm up dinner. Janet from Meatless Mama blog posted this spinach mushroom soup last week. I finally made it this morning from the last of the wild mushrooms and it is heavenly (you don't have to use wild mushrooms). I want to try her peanut broccoli pasta as well. I bought the broccoli, but can't find the peanut butter. I know I have a jar of peanut butter somewhere. I guess I will have to sift through some of the bins of food I haven't yet put away in order to find it. I'm one of those people who doesn't like broccoli, but this sounds good. And if I don't like, I'm sure my husband will as he loves both broccoli and peanut butter.
Then I tried a kale slaw for the first time. Any time I want a new kale recipe, I head over to Diane's blogs for ideas, one of which is dedicated specifically to extolling the virtues of kale. Again this was very good, and I am sure I will be making it again.
I like the way the kale stays crisp and doesn't get all mushy like cabbage slaw does.I just pulled a batch of whole wheat Zuchinni muffins out of the oven and have a pot of spanish rice simmering on the stove. I actually do the majority of my cooking without recipes. The muffins and Spanish rice are made from recipes I looked up long ago and didn't save. I use recipes mostly to get new ideas or if I want to try something I haven't tried before.
I am so missing having fall greens growing in a garden and am kicking myself for not having made more of an effort to plant a fall garden. We moved here in time to get one in! I could be harvesting lettuce, endive, spinach, kale, radishes, broccoli, and lots of other greens right now. This is the first time in my life that I have had to consistently buy vegetables. I did get a handful of fresh vegetable from the tiny summer garden I planted, but mostly bought from the local roadside stands where I could see the garden that the vegetable were grown in. In fact the zucchini in the muffins came from one of those roadside stands. Now I am stuck with grocery store vegetables and even if they are labeled locally and organically grown, they still don't taste anything like vegetables that were just picked this morning from the garden. I am so spoiled, I know!
Next fall it will be different! I'm looking forward to spring and summer and getting the new garden plot planted.
Here are a few pictures of my garden last year in Ann Arbor, in the beginning of November.
