Showing posts with label vegetarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetarian. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2011

Busy days in a kitchen, but at night...


I work in a professional kitchen cooking food for the masses seeking health inspired cuisine.  What does this mean?  I chop vegetables all day long to produce gallons of grain, bean and chicken salads.  How could I ever want to come home and cook, you ask?  Easy.  I loooooooooooove my kitchen.  I know there is no 8 burner gas range, mine is electric.  There is no double convection oven or dishwasher at hand, just my helpful hubby.  And there is definitely no walk-in refrigerator stocked to the ceiling for all your cooking needs.  My fridge and pantry do stand up though.  Pinto, red chili, black, mung, adzuki beans beans beans!  White jasmine rice, bulghur, vital wheat gluten(for making homemade seitan which will surely be posted about!), spring and winter wheat berries grown locally in VT!!!  Dr. Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar and Amino Acids, if you don't have them, get them!  Grapeseed, sunflower, extra virgin olive, corn, safflower oils, fresh ground nut butters, whole seeds, good fats are essential for your brain, use them please.  Kale, collards, red and green cabbage, broccoli-cruciferous vegetables will save your life.  Onions, Spanish, Vidalia, sweet red!! Garlic bulbs and bulbs!!!

This is just a fraction of what I have on hand to stir my culinary juices on a daily basis.  I never know what I am going to want to cook when I get home or even if I am going to want to cook at all.  Sometimes I swear to myself that I do not even want to look at my knives or my cutting board,  but then I get home, unwind and head to the pantry and collect my ingredients and begin the night's feast.  So,what did I make for dinner tonight?  Nothing! My husband cooked :)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

With a little help from my friends...

In the very recent past I had the privelege and pleasure of working for 2 of the most incredible women I know and can now call friends.  Jackie Mittelhammer and Becky Solheim are not only sisters, they are co-owners of  Savory Spice Shop in Westfield, NJ .  Words cannot describe the feeling you get when you walk into their shop. We call it the happy place because an aroma of over 400 herbs & spices overwhelm your senses.  
-Wow, it smells so good in here!-
It is a phrase heard all day long with welcome ears.  Along with the collection of everyday or exotic herbs and spices you see you will also notice all of the blends lining the shelves in the glass bulk jars.  Oh, the blends!!  Parm Pesto you get me every time!!  I will be posting pictures of all the recipes I have created using items from Savory Spice Shop.  I don't have written recipes, just a little of this and a little of that, but if you have to recreate something you see I will gladly make a recipe for you :)

I hope you came here hungry cuz here is a taste-


 bulghur, butternut squash, celery and french herbs(Herbes de Provence and Bohemian Forest)

County Clare Corn Chowder with Beer Bread Croutons

 Jamaican Jerk (Extra HOT) Tilapia, Sweet Potato salad with mango vinaigrette and 
Collard greens


Rice noodles with Kale and Shichimi Togarashi


Cambodian Lemongrass Curry with glass noodles

So here is a little taste of the goodies I came up with using SSS products.  I am relying on my phone's camera to take pictures and it is a long process removing pics to the computer..anyway..there will be a digital camera in my life soon and there will be pictures aplenty.  I will be putting pics in another post of my other creations..so look out for it.