One of my best friends lives down the street from me in the summer, and in Charleston through the winter. I know, first of all she's very smart, but also I'm sure you can appreciate how sad it is for me to say goodbye to her for several long months. It doesn't help that she is actually a ray of sunshine who makes me laugh until I cry and is incredibly supportive. So I miss her a lot!
Thank goodness for the old telephone is all I can say.
She's super thoughtful too, and I woke up the other morning to find a package on the front porch containing these adorable recipe cards from South Carolina.
So nice, and a surprise too, what could be better.
I'm really appreciating these cards because I'm finding that I'm doing lots of slapdash cooking in my plant-based kitchen, and sometimes the recipe turns out so well that even though it may be simple I think to myself "I should really write this down".
Last evening I really wanted to cook up some comfort food, something involving some filling white beans.
I also cracked open a new package of nutritional yeast and I wanted to maximize the use of it, it's a good time of year to top up our b vitamins on a daily basis.
I sautéed a little red onion with a clove of garlic in some olive oil.
Then I added two giant bunches of fresh spinach.
Finally I added in the white beans, rinsed well of course.
I let that sit for a while so the flavours could meld together.
Then I added in about a third a cup of cashew cream (if you haven't tried this wonder ingredient yet, click
here for a recipe).
Before shoving it in the oven I covered the whole lot with nutritional yeast, salt and pepper and olive oil.
Bake for about 25 minutes at 350, so good!
I served it with roasted cauliflower (also covered in nutritional yeast and some olive oil) and some mashed potatoes.
I have a new trick for mashed potatoes that have a lovely whipped texture without any use of dairy: whipping them in my kitchenaid mixer with about a half cup of the potato cooking water and a large pat of Earth Balance vegan "butter". The Rascals are mashed potato connoisseurs and even they approve!
I've really been looking forward to today, I've got The Beauty Shop on the schedule, a cut and colour and just in time too.
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This afternoon my Middle rascal is going to bake the piggy cookies! I'll include the recipe with tomorrow's post.
Have a happy day today,
xoxDani
