12/30/2012 0 Comments (Pre) New Year's CookingI don't really *do* resolutions, as I don't necessarily think they work. I do, though, try to come up with some things I want to work on and this year, I think it is going to be to be an even better vegan by trying a variety of new recipes. I've already decided that I'm going to do a "day" sort of theme for menu planning this year where every week I have a dinner that focuses on these seven things (one per day). They don't even have to be on the same day of every week:
Bean and grain day Soup day Mexican day Pasta day Salad day Bread day (this can be a sandwich, a pizza, etc). Wild card day (I'm considering a "casserole" day) I've already gotten a start with new recipes tonight! I scored two 1/2 pound packages of sliced portobellos yesterday (99 cents each!) so I looked in the index of CDW's Passionate Vegetarian and there was Ned's Marsala Marinated Portobello Grill on page 770. I got those marinating (leaving the oil out and doubling the marinade to accommodate a full pound of shrooms) an threw some homemade veggie stock in the crockpot with a cup of polenta (I do a 3:1 ratio on that in the crockpot). When it came time for dinner, I split one of my vegan Italian sausages in half and threw in on the grill with the shrooms and then reduced the leftover marinade and thickened it slightly. Very awesome. I love *Chick'n (seitan) Marsala, but this is even better and the mushrooms really shine. Tomorrow, I'm making the Hearts of Palm Ceviche from Vegan Cooking for Carnivores (The link is to an internet recipe that is similar) and oven-baked tortilla chips as my new recipe of the day (I figure we'll snack around, eating the leftovers from dinner as grilled polenta cakes and shrooms at some point). New Years Day will probably see me making Susan V of Fat-free Vegan's Creole Black Eyed Peas with mixed greens on the side and some good old cornbread. It may be possible that I'm trying to eat all the corn that Renee will be giving up in the next three weeks (did I mention we had Latin Corn Soup for dinner last night for dinner and again for lunch today).
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