Caregiving from my kitchen
As I have mentioned before, though I have never been a vegetarian, I ate very little meat for many years, cooking mostly vegetarian meals at home. My cookbooks were vegetarian, I used tofu before it was readily available (and tempeh when it was very hard …
This salad is soft and easy to eat, though not as moist as one with mayonnaise. It keeps beautifully for 4-5 days, though – making it an excellent dish to leave with an older person who might take a few days to finish it. …
Here’s another So Simple it’s Barely a Recipe post… but it’s a useful technique to have up your sleeve for – well, weeks like this. Between schedule and weather, I didn’t get out to shop, but I realized I hadn’t had enough vegetables at lunch, …
We have cucumbers. We certainly do have cucumbers… I’ve put them in tabbouli, and we’ve had them sliced, and I plan soup (why is it Soup when I make it with cucumbers, and Smoothie when I make it with peaches?) and it’s just the beginning …
So this is a bit of a cheat – I used canned tomato paste because I won’t get fresh tomatoes for at least another month. But a tomato dressing is still good – and even better, in some ways, now, when I don’t have tomatoes …