Here I go again with one of my favorite vegetable combination: mushrooms, spinach and zucchini. The the green and golden zucchini used in this dish were homegrown as were the jalapeños and garlic. Sweet onions, celery and jalapeños were sautéed with avocado oil and kosher salt at fairly high heat. Mushrooms were added … More Vegetable Stir Fry Quesadilla
This post should come with a slew of warning labels, disclaimers, full disclosures, user agreements and paragraphs of legalese in fine print. A user agreement would require that any and all information related herein, good or bad, be disregarded and be considered useless if not dangerous and should not be tried at home. I have … More Fruitless Fruitcake
It has been awhile since I’ve made a fermented salsa. A homemade salsa usually gets eaten the same day it is prepared or shortly thereafter, but when there is an abundance of ingredients for a larger batch of salsa a short period of fermentation can significantly lengthen its refrigerator life. This is especially meaningful with … More Fermented Red Jalapeño Salsa
A portion of my morning was spent running errands in the city, and by the time I returned home it was time to begin preparation for the next meal. I had picked up a few huge jalapeños, perfect for stuffing. Shortness of time called for taking a shortcut or two. I had in mind … More Falafel/Vada Stuffed Jalapeños
Cilantro doesn’t grow well in hot weather so I have been purchasing it all summer. I like to always have it on hand, and since it either gets used up or is no longer fresh by the time I visit the store again cilantro never gets crossed off the shopping list. Now that the summer … More Cilantro/Lime/Jalapeño Rice With Black Beans
I wrapped up (or should I say, unwrapped?) the jalapeño hot sauce project which has been fermenting for over a month now. Learning the results is very much like unwrapping a present, especially after waiting a month without peeking. As usual, I scooped off and discarded the top inch or two of mash and … More New Batch Of Fermented Jalapeño Hot Sauce
Ever since I saw Sandhya’s Jalapeño-Poppah-Aappah (https://indfused.com/2015/08/07/japalpeno-poppah-aappah/) I was determined to try them. Sandhya at https://indfused.com creates brilliant original recipes and has a knack for coming up with quicker, easier and healthier versions of traditional dishes. I didn’t duplicate Sandhya’s recipe exactly but hers was the inspiration for my endeavor. It seems that many of the South … More Cheesy Spinach Jalapeño Bombs
Believe me, I don’t do this very often. In my defense, I did it upon request. It should not count against me that I readily agreed to comply. Hey, we’ve been eating salads, sometimes twice a day, for the last few weeks. Besides, we spent the afternoon on our first kayak outing of the season. That … More Nachos With Homemade Nopalitos
A frittata is a dish that requires no recipe. They are a great way to use up leftovers. Just add ingredients or leftovers to beaten eggs and bake. The concept is so simple that I hesitated to do a (another) blog post about it, but since I’ve been a bit slow putting out food posts… … More Summer Squash Frittata
I cooked up some Black Lentils, which are also known as Beluga Lentils because of their resemblance in appearance to caviar. As soon as they were done I transferred them into a sieve and rinsed them under cold running water. Ingredients in the salad were: spring onion green jalapeño ripe red jalapeño cilantro red onion … More Black Lentil & Mango Salad
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