Saturday, February 18, 2012

Plant Based Dinner for Two

One thing I have yet to learn about making vegan meals for two...how to make it for TWO.  This stuff was really pretty tasty though, and nearly idiot proof:
4 cups bulk 13 bean soup mix
4 small yellow squashes that look like zucchini
4baby potatoes red and purple look cool
4 small zuchhini
2 bunches of chard
1 lb of baby spinach
2 green peppers
2 onions
3 tomatoes
3 bunches of broccoli
4 CLOVES garlic
About that much ginger
Basil leaves
Salt
Cumin
Black peppercorns (note: a grinding device would be better than my former meat tenderizing mallet...but mallet and patience works)

So here's what you do...soak beans in more water than beans overnight.  Drain the water and cover and fridge them if it'll be a while...  When you've got an hour to spend cooking, put 8ish cups of water, beans, cubed taters, diced tomaters, and a little salt on to boil then cover....about an hour.  

MEANWHILE....Mince the garlic and ginger and dice the onion.  Put in skillet with water (oil if you do oil) and carmalize (if that means sautee till yellowish).  Dump in pot.  Cut up veggies to small equal soup chunk sized pieces.  Destem chard.  When there is less than 20 minutes left (and more than 0) put it all in.  Dump in the smashed up peppercorn and cumin.  Squeeze lemon juice in until you feel like quitting.   Turn off stove and eat.

Oh...I don't know...cover it when cooking if you feel like it.


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