G Ma's Veggie Soup

Standard veggie soup recipe from G Ma. Green beans, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, onions.  Simple and delicious.

Aloo Gobi

One pot, pg 164. Potatoes, chickpeas, cauliflower and broccoli, spinach, 2 bags frozen tomatoes (mostly drained).  1.5 cups of rice and roughly doubled the rest.  Maybe tripled the spices, especially the turmeric and mustard seeds.  Cooked it for about 40-45 min. 

This was fairly good, but the onions were a bit too crunchy, it wasn't saucy enough, and it tasted a bit plain to me.  We could definitely make it again, but we'd want to make it saucier and spicier.

Pumpkin Mushroom Sausage Pasta

Rachel Ray pg. 24, recipe 27.

This was delicious.  Sausage, mushrooms, pumpkin purée, cream.  Didn't have fresh sage though.  Finally Julia doesn't get all the pasta.

Lentil Sweet Potato Stew

http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-recipes/lentil-sweet-potato-stew.php

Lentils, sweet potatoes, peppers, celery, spices. Recipe for the crock pot. We doubled it and it made a ton. Pretty tasty.

Eggs in Purgatory

Bon Appetit, March 2010.  Also epicurious:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Eggs-in-Purgatory-with-Artichoke-Hearts-Potatoes-and-Capers-357495

Eggs, Potatoes, Artichoke Hearts

This was ok.  Had a strong flavor from the artichokes and the capers, but it needed something.  Some smoked paprika helped.  As would have some feta had we had any.  Maybe we over-tatered - something I'm prone to do.  More red chili flakes.  Maybe more tomatoes.

Tandoori Salmon with Kale

Glorious one pot, pg 56.  This turned out deliciously.  We mostly doubled, except used 1.5 cups of rice instead of 2.  We used brown rice, so we boiled the rice (covered, like usual) in water for maybe 20 minutes, drained it, then added to the pot.  Also used about a bunch of kale.  Could have used more, as it cooks down a lot and we're kale monsters.

Baked it for right around 40 minutes.  Turned out cooked quite well.

The Proper Sunday Feast

We went to town on this one.  A proper British town.  All courtesy of Jamie Oliver.

Perfect Roast Beef, pg.  192.  Don't remember what cut we used, but it wasn't what we should have.  Also, the oven got shut off instead of turned down.  It turned out not quite as good as it should have, but still good.

Roasted Potatoes, Parsnips and Carrots, pg 202.  Yum.  Finally used up the rest of the CSA carrots and parsnips.  Could have boiled the taters a bit longer I think, but otherwise delicious.  Roast garlic = awesome.

A consistently good gravy was not had.  The meat pan veg didn't get cooked enough, and we were way out of time by this point anyway.

Yorkshire Pudding, pg 209.  My goodness, these were interesting.  And by interesting I mean delicious.  They puffed up maybe 3 or 4 inches above the muffin pan.  Yum.

And then, to top it all off, we watched a couple episodes of British TV (Doc Martin).  Good day to you sir.