try 50 new vegetarian/vegan recipes

From the WW Simply Delicious cookbook.
Pretty good, but time intensive (took about an hour, most of it hands-on)

Tonight I started off planning to make something I’d seen on Rachael Ray (bread gnocchi) and decided to make it into a casserole type of thing with zucchini. It was great.

• frozen leftover bread, in chunks, sautéed in olive oil and garlic
• pasta sauce (arrabiata)
• zucchini and garlic scapes, sautéed
• 2 oz cheese (1.5 oz muenster, .5 oz romano)

Layer bread, sauce, cheese, zucchini, sauce, cheese.
Bake until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbly.
Delicious.

Pasta w/ broccoli, cauliflower, cannelini beans, a little oil, a lot of garlic and ricotta salata. I think it would have been better with more oil to make a sauce, or to puree the beans and add a little soymilk or cream. It was very flavorful and filling though.

Chickpeas with Chutney
(recipe on my LJ)

I’ve been making some vegetarian things, but it’s mainly the same old things over and over.

No progress. :(

I haven’t tried any new vegetarian/vegan recipes in the past month. But I’ve been making the Quorn/black bean/hominy/corn/salsa super-easy thing a lot.

I think the next thing I’m going to try is mole chili, because one of my lovers was telling me his partner added unsweetened chocolate to chili and it was awesome. I bet that would be really good in the raisin chili I make.