I am making the Dean’s Lunch and one of the dinners is a Vegan. Jan and I finally settled on a salad with crackers and a selection of schmears. To meet the needs of the one, the many must eat Vegan—to paraphrase. Jan really likes guacamole, so I chose this as my third schmear. I have a simple recipe, but for public consumption I thought I would be a bit more elaborate.
Category Archives: Vegetarian
Karl’s Roasted Carrot and Red Pepper Hummus
I am making the Dean’s Lunch and one of the dinners is a Vegan. Jan and I finally settled on a salad with crackers and a selection of schmears. To meet the needs of the one, the many must eat Vegan—to paraphrase.
Filed under Beans, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Vegan Artichoke Spinach Schmear
I am making the Dean’s Lunch and one of the dinners is a Vegan. Jan and I finally settled on a salad with crackers and a selection of schmears. To meet the needs of the one, the many must eat Vegan—to paraphrase. On the other hand, just because something has no animal products in it does not mean it can’t be delicious.
Filed under Beans, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Jan’s Low Sugar Chocolate Mousse with Drambuie Butterscotch Sauce
For me Claudia’s Chocolate Mousse is the mousse by which all others are judged. It is however, not a health food. It has replaced cakes in our house as the holiday treat. Jan has spent years perfecting the techniques of making mousse, but it took her years before she dared to tinker with mom’s recipe.
Filed under Desserts & Treats, Holidays, Treats, Vegetarian
Karl’s Adkin’s Vegetable Tajine (Tagine)
I wanted a vegetable dish to go with my Moroccan lamb this Sunday. I just put Miriam on a plane for Milan, Italy, on Friday and I pick up her husband, Chris, who is just getting back from NY on Saturday. Chris is on the Adkin’s diet, so this dish must fit his needs—out go the starchy vegetables, fruit and flour as a thickener.
Filed under Clay Pots, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Moroccan Spice Mix II (another Ras el Hanout)
I have made the Moroccan spice blend Ras el Hanout before. For this Father’s Day, I wanted a Moroccan blend that was just a little bit simpler than 29 ingredients. Looking at my old recipe, I cut out the more obscure spices and adjusted the quantities. To be called a Ras el Hanout the blend should have at least these eleven spices: allspice, black pepper, cardamom, cayenne pepper, cloves, coriander seeds, ginger, mace, nutmeg, turmeric, and white pepper. The quantities of each spice vary widely between blends I have found.
Filed under Sauces and Spices, Vegan, Vegetarian
Karl’s Roasted Garlic Couscous
After living in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, my family has always really loved garlic—a lot! I had an idea that popped into my head about a side dish to go with my Moroccan lamb—large chunks of roasted garlic floating in a sea of fluffy couscous. My thought was that as you took a bite of couscous you would get a burst of roasted garlic goodness.
Filed under Pasta, Side Dishes, Starches, Vegan, Vegetarian
Karl’s Grönsakskaka, Swedish Potato and Vegetable Medallions
Based on an Ikea recipe
I went to Ikea last week and, after buying Eilene a bunch of furniture for the updating of her room, I stopped off to buy Swedish meatballs, fish egg paste, and pickled herring. I saw a thing called Grönsakskaka and—always interested in new things—I bought a box to go with the meatballs.
Filed under Potatoes, Side Dishes, Vegetables, Vegetarian









