Vegetarian Mains to try

Shortcut it with a Kale-Brussel Sprouts salad.
 https://www.seriouseats.com/crispy-kale-brussels-sprouts-potato-hash

Finally, something to do with that cup of Adzuki beans that's been in the cupboard for eight years.
https://www.seriouseats.com/hobak-beombeok-korean-squash-sweet-potato-and-bean-porridge

Some variation to consider from my usual vegetarian chili recipe?

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-vegetarian-bean-chile-recipe

Hamburger Soup

 Misnamed, as I usually make it vegetarian, and serve meat to add to it. 

Onion

Celery

Bell pepper

Carrot

Zucchini

Potato

Cabbage 

Tomato 

Vegetarian Better Than Bouillon

Seattle 60s Salmon topping

 1 cup brown apple cider vinegar 

4TB butter

Dehydrated onion 

Parsley flakes 

Garlic salt 

Freshly ground pepper 

Capful Worcestershire sauce 

Big family meals before Thanksgiving

 Indian Food
1. Dal Makhani--soak, then cook dal and beans in instapot.  Use Goat or Sheep yogurt and Ghee for all dairy additions.  Reserve some lentils and beans.

2. Roast mixed vegetables: cauliflower, carrot, zucchini, bell pepper.  Toss is garlic, ginger, and tumeric.  Tomato masala sauce on side.

3. chicken or salmon.

5. quinoa and rice for base.

6. paneer if I could get it.

Pasta Theme
1. Banza Pasta
2. second pasta for the fearful?
3. Good jar pasta, pesto sauce.
4. Kalamata olives, spinach.

5. Parmesan cheese, manchego cheese.

6. wild vegetables: fennel.  mushrooms, zucchini
7. bread.
8. sausages?

Chili Theme
1. Vegetarian Chili, usual recipe then add yams and kale.
--pull out cooked beans, yams and kale for nightshade-free version.

3. toppings: cooked ground beef, BB, cheddar cheese, manchego cheese, corn chips, safe potato chip, sour cream, guacamole, pineapple?, green onion, olives

Zucchini boats

Fasolatha

Egg Roll in a bowl salad: carrot, celery, cabbage, broccoli, green onions.  Chicken or BB.  Dressing of rice vinegar and soy sauce.  chili sauce/version on side.  Peanut butter/version on side.
serve with rice noodles.

Coconut curry with vegetables.  Probably broccoli, carrot, onion.  

You can buy me a present.

 https://rjdgallery.com/andrea-kowch-puzzles/

or listen to music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5V2iN3njQI

Color Names

 

ebony

oatmeal

pastel gray

mint gream

oatmeal

honeydew

Aero Blue

Aero Blue

Green Sheen

Shadow Gray

Light Blue

Cool Mint

Blue (Munsell)

Pastel Blue

Moonstone Blue

Marengo

Marengo

Pale Aqua

Gainsboro

Shadow Blue

Marengo

Glaucous

Dark Pastel Blue

Marengo

Pearly Purple

Classic Rose Pink

Platinum

Chilean Pink

lavender blush

baby pink

Munsell Color Exploration

 I'm looking for the 1943 Munsell table.

But look, here is a package in R!

https://github.com/cwickham/munsell/tree/master

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/munsell/munsell.pdf

And here's the Munsell Spin!

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/munsell-spin

Also, tonight I found this Architectural Digest discussion of the Barbie Dreamhouse through the decades.

Bias-cut dress project

Marais dress has angled connection of upper bodice to skirt, V-neck front and back, no buttons or zippers.
https://oliverands.com/community/blog/2021/07/liesls-woven-bias-cut-marais-dress.html 

and the pattern:

https://oliverands.com/shop/marais-knit-dress-top-sewing-pattern.html

McCall's pattern is Aline with diagonal seams

https://www.amazon.com/McCalls-Patterns-M7592ZZ0-Pullover-Bias-Cut/dp/B071GBGDRG
Reviews of this pattern seem positive:

https://sewing.patternreview.com/Patterns/85644

Instapot Vegetarian and Indian recipes.

https://www.cookwithmanali.com/


Our instapot was a gift, and I've been slow to work it into our routine, as I already had a stove-top pressure cooker that I love.

But recently I've been turning to the instapot instead of the pressure cooker to make the basic beans or chickpeas that I use in recipes. The only finished-for-the-table dish I would make in an instapot is butter chicken. But I'm not that excited about it, the kids like it best. I've been wanting to find vegetarian dishes that I could make in the instapot, which do not ruin the vegetables. So I'm excited about this Manali site, it looks promising.

More links: Apple Bundt Cake

 https://iambaker.net/apple-bundt-cake/

Three Sisters Dish for Thanksgiving

 Comparative with:
Simply Recipes version

• Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 yellow onion, diced (about 1 cup)
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 pound butternut or kabocha squash as the pumpkin, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes (about 2 cups)  ==or Johnna thinks it's easier to roast the squash in the oven, the scoop out the meat.  I hate peeling winter squash.
• 1 (15-ounce) can diced fire-roasted tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3/4 cup vegetable broth (such as Better than Boullion)
• 1 cup fresh or frozen corn kernels
• 3 cups Scarlet Runner Beans, already cooked. (or more beans, so it's equal to the pumpkin?)
• 2 cups chopped greens (such as spinach or kale)
• Parsley or Cilantro to decorate the top.
  
  

• Johnna's directions.

• Roast the squash the day before
• Cook the beans the day before.  I can cooked the beans Wednesday night after we arrive.  I'll probably cook a pound which makes 7 cups.  I can put any leftovers into burritos later.
• Saute onions for 5 minutes
• Add garlic and saute a minute more
• Add canned tomatoes, tomato paste, spices and salt, and broth.  Bring to boil and cook 15 minutes to remove the canned taste of the tomato.
• While the tomato sauce is cooking, Remove meat from squash and chop/scoop into bite sized chunks.
  
  Add the Three Sisters: Squash, Beans, and corn. If adding kale, add it now, if spinach add it at the end..  Cook another ten minutes on the stove to make hot through.  
  
  

• Presentation ideas:

• Simple: serve hot Three Sisters in a bowl-type serving dish, topped with cilantro.  This is my preferred way to go.
• 
  Fancy: Make a cornbread batter, bake Three Sisters in casserole dish topped with cornbread for 20-25 minutes until cornbread is cooked.  But, we already have cornbread stuffing on the table, so this doesn't make sense.
  
  Theatrical.  Serve in a roasted whole pumpkin.  Or in small individual roasted pumpkins.  If serving in pumpkin, reduce or eliminate squash from mixture above.
• 
  

Shoe Advice from a Shoe Designer

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtq-0W6ir9At7B8s5INDkBw

Glory Days of the ECR Marching Band

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krBW8-Jebf4

Thanksgiving 2021

Monday Night, spatchcocked and dry-brined the turkey, so it would have three days in the fridge.  13.5 pounds, local bird.

The day before Thanksgiving I needed to pick someone up at a train station three hours away.  So, the day before prep was in the hands of the two college aged kids at home. 

• Made cornbread for the stuffing using the NYT browned butter recipe.
• Made traditional raspberry jello with sour cream.
• Much housecleaning to prep for holiday.

Thanksgiving day:

• Made a meat gravy to go with it for the first time, using the neck and backbone.  all Kenzo Lopez recipe, Serious Eats.
• Roasted and peeled Poblano Peppers for Vegetarian Main.
• youngest made pie crusts.  
• Yams cut and boiled for marshmallow yams.
• youngest made Molasses wheat rolls, recipe from Budget Bytes.  Nice for a change, but let's do more plain/traditional next year.
• cooked sausage (both kinds) and sauteed onions, peppers, and celery for dressing.

Turkey went into oven at 11:15am.   While the Turkey roasted, we made:

• Vegetarian Main: Stuffed poblanos with quinoa, vegetarian sausage, salsa, beans, and kalamata olives.  Topped with homemade enchilada sauce and cheese, baked while turkey rested.
• Mashed potatoes
• Cornbread dressings mixed: sausage, sweet purple pepper, celery, onion, sage, broth.  Two versions: pork sausage vs. vegetarian sausage.  
• Cranberry sauce: 12 oz cranberries, 1 cup water, 3/4 cup sugar.  

• This year we added orange zest to the finished sauce.  
• Next year, divide the sauce in half, and so there's a bowl of plain and a bowl of orange-flavored.
• Family member with own place brought baked Brussel Spouts dish and roasted Delicata Squash dish.  yum!
• youngest made 3 recipes worth of vegetarian gravy.

Turkey finished at 12:25 (Meal was planned for 1pm, so this was a little late).  One of us delayed arrival, so turkey rested until after 2pm.  I put a dishcloth over it and then several layers of aluminum foil sealed.  Turkey temp at carving was 135F.

We all sat at the new table for feast!  

After dinner, went for a walk.  

Leftover Turkey: ~6 cups.  Made 10 cups broth in pressure cooker.

Youngest made pie filling and baked pies, which we ate around 8pm.  

Day after Thanksgiving.  Spatchcocked and roasted second turkey!  Organic Butterball, also about 13.5 lbs.  Family members working Black Friday workers finished work in time for dinner, and could enjoy hot Turkey, with leftover sides.  ~16 cups of meat from second Turkey.  13 cups broth made from this carcass.

Fall 2021 Clothes

Interesting jewelry and cashmere-silk scarves. I love the ones with a lurex thread, but those are only in two colors that don't suit me. https://chanluu.com/ 

 Excited by a Mountain Hardware fleece in a blurple color. 

Still look for teal-green pants, coat, dressy tops. Everything will be leprechaun green this year, but I want something slightly bluer and softer.

Quality "designer" bags under $500 list price.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXE4PHdFms

I like:

• Coach
• Furla
• Yuzefi
• Wandler

Also mentioned:

• Kate Spade Michael Kors Longchamp Strathberry

Interesting dress site.  The dresses are polyester blend easy care.

 https://www.karinadresses.com/pages/size-guide-2020

vermont parcels

https://vcgi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=213ab08f71664c8b80b029cbd0044cc1

Water tomato daily okay

https://dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-water-Tomato-plants-the-right-way

Could become a vegan pineapple upside down cake cobbler?

http://goodbadfood.org/2018/02/17/sourdough-pineapple-upside-down-cobbler/

Vegan but not PBWF
adapting from

Sourdough Pineapple Upside Down Cobbler

1/2 cup coconut oil
2/3 cup turbinado sugar
1 can crushed or sliced pineapple, drained )what size can?)

2 cups sourdough starter
2/3 cup turbinado sugar
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Put the butter in a 9×13 pan and put it in the oven to melt.

Meanwhile, mix the sourdough starter, turbinado sugar, and salt.

Remove the pan of melted butter from the oven. Sprinkle the turbinado sugar evenly over the butter, then place or spread the pineapple on top of the sugar.

Mix the baking soda into the sourdough batter, just until mixed, then quickly pour the batter over the pineapple.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Quarantine Food

Homemade radish pickles

Making leftover soup look good: Cuban Black Bean and Lentil Potato with radish pickle garnish

Kid asked for pumpkin muffins.  We make the Once Upon A Chef recipe.

Using mature arugula from farm share: cooked with whole wheat pasta, ricotta, and bread crumbs.  Out of parmesan, so used extra salt.

Pantry meal: Eggs in tomato curry on rice

Ground Turkey seasoned to taste like sausage, over spaghetti squash with a green salad.

Treat!  Greek yogurt with local honey.

Dairy-free wheat rolls.

Quarantine Third Week

Sunday

Lunch

Grilled Tuna Melt with Potato-Lentil soup

Dinner

Oven home fries, roasted broccoli, chicken, apples

Monday 

Breakfasts 

1. Bean Burrito with fried egg and avocado
2. Avocado toast with deli turkey
3. Banana Bread and Coffee

Dinner
Deep Dish Pizza (Vegetarian Sausage, bell pepper, kalamata olives, ricotta)
Sliced Apples
Red Grapes
Roasted Broccoli

Tuesday 

Breakfast

Chana Masala and Spinach over Quinoa

Lunches: 

1. Chicken on egg noodles with gravy
2. Cuban black bean soup
3. (2) Deep Dish Pizza with Beet-Arugula-Feta salad

Dinner:
Oven home fries
Palak Paneer
Chana Masala (leftovers)
Quinoa (leftovers)
Chicken for those who hadn't had any today.