We're leaving tomorrow and probably won't be back until Sunday, yet I had some really great market days and all that with some great produce I really had to use. So thinking on my feet, I invited some of my home team over for a simple and quick help-share-this-with us dinner that turned out being neither quick nor simple, but it was tasty. On the chopping block, literally -- I chopped them all and I wasn't sorry:
huge purple cauliflower
kuri squash
brussel sprouts
taro
parsnips
rutabaga
etc. etc.
Pictured is the Lower-Fat Cauliflower Hummus from the Nomicon! It kind of tasted lower fat, but in a good way. Look at its purple fabulosity. We ate it with leftover crudites from Sunday. Nom Nom!
We also ate a soup I made up with kuri squash, taro, parsnip, rutabaga, coconut milk, lemongrass, and lots o secret spices. I am working on getting this in a recipe form one day -- I think it's one of my favorite soups and I want to get it right!
Those things were good, but king of the evening was the Cornmeal-Masala Roasted Brussel Sprouts from the Nomicon. Now I always know to roast them, and I even know to always roast them with cornmeal and secret spices, but not these secret spices and not with chickpea flour and not for just the right amount of time that they are melt-in-you-mouth delicious! I served them with Spicy Yogurt Sauce with totally not optional cilantro (sorry!) and oh my my nom nom!
Leftover grapes, purely decadent cherry nirvana and apple tea, does it get any better?
2 comments:
I was SO CLOSE to making that hummus today! I ended up just roasting some more, but yours is way more exciting.
Speaking of the cornmeal-coasted - I have been thinking of doing *that* with the cauly...maybe..
Good idea! Those brussel sprouts are IN-sane! I'm sure it would be utter chaos with cauliflower!!!
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