Soy and Cancers

 Linking here so that I have it for future reference. I've read several meta-analyses that have said the same thing.

Healthy chips

Yea, still here.  Blogging less, but could blog more.  It's pandemic so we've cooked a lot. Yup, we went through the baking bread phase, and other things too.  I'll get into that later.  We've also eaten a lot of chips, and that is what this is about. 

We like the healthy cauliflower cheeto-like thing.  The article, if you don't want to take the time to read it concludes that they are "a marginally better-for-you entry into the canon of festive snacks" and that's good enough for me. Yum, extruded goodness. 

New mixed fruit tree blossoms

 

Also end of February.  Can't wait to see what the new fruit tree is like!

Apricot blossoms

 
From end of February  -- in the before times. 

True Funny Story...

I bought the latest issue of Forks Over Knives magazine because I need some inspiration around here.  I'm dancing a ton (and it's awesome) but I'm not in the mood to cook.  I took today off from work to help the situation. I flip through the magazine and a soup recipe catches my eye.  Yum, I think, I'll make that today. 

I realize I don't have two ingredients, no worries I think, I can substitute. 

As I put in the ingredients, I realize I'm recreating this soup that I used to make all the time. Ha. (Sometime around the new year, I did review my blog and think I should make that soup again.)

The recipe in the magazine was very similar and my substitutions led to the old soup I used to make.  It should be good.  It's cooking right now. Note: The recipe in the magazine didn't include peanut butter, but you can add it if you want (see my recipe). 

Soup!

Tonight, I made approximately this.

I used lasagna noodles and zucchini, but I made my own pasta sauce...

What I did:

Sautee the veggies sauteed (onion, cauliflower, zucchini, and kale) for about 10 -12 minutes.  Then add tomato paste (7 oz.) and garlic and good for another couple minutes.  Next add water 4-6 cups, and a veggie bouillon cube (or 2), some more tomato sauce (my home made was pretty much the equivalent of a big jar --24 oz.)  (Note The recipe for the homemade sauce includes oregano, basil, and chili flakes.) Bring everything in the pot to a boil. 

Add broken lasagna noodles -- my box said to boil for 4 minutes and then bake for 50 minutes.  I boiled them in the soup for about 15-20 minutes.

Yum.  Super easy. (That might be a pun; one that I may have made before.)  No picture, I'll try to get one next time.

Nick grew this

 
Probably my favorite plant.  

purple! take 2

I made the quinoa salad with purple cabbage for Christmas Eve and my goal was to use up the whole cabbage because I usually don't (when I make that salad) and I feel bad tossing the cabbage (after it sits in my refrigerator and becomes a new life form).

With this motivation, I cut it all up -- I had a lot, it was a big cabbage.  I decided to stir fry it with an onion in olive oil.  Then I added a little ginger (1/4 teaspoon), garlic (1 teaspoon of dried), soy sauce, and sriracha.  OMG it was good.  We made this 2 or 3 more times over Christmas break.  We like it on rice, on tortillas, and on sourdough bread.