what jen does

Life, home, and a little travel

Tag: meat-free

  • brown butter miso mac and cheese
    recipes

    brown butter miso mac and cheese

    One of my intentions of 2019 is to waste less food… so what does that mean for right now? I’m putting miso in just about everything. I purchased the miso for the miso banana bread and now I’m intending to use every last drop of it. I had all the ingredients for this dish for…

  • turmeric tomato soup
    recipes

    turmeric tomato soup

    I treasure a nice, flavorful soup. In 2019, my goal is to make some soups that don’t include tomatoes – it feels like I’m always pulling out two cans of diced tomatoes. That being said, there is something irresistible about a good, flavor filled tomato soup. And that is this one. I found the recipe…

  • fennel and pistachio lasagna
    recipes

    fennel and pistachio lasagna

    I am by no means striving to be a vegetarian. But, i guess this qualifies as a vegetarian meal – and i didn’t hate it. i actually liked it. On Sunday morning I was getting ready to make my grocery store list for the week. I popped over to Food52 to see if there was…

  • homemade veggie ramen
    recipes

    homemade veggie ramen

    The weather today screamed for soup – and so I made ramen. Saturday was a completely gorgeous day. I checked out two trails, had a turkey sandwich picnic, and cleaned out the garden. Home run of a day. But today I woke up to gross sleet hitting the windows followed by copious amounts of rain. …

  • lentil meatballs
    recipes

    lentil meatballs

    I will always be a meat lover – but I do enjoy the challenge of crafting good meals without any meat. And meatballs have always been one of my favorite meals. There is something so incredibly comforting about meatballs for dinner. They used to be one of my favorite “after work, when I lived in…

  • spaghetti squash primavera
    recipes

    spaghetti squash primavera

     Well, I finally got around to trying the vegetable that everyone and their mother has tried …. spaghetti squash. I was skeptical about something that everyone loves so much – but just like avocado toast, they were right. Spaghetti squash is better than decent. It’s pretty solid. I actually picked this miracle squash several weeks…

  • french onion soup
    recipes

    french onion soup

    My dad loves french onion soup. He’s absolutely an onion guy. I am absolutely not an onion girl. I think it combines two of his favorite things: onions and cheese. So when I was in the kitchen and making this soup for my grandfather… and he asked me if I was making french onion soup….…

  • tomato carrot soup
    recipes

    tomato carrot soup

    We are in the midst of a big run of freezing cold days. The weather man said that it was going to be the coldest stretch in 100 years or something like that. So it’s really cold. Despite the temperature, I took a few longer walks yesterday. The first one was at Bouve Conservation in…

  • chickpea tomato soup with rosemary
    recipes

    chickpea tomato soup with rosemary

    It is probably a bit odd but I gave this soup as a Christmas gift to my grandfather. A gift should be something that you thoughtfully picked out just for that person. It should be influenced by your relationship …. and that’s how we get soup as a Christmas gift. My grandfather is incredibly strict…

  • sweet potato and brussel sprout quinoa cakes
    recipes

    sweet potato and brussel sprout quinoa cakes

    I think just last week I was commenting on how unenthused I was about quinoa. I probably said the exact same thing the last time I made quinoa cakes. But, as I was wrapping up my weekend I felt the need to treat my body a bit like a temple. I had some leftover butternut…