Red beans, collards, roasted plantains and sweet potatoes w/spicy peanut sauce

Red beans, collards, roasted plantains and sweet potatoes w/spicy peanut sauce (peanut butter, sea salt, white vinegar, white miso, lemon juice, evoo, liquid smoke).

Red beans, collards and butternut squash in a yellow pepper gravy over quinoa

Red beans, collards and butternut squash with a yellow pepper gravy (sea salt, garlic, ginger, turmeric, cumin, chipotle, corn starch, vegetable stock, allspice) over quinoa (dulse, sea salt, evoo).

Red beans and quinoa with roasted dinosaur kale, sweet potatoes and cauliflower in a tangerine walnut sauce

Red beans and quinoa with roasted dinosaur kale, sweet potatoes and cauliflower (evoo/flax oil, vegetable stock, ginger) in a tangerine walnut sauce.

For the sauce:
1/2 cup of walnuts
Juice of one tangerine
Half of the tangerine peel (all of the peel, not just the zest)
1 cup of water
Sea salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon chili flakes
Blend on high speed until liquefied.

Sweet potato and rhubarb soup; red bean and black rice salad with spinach and orange peppers

Sweet potato and rhubarb soup.

1 medium sweet potato peeled and diced.
2 stalks of rhubarb diced.
2 cups vegetable broth.
1 tablespoon of garlic.
1 teaspoon of ginger.
1 half teaspoon of chipotle (or to taste).
Sea salt to taste.
Minced cilantro for garnish.

Rhubarb and sweet potato complement one another very well. The rhubarb works a lot like tamarind in this recipe. With some heat from the chipotle, this soup has a lot of flavour.

Red bean and black rice salad with spinach and orange peppers.

2 cups cooked red beans
2 cups cooked forbidden black rice
2 orange peppers diced.
3 cups packed spinach minced.

Dressing:
1 heaping tablespoon of white miso.
1 heaping teaspoon of hazelnut butter.
Juice from three small limes.
1 small teaspoon of ginger.
1 tablespoon of garlic.
Sea salt and black pepper to taste.
2 tablepoons of evoo/flax oil.

Red beans and black rice with peppers, mushrooms and vegan chicken in a pomegranate, chipotle and espresso gravy

Lunch 20 May 2007.


Red beans and black rice with peppers, mushrooms and vegan chicken (Yves) in a pomegranate, chipotle and espresso gravy (pomegranate juice, espresso, chipotle, garlic, evoo/flax oil, lemon juice, vegan chicken stock).