angelbirdflies

My dear sister-sister-friend has a favorite question, "What's for dinner?".  It means more than simply what are you eating?  It means, "How are you nourishing yourself?",  code for "How are you?". Tonight the answer was: (insert drum roll) cabbage rolls and celery soup.  I used two recipes inspired by the amazing Ms. Mojo (aka family chef extraordinaire). For all of you with cabbage growing in the garden, just aching to be prepped, here are the recipes: Bodhi and I picked several large cabbage leaves from our garden and blanched them in salt water until pliable. We stuffed them with a quinoa mixture of carrots, celery, onions, garlic, a little grated parmesan, fresh basil, s/p and broth. Next, we rolled them up.  Drizzled some homemade tomato sauce (sauté garlic in some olive oil, add 4 large, ripe, de-skinned- crushed tomatoes, a half a cup of fresh basil, some s/p and broth) on the bottom of a casserole dish, arranged our cabbage rolls, drizzled with...

What's for lunch?  Bodhi picked out this recipe from Spatulatta.com and we just had to make it for bro-bro, who was laying sick in bed.  (Trust me, it is not healthy but if my fellow vegetarians want to make it then I would suggest veggie not-dogs instead of the turkey dogs. Vegans, don't do it.)   After a jog to the grocery store and a return jog pushing Bodhi, a whole watermelon and two full bags of groceries, we made the recipe... actually I made it, while Bodhi jumped around yelling "I'm a chef" and Owen moaned in the background.  In the end neither boys liked the croissant roll surrounding the dogs but they gave it four stars for presentation.  I however, adored my lunch consisting of steamed greens, black beans, avocado, black olives and tomato salsa....mmmmmmmmmmmm.