A plate half full on the left with rice and lentils and spinach and peanuts in the right

Another quick dinner, mostly from the pantry. This weekend, my friends and I are going on a big grocery run for my birthday, so I’m trying to make room in the pantry/freezer 🍽️🍜

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It’s vegan, Field Roast is the brand, and they have other products, but I’ve always just heard and called the loaves field roasts.

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It's a brand of plant-based meat substitutes! Some are better than others, but the celebration roasts are pretty good, if expensive.

Lemon Parmesan star pasta, broccoli, and some slices of vegan ham

Going through the freezer means finding a couple of field roasts stashed away. This roast is very definitely not ham, texture-wise, but there is something very almost-ham in the taste, and honestly, it was just a bit confusing 🍽️🍜

Roughly:
1. Toast curry powder
2. Add chunk of butter (or cooking oil of choice, enough to sauté)
3. Saute half a sliced onion to whatever softness you prefer
4. Throw in a bag of frozen okra, keep cooking until it’s tasty

Two Trader Joe’s kebabs, lentil rice, and curried okra and onion in a white pasta bowl

Quick weeknight dinner—TJ’s kebabs, curried okra, and rice and lentils. I don’t know why I don’t do okra like this more often, it’s a good, quick dinner 🍽️🍜

Here!

Yes, to my knowledge! Canned fish + butter + a few seasonings of your choice.

Sardine Butter Food52 Site.

Yep! I used dill instead of chives, but it's sardines and butter mashed together.

Sardine butter on a slice of bread and a small salad on a plate

Sardine butter is a new concept to me. I think more herbs would make this bit lighter, but this is good to have on rotation while it’s still warm 🍽️🍜

No, but I can see where you could get that!

A small plate in the upper left with a few crackers and a chunk of cheese, and to the right, a bowl of flageolet beans with tomato, onion, leek, and carrot

Suffered from a big case of the I-don‘t-wannas this morning, but got on track eventually.

I had half a bag of flageolet beans, and decided to try making something with leeks, which are hard to find where I’m at, but maybe I’ll make an effort to find them more often 🍽️🍜

A bowl with a blue daisy print on the inside filled with red beans and rice

Sometime, I forget how much I like red beans and rice. I’ve been eating off of this pot for a week and have been happy with every bowl 🍽️🍜

The movement in this!! It’s gorgeous!

A ceramic bowl with colorful glaze full of cream of corn soup and another bowl with salad

Had to fill in on a presentation today, but I feel like I did rather poorly. At least I had dinner to come home to. Corn soup that turned out amazingly well and bagged salad that was a bit less so 🍽️🍜

If you haven't tried cowboy caviar, you might want to take a gander at it! Bean salsa/salads are super flexible, especially when it's too damn hot out.

Best way I can think to describe it is the green flavor of parsley with the brightness of mint. It helps lighten heavy, savory flavors, and cools down hot or spicy foods. It really is hard to replicate!

Two bowls on a plate; the smaller one in the upper left has bean salad, the bigger one the right has tortilla chips

One of my friends has the cilantro-soap gene, so I rarely use it out of habit. When I do use it, though, I’m always pleasantly reminded of how bright and fresh it is! 🍽️🍜

Yep, the last batch is in a ziplock in the freezer. Cooler temps are around the corner for me, so I’m sure I’ll want soup before long.

Two ceramic bowls with a blue a teal glaze on a rectangular ceramic tray. One bowl has cucumber salad, the other bean spread. There’s a wedge of cheese and crackers on the tray next to the bowls

Found a pound of mayocoba beans that needed to be used. Bean spread on crackers for the next few nights, then bean salad after. What I’m going to do with the last third, I have no idea. I’ll figure something out 🍽️🍜

Stewed bell peppers, tomato, and onions alongside a boudin sausage still in its case, cut in half. Half-ish.

Last night I read about lescó, and I thought about the peppers in the fridge getting a bit wrinkly.

This isn’t that, not exactly. I ran with what I had, what I could remember from the recipes I looked at. I found some boudin in the freezer that’s been hanging out, and it all worked pretty okay 🍽️🍜

A ceramic bowl filled with chicken and stars soup on a plate with some crackers. Stupid tasty and expensive crackers…

I can’t tell if my allergies are acting up with the cold front that moved in, or if I’ve stressed myself into a cold. Either way, some vegetables and a chicken carcass stashed in the freezer makes for an easy dinner 🍽️🍜

A bowl of tangled spaghetti in tomato basil sauce

A few months ago, I bought attachments for my stand mixer to make pasta, and then promptly put them away and didn’t think about them. Until today, that is.

Really, I’ll probably still used dried pasta for spaghetti, but I’m happy to have the roller for making crackers and ravioli 🍽️🍜

A tray with bowl of chopped leafy green herbs and flageolet beans, a small plate with toasted slices of baguette, and a spoon on a torn paper towel

Found some Rancho Gordo beans on sale and discovered one of the bulk stores carries fresh herbs, so herb salad for dinner tonight. And some toasted baguette slices. Because really, that’s my favorite part 🍽️🍜

Yes! I usually buy in bulk and freeze them, and I used my last bag of it a few weeks ago, so I’m looking forward to restocking my freezer.

A rectangular plate with slices of French bread topped with labneh and tapenade, a small glass ramekin with corn and tomato salad, and a ceramic bowl with watermelon spears

Another easy lunch from picnic leftovers. It’s still too hot, but hatch season is right around the corner, so I at least have that to look forward to 🍽️🍜

An omelette, corn, cherry tomatoes, carrot slices, cucumber chunks, and bell peppers on rice in a large bowl with a flower print

The lunch I made for my friend’s birthday was appreciated, and I have leftovers for a couple days! It’s always nice when dinner is just putting some rice in the cooker and frying an egg. I’m too tired after playing in the river for more than that! 🍽️🍜

A colorful bowl with a corn, tomato, onion, and feta salad

A quick salad since I spent most of my cooking energy on making pesto and prepping a bag of sweet corn. Still got to portion out and bag the corn when it cools down a little more, but the hardest part is done 🍽️🍜

Rice and peas! I usually use lentils when making it, since I those cook up pretty easy in a rice cooker.

A close up of a bowl of pigeon peas soaking in water

Tired, but trying to get some food prep done before a kinda busy weekend. I’ve had canned pigeon peas before, but I haven’t been able to get them dried until a month ago. Tomorrow, the goal is pesto… by hand. Because I love my friend and it’s her birthday 🍽️🍜