food

well, since you asked...
( as a side note, am so glad to have commenters again! i missed you all last week! but i think 4 today from 3 different people makes up for it!)
so, in adition to my mom's vegetarian epicure and crecent dragonwagon's bible, my little sis z brought me the student's vegetarian cookbook. i made the potato corn chowder last night and was very pleased. tasted at least as good as the mollie katzen version i have, but it takes less time and makes 1/2 as many dishes! mollie's makes sense i guess if you have fresh corn, but i can never be bothered. in this one, you sauté an onion and some celery, chop up a potato or two, and add that with 3 cups milk (i used 2 c soy and 1 c water) i also added my spices at this point, cause i like them to simmer- salt and pepper, and some aditional thyme from the katzen recipie. simmer for 20 min or till potatoes are tender. mash the soup until it's the consistency you like it with a potato masher. add a cup of corn, 1/2 cup of peas, cook till heated through, voila!
and i bought a tub of hummus last week, so i'm going through a sandwich phase. they go so nicely with the soup, and i've hit my peak the past couple of days- the homemade bread from amy, 40 spices hummus, cheddar cheese, italian marinated tofu, red leaf lettuce. i've got two and a half sandwiches of tofu left, and perhaps that much bread, so by the end of the week i'll have to come up with something inventive to do with the lettuce. i'm a make a main course, eat it for 2 days, make another, etc. kind of girl, so coordinating all these little bits gives me a great feeling of accomplishment. i am now itching for it to get warm enough to ride my bike again, so i can go to the fruit and vegetable store on 53rd street (which i have apparently deemed to far away to walk to, at least during the school term and/or on weeknights) three new cookbooks and the thought of free evenings... i definately need to start planning a dinner party!

is this really interesting to you all? god knows vegetables and dinner take up alot of my mind, but i can't imagine it being interesting for others. for the most part thinking about food is a source of calmness rather than stress, and i blog about all the things that are driving me crazy/ mad/ sad. so i guess for me cooking and bloging have alot in common.