Tag: tomatoes

  • One Skillet Pasta

    I’ve been wanting to try this for MONTHS! It’s an awesome idea: throw your dry pasta, water, toppings, and sauce ingredients all in one large pot and cook it until the pasta cooks and everything’s all cozy and combined. One pot meal 🙂

  • Sweet Tomato Compote w/ Chick’n Scallopini

    I have been meaning to make this for almost a year now.  I have so many ideas for recipes that it can take a really really realllly long time to get around to actually doing them.  Last October, I wrote many posts about Sacramento’s Vegan Chef Challenge.  It’s an event where local non-vegan restaurants offer…

  • Caprese Salad w/Cashew Buffalo Mozzarella

    Vegan cashew mozzarella has arrived! I had the fantastic opportunity to see Miyoko Schinner, the author of an amazing book Artisan Vegan Cheese, do a cooking demonstration. It. was. mind-blowing.

  • Drunken Tuscan Pasta w/ Pan-Roasted Tomatoes

    I got to do something pretty exciting yesterday!  I joined the brilliant planners and participants for the 2nd Annual Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge for a little meet-and-greet.  The Vegan Chef Challenge (“VCC”) is a month-long event here in Sacramento in which a bunch of restaurants have agreed to provide a vegan menu.  They’ll make an…

  • Roasted Everything Tomato Soup

    Did you know that it’s national caramel day?  Here’s how I celebrated:  Despite the promising beautiful morning, the weather decided to be gloomy well into lunchtime, so roasted tomato soup was absolutely necessary!  This is a kind of soup that’s fantastic any time of the year – roasting the tomatoes will bring out their flavor…

  • Roasted Tomato & Pesto Panzanella Salad

    This is my favorite way to eat tomatoes.  Truth is, I really don’t like them.  I never have.  I was searching for tomato recipes, trying to find some that I actually enjoyed.  And when I found this one, I was thrilled — loads of garlic and balsamic flavors.  I don’t even remember where I found…