Sunday Vegetarian Dinner April 10, 2011
Posted on April 13th, 2011
Last Sunday my friends Dan (founder of argumentclinic.net) and Jen insisted on the return of the Sunday Vegetarian Dinner, and I gave in on the premise that they handle the food (I was really exhausted from a long bike ride). Since the weather was uncharacteristically beautiful, we decided to make it a rooftop picnic. As it turns out, I have the perfect rooftop for picnicking! Beautiful skyline view, it’s flat, and I can keep an eye on Knuckles through the skylight. I set up work stations in my kitchen, Jen made Pico de Gallo and Dan made Guacamole. Jen also had purchased empanadas from Folklore (which were really tasty, especially with the addition of the chimichurri sauce).
Here is our picnic spread, tasty!
Recipes:
Dan’s Guacamole: 2 avocados, one diced big tomato, a couple cloves of minced garlic, one minced poblano, one minced serrano, half a bunch worth of minced cilantro leaves, one juiced lime, salt to taste.
Jen’s Pico De Galllo: half a red onion, 1 tomato, a few cloves of garlic, 1 serrano, a healthy handful of cilantro and some olive oil, zzzhhhd-together by hand.
I have been working on a few fun IT things as well, I made my first (admittedly hello world) android app and have restarted a project that I’m pretty excited about (link to the beginning on my about me page) – but more about that later.
Cheers,
Jen
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Veggie Sunday Dinner, November 21 2010
Posted on November 24th, 2010
A few weeks ago I decided that I would open up my Sunday night vegetarian dinners to my friends. This gives me a chance to cook for large groups, challenge myself with new recipes and hang out with people I enjoy at least once a week. I plan on documenting my Sunday nights in this blog alongside the technical crap.
In future posts I hope to have more descriptions and photos of the food, but to start things off, here are the details from last Sunday:
Theme: American
Guests: Jen (myself), Jesse, Norma, Dan, Jen (other Jen), Mikey, (Pilsen) David, Kathy
Menu: Veggie Burgers w/ homemade refrigerator pickles and smoked gouda, mustard greens, potato salad and sundaes (sundae fixings provided by Norma)
Recipes:
Potato Salad: This is what I did, very roughly (anyone who watches me cook knows that I’m not much of a measurer if I’m not trying out a new recipe): chopped up, boiled and cooled 4 big russet potatoes, mixed together in separate bowl: 1 cup(ish) mayo, a bunch of yellow mustard, maybe about 3 tbsps – until it reached the level of yellow I wanted, 2 stalks celery sliced thin, a few tsps of white balsamic vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, salt and pepper to taste, a few tbsp each of chopped fresh parsley and fresh dill, 1/2 red onion chopped small. Mixed those things and then tossed with potatoes. Threw in fridge and stirred every 1/2 hour or so.
Refrigerator Pickles: I love making these to have around, and they are fairly versatile. I sliced up a cucumber left over from last Sunday’s veggie gyro dinner super thin on the mandolin along with one jalepeno and 1/2 red onion also sliced on the mandolin, put them in a bowl with about 2 or 3 cloves of minced garlic, about 1 tsp sugar, several tbsps of apple cider vinegar (emptied my bottle, might have put in more) and a good handful of dill that I tore off a giant stalk acquired from Stanleys during gyro week. This all went in a bowl that I topped off with water. I think in this case, the more vinegar the better, but about 1/2 and 1/2 water and vinegar seems to work perfectly. These turned out super spicy and very tasty.
Veggie Burgers: Here is the recipe I used. After reading the comments, I added in the oatmeal and it was still very thin. I couldn’t really form it into patties and ended up making the burgers “sloppy” style. Overall, I loved the flavor and thought it went great with bbq sauce, smoked gouda (for the non-vegans), my pickles and fancy tomato from whole foods. However, I’m going to continue searching for a veggie burger recipe that is better. It tasted good but I can mix together rice and beans and toss them on a bun any day.
I might also post some previous Sunday recipes, but who knows! This coming Sunday I’ll be in Philly eating at @jesteria’s parent’s house, so the next Veggie Sunday meal won’t happen until a week after that.
Bon Appetit!
Stander