Sometimes when I make a Taco Bar or Fajitas, I have a little left over. Usually, we get two nights of dinners for two or one for four if my kids are home. There will often be a bit left of the meat (or meat substitute) and vegetables. Making a baked enchilada type of tacoContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Leftover Taco/Enchiladas Bake (Vegetarian Options)”
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Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Vegetarian Shepherds Pie
This is one of our recipe favorites. It’s comfort food, hearty on a cold day. I make it vegetarian, but it could also be made with ground beef or lamb. You won’t miss the meat in my version. I use vegetarian ground crumbles as the main protein mixed with chopped vegetables and cheese. You couldContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Vegetarian Shepherds Pie”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Taco Bar- Vegetarian Options
As I’ve said in other posts, we often travel to Mexico. I love the culture and the food. I try to make some easy dishes that I’ve eaten there and here. Every night can be taco night in my house. I love a taco any way I make them. Sometimes I want a quick mealContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Taco Bar- Vegetarian Options”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience: Easy Dinners-Vegetarian Pasties
As I’ve mentioned, I grew up in Northern Minnesota on the Iron Range. This area is known for its open pit mines. One of the big local cuisines is a Pasty. A pasty is a meat and vegetable filled large hand/type pie. The miners would take it hot into their lunchboxes and it would beContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience: Easy Dinners-Vegetarian Pasties”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Vegetarian Chili 🌶️
Chili is a hearty, spicy cross of stew and soup. It can be made many different ways-with or without beans, vegetarian or meat, (chili con carne) spicy or mild. It varies from region to region. Great for a Game Day or a winter meal. Exploring the origins of chili unveiled a big controversy to itsContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Vegetarian Chili 🌶️”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience- Easy Dinner: Slow Cooker Vegetarian Lasagna
Lasagna is an Italian layered casserole full of cheesy goodness. Surprisingly, when I looked up it’s history, I discovered it derived from Ancient Greece. where according to Mi’Talia, a dish called laganon was popular. Laganon, as it happens, was the first pasta, made from sheets of dough cut into thin strips. https://www.tastingtable.com/820872/the-origin-of-lasagna-isnt-what-you-think/ It made itsContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience- Easy Dinner: Slow Cooker Vegetarian Lasagna”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Soup Weather: Sausage Gumbo Style Soup -(Vegetarian Options)
Traditional Gumbo gets its roots from West Africa and Louisiana. It dates back over 300 years. It’s a hearty Creole stew which can be made with many different ingredients. A traditional Gumbo is made with a deep roux and okra. It can include chicken, sausage and seafood, game or be strictly vegetarian. It molds toContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Soup Weather: Sausage Gumbo Style Soup -(Vegetarian Options)”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Chicken Gyro Sandwich (Vegetarian Options)
Gyros are an interesting Mediterranean sandwich. They are full of flavor and spice, tangy and tender. Usually a gyro is made with a combination of beef and lamb cooked on a spit. It is sliced thin and placed in a pita or flatbread pita. Top it with tzatziki sauce (a garlic, cucumber, yogurt sauce), cucumbers,Continue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience-Easy Dinners: Chicken Gyro Sandwich (Vegetarian Options)”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Quick Steak Fajitas (Vegetarian and Chicken Options)
It’s always taco/fajita night in our house. Often I make lean ground beef or vegetarian chorizo or vegetarian crumbles and make a taco bar. Sometimes I want a quicker meal ready. This recipe uses steak for the fajitas. I prefer a good cut if I’m using steak. I use a rib eye, t-bone or stripContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Quick Steak Fajitas (Vegetarian and Chicken Options)”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather: Tortilla Soup (Vegetarian and Chicken versions)
Tortilla Soup is a favorite soup in our house. It’s light and full of flavor. It can be made vegetarian or with chicken. I’ll give you both options below. The flavors come out light and refreshing either way. It’s a great first course for taco night or with any main course. Serve it with aContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather: Tortilla Soup (Vegetarian and Chicken versions)”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather: Sweet and Sour Cabbage Borscht (Soup)Vegetarian Version
This soup was one of my Mother and Grandmother’s regular soups. There is a debate as to whether Cabbage Borscht is Borscht or if Beet Borscht is the only real Borscht. Both are staples in many Jewish households. My mother tended to make the cabbage version more often. She used a soup bone and soupContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather: Sweet and Sour Cabbage Borscht (Soup)Vegetarian Version”
Thanksgiving Traditions -Side Dishes: Wild Rice Casserole
Growing up all the holidays were a chance to have all of the family and relatives together. Thanksgiving was a joyous occasion. As I mentioned in previous posts I was the youngest in my family and all the cousins. Relatives would come up from the Twin Cities to join us. Traditional Foods Aside from theContinue reading “Thanksgiving Traditions -Side Dishes: Wild Rice Casserole”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Holiday Dinners: Stuffed Rolled Turkey Breast
The Iron Range in Northern Minnesota where I’m from was a real melting pot of nationalities. There were many people with Italian, Scandinavian, Slavic as well as Eastern European and other backgrounds. Many came to work in the mines. Growing up, my father was a grocer and a butcher. We learned a lot from theContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Holiday Dinners: Stuffed Rolled Turkey Breast”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather: Wild Rice, Corn Chowder
Growing up in Northern Minnesota, wild rice is a part of our culture. It is used in many soup, stew and casserole dishes. “Wild rice (Zizania aquatica or Zizania palustris), called manoomin in the Ojibwe language, has been a staple food for Minnesota’s Indians for centuries. It was adopted as the official state grain inContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather: Wild Rice, Corn Chowder”
Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather
As the weather turns colder, I love to make a pot of soup for the week. It can warm you and envelop you with flavors from various cultures. Great anytime of the day. Black Bean Soup This recipe is a combination of a Cuban Black Bean Soup and a Mexican Black Bean Soup. The flavorsContinue reading “Recipes for a Cultural Experience—Soup Weather”
Noodle Kugel (Luchen Kugel)
Noodle Kugel (Luchen Kugel) is one of the standard traditional recipes in Jewish cooking. It is typically served on holidays or for the Sabbath. It is a dairy recipe so if you keep Kosher, you would have it on a milchik (dairy) night. I make it with just the dairy ingredients. Some people prefer itContinue reading “Noodle Kugel (Luchen Kugel)”
Cooking
Recipes for a Cultural Experience Jewish Holiday Recipes Growing up in a small town in Northern Minnesota, maintaining a Jewish heritage was a challenge. Food was always the connection that brought us together. My Father had two brothers and all the families as well as my Grandmother were always together for the major holidays. MyContinue reading “Cooking”