Broccoli Potato Soup with fresh herbs

Te'Najia Hawkins-Bolton this is that soup you were asking me for! It's from the cookbook Veganomicon.

2 Tbsp olive oil...
1 medium onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
½ tsp tarragon
freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp salt
6 cups vegetable stock
2 lbs. potatoes, peeled and cut into ½ inch chunks
4 cups chopped broccoli
¼ cup fresh dill
¼ cup fresh mint

Heat a soup pot over medium heat. Saute the onion in olive oil for 5-7 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic, tarragon, black pepper, and salt, and cook for one more minute. Pour in the vegetable stock and add the potatoes. Cover and bring to a boil. Once the soup is boiling, lower the heat and let simmer for 15 minutes. Add the broccoli and cook for 15 more minutes.

Use an immersion blender to blend about 1/3rd of the soup; we like to keep it chunky with lots of whole potato chunks. If you don’t have an immersion blender, transfer about 1/3rd of the soup to a blender or food processor and puree, then add it back to the rest of the soup.

Add the fresh mint and dill, then let the soup sit for about 10 minutes to let the flavors meld. Serve!

(When I made this, I didn’t have tarragon or mint, and I used dry dill because that’s all I had. I probably put savory in or some other dry herb. I’m not crazy about mint, and it would totally change the flavor. I also added a can of corn, for color and texture.)

Nelson Pizza

Nelson Pizza

 Thanks to Katie Montgomery Nelson and Christi Zulim for sharing this pizza recipe. What I most loved and haven't had before was NO RED SAUCE on the pizza. Instead it was olive oil, salt, pepper, 3 garlic cloves! When I made it i doubled it and it made 2 cookie sheet size pizzas (can't have enough pizza!) This is the original recipe.

Dough- 1c warm water, 1 1/2t yeast, 2t sugar
Let sit 5min and get foamy....
Then add 2t oil, 1t salt, mix
Then add and mix 1c wheat flour and 1 1/2c white flour.
Let sit 5 min.

 450 degrees on oven. I actually cooked the dough separate by itself w/o any ingredients on it. This makes it more crunchy, we like that. Cook 8 min.
Then add on top of hot pizza- olive oil, salt, pepper, 3 garlic cloves (or more :))
Mix it around so garlic gets spread around. Then I added spinach, fresh chopped basil, olives, and ofcourse cheese. Cook till cheese melts. I like to put chopped tomatoes on after it comes out of oven, right b4 we eat it.

12/16/13 This time I doubled it- 2c white, 2c wheat, 1/3c amaranth flour, 1/3c finely blended mixture of flax, pumpkin seed, sunflower and other stuff doubled. Turned out yummy

Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal

Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal

Chocolate covered Katie

I probably tripled the recipe so we can have some extra for the rest of the week and added about a cup of 10 grain dry cereal (from winco in bulk section) and cooked it.
Here are Some additions after it was cooked- coconut sugar instead of sugar, ground up flax, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, peanut butter. It tends to keep me fuller longer with the seeds and peanut butter.