cellio: (garlic)
Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2005-10-29 10:06 pm
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vegan stew

Here's what I ended up doing for Shabbat lunch, as best I can recall.

Friday mid-day: put following in crock pot on high: two diced sweet potatoes, two diced white onions, one can diced tomatoes (not drained), one can great northern beans (all beans drained), some black pepper. Ran out of time; planned to do more later.

Picked up four more guests for lunch.

Added two more diced sweet potatoes, one can kidney beans, one can black beans, half a bag of fresh spinach, about two cubic inches of chopped ginger, about a cup of peanut butter (wanted more but ran out). Meant to add more onions and some red bell pepper but forgot. Decided against fresh broccoli in a Shabbat stew. Considered coconut milk but there was already a fair bit of liquid so didn't. I have a vague feeling that there was another vegetable involved but I can't recall it so maybe not.

Cooked until Shabbat was imminent (= about another hour), then took out crock, put heating unit on low, and put on timer to come on Shabbat morning. Inserted pot before leaving for services; probably cooked for about three hours or so before we ate. Served over brown rice (cooked before Shabbat and kept kinda warm). Also served fresh papaya (not a hit), carrot sticks (more of a hit), and apples (definitely more of a hit than the papaya). I'd considered making a spinach-based salad with fruit but didn't have time.

The adults mostly seemed to like the stew; I couldn't tell if the kids did. The kids seemed to think the papaya was weird (hence the apple), which doesn't surprise me. I think I was an adult before I ever encountered papaya other than as juice.

[identity profile] alice-curiouser.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm 36, and *I* think papaya is weird. ;-P

[identity profile] ohiblather.livejournal.com 2005-10-30 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh WOW, this sounds good...