Stuffed bell pepper
Bell pepper stuffed with cooked rice, onion, garlic, paprika, mushrooms, cheese and parsley is drizzled with olive oil, baked and served in a shallow pool of homemade …
Mushrooms
Mushrooms are fungi. We know them mostly as spongy things with stems and caps with gills underneath. Not all mushrooms look that way but most edible mushrooms do have that appearance. Not all mushrooms are edible. Some are poisonous while some can have mind-altering effects.
Edible mushrooms are neither meat nor vegetable but, in cooking, they can be treated as either. For many vegetarians, mushrooms are substituted for meat to add bulk, texture and flavor to vegetables.
Shiitake and green bean stir fry with teriyaki sauce
A dish I first cooked in 2014 when my older daughter, Sam, was a vegetarian and I was trying to learn to cook meatless meals for her.
Rocket mushroom salad
No, nothing explodes nor lifts off in this salad. Rocket is another name for arugula, Eruca vesicaria, my favorite salad vegetable.
Bean sprouts spring rolls
Bean sprouts spring rolls, or lumpiang togue as they are popularly known in the Philippines, are so named because bean sprouts (togue) is the dominant ingredient in the …
Chicken, baby potatoes and mushroom salad
Baby potatoes are boiled in salted water and tossed with blanched button mushrooms and boiled chicken meat with a simple vinaigrette of olive oil, lemon juice, grated …