Menu Monday gets a little reflective this time and looks back at last week too. No year-end soul-searching, I just missed posting last Monday and wanted to include our Christmas feast!

Menu Monday 12/28/09
Christmas Breakfast
Sweet Potato Latkes with Applesauce and Vegan Sour Cream
(Vegetarian Times, Jan 2010)
Chicken and Apple Sausage
Caramelized Delicata Squash Muffins
Christmas Snacks
Mango Pomegranate Guacamole [...]

I’m getting off easy for Thanksgiving this year.  Friends on Bainbridge Island invited us to join them for the big meal.  We’ll just be bringing mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and wine (and Daisy, lucky girl).  My husband is the pie guy around here, so I really just have to make the potatoes.  The rest of [...]

You wouldn’t know it from looking at them, but these muffins started out as waffles.
Contemplating a carton of orange juice and a bag of dried cranberries one morning, I decided they’d combine nicely for a winter morning waffle.  They were delicious, but the texture wasn’t quite right . . . too cakey.  The next morning [...]

I’m one of those people who think that the real star of so-called Turkey Day is mashed potatoes and gravy, so I’m by nature reluctant to mess with the simplicity of plain potatoes, milk, butter and salt.  My dairy allergies have forced me to try to replicate this perfection with non-dairy options and some of [...]