Fourth Floor Homestead

There are a lot of recipes out there for potato and cauliflower curry as it is a pretty common dish in Indian restaurants. Most of these recipes seem to involve a lot of steps and separate sauce involving blending things and that is just too much work for me. If I have to use the blender, I will have to clean the blender and I am just too lazy for the extra work. I like curries where you just dump everything in a pot. That is what this is. Makes enough for 2 large portions. M

I don't eat a lot of salad. It was the first thing I got sick of when I went vegan, but I have been craving salads more often lately so I am bringing them back into the rotation. There is nothing too fancy about this particular salad, just veggies, seeds and a dressing I put together last week with ingredients we had on hand. Thus the accompanying tofu had to be a little special. I didn't include the dressing recipe here because I didn't measure anything exactly and it was a

If you have tomatoes, an onion, some sun dried tomatoes and other vegetables (almost any others really), you can make soup! Here is one such soup. Ingredients: 3 pieces of sun dried tomato . 2 large tomatoes- cut into large pieces 1/2 a sweet onion- cut into large pieces 1/2 cup quinoa 1 tsp salt 1 yellow pepper, chopped 2 ribs of celery, chopped 1/2 cup of savoy cabbage, chopped 1 leaf of purple kale, chopped 1/4 cup sunflower seeds 1 tsp dried basil 2 cups of water What to

This recipe was designed with 3 goals in mind. 1. Use up the veggies I had on hand. 2. Be easy and come together quickly so I can avoid being in the kitchen all night. 3. Taste a bit more flavorful then typical lentil soup but not taste "hot" so my son will actually eat it. If you like more kick in your soups like I do you can add 1/8-1/4 tsp of ground cayenne pepper. I love the flavor cayenne adds to soups. There is some heat to it but it adds more than that. I skipped it he

I needed something easy and healthy that would fill our tummies. This one is a bit soy heavy, there are soy nuggets and tofu involved, but why not load up on protein once in a while. There are lots of veggies to balance it out. My husband really liked the hoisin smothered soy nuggets. It's a great recipe to use up left over rice which we always seem to have kicking around. Soy chunks are cheap and full of protein so I have been looking for a chance to experiment with them. I