or, peanut soup.
I have this recipe from the Vegetarian Cooking for Dummies cookbook, and I’m committing it to the blogosphere from memory so I’ll make corrections later if it’s wrong:
1lb cooked sweet potatoes
1 medium sized yellow onion
4 cups veggie broth
1/4 tsp cinammon
1 tsp cumin
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 peeled & sliced granny smith apple
So, slice up the onion and put it in a pot with vegetable oil and cook them until they’re translucent. (5 minutes ish)
Throw in everything else but the cinammon and peanut butter. Cook until everything is soft 20-30 minutes.
Take off heat, mix in cinammon and peanut butter, blend in batches, pour back in bowl, serve with dollops of whatever you choose. (sour cream, plain yogurt, bit of peanut, whatever you like.)
The ‘Vegetarian Cooking for Dummies’ book is a ridiculous cookbook that will not teach you how to cook vegetables, which is maybe not the ultimate point, but certainly ought to be a point of consideration when discussing vegetarianism and cookbooks in general. But it does have a few good recipes, including this one. (It’s not my cookbook, it’s my old roommate’s who left it behind when she fell in love and ran away to the deep South.)
I will only swear by Joy and Moosewood, though I have also heard ‘Vegetarian Cooking for Everybody’ is quite good, and there’s a bread cookbook called Kiwanis or something else ridiculous like that-I’m sure it’s nothing of the sort-anyhow-cookbooks are a funny way of putting forth one’s personal philosophy of cooking and getting other people to buy into it. Before I believed in a thing called love and named Moosewood my uses of coconut milk were few and far between and these days it’s nearly by rote that I bring it home with the fruit/bread/stuff I get out of habit.
Anyway-I’ve been thinking about this a lot in particular because I’m not vegetarian, though Iwas for about three years, and I am cooking meat tonight for the first time in maybe six months. Most of my friends are mostly vegetarian, and honestly I eat very little meat, and I got gifted some frozen Cornish game hens which I’m making tonight, so that’ll be an adventure.
In college every once in awhile I would decide to make a turkey and by following the instructions from Joy I did it quite a few times-so I’m sure I could manage a wee something like a game hen. I wonder if you stuff them.
Anyhow-vegetarianism-typical of Seattle, not so typical of the Midwest, which I am hoping to move to for grad school in not too long. It remains to be seen whether I will settle in for multiple rounds of animal byproduct or if all the flesh becomes far too much and I run away crying for PETA stickers and tofu burgers.
Also, further point about this soup-
it’s quite tasty, and interesting, but also not so spicy as maybe some other soups. (you could certainly add more spice if you wanted-point being, it’s not overwhelming for people that maybe have curious palettes but aren’t into the shock and awe aspect of food.)
