Gravy!

We eat a decent amount of potatoes here at my house, and tonight babe asked if we could have gravy. Weird...I've never made gravy before! I googled "vegetarian gravy" and got a simple, quick, DELICIOUS recipe..enjoy!

Yields 2 cups

Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons of margarine
- 2 tablespoons of finely chopped onion
- 2 cloves of minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons of flour
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 cup of water***
- salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1) Put margarine in a pot and saute the onions and garlic over med-high heat.
2) Reduce heat back to medium after onions and garlic have become golden brown.
3) Make a roux by gradually adding the flour, while continuously stirring to avoid lumps.
4) Still stirring, add soy sauce and water to the mixture.
5) Add salt and pepper to taste.
6) Once the gravy has reached desired thickness, turn off the stove and you are done!

***(I did part veggie stock, part water)

sun dried tomato goodness.

Babe likes sun dried tomatoes, and I really wanted to cook something last night, so I made sun dried tomato turkey meat balls, with sun dried tomato/goat cheese pesto with fettuccine. IT WAS DELICIOUS. and suppppper easy! Here is the recipe I used. I left out the pine nuts though. I of course forgot to take a picture, but babe snapped one..



And for dessert, rosemary-olive oil cake. I'm still getting used to my oven, i had it at a lower temperature, and less time, and it still got burnt. Therefore it wasn't as moist as I would have liked. It still tasted good though. I made a lemon glaze for the top, which actually went really well. Powdered sugar, some lemon juice, and a bit of milk. stir to consistency, and glaze!

Screen Door

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Ok, just had to get that out, that's how excited I am about this place. A group of us went out last night for Rachael's birthday. Adam and I arrived tired, and not very hungry. After browsing the menu, we saw the perfect thing! The Screen Door plate. It's your choice of any 3 sides, or plates off the "local/organics" menu (a smaller, rotating daily menu of exactly that..local/organic dishes) for $13.95. We got mashed potatoes, quinoa salad, and fried catfish. It came with a piece of corn bread too, which I liked more than Adam did. It's definitely a steal if you do it right. The friend Catfish was on the sides menu, and alone was $8.95. The potatoes were heavenly, and the catfish divine. I tasted a bit of everyone's food including mac and cheese, braised greens and fried okra. Everything was DELICIOUS. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.