"Refried" Beans

This is perhaps the simplest recipe of all time:

Chicken with Hummus Sauce

Tonight Jim didn't know what to make for dinner, so he was procrastinating on making it.  I was hungry, so I decided to make some quick hummus for a snack.  For some reason, I didn't drain the chickpeas, and the hummus came out runny.  It looked like a sauce, so I suggested to Jim that we have Chicken with Hummus Sauce for dinner.  Here's how we did it:

Hummus Among Us

My recent recipe for millet salad only used 1/2 a can of chickpeas, which meant I had some chickpeas leftover.  Hummus is the fastest way to use up chickpeas.  Here's my recipe, but the fun thing about hummus is you can add so many different  flavors: roasted peppers, onions, herbs--feel free to play!

Olive-Millet Grain Salad

Howdy! Time off means I'm let loose in the kitchen more often.  And I get munchy, and lazy, so about: home it's time to use up leftovers.  Today I had leftover millet in the fridge, so while I was at the store I got some olive mix, and made this millet salad.

Reuben, Curried Butternut Squash Soup, Fruit

This is kind of a "fix it on the fly" kind of meal. But since it's what we had for supper one night last week, and took a nice picture, I thought I'd share. 

Chocolate Pudding!

 (It is much more chocolate-y looking in "real life.")

This is based on Vanilla Pudding in The New Laurel's Kitchen, a great vegetarian cookbook I've had for years.  Since chocolate makes everything better, I made it a chocolate pudding, and worked around some things I was missing in the pantry.

Lemon-Herb Chicken, Steamed Cabbage, and Mashed Potato Soup

I'm taking some time away from the blog while I get things retooled. Until then, here's a great recipe!
Lemon-Herb Chicken
A rare baked dish--I usually feel safer sauteing anything I eat so I can keep an eye on it.  No picture, because I forgot until after we ate.  Jim was bummed about "boring" chicken until it was served. . .and there were no leftovers!