What a Novel Idea.

selfcarecookingadventures:

This past weekend I decided to make a curry dish I’d made once before. They recommended naan bread to go with it, naturally, so I decided to make homemade naan as well.

The naan came out beautifully and was super delicious. The recipe I followed was really easy and paired perfectly with cooking the curry as it rose. The various steps are below.

I recommend the recipe I found. I can’t wait to make them again.

Easy Naan Bread Recipe (Grill or Pan-Fry)

You will never go back to store bought naan after making this easy naan bread recipe. Just 4 basic ingredients and no special equipment. Del

Two Kooks In The Kitchen@ a was a aww)6%)

While all this was happening, I also made my curry. It was a vegan red lentil curry with a nice blend of spices.

I also decided to blend the curry, which made it nice and easy to dip the naan.

I’ll certainly be making this again in the future. The combo was just too amazing.

Red Lentil Curry

This one-pot Red Lentil Curry is a simple yet gourmet pantry recipe and bonafide fan favorite. Creamy, indulgent, and ready in 45 minutes.

Rainbow Plant Life

I used to be so afraid of bread making, but these days I just try things and they always come out so great. I’m thankful for awesome recipes online.

May next weekend’s cooking adventure be just as delicious.

selfcarecookingadventures:

This weekend was a low spoons weekend, so I reheated a soup from the freezer I made a few months back and paired it with a basic salad and a loaf of bread that is premade and just needs baking for 15.

I call this combo “We have Olive Garden at home.”

The soup was a butternut squash and apple soup with lots of delicious flavors.

The salad was a fantastic simple salad made with greens, granny smith apple, chopped pecans, craisins, feta, and an apple cider vinaigrette.

Close up because it’s so pretty:

For anyone wanting to make it, here’s the recipe I adapted.

Favorite Green Salad with Apples, Cranberries and Pepitas

Fresh green salad recipe featuring sliced apple, toasted pepitas, dried cranberries and crumbled goat cheese. Apple cider vinaigrette recipe

Cookie and Kate

Some days can be low spoons but when I can still pull off something new and delicious, it feels empowering.

fairuzfan:

I heard about this earlier but this is phenomenally good news because a lot of these manuscripts hold palestinian intellectual history dating back centuries and my friends who work in the Islamic book history field believed these all to be gone

selfcarecookingadventures:

Today I decided to make some hummus. It was my second time and so worth it. I paired some of it with carrots and had a nice snack.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-hummus-from-scratch-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-107560#post-recipe-11614

I liked the simplicity of this recipe. It used most of the chickpea liquid. It was nice just throwing it all in the food processor to make it.

I also topped with paprika but mixed it up to spread it out.

I still want to try making different types of hummus one day.

selfcarecookingadventures:

I made a badass new chili recipe yesterday in the crockpot. Someone on a discord server I’m in posted the recipe and I had to try it.

The chili is a vegan apple chili. Absolutely delicious and full of great nutrients with the variety of things in it. It was super easy to throw everything together to cook for 6 hours.

https://makeitdairyfree.com/vegan-apple-chili/#recipe

Definitely check it out if you love chili. I’m excited to explore more recipes from this site.

My friend also reminded me that cornbread exists so I decided to make that for the first time. Growing up, my Grandma would always make sweet cornbread. I don’t know why it always intimidated me to make it myself, but I’m glad I did. This sweet cornbread came out amazing and paired perfectly with the chili. It was like I brought my childhood cornbread back, but even more improved since I made it from scratch. Growing up they always used the Jiffy box with added sugar.

https://www.iheartnaptime.net/sweet-corn-bread/#recipe

This recipe worked perfectly. I had to cook it and additional 10 mins to make sure it all got cooked throughout, but it came out so well when done. Had to resist eating it all yesterday so there’d be some with the chili leftovers today.

I can’t recommend these recipes enough. It was so satisfying making two new things and they came out so well. The cooking adventure this weekend was a success. Can’t wait to see what’s next.

broadacre:

Quick reminder that it’s always morally correct to punch nazis.