Tye is a Genius

My Friend Tye cooks a lot like me--& tonight he was on. Throwing things together from what's around..First we had some sweet/salty cabbage his Mommy made; just a few bites. He found the recipe on the fridge it was cabbage, vinegar, sugar currant jam & something else.

Then he made these ridiculous brussel sprouts. I LOVE BRUSSEL SPROUTS!! People who don't are missing out on a succulent delicousy & probably just haven't had them cooked right.

In a wide, shallow pan he boiled them for like 10 min then poured off the water (they were cut in half first) then he sauteed them in cheap red wine that had two grizzly bears fighting on it--butter & a dash of vanilla! Genius, like i said.

We also had those uncooked tortillas with extra sharp Tillamook--so important-- and some cooked white beans from the fridge & the best part? OREGANO. So tasty. On the side i had a big pile of the mango salsa from Costco as a salad. After some impromptu yoga i had a couple chunks of crystalized ginger. O yeah! & in the sprouts--fresh raw pinenuts i shelled by tapping them w the handle of a big knife (like i open garlic cloves)

& just to remind myself later...Erin, my roomie told me about garlicky BS's & apricot Yams. i gotta remember that. Big Casserole coming soon!

G

G wanted me to share the soup I threw together today, a hearty, nourishing, creation:

 Creamy Cauliflour Brussel Sprout Soup

sauteed a large onion,

added 3 or 4 strips of bacon.

threw in maybe 3 cups of brussel sprouts,

a head of cauliflour, cut up

a can of corn (more would be ok too)

2 cans chicken broth,

1 can cream of chicken soup,

1 can evaporated milk,

black pepper

let it all simmer on low until veggies were soft.

I'm sure you could substitute regular milk or if you don't have cream of chicken soup just add extra milk and chicken broth, stir in a bit of flour (shake it in something with milk of course to avoid lumps)

Eat up!      -Victoria

sweet sweet

Awesome breakfast fuel for long city winter run:

Toast, butter, Adam's PB & a huge banana i bought the other night @ Tesoro w a gallon '0' 2% when it was like 2 degrees outside.

Just piled it all on there

soooo tasty! & guilt free..why should we have guilt over eating? makes no sense.

Honor your hunger

I wanted pesto-y pizza.

I had a plan (whole foods w E) & a back-up plan (tupperware 'o' the green in my purse in case the pizza was over to put on tortillas & cheese @ Elliott's b/c everyone knows he ALWAYS has tortillas & cheese.) Turns out that God made the plans even better! They had veggie/artichoke pizza i put my own pesto on & chatted laughed listened to my yogi girls Michiko & Toni upstairs while Elliott bought more tortillas & cheese.