simple and tasty

sliced unpeeled rutabaga and parsnip cook in a water with a little bit of Earth Balance and blend until creamy - soup and grilled kabocha squash.

for lunch?

freekeh + farro with chick peas and mushrooms

I am a working member of 4th street food co-op, only food co-op in Manhattan.


The finest, organic, vegan ingredients are packed in this small co-op.


Todays dishe's all ingredients were shopped at our powerfull co-op and this receipe is also from one of the co-op member.

freekeh, farro

onions, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, chickpeas, cardamon seeds, caraway seeds

Soak freekeh and farro overnight. chop onions and sautee in large pot with olive oil. Add freekeh and farro, add soup stock bring to boil then simmer for 40minutes or until cooked. In a separate large skillet sautee mushrooms in olive oil. Add cooked chickpeas,salt, spices. When graines are cooked stir in the mushroom-chick peas mixture.

fu - biscuit

My good friend - who loves NYC very much but now (forced to or may not.. ) live in Tokyo - sent me a package of fu and a recipe for fu along with other nice healthy japanese food.







This is wheat gluten called fu in Japan.

You need :

40grams fu

4table spoons Earth Balance (melted)

4table spoons sugar + 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder

and you do:

Combine fu with melted Earth Balance and then sprinkle cinnamon-sugar over fu and gently mixing until all surface of fu are coated with cinnamon-sugar.

transfer fu to a tray and bake 320F for eight to ten minutes, or until fu become golden.

It turned into.....

very crunchy, very tasty biscuit ! I love it. Thank you!

sweet-and-sour tempeh with spicy peanut sauce

this recipe from : The modern vegetarian kitchen - Peter Berly

sprouted lentils - eat in raw or steamed ?

Sprouted lentils are soft , crunchy and wonderfully sweet, so I happily munch.. and munch .. it's a healthy snack - sprouted lentils + apples,celery etc...any fruits or vegetables.

But when cooked, the sweetness disappear.


Steam sprouted lentils just 5-10 minutes (don't over steamed to make lentils mushy) mix with olive oil , diced red peppers, chopped sun dried tomatoes and scallions. season with salt, pepper and cumin powder.

retsel mill-rite mill

This mill had been on my wish list for almost ten years, and finally since Feb. 2010 it has been sitting on my kitchen counter. This mill has stone /steel burr conversion. Using stone conversion kit, I can grind any type of wheat from fine to coarse. On the other hand the metal burr conversion kit grinds beans, seeds, herbs from fine to coarse. So I would have , for example very fine corn flower / corn meal to bake corn bread and coarse corn meal for polenta, any time without making a trip to natural food stores. Also I do not need to worried about "How long these packages of corn meal stay on this shelves?" when I shop. Isn't it wonderful?

Mill -rite mill gently grinding fine whole wheat flour, like a fluffy snow flakes

winter minestrone soup

minestrone - lima beans, daikon, leeks, carrots, butternut squash, tomatoes

broccoli and porchini sauteed with olive oil, garlics, red pepper flakes

whole wheat sourdough bred