Welcome to February. 😬 The Political Palate (The Bloodroot Collective (Betsey Beaven, Noel Giordano, Selma Miriam, and Pat Shea), 1980) says that late winter officially began on February 2, so we're on the back half of the cold weather season! It may eventually end.
The book suggests warming up with some Cashew Chili.
I'm impressed that this includes multiple seasonings-- not just chili powder but also cumin and oregano (though I'm a little iffy on basil in chili). There's no real explanation for the presence of cashews, but my guess is that they're supposed to stand in for the beef that's usually found in chili. I'm waaaay less enthused about the raisins, though. It would be so disconcerting to be eating a bowl of chili and bite into an intensely sweet spot!
And just because it's late winter, that doesn't mean you should skip out on the salad course. Winter is root vegetable season, so the book suggests shredding some.
This salad involves eating shredded beets... So that's gonna be a hard pass from me. (A topping of raw onion doesn't help matters.)
And for dessert, the book offers one of those staples of '70s-style health food: carob! This time, it's in cheesecake.
In this case, the carob disappointingly substituting for cocoa powder can be bolstered by a disappointing substitute for coffee like Pero or Bambu. At least the recipe calls for real cream cheese and heavy cream-- but that just makes this seem like a disappointing waste of dairy fat. But hey-- it's late winter! Everybody-- especially health foodists-- needs insulation at this point. I think I'm going to go back into hibernation and hope late winter will end early.
I heard that Punxsutawney Phil predicted a shorter winter. It's supposed to get up to 50 this weekend, so hopefully the rest of the snow will melt.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by the salad that you don't mix together. Get 3 lettuce leaves, place a mound of vegetable on each one, then put your toppings over the 3 mounds and dare your family to mix any of it together. Sure, beets, carrots, and turnips mixed together are going to look pretty funny, but they are going to look that way anyway unless you institute the fussy child rule that no foods must touch.
Yes! We're supposed to have a pretty mild week, so I'm glad about that.
DeleteMy guess is that they were worried about the beets bleeding into everything so it would all look like beets, but as far as I'm concerned, the best fix for that problem is to just serve shredded carrots and forget about beets or turnips...