Food Photo Dump

I always forget to take photographs of the delicious food I have been making. Like tonight's Tofu with Spicy Brown Sauce (a delicious version of stir-fry taken from Good Housekeeping's Simple Vegan! cookbook). It appears that somebody else beat me to it and posted a photo on their blog. Mine was similar, but I used carrots and snow peas fresh from the farmer's market, as well as red and green pepper and onion. 
Some of the other meals I have made--that I remembered to take photographs of are posted below.

Mango Salsa

Asparagus and Cheese Omelet

US Senate Bean Soup

Lemon Cornmeal Scones with Dried Cherries

I absolutely love the farmer's market! I picked up beets (four large ones for a dollar!) and two enormous sweet potatoes in addition to my three gigantic carrots and snow peas. Today it was bustling with about a dozen vendors, and crammed with shoppers eager to fetch good deals on produce, honey, baked goods, and cheeses. Someday I would love to get the majority of my produce from local farms, but right now it is not feasible. I don't have the time and tools to can tomatoes, fruit, clean, chop, and freeze vegetables, etc. We also have lots of prepackaged canned and frozen vegetables to use up. In truth, I should attempt to phase out the canned vegetables and such by using them up and not replacing them, but they are a) so convenient, and b) Michigan's fruit crop was all but decimated by a warm spell this spring that didn't last long.
However, last week I did snatch up a good buy (not local, unfortunately) at Meijer off their clearance produce rack: 27 colorful peppers for $5.88. Yup. You read that right. Colored peppers that are normally 3/$5 were reduced to the equivalent of about $0.22 each!! That is ridiculous. They were a teeny tiny bit wrinkly, but nothing else was wrong with them. So I sliced half of them and diced half of them, and divided them into 8 freezer bags for later use. I threw one of the diced bags into chili on Monday. It was great! It added a lot of color and nutrition for very little cost and time.
Last Friday I had a cooking party with Melissa, a friend from elementary and high school. We made Jamie Oliver's Indian Carrot Salad using beef instead of lamb and mint chocolate chip meringue cookies.
I hopefully will have a chance to cook more this weekend (and remember to take photographs), so look for another post to come soon.