Assorted Beans Crunch. Complemented with tofu, mushrooms, and amaranth. Spices include basil, coriander salt and pepper. Sweet and sour chili sauce. Beans soaked over night and water changed. Crunch comes from the beans which are on the edge of being fully cooked, and the amaranth which is not softened by the full cooking process. Provides a way of knowing that you in fact are eating something. Planning on a rerun tomorrow. That’s another good thing about cooking for yourself. You only have to please one person and (s)he is very forgiving, or fortuitously just has the same tastes as you.

Stuffed Red Pepper Rings. Fry the mushrooms and set aside. Cook red peppers but not so they start to crumble. Need to be a little bit stiff. Put aside. Sautee tofu, onions, nibblet corn (canned) and add mushrooms along with rosemary, coriander, salt, very little hot paprika, basil. Put the red peppers in the pan, fill, add cheese on top, put water in the bottom and cover to melt the cheese. Base of whipped creamed cheese on the plate for each pepper, and somehow get the red peppers from the pan onto the plate. A spatula will do. I did not have one. Was standing there about two minutes wondering what I could use to pick them up with so the contents would not end up on the floor. Even thought of used some very think hard cookies I had bought. Then I remembered that yesterday when I opened the cream cheese, it had an aluminum seal which I was going to throw away but something said “save it. You’ll need it”. I listen to these inner words of wisdom. Sure enough, it did the job. You say ‘no way that there is a connection’. All I can say is that what we don’t know about this universe, is far greater than we will probably ever know. And yet, we know it already.

Couscous Burger. If you still have not tried couscous, you’re missing out. An instant form of the way it used to be prepared in a painstaking way which, if you had to do it yourself, you would not. It tastes great and only with a little bit of olive oil and salt along with the boiling hot water to prepare it. The fried onions and glob of mushroom soup powder on top of the veggie burger makes this a meal which is fast, easy on your budget, nutritious (especially with the orange, but even without). Description of  couscous at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous The video describes one very nice recipe for couscous http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/best-couscous-recipe-must-see-couscous-recipe/14065058  The details and process she goes through is excruciating for me who just dumps everything in a pan but I guess that’s how most people do it. At least she doesn’t have us standing there watching the potatoes cook. My video would be 2 minutes long. But watch the spices in this dish.
 

Diced Fried.  Potatoes and garden burger with salad. Is the whipped creamed cheese all for me? On my health no, if I can find someone to share it in the next two minutes… Well, there goes my health. This is deceptively simple and very fast to make. Half of the allotted time was spent dicing the potato and especially the frozen hamburger (garden) patty. Full complement of what you need in one dish – except for the cream cheese which  could be catsup, barbeque sauce, etc.

Cabbage Couscous. Composed of cabbage, part of a red pepper, slices of 2 cloves garlic, tempeh, mushrooms, sweet and sour sauce. Spices are coriander, salt. Couscous was combined with boiling hot water, powdered mushroom soup, butter, salt. Great dish. Be sure to enlarge these photos by clicking on them.