Week 2 as Official Tuesday Lunch Cook

Tomorrow I jump into my second week as the official Tuesday lunch cook. Same meal I cooked last semester. I thought I posted last week's meal, but I guess I did not. Anyways, I should probably post what I'm planning for this week's meal.

• Spinach Chickpea Curry
• From the wonderful book Vegan with a Vengeance, I love this dish. In it's most basic form, it's onions, garlic, ginger, tomatoes, spinach, and chickpeas. There's a whole host of spices in there too, but I'm going to be limited to working with the co-op's sad state of spices for this week. Either way it shall be delicious. Always a crowd pleaser.
  
• Marinated Lemon Zucchini
• Taken from Vegan Italiano, it will involve prepping the zucchini tonight and letting it marinate overnight in lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper. Then broiling it for a few minutes on each side. The co-op ovens are kind of spastastic, so this will basically mean turning it on the highest setting and flipping them when it looks ok.
  
• Rice
• Not much to say. A definite must to go with the curry.
• Cookies?

Now, this isn't much of a cooking blog without pictures is it? My fellow co-oper next door took pictures of one of my meals but she has not yet gotten those photos to me. This is what happens when one only has a not-so-good camera phone.

Also, we have a raw foodist in the co-op this semester. She has a deal with the co-op in that she asks us to prepare salads a lot and then she'll take some co-op food back to her place and prepare her own food. However, I am incredibly interested in experimenting with raw food techniques and I would love to learn more about it because I don't like to have food at a meal that people can't eat. But it gets tricky in that I don't think we can sprout foods. Simple but delicious raw food ideas?

Back at School and Cooking for the Masses

I am back at school once more. Classes started this past week. I didn't cook for the co-op though because I'm iDLEC (interim dining loose ends coordinator) so that's been taking up a chunk of time. But I'm done as of this weekend so I'm starting to go around MPing stuff and planning my meal for next week (whenever dinner head cook elections happen to be).

So far I'm planning:

• Eggplant Tofu-Parm
• Breaded and baked eggplant with the most delicious tomato sauce and a tofu-ricotta to top it all off
  
• Roasted Brussel Sprouts and Cauliflower
• About half a box of brussel sprouts with the remaining cauliflower tossed in olive oil with some salt and pepper. Very simple, but very delicious.
  
• Focaccia (?)
• I want to try making focaccia for the co-op, but while exploring the food situation I discovered that we really don't have that much flour to probably last until then. But we'll see.
• ?
• I'd like to make one more thing (mashed potatoes?) but first I have to figure out what we have and don't have. I thought we were supposed to get more produce today (because it's looking kind of sad) but that might happen later today or tomorrow. It will still be delicious no matter what happens.