Tag: yams

  • Roasted Root Vegetable Bread Salad, a la Essential Baking Company

    Local, organic bakery The Essential Baking Company has a few cafés around town, and I’ve been enjoying their bread salad on a pretty regular basis, so much so that I decided I had to recreate it at home. I love the mix of roasted yams, beets, and leeks (!), and when tossed with big chunks […]

  • Roasted Vegetables with Chickpeas and Couscous

    Vegetarian Week continues here at We [Heart] Food, with this recipe (okay, it uses chicken stock, but you could replace with vegetable stock) from Fitness Food. Nothing too fancy here, just a huge plate of roasted vegetables over a bed of couscous and chickpeas. [donotprint] Lisa says: Waaahoooo! Chris says: I know, this is like […]

  • Sweet Potato and Kale Enchiladas

    This was another of those “let’s look for a recipe that uses the veggies in the CSA box” nights that turned out really well. The original, in Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook called for red or yukon gold potatoes, but we had sweet potatoes on hand and I thought they made a nice contrast to […]

  • Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Mushrooms and Shallots

    This side-dish just looks like Fall. Once again, the interweb earned its weight in vegetables by providing a recipe to match what arrived in the CSA box: yams and cremini mushrooms! I wasn’t sure that the combination of mushrooms and yams was going to work out that well, but wow, was I pleasantly surprised. Roasting […]