basil or small amount of pesto tastes good on everything.
in beans and salsa
in light tuna salad
spagetti, extra flavor so it doesnt need cheese.

I use this recipe for my falafel:

http://chowvegan.com/2009/01/06/baked-falafel/

Except I do process in a food processor and usually drop in a bit more lemon juice.

The sauce - well, I don't really have a "recipe" for this - start with a base of greek yogurt, add chopped herbs (mint, cilantro, parsley, really whatever you like), a pasted garlic clove, salt, pepper, and a bit of lemon juice. Adjust until it tastes good.

Robin, the squash pudding sounds devine. Thanks.

Midwife, here's a recipe I got from a friend for the cauliflower rice. I haven't had it yet myself, but she loves it.

Cauliflower Rice,
Take a head of cauliflower, cut into pieces and use a chopper or food processor to chop into fine pieces. Heat some olive oil in a skillet and start to fry the cauliflower. Add soy sauce, salt and pepper, chinese 5 spice to taste. I add a bit more olive oil until the cauliflower just starts to brown. It tastes just like rice.

Baked sweet potato, roasted sweet potato cubes, any kind of sweet potato deliciousness! About October the craving hits and doesn't let up until the spring. Total winter comfort food.

I love chili too - either lean ground beef or turkey, beans, and all the tomatoes and veggies.

A protein pancake with a spoon of my Mom's apple butter smeared on top, and a cup of skim milk. Perfect breakfast. Except when the perfect breakfast is a delicious bowl of banana oatmeal with cinnamon, maybe a few nuts or seeds sprinkled in.

Yum!

Thanks Pat. I have seen many cauliflower rice recipes that involves pushing and draining and seemingly a whole lot of work! This is something I would be able to handle.
Also, thanks to midwife for starting this thread I am really in a mmmmm food slump. This a.m. I committed to a planned weekly dinner schedule for my household. Now, for the follow thru-- always a bit of a challenge for me

Thanks for the recipes, guys!

Kitty, feel free to post your weekly dinner plan here (purely for you to be accountable, I would NEVER dream of copying...ahem)

Oatmeal + just about anything. Fat free yogurt, sugar free maple syrup, pumpkin. It's a huge bowl of delicious guilt-free comfort, lol.

There are others, but oatmeal has seriously been my go to food and I have yet to get tired of it. I look forward to my oatmeal every single day for nearly a year. Given the option, I would seriously choose oatmeal over a lot of "cheat foods."

I'm not hard to please...lol

Greek yogurt w/ honey and granola - love it now

Roasted brussel sprouts - who knew that would happen

Sweet potato of all type of prep, really love Megan's sweet potato & apple bake

Broccoli - love it cooked or raw

Peppers in anything

And, I made a Peruvian Quinoa Stew last night that was fantastic - first time I've had quinoa and I love it. I added potato and upped the spice level from the original recipe.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Fresh figs are top of my MMMMM list right now. I bought a tiny fig tree 2 years ago and it just started cropping this year. Because they're aren't many fruit on it yet and I love figs anyway, it's a special treat when a couple of them ripen, and you can't get fresher than something just picked from your garden. Two are ripening now and I think that will be my last until next year.

I've also got a couple of chicken recipes from cookbooks I that particularly like. One is a marinated chicken recipe that's jerk-influenced in its seasoning and another is for a chicken korma which has none of the heavy fattening aspects but still manages to be delicious and aromatic. I'm very fond of spices in general in food.

Delicata squash, roasted whole in the oven. I want to eat this stuff like candy. Even the skin is edible.

If I start thinking about fresh figs, I will make myself unhappy. They are soooo good. Stop teasing, Lora. I'm in NY: Those little suckers are costly around here. My grocery store sells them nestled in cartons like eggs, but at many, many, many times the price of eggs.

I made roasted beets tonight... heavy duty yummm factor.

Delicata squash is on my menu for this weekend. And here I thought I was the only one who ate the skin. I too could eat it like candy, which is why the small size is great for me.. portion control

I bought one of those cartons of figs a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed two of them a day there for a few days. SO good.

And to think, a few years back I never would have touched this stuff. I'll go a step further, I didn't even know what they were.

Fresh Cranberry Beans! Never had them before, but found them at my market this weekend...had fun shelling them and currently devouring them in an Italian bean and pasta soup with tons of veggies.

Asian pears!!! There's a woman who sells them at our farmers market really cheap (compared to the grocery store where they are like $1.50 apiece). Unfortunately the market is over for the season and we only have a couple asian pears left. They are so juicy and so crisp! I'm going to try to talk DH into planting an asian pear tree in our backyard.

Really? I bought two this weekend and might give this a shot!