Adventures in "Sustainable" Cooking
Hello there, and Happy New Year! One resolution I have for 2014 is to cook and post more recipes as Sally finishes up her PhD coursework and prepares for her dissertation research. While she is enjoying her program, she has been swamped with classes and has been unable to post much recently. Sally is definitely the chef of the house, but occasionally I can depart from my dishwashing and blog-editing duties and come up with a good dish for us to enjoy. So here is my first kitchen effort of 2014!
Recently I have been craving some good Cajun food, but vegetarian Cajun options can be hard to find. So I went online and found a recipe from Emeril for a Cajun vegetarian jambalaya, and made a few of my own adjustments to it. I substituted two vegetarian sausages and a package of meatless chicken from Trader Joe’s for the squash and eggplant, and used a tablespoon each of Cajun spice mix, a red and black pepper mix, and red hot pepper flakes instead of cayenne peppers. I also used brown rice instead of