1 small onion, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 potato, chopped in small cubes
3-5 beets, thinly sliced and chopped into strips
2 carrots, chopped
1 small cabbage, diced in 1/2in. strips
6cups vegetable broth
1 can tomato puree or tomato sauce
2-3 bay leaves
1/4 – 1/2 cup red table wine OR red wine vinegar
salt and pepper to taste

Saute onions, garlic and celery until onions are translucent. Add in potato, carrots beets and bay leaves and sautee a few minutes more. Add in vegetable broth and tomato sauce; when it comes to a boil add in the cabbage. Let the pot simmer until root vegetables are tender. Fish out bay leaves and blend some or all of the soup. Add in red wine to taste and let cook down about 5 minutes.
Serve with yogurt.

These are wonderfully flavored, light and fluffy, slightly sweet, with a warm hint of molasses!

1 3/4c. flour
1c. sugar
1Tbs. baking powder
1/4t. salt
1t. cinnamon
1/2t. nutmeg
1/2t. ginger
1/4t. allspice
1/8t. ground cloves
1c. pumpkin puree
1/2c. milk or soy milk
1/2. vegetable oil
2Tbs molasses

Preheat oven to 400F.
Sift together dry (flour through cloves).
Whisk together wet (Pumpkin through molasses) and combine with dry.
1/4c. finely chopped walnuts can be added at this point if desired.
Grease a muffin tin (makes approximately 12) and fill each cup 2/3 full.
Bake 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

1/2cup cooked lentils
1/2cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
1 thick slice of onion, finely chopped
1 glove garlic, minced
juice of 1 lemon
1 small beet, uncooked, grated
1 small carrot, grated
vinegar and oil
salt and pepper

Tabouli is typically characterized as having lemon, parsley and vegetables. The amounts here are all flexible, according to how much you want to make. The vegetables can be changed up depending on what is in season or avaiable.

3/4cup powdered milk
3/4cup sugar
1/2cup cocoa powder
1/2tsp. ground cinnamon
4oz. (1bar) bittersweet chocolate

Use 2-3 heaping Tbs. per cup of hot water.