Day 19 of VeganMoFo….
This week my younger sister Sarah came up to Toronto to visit me. She and I could not be more different since we disagree about almost everything. I wrote in an old post how incredibly picky my sister is and apparently she has not grown out of it.
She likes gummy candy and I prefer chocolate.
She will wear flip-flops until snow is on the ground and I bust out my knee-high boots at the first sign of Fall.
My sister is a big carnivore, not really liking fruits or veggies and I put kale in my breakfast smoothies.
I am a city girl and she is all about the suburbs.
She prefers mild, dare I say bland food while I am all about the heat and smokiness.
Sometimes I wonder if we are even related! But there are very few but important things that we do agree on: pajama pants are to be put on immediately upon arriving home, Disney movies are always the first choice when we hang out and plates are not required when eating cupcakes.
So when I asked her what she wanted for dinner we really didn’t have a lot to agree on but thankfully there is always chili, the only problem being the heat level. I told her I would make her a spiced but not spicy chili. I still needed some heat to please my palate without having to make two separate recipes.
I decided to make a sofrito, usually a raw sauce consisting of tomatoes, onions, garlic and spices but I decided to roast the ingredients to give the sauce a little more depth and to enhance the smokiness. I blended the charred mixture so it was easy to add to the chili for the heat-lovers. A mild but flavourful version with Cashew Cream for her and a smoky spicy version for me. Now we just have to pick out a Disney movie to sing along to after we feast on chili, crusty bread and beers in pajama pants of course.
12 recipes down, 8 more to go!
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