Make Ahead Meals

Squash, Chickpea + Prune Tagine

Squash, Chickpea + Prune Tagine

It’s true.  The Rubies team has gone and brought back the banana to their stunning line-up.  And it’s going by the name of Top Banana, Ketchup.  If I’m 100% honest, I was 100% skeptical.  And 100% certain I needed to try it right away.  Fortunately for me, I did, and with no less than a platter of freshly baked sweet potato fries.  And it 100% works. 

Coconut Bircher Muesli

Coconut Bircher Muesli

The story for coconut Bircher Muesli goes as follows:

I had a bunch of coconut beverages in my fridge.  It was time for them to go.

Strawberry Gazpacho

Strawberry Gazpacho

As it turns out, for a first-time-maker, hesitant-fan, of gazpacho, I’m rather a fan of this recipe; it beautifully salvages the season’s overripe strawberries, greens included, uses up a handful of day-old bread, keeps refrigerated or frozen, quick AND easy make ahead meal, perfectly refreshing in summer, won first place in last week’s canapés contest and last but not least, is a PROVEN gazpacho converter [myself included, now a huge fan, unbiased I promise]. 

Ratatouille: Every Which Way

Ratatouille: Every Which Way

Ratatouille.  It can be fancy and minimalist.  It can evoke the warm and fuzzy feelings of home.  It can bring to mind the image of a cute French rat.  It can be transformed into epic bestovers.