Country dinner

We have a meal called "country dinner" about once a week. Our country dinner is vegetarian, but has 3 parts to it - a fake meat/protein, a carb (usually mac-n-cheese or mashed potatoes) and a veggie. Sometimes I'll throw in dinner bread. Our country dinner counts as an easy meal - one that can be made without much thought or time.

Tonight we are having country dinner of temphe, mashed sweet potatoes and some kind of veggie. I still need to figure that out!

Alright, I decided on organic frozen corn, but that left the meal lacking in green. So, I added a salad of organic baby lettuces, left over roasted beats and celery. Use any dressing you like, but I chose Annies Goddess dressing.

Ingredient list"

3 - 4 large sweet potatoes

1 package tempeh

frozen or fresh veggie of your choice

Directions:

Peel, then cube sweet potatoes into 1 inch chucks

place in pot with water

bring to a boil, cook until soft

While potatoes cook, slice temphe in half, then slice those two halves in half (make thinner, not smaller) Now you should have 4 squares of skinny temphe.

Drizzle some soy sauce on the rough side of the temphe

Drain potatoes, then mash them up just like traditional mashed potatoes with milk and butter, salt and pepper.

Get your veggies going!

Heat a skillet over med-high heat. Add olive oil and a small amount of soy sauce, salt and pepper. Once heated, add the 4 pieces of temphe and saute each side until browned.

Enjoy!