Mmm, good
Sometimes a gal just needs a good old-fashioned starchy Southern dinner, you know what I’m sayin’?
So I mashed up some potatoes and I mixed up some whole-wheat canola-oil biscuits (the recipe is in Nava Atlas’s Great American Vegetarian, the earlier version of which is one of my favorite cookbooks), and I said to myself, “Hmmmm… gravy.”
My parents have pecan trees, and are very generous with the proceeds thereof. I have a gallon bag of pecans in my freezer. This (with a little help from Google) is what I did with them:
Soak 2 cups pecans in 2 cups water for an hour or so. Dump pecans and water in blender along with 2 tbsp olive oil, half an onion, 1 tsp salt, and herbs to taste (basil, rosemary, thyme is what I tossed in). Blend until pecans are pulverized. Add water until consistency is gravylike. Zap in microwave for a minute or two.
And it was very, very good.