Vegan Night

For health reasons I have to make some changes to my diet, which includes eating vegan at least three days a week. I don't mind, although I do miss some of my non-vegan favorite dishes. I found a recipe for a roasted sweet potato chili in a vegan cookbook a dear friend gave me that sounded interesting, so I made that with some corn muffins for dinner the other night.

There's a lot to love about this recipe -- it tastes a little smoky, like something you've made over a campfire. It's rich and filling, and the flavors are wonderful. I've never tried cooking with poblano peppers before, and I have to say, they're delicious. So are the sweet potatoes when cooked this way, which I didn't expect to work quite so well (I may never go back to eating non-vegan chili.) It does require a few steps to make this, but I think the results are definitely worth the labor.