Vegetarian Recipes
Easy Beet Salad or Beet Spread
If you like beets, you’ll like this easy beet salad that you can also use as an easy beet spread on crackers and such. Grated beets, lemon juice, plain yogurt and finely chopped toasted walnuts are all you need. Well, and salt. And love. I serve it as a side salad sometimes, and other times…
Read MoreMake-Ahead Lentil Salad
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again and I’ll never stop saying it, probably, but there is nothing better in the hot, hot summertime than a salad waiting for you in the refrigerator. This make-ahead lentil salad is a prime example. Make it when you have an off moment and it…
Read MoreVegetarian Cassoulet Beans
Springtime is the right time for vegetarian cassoulet beans. I finally got into the heralded and exclusive Rancho Gordo Bean Club and we’ve been eating our weight in beans to try and keep up! Included in the most recent delivery was a pound of cassoulet beans, which I’d never had before. And I was surprised…
Read MoreThree Bean Salad Recipe
Everything I love to eat was invented by someone’s grandma. Three bean salad is a good example of “old lady food” but you know what, old lady food is yummy and this three bean salad recipe is a good one. I have an undying devotion to bean salads. They’re wonderful. Make them on a day…
Read MoreGigante Bean Salad
Healthy, delicious gigante bean salad with apples, corn, jalapeños, apple cider vinaigrette and Royal Corona gigante beans
Read MoreVegan Chili
I served this vegan chili at our Super Bowl party last night (Go Rams!) as part of a Frito pie buffet and three people asked for the recipe so I figured as long as I was writing it down, I’d put it up here, too. I was kind of surprised I hadn’t posted this yet,…
Read MoreFarro Cauliflower Salad
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted anything on this blog. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking; in fact I’ve been cooking a lot but it’s often hurried and rushed and uninspired. But today! Today I made this farro cauliflower salad to take on a picnic at Laguna Gloria, and it turned out…
Read MoreKohlrabi Slaw with Green Goddess Dressing
I got some kohlrabi in my vegetable delivery this week and if you’ve never seen one of those, they’re weird looking. Like a bald alien head with a bunch of leafy antennae growing out all around. Kohlrabi are related to broccoli and cabbage and all those healthy, delicious things and because lately it’s been muggy…
Read MoreBroccoli Baked Potatoes
Look at these broccoli baked potatoes! LOOK AT THEM! Don’t they look cheesy and creamy and delicious and terrible for your arteries?? Well. They are most of those things. But not all of those things. Because we are dieting, folks! We’re countin’ the cal’s, watching our weights. So these broccoli (twice) baked potatoes are actually…
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