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30 - Minute Dinner, Breakfast / Brunch, Comfort Food, Easy Entertaining, Holiday Breakfasts, Kid Friendly, One-Dish Meal, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Main Meals April 22, 2013

Breakfast Pizza with Asparagus

I recently joined over 2000 people interested in tasting artisan cheeses at the Seventh Annual Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma. Armed with our passports to fun, a wine glass and an insulated bag with a cold pack, my husband and I were off to the tasting tables. [...]

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Breakfast / Brunch, Cooking For a Crowd, Easter brunch, Easy Entertaining, Gluten-Free, Holiday Breakfasts, Kid Friendly, Make Ahead, One-Dish Meal, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Main Meals March 16, 2013

#SundaySupper: Springtime Egg Bake with Asparagus and Artichokes

egg bake with asparagus, artichokes, spring brunch, Easter, recipe, The Wimpy Vegetarian

Spring has moved into the Bay Area and unpacked all her suitcases full of flowering trees, daffodils, crocuses, and leafing rose bushes. She’s planning to stay for awhile. We have a long tangle of wisteria that frames the front of the house, loaded with large [...]

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4th of July, Comfort Food, Cooking For a Crowd, Easy Entertaining, Grains, Make Ahead, picnic, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Main Meals April 28, 2012

Warm Farro Salad with Spring Vegetables

Warm Farro Salad with Spring Vegetables - slider

  Going back and forth between the mountains and the Bay Area this time of year gives me food cravings whiplash. In the Bay Area, we’re well into spring with heaps of fresh asparagus, fava beans, strawberries, and spring onions at every farmer’s market. The [...]

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Breakfast / Brunch, Comfort Food, Easter brunch, Kid Friendly, Make Ahead, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Main Meals April 9, 2012

Spring Asparagus Quiche

Lightened quiche with ricotta cheese, spring asparagus quiche

  As each season rolls around, I wrap it around me like a blanket, thinking: ‘this is my favorite season’. Summer with overflowing abundance and sunshine. Fall with the smell of harvest in the air, a promise fulfilled. Winter, a time to pull back and [...]

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DIY May 18, 2013

#SundaySupper: Roasted Balsamic Tomatoes

slow roasted tomatoes drizzled with balsamic vinegar, how to slow roast tomatoes

  This may not feel like much of a recipe to you, but this is one of my star kitchen staples these days. Frankly I need all the shortcuts I can find, with my time being gulped down by the gallon between remodeling a condo we [...]

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Canning and Preserving January 9, 2013

Herb-Y Leek Confit

Herb-y Leek Confit slider: The Wimpy Vegetarian

The champagne is  gone. All the holiday decorations boxed up and stored away with wrapping paper decorated with gold and green holly leaves, and Santa stickers. It’s January, the first month without a holiday to look forward to since the hot summer days of August. [...]

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Bread December 4, 2012

Easy Whole-Wheat Pita Bread

  You might not guess it from this sedate photo, but these are the drama queens of bread, puffing up dramatically in just a few short minutes in a hot oven from the expansion of carbon dioxide and steam. When they cool off, they slowly [...]

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Condiments November 10, 2012

#SundaySupper Gifts From the Kitchen : Harissa!

Harissa Gift : The Wimpy Vegetarian

  This week at #SundaySupper, we’re sharing our Gifts From the Kitchen with you. If you’re wondering what gift to bring to a holiday dinner, or to a holiday gift exchange with friends and family, nothing is more personal and savored than something from your [...]

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