Heirloom foods were all the rage a decade or more ago. Remember? Heirloom tomatoes, apples, potatoes (!), and yes beans started showing up everywhere from farmer's markets to restaurants. The Popularity of Heirlooms The widespread modernization and industrialization of farming in the U.S. drove agriculture to producing more food per acre. This drive for improved yields and disease resistance made produce cheaper, more available, and more uniform. But unfortunately, in many cases, also ...
Vegetarian Meal Plan: # 16 (Winter)
It's funny. With all the extra time at home over the past 10 months, you'd think I would have spent hours upon hours in the kitchen. Baking breads. Cakes. And making all my own condiments. Pioneer style. But no. That's not to say I didn't do some baking and experimenting this past year in the kitchen. I did. But I've become ever more interested in mostly simple meals, allowing for a more complicated one only once a week. And that more complicated dish better yield leftovers. Part ...
Top 2020 Posts !
I have 3 different kinds of posts I create: Recipes, Meal Plans and Tips For Going More Vegetarian. Each year, I love to look back to see what the most popular posts of the previous year were, so I can create more of what you love best. Of the 3 different kinds of posts I write, most of them are recipes, so I looked at the single most popular Meal Plan, the single most popular Tips for Going More Vegetarian, and the 10 most popular Recipes. Let's start with the most popular Meal Plan of ...
How to Make Brown Sugar
Instructions on how to make brown sugar in your own kitchen, and 3 tips for softening that brick of brown sugar in your pantry. Brown sugar is essential to a lot of baked goods. It gives them a distinctive caramel flavor that elevates the treat. For example, in cookies, like these Figgy Snickerdoodle Cookies. Or cookie bars, like these Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars. Or in breads. Like this Brown Sugar and Plum Pull-Apart Bread. But sometimes we run out, just when we ...
Simplify Meals with Essential Kitchen Tools
Having dependable, essential kitchen tools simplifies meal preparation. They can dramatically speed up the time to when dinner is on the table, and make it easier on you. But it can be overwhelming to decide which ones to purchase when you're first starting out. Seriously, I'm going through that right now with deciding which air fryer to buy! As a note, you don't need to run out and get all of these right away, and it's not intended to be a complete, exhaustive list. For example, I ...
Boston Brown Bread Recipe – #ProgressiveEats
You would be forgiven for thinking this is a chocolate cake waiting patiently to be frosted. Seriously, I kept wanting to dust it with powdered sugar. But no. This is a bread. Yep. A steamed Boston Brown Bread, adapted from a fabulous new book written by a friend of mine. All Stirred Up The book is All Stirred Up by Laura Kumin, which traces the Suffrage Movement with accompanying recipe sections. The history of the Suffrage Movement is fascinating, as are the recipes. Laura not ...
7-Day Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores: # 15
Snow blankets the ground now in the meadow above us. And although we have brilliant days filled with sun that warms the house, the nights are bitterly cold. This calls for comfort food. All your leftovers might be gone by tomorrow, so here's a menu to carry you through the week. Make a couple, and use the leftovers for another meal. Or make them all. WINTER COMFORT MENU MONDAY: Sweet Potato and Chickpea Curry TUESDAY: Butternut Squash and ...
6 Last-Minute Side Dishes for Thanksgiving
Last- minutes side dishes for Thanksgiving. We have enough to do on Thanksgiving without spending a lot of time on extra dishes. Am I right? That's where these 6 last-minute side dishes come in. I chose them because either the prep was 15 minutes or less, and / or at least a major part of the recipe could be done ahead. As in the previous day. And they're all big on flavor. As a note, the Maple Candied Carrots with Currants were on Food Network a few years ago (yay!!!), and my ...
10 Vegetarian Main Dishes for Thanksgiving
I bet I have a lot of you agreeing with me that 2020 has been an awful year. I'm not going to dwell on it. There are other highly qualified places where you can read about it, and debate all its merits - or lack of them. So let's focus on finding things to be thankful for, as we greet this Thanksgiving season. Anything qualifies. Maybe it's finding a new TV show that makes you laugh. Or you're spending more time with close family - assuming this is a good thing, LOL. For me, I had ...
Spicy Delicata Squash Salad with Kale
Autumn means fall and winter squash begin to pile up at the market. Pumpkins, butternut squash, and delicata squash are among my favorites. Pumpkin and butternut squash are great for soups, but delicata is my pick for salads, like this Delicata Squash Salad with Kale. Can You Eat the Skin of Delicata Squash? One of the big reasons I love delicata squash is that yes, you can eat the skin. None of that time-consuming peeling is necessary at all. (Yay!!) This makes it uber-easy and quick ...
9 Easy Vegetarian Breakfasts
Breakfast can be tricky when you're trying to figure out a new diet. It's how you begin the day. It sets the tone. This is true if you want to lose weight, go gluten-free, or keto. And it's true if you want to go vegetarian - or move to a more vegetarian diet. If I start the day with pancakes with loads of butter and syrup, I pretty much give up the day for being healthy. And yes, I know there are ways to make pancakes healthier. And I agree, sometimes we need a treat. But the fact ...
3-Ingredient Petit Pain Au Chocolat
Easy mini Pain au Chocolat made with just 3 ingredients. This post may contain affiliate links, which help support the cost of running a blog. Pain au Chocolat is one of my husband's favorite bakery treats. And it turns out, it's amazingly easy to make at home. In fact, all you need are 3 ingredients, although I've added a couple of options if you want to kick them up a bit. (Just a little jam and a flurry of sugar at the end.) As a confession, if you make your own laminated dough ...
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