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Weekly Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores // Week 4

February 9, 2019 5 Comments

Weekly vegetarian meal plan with tips for omnivores at the table, including tips for meal planning, and prep ahead tips to make dinner easy this week. #EatingClean #HealthyVegetarian #VegetarianRecipes #VegetarianMealPlan #MealPlan #WeeklyMealPlan #lentilsrecipes #mushrooms #risotto #cauliflower #healthyrecipe

Confession: I didn't do very well last week with sticking to my weekly vegetarian meal planning. In fact, it was a huge fail. Why? Because I didn't have a real meal plan. I'd done a roundup on Parade's online magazine for Best Roasted Veggies Ever For Easy Dinners , and saw in it all kinds of great ideas for the week ahead. So I figured my job was done. Wrong. So this week, I'm sharing 4 common mistakes people make in meal planning. Of course there are many more than 4, but these are the ...

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Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores // Week 2

January 26, 2019 6 Comments

Weekly vegetarian meal plan with tips for omnivores at the table, including tips for meal planning, and prep ahead tips to make dinner easy this week. #EatingClean #HealthyVegetarian #VegetarianRecipes #VegetarianMealPlan #MealPlan #MealPlanning #thewimpyvegetarian #spaghettisquash #chickpeas #cauliflower #falafel

Meal Planning Struggles My first week at dinner meal planning (and executing it) was a work in progress. To recap for any of you who missed my post last week on Vegetarian Weekly Meal Plans, I'm starting to plan my dinners out 1 week ahead to get more organized around dinner so I'm not trying to figure out dinner 10 minutes before I make it. This week, some parts worked, and others didn't. The biggest challenge for me was, and continues to be, all those moving parts that never stay still. ...

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Weekly Vegetarian Menu #2 – 5 Easy Vegetarian Dinners

January 12, 2018 3 Comments

I've been in Yosemite most of this week, and so haven't been able to complete photography on a couple of new recipes I want to bring to you. In the meantime, here's another Weekly Vegetarian Menu of dinner ideas for the next week. If your week next week looks as busy as mine promises to be, you won't always have the time you'd like to cook up something healthy. I get it. In answer to that, this selection is focused on easy dinners! As I mentioned last week, I scour blogs I enjoy for recipes I ...

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Broccoli Casserole with Cheese and Quinoa

November 1, 2015 17 Comments

OMG. Really you guys. This recipe is killer and destined to be in regular rotation here at our house. Pure gold. First of all, for the uninitiated, The Secret Recipe Club is a group of around 130 food bloggers, separated into four smaller blogging groups, each of which post at different times of the month. Every month, we’re each assigned a blog in our group to look through. We try a few recipes and chose one to post about. But all month, we keep our assignment a secret until ‘reveal day’. It’s ...

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‘Cheesy’ Vegan Broccoli Soup with Lemon

May 22, 2015 6 Comments

Vegan broccoli Soup with 'cheese'

Cheesy vegan broccoli soup using nutritional yeast in place of cheese. The lemon juice and allspice separates this broccoli soup from the pack. I'm a sucker for broccoli soup. I try almost every version I see. Some have hidden secret ingredients like apples (which worked amazingly well!), while many are more straight forward versions puréed with cream. A few instruct the cook to roast the broccoli first to bring up the flavor, and some have you simmer it until tender. My favorite broccoli ...

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Broccoli Cheddar Frittata with Tomatoes

May 9, 2015 30 Comments

broccoli cheddar frittata with tomatoes

We have friends in Ashland, just over the California line into Oregon, who we visit when we drive to Portland to see our step-daughter and her family. Ashland is famous for it's vibrant theatre life and is synonymous for Shakespeare on the west coast. They've even created a replica of the Globe theater, in addition to their other theaters in town. The acting and directing is first rate. And so is the food in town. Especially if you eat at Ron and Susan's home. Susan is a master at frittatas, and ...

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Broccoli Cheddar Casserole with Quinoa

January 29, 2014 14 Comments

Broccoli - Cheddar - Quinoa Casserole Tart The Wimpy Vegetarian

Healthy twist on the broccoli cheddar casserole childhood favorite with broccoli, cheddar cheese, Greek yogurt and quinoa. A couple of months ago, Chobani reached out and sent a case of plain Greek yogurt (large cartons!) to our home to try. We had to reorganize the refrigerator just to fit them in. But I was thrilled. I start every day with a bowl of yogurt, fruit, granola and chia seeds to power through the morning and early afternoon. I also add yogurt to soups like Persian Yogurt Soup, this ...

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Broccoli Gribiche: Secret Recipe Club

October 27, 2013 31 Comments

Broccoli and potatoes tossed in a gribiche made of hard boiled eggs.

  It’s time for another reveal with the Secret Recipe Club. Hard to believe another month has passed. I’m spending lots of time (still) developing my cookbook proposal – themed around dinners for the omnivore-vegetarian table – and am making good progress. In fact, progress has been strong enough that the agent I’ve been speaking with offered a contract to represent me this past week. There remains much yet to be accomplished before it’s ready for publishers’ eyes, but I’m excited and ...

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Broccoli-Cranberry Bean Salad

August 8, 2013 19 Comments

broccoli salad, how to cook cranberry beans

Healthy broccoli and cranberry salad + dried cherries, red onion and grapes with a lemon-garlic-yogurt dressing + high-altitude tips. A shiny new farmer's market just opened up here in Incline Village (on Lake Tahoe). It's small - with maybe 15 tents, very personal (one elderly farmer glanced dismissively at the plastic bag of baby kale I handed to him to be weighed, snorted that it wasn’t enough to weigh, and charged me $1.oo), and offers live music while you browse tables laden with ...

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I'm a mostly vegetarian married to a mostly carnivore and am on a constant hunt for healthy, delicious recipes we'll both like. Most recipes here are vegetarian with tips for adding meat or fish for the meat-eaters at the table. Whether you're vegetarian, or just wanting to eat less meat, I hope you'll find inspiration here to try something new for your own table, even if you're sharing it with someone with different eating preferences.

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