The Wimpy Vegetarian

Mostly vegetarian recipes

  • Home
  • About
    • About Susan
    • Link Love
    • Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
  • Recipe Index
  • Essential Pantry
    • How to Make Brown Sugar
    • 5 Tips for Perfect Cooked Dried Chickpeas
    • How to Cook Lentil Beans
    • Tips on How To Cook Perfect Quinoa
    • Reduced Balsamic Vinegar
  • Work With Me
    • Partnership Opportunities
    • Media Kit
  • Contact Me

18 Vegetarian Winter Squash Main Dishes for Thanksgiving (and Beyond)

November 18, 2018 7 Comments

Vegetarian Winter Squash Main Dishes for Thanksgiving.

18 vegetarian winter squash main dishes for all through Autumn and Winter. They're not just for Thanksgiving! "What's your favorite winter squash?" I posed this question on my Facebook page recently, and got a huge response. Readers listed everything from the familiar, like butternut squash, to the wildly unfamiliar, like sweet meat and onion squash. As a result, now I want to find them and red kuri squash, to see how it might be different from the rest. Thanks to that informal polling, ...

Read More »

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 ...

Read More »

Crunchy Kale and Apple Salad with Thai Peanut Butter Dressing

March 3, 2016 11 Comments

Crunchy Kale Napa Cabbage Apple and Mint Salad with Peanut Butter Dressing

Crunchy winter salad of kale, Napa cabbage, apples, and honey roasted peanuts all dressed in a fabulous Thai peanut butter dressing. This post is part of The Food Network's #ComfortFoodFeast series on their blog, FNDish........ Some salads are all about the salad, and the dressing is just along for the ride. But sometimes, the salad is all about the dressing. This is one of those. The unassuming sauce you see in the jar is a peanut butter dressing, and may look a little drab, but trust me - ...

Read More »

Hash Browns Poutine Cups with Egg Scramble

January 9, 2016 27 Comments

Hash Browns Cups filled with Egg Scramble

You will love these poutine inspired hash browns cups stuffed with avocado scrambled eggs and cheese curds. They are great for breakfast or brunch! Do you poutine? Do you know what poutine is? Confession – I didn’t, so don’t feel uninformed if you don’t. I love the word – it makes me feel oh-so-fluent in French. ‘Voulez vouz poutine?’ Wikipedia, first on the list of search results, informed me that poutine is a popular Canadian fast food dish of French fries, cheese curds, and ...

Read More »

Butternut Squash Panzanella Salad with Apples and Kale

October 22, 2015 9 Comments

Make an autumn version of a traditional Italian salad with this butternut squash panzanella salad tossed with apples and kale, dressed with an apple vinaigrette. I spent much of September in Italy attending an Italian language school in Treviso, a smallish town outside Venice. For 2 1/2 weeks I ate a ton of pasta, pizza, risotto, and tiramisu (a dessert created by a restaurant in Treviso). The trip was about language, food, and people -- meeting local Italians and making new friends with fellow ...

Read More »

Curried Cauliflower & Greens Mac and Cheese: #ComfortFoodFeast

January 22, 2015 19 Comments

Curried Cauliflower & Greens Mac 'n Cheese

Curried cauliflower folded into a mac and cheese casserole along with a handful of kale. This week's theme for Food Network’s #ComfortFoodFest is Mac and Cheese. I grew up on Stouffer's Mac 'n Cheese, and before that, Swanson's TV dinners (yes, I know that probably slams me into a particular age bracket), but as an adult, I've learned that Mac and Cheese is actually a sprawling family of cousins. Some are super-rich creamy-cheesy, others are more about the ...

Read More »

Spaghetti Squash with Shrimp, Pears and Kale

November 1, 2014 20 Comments

Spaghetti Squash with Shrimp

Spaghetti squash tossed with shrimp, pears, and kale. Whenever I scan food photo porn sites and Pinterest (which is embarrassingly often), I'm bombarded with temptation. Pumpkin cakes with cream cheese frosting, salted caramel sheet cakes, pumpkin toffee cookies, pecan cheesecake pie, and Reese's cake bars, all dressed up like a gang of girls ready to party, taunt me from my computer screen. "C'mon Wimpy, get those fancy plates out and let's have some fun together. You can cheat on your kale ...

Read More »

Gluten-Free Mexican Street Corn Fritters

July 12, 2014 19 Comments

Corn and zucchini fritters topped with kale-avocado-mango salad.

Twist on Mexican street corn: Gluten-free corn and zucchini fritters using corn flour topped with a mango and avocado salsa. These little guys totally rock for a small, summertime dinner party. Just throw the batter together a few hours ahead (although it doesn't have to be made that far in advance), cover the bowl with some plastic, and bring it back out 30 minutes before you plan to cook up the fritters. Just be sure to bring the batter to room temperature for an even cooking. Form ...

Read More »

Warm Ricotta Farro Salad with Grilled Kale & Plums

September 20, 2013 26 Comments

Warm Ricotta Farro with Grilled Kale and Plums, vegetarian main

Hearty warm farro salad of ricotta and blue cheeses melted into the cooked grain, topped with balsamic grilled kale and plums. Sorry to be MIA lately. I’ve been busy pursuing a PhD in ‘Downsizing Homes’. I had considered writing my thesis on “Living with Tiny Bedrooms, Closets, Storage & No Garage’ or ‘Surprises After Buying a 100 Year Old House” (I now have loads of recent research data for either), but settled on “Moving Into a Small Kitchen”. It’s been a challenging program, but I ...

Read More »

Search

Sign Up For My Newsletter!

You like vegetables? Me too! Get exclusive recipes, tips for simplifying dinner preparation, and Vegetarian Meal Plans. Don't miss a single delicious thing!

Purchase My New Cookbook!!

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.

READ MORE //

Categories

Archives

Purple Carrot Vegetarian Meal Delivery

Soups For Chilly Nights

Curried Lentil Soup made in the Instant Pot in 30 minutes!
Vegan, roasted coconut curried butternut squash soup with apples.
Instant Pot Pumpkin Black Bean Chili. It's gluten-free, vegan, and hearty enough for dinner.
Comforting potato leek soup. Just like the one from your childhood.
Healthy butternut squash soup with apple cider & crème fraîche.
Barley soup with potatoes, mint, lime, and a little turmeric.

More Ideas ⇨

Sign Up!

You like vegetables? Me too! Keep up to date, get exclusive recipes & don't miss a single delicious thing!

Archives

Categories

Search

All content copyright © 2015 The Wimpy Vegetarian | Logo & blog design by Peppercorn Creative.