Vegetarian This addictive delicata squash and apple galette appetizer is quick to prep, and ideal warm, fresh from the oven. Delicata squash is worth looking for, as the skin is thin enough not to require peeling before roasting and eating. As I've often written, I'm appetizer challenged. I typically resort to an assortment of cheeses and crackers. For a recent large party, I augmented this with pickled veggies I purchased. But ...
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Menu – 18 Main Dishes
18 main dish ideas for your vegetarian Thanksgiving menu this year. We’re working ourselves towards mid-November and the biggest feast day of the year. Thanksgiving, my friends. And all over the country, meal planning has begun. Last week I featured 21 side dish ideas for a vegetarian Thanksgiving. This week, I’ve got your back on Thanksgiving vegetarian main dishes. Because, let’s face it. If you’re an omnivore, deciding your main dish for Thanksgiving is easy. The religion of ...
Vegetarian Weekly Meal Plan – Week 8
Collecting Recipes for a Vegetarian Weekly Meal Plan I'm always on the hunt for dinner ideas for my vegetarian weekly meal plan that aren't too labor intensive and look like they'll taste great. I mean, really great. If they're a little more time consuming than I want during the week, then I look for make-ahead opportunities so that it comes together quickly at the end of a crazy busy day. When I run across a recipe I want to make, I save it in some way. Usually to Pinterest, and sometimes ...
18 Vegetarian Winter Squash Main Dishes for Thanksgiving (and Beyond)
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, ...
Stuffed Delicata Squash
Stuffed delicata squash is a healthy, filling and delicious meal. And it's so easy. Why should you stuff Delicata Squash? First of all, delicata squash is tender and small enough to easily slice in half with a sharp chef's knife. Once you scrape out the seeds and pulp, you have perfect boats for stuffing. And for bonus points, the skin is thin enough to be eaten. That means you don't have to peel this beautiful squash. Secondly, stuffed delicata squash is super-easy to prepare ...
Coconut Curried Butternut Squash Soup
The calendar unleashes butternut squash cravings in me every October 1, and this year was no exception. Unfortunately, I was in Italy, and searched in vain for my familiar friend on menus. It turns out, butternut squash is native to the Americas, and not as common in other areas of the world. I had to wait. So, the first thing I made when I padded back into my kitchen was this butternut squash soup. A version is also in my cookbook, Simply Vegetarian, as it's super-easy and full of flavor. ...
Pumpkin Black Bean Chili for the Instant Pot | Vegan and Gluten-Free
I've got a new cookbook for you, my friends. My good friend Jane Bonacci, creator of the delicious The Heritage Cook blog, has a new cookbook out with Sara de Leeuw of the gorgeous My Imperfect Kitchen blog. It's titled The Gluten-Free Instant Pot Cookbook: Fast to Fix and Nourishing Recipes for All Kinds of Electric Pressure Cookers, and will be released on September 19th. Go check it out, and place your preorder here on Amazon if you're looking for some fuss-free dishes for ...
Butternut Squash Soup with Apple Cider & Crème Fraîche
My husband was under the weather last week, and weakly pleaded for this soup from underneath a mountain of quilts one afternoon. I nearly fainted. He wasn't begging for a burger or ice cream topped with hot fudge. He was requesting, sit down for it, a vegetable based soup. That's when I realized just how sick he was. He was hallucinating that he wanted vegetables. I didn't waste any time, and set out to make this one I posted on my blog a few years ago. I love how the ...
Pumpkin Applesauce Muffins with Pumpkin Seed Streusel
Secret Recipe Club: Pumpkin muffins made with fall spices, applesauce, and golden raisins, topped with pumpkin seed streusel. How is it possible I've never posted a muffin here? I've made coffee cakes, breads, and even cinnamon rolls. But never a muffin. So after more than five years of blogging, I'm finally posting one for fall. And it's one you're going to love, thanks to Karen at the Karen's Kitchen Stories blog! It's Secret Recipe Club again! Whaat? Two posts for Secret Recipe Club today? ...
Spiced Acorn Squash with Charred Poblano Pepper – Cornbread Stuffing
I like to think travel broadens the mind. For a snapshot in time, you sneak a glimpse of another culture, up close and personal. What people eat, how they live, and how they navigate human issues common to us all. We weigh these observations in our minds as we contrast them against our own familiar lives, and sometimes feel the pinching discomfort of a traveler far from home. “Why is there only one person selling train tickets? Holy Jesus, can’t they see how long the line is??” This can be as ...
Fig Basted Roast Butternut Squash with Quinoa, Apple, and Fig Stuffing
We should have more than one day set aside each year to give thanks. Some might declare we should give thanks every day, and I don’t disagree, but I’m actually stating we should have Thanksgiving once a month. Not with all the commercial hoopla of people rising before dawn the day after so they can shiver in dark parking lots to be in line for some amazing-never-to-be-offered-again deal on a big screen TV, thank you very much. I’m talking about quietly setting aside one day a month on ...
Spiced Pumpkin Soup – Cappuccino Style
Believe it or not, cappuccino soups are popular in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic. I saw them no less than three times on menus while we were there earlier this month. They were all very different from each other, and my favorite was a Pumpkin Cappuccino Soup. We were in Brno (pronounced Berno), the historic capital of Moravia, very close to Slovakia. The restaurant was by far the most gourmet restaurant we ate in the entire trip. The kind of place that probably does celery root foam ...
