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Vegetarian Thanksgiving Menu – 21 Side Dishes

November 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

For your vegetarian Thanksgiving, 21 vegetable side dishes that are easy to make the day of your feast, or can be made ahead.

21 side dish ideas for your vegetarian Thanksgiving menu this year.   Thanksgiving is arguably the biggest eating holiday of the year. And vegetarians and vegans hunt for satisfying dishes for their Vegetarian Thanksgiving Menu (or Vegan Thanksgiving, obviously). Before you object, I realize many of our holidays are food centric. Valentines Day is all about chocolate. The summer holidays of Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day are the Grand Central Station of grilling. ...

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Vegan Marinated Roasted Red Peppers

October 3, 2019 14 Comments

When I have one foot holding onto summer and the other reaching for fall, I turn to roasted red peppers as a satisfying dish. This marinated roasted peppers dish is a perfect example of one of my favorites, as it brings in so many flavors of late summer and early fall. Best of all, it gets party dish bonus points, since it should be made at least a day ahead to allow the flavors to meld. To be honest, here in the mountains we're firmly planted in autumn and seem to be reaching for winter. So ...

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Double Baked Cheese Soufflé with Artichokes

March 25, 2019 15 Comments

Twice baked cheese soufflés with artichokes that can be mostly made the day before, and finished 30 minutes before dinner is served. #low-carbrecipes #eggsrecipes #savorysouffles #savorysoufflesrecipes #cheesesouffles

Since double baked cheese soufflés are baked twice, there's no stress over them falling. They make a wonderfully decadent appetizer, side, or even a main dish with a salad. Why Double-Baked Cheese Soufflés are the BEST It's been a long time since I've made a soufflé. Like forever. For starters, they collapse so quickly that by the time they reach the table people wonder why I'm serving a pancake for dessert. And there's a lot of fuss around having a clean ramekin top and edge so nothing ...

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Sumo Citrus Salad with Cauliflower, Olives & Feta

February 1, 2019 11 Comments

Citrus salad with Sumo citrus, roasted cauliflower, kalamata olives, scallions, raisins, and cashews + citrus vinaigrette. #HealthyRecipe #HealthySalad #Citrus #cauliflower #EasyDinner #DinnerSalad

I have 2 things for you today! First up, a Sumo citrus salad loaded with roasted cauliflower, kalamata olives, scallions, raisins, cashews and feta. It's dressed with a bright, orange-citrus vinaigrette. Second, a roundup of more than 20 roasted vegetable dishes for easy dinners that I posted on Parade's online magazine, Parade.com. It's Week 3 of my Vegetarian Meal Plan series. Citrus Salad Time Wintertime means citrus is at its peak, and the stores are full of citrus you only see a ...

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Green Bean Casserole (Vegetarian Keto Low-Carb)

November 26, 2018 12 Comments

Vegetarian, keto-friendly green bean casserole topped with crispy fried onions. This version of the classic holiday dish adds roasted tomatoes and eliminates the cream of mushroom soup. Only ~27 carbs per serving!

If you've ever attended a Thanksgiving dinner anytime in the past 50 years, chances are you had a green bean casserole topped with Crispy Fried Onions. But have you eaten a version that's keto-friendly? The answer is - you probably have if it didn't include Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup (sorry, Campbell's). Does that surprise you? It did me. First, a little history... Dorcas Reilly created this classic holiday dish in 1955 when she was working in the Home Economics Department of Campbell's ...

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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, ...

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Easy Sweet Potato Latkes

November 14, 2018 29 Comments

Appetizer or Entree: Sweet potato latkes with jalapeño, scallions and Ancho chili powder, topped with lime sour cream and chives.

This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Anolon. There are also affiliate links which help support the cost of running this blog. Follow these step-by-step instructions to make Sweet Potato Latkes.  Latkes are synonymous with Hanukkah, but I say this year - you should make Sweet Potato Latkes.  Hanukkah often coincides with Christmas, but this year it begins at sundown December 2 and ends at sundown December 10. For those of you who aren't completely clued in, ...

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Cajun Peppers + Cauliflower ‘Grits’

May 18, 2018 2 Comments

Cajun-spiced peppers and beans over cheesy cauliflower grits.

This is a spin on shrimp and grits, a Cajun favorite, using cajun-spiced baby bell peppers and black beans piled on top of cheesy cauliflower grits. Cauliflower rice is my new thing. And since I'm trying to be grain-free for a month (1 week down, 3 to go!), it's been a great substitute in some favorite dishes. This is my latest tinkering with cauliflower rice - and it rocks, you guys! Cauliflower grits! Who knew??!! Although this dish is an easy weeknight dinner - it comes together in ...

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Old-Fashioned Potato Gratin | #SundaySupper

December 2, 2017 9 Comments

Old-fashioned potato gratin with garlic, rosemary, and Gruyere cheese. Perfect make-ahead dish for a buffet dinner.

This is a traditional, old-fashioned potato gratin my great-grandmother, Mamma, might have made. She was a fantastic baker and cook, and her dinners and brunches were legendary. But this is a dish that invites your own stamp, so feel free to riff away. What we call potato gratin today originated in the Dauphiné region of France as gratin dauphinois, and has as many variations as there are cooks who make it. The original recipe, going back to the late 1700's, calls for thinly sliced raw ...

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Brussels Sprouts Gratin with Quinoa

November 11, 2017 13 Comments

Brussels sprouts gratin with quinoa, bacon, and dried cranberries, topped with maple-butter breadcrumbs and pine nuts.

I've yet to meet a gratin I didn't want to marry. Comfortable unpretentiousness, warm and welcoming, and so flexible. Some are stand-alone dishes, needing only a salad to round them out. Others show up as side dishes on a Thanksgiving table. Sometimes they're healthy, sometimes not-so-much. But they always accommodate almost any vegetable, whether it's a root vegetable in winter, squash in autumn, or tomatoes in summer. First: What Actually Is A gratin?? I always thought gratin meant a ...

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Mediterranean Cauliflower Salad with Crispy Chickpeas + Miso Dressing

June 16, 2017 4 Comments

Perfect clean eating dinner. Warm cauliflower salad with crispy chickpeas, sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamata olives, all tossed in a miso dressing. Do you have certain ingredients you always go to? The Italians, IMHO, have this nailed. Tomatoes, pasta, garlic, basil, and Parmesan. Those five ingredients can make several days of meals for me. Nothing against this winning combination, but I have my own favorites I often go to year-round. Cauliflower. Sun-dried tomatoes. Kalamata olives. ...

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Easy Buttermilk Cornbread

February 25, 2017 12 Comments

Sometime last year, I launched a project. A personal challenge of sorts. I wanted to create the best cornbread recipe ever. I know, I know. It doesn't sound like much of a challenge to you. It's not like, say, training for a year to run a marathon. Or writing a book. Or launching a non-profit. No, I needed to keep it real. Truth: I can never resist cornbread. Never. And there must be thousands of recipes out there, all claiming to be the BEST. There are a surprising number of ...

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