This Week, The Theme is an EASY Vegetarian Meal Plan ... I mentioned in my last post, that I had had a skiing accident. This past week, all I wanted was comfort food, like this lentil soup. Well, I had my MRI this morning, and Carnivorous Maximus, who is a retired ER Doc, looked at the images. It appears I completely tore my ACL. So now I face the decision of either (1) surgery + rehab, which will take about 1 year; or (2) aggressive rehab, and hope pray to God PT is good enough to strengthen ...
Instant Pot Curried Lentil Soup
I didn't pull together a Weekly Vegetarian Meal Plan for this week, but I'll be back at the end of the week with a new line up for you for next week. We live in the mountains where skiing is a big deal in the winter. And life suddenly slid sideways for me last Monday when one ski stuck fast on a mogul, and the other continued executing the turn I'd intended. A Ski Patrol guy zipped me down the mountain to the resort clinic on a sled, making me thankful that I still had my goggles. And now I ...
Weekly Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores // Week 4
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 ...
Sumo Citrus Salad with Cauliflower, Olives & Feta
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 ...
Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores // Week 2
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. ...
Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts & Onions with Eggs
I have a new focus on my diet. Let's call it Keto-tarian. As a mostly (wimpy) vegetarian, I get protein from legumes, eggs, occasionally tofu, and dairy. And I eat some fish, particularly when I eat out. But I also eat a lot of carbs in the form of bread, pasta, and whole grains. Whole grains have a great nutrition package, and the carbs are complex, but they're still carbs. So for the record, I still eat them, but am dramatically reducing other carbs. Or ...
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, ...
Easy Sweet Potato Latkes
This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Anolon. 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, Hanukkah is Hebrew for "dedication". Specifically, this holiday commemorates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the ...
Cheesy Cauliflower Rarebit Slab Pie with a Rye Crust-#CookbookReview
A cheesy cauliflower casserole wrapped up in a slab pie with a rye crust. Oh my! Have you ever had Welsh Rarebit? When I was a kid (and long after that), this was one of my favorite dinners. Mom wasn't an adventurous cook, so our version always came from a box with the Stouffer's banner plastered across it. It was years before I realized how easy it was to actually make. Cheddar cheese, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard make up the base, along with some kind of liquid. Beef broth is ...
And the Winner is….Spicy Skillet Eggs (Mexican-ish Shakshuka) !
A Mexican-ish twist on Shakshuka! Last week I posted a poll on Facebook, asking followers to choose between two dishes from the book that they would most like the recipe for. The choices were Spicy Skillet Eggs (a Mexican-ish twist on Shaksuka, a popular north African and Middle-Eastern breakfast) or a very easy Asparagus Risotto made in the Instant Pot. I promised to share the recipe for the winner on my blog, and here it is! The winner was a bit of a landslide, at least partly - IMHO ...
Vegan Asparagus Salad with Potatoes and Lentils in a Lemon Vinaigrette
A spring vegan asparagus salad, hearty enough for a meal, loaded with asparagus, potatoes, lentils, radishes, sugar snap peas, and mint - all dressed with a bright lemon vinaigrette. Spring wakes slowly here in the mountains. After relishing the explosion of spring for decades outside San Francisco, I'm adjusting to a more tentative, gentle springing forth. Full confession: it's painful. I see four fuzzy buds one day on a bush when walking Paprika, and the next day another two gather up ...
Weekly Vegetarian Menu #1
Ok, you guys. Here we go with my first Weekly Vegetarian Menu of the year, leaving you plenty of time to pick up groceries and plan over the weekend. As many of you might remember, I was part of a group with some friends last year where we jointly provided weekly menu plans for you. I offered up vegetarian spins on meat and fish dishes, but I got a lot of pushback from readers who preferred to see vegetarian dinner ideas. I totally get it - you want dishes that were originally created to be ...
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