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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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Sumo Citrus Salad with Cauliflower, Olives & Feta

February 1, 2019 9 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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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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Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts & Onions with Eggs

January 13, 2019 4 Comments

Low-carb, keto-friendly balsamic roasted Brussels sprouts and onions with fried eggs for the win. Perfect vegetarian, healthy dinner that's also a great comfort meal on chilly nights. #BalsamicRoastedBrusselsSprouts #RoastedBrusselsSprouts #BrusselsSprouts #LowCarb #BestLowCarbRecipes #HealthyRecipe #VegetarianDinner

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 at least I'm trying. If you're watching ...

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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 28 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. 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 ...

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Cheesy Cauliflower Rarebit Slab Pie with a Rye Crust-#CookbookReview

November 10, 2018 2 Comments

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 ...

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And the Winner is….Spicy Skillet Eggs (Mexican-ish Shakshuka) !

June 28, 2018 Leave a Comment

Shakshouka Eggs (poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce)

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 ...

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Weekly Vegetarian Menu #1

January 4, 2018 3 Comments

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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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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Potato Leek Soup with Hatch Chiles

October 3, 2017 14 Comments

Comforting potato leek soup. Just like the one from your childhood.

It's been awhile since I've posted anything here for you. It's hard to believe how quickly the summer slipped by. I could blame it on the fact that we spent the summer painfully searching, finding, buying, and moving into a new home. And let's not forget that whole unpacking-getting settled thing, which may continue until my grandchildren graduate from college (the youngest are currently slaving over multiplication tables). I could blame my absence on the fact that until recently, much of my ...

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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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