Vegetarian Meals

Homemade Pumpkin Pie from scratch
Thursday, November 2, 2023
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6 min read

Pumpkin Pie from scratch

Thanksgiving is in a couple of weeks and I'm already starting to plan for the annual feast. If your family is like ours, then the Thanksgiving holiday is a time when you put aside new recipes and return to traditional food favorites and guilty pleasures. Even though I love the turkey and the sides, the dessert is what I most look forward to. Pecan and Pumpkin pies are always a part of our holiday meals. Here is step-by-step recipe to make your pumpkin pie from scratch, starting with roasting your pumpkin and finishing with a whole wheat crust.
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Tofu "Crab" Cakes
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
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5 min read

Tofu Crab Cakes recipe

It's summer and some of the classic tastes of the season derive from our memories of trips to the beach. Fried clams, fresh oysters, shrimp boils, lobster rolls. Seafood evokes the smell of the ocean and the feel of the…

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Dandelion Greens
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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6 min read

Eating Dandelion greens – the bitter, delicious truth

Foraging and cooking dandelion greens is a Southern tradition from way back. It's very much a part of the Appalachian Scots-Irish tradition of picking "potherbs" to serve as a salad or boiled up with a bit of salt pork. Especially in Spring, dandelions and other wild greens can be the first things to sprout in the yard, making them easy to forage.
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Porcini Mushroom Barley Soup
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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5 min read

Porcini Mushroom Barley Soup

The Italians, especially the Tucsons, use porcini mushrooms, fresh or dried, in sauces, risottos and stews. When you buy them dried, they have a very concentrated savory mushroom aroma. Because I could not bring home the fresh porcini, I was happy to bring home a few vacuum packs of the dried mushrooms as a souvenir of Tuscany.
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Pickled Eggplant
Friday, October 25, 2013
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3 min read

Italian Pickled Eggplant

As part of apertivo in Fano, Italy, I had eggplant that was delicious. I've had plenty of marinated or roasted eggplant before, but this was a tangy, raw eggplant pickle. When I came home, I knew that I had to try to make pickled eggplant myself.
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Thai Tomato Coconut Soup
Thursday, October 17, 2013
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3 min read

Easy Thai Tomato Coconut Soup

One cool trick that I've learned is to make tomato soup from canned tomatoes. I always keep cans of diced tomatoes in the pantry. If I dig a little deeper, I can usually find a can of coconut milk, too. So, if I just add some onion, garlic, celery, pepper and fresh basil & ginger, I have a delicious, creamy Thai-flavored Tomato Coconut soup that I can make in about 15 minutes.
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