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Category: Vegetarian

Blueberry Cake for Nona

I thought of making Italian Cake for Nona but my best one has two cups of sugar and she doesn’t like overly-sweet American desserts. I had two pints of blueberries

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Finished Dobos Torte on cake plate.

Day 365!

There are still plenty of issues to cover including cooking topics like fermentation and bread starters, and real food issues such as artificial sweeteners, supplements, soy, nightshades, bees, factory farm

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Carrot pesto ravioli served with salad and garlic bread.

Carrot Greens

If you ever saw Bugs Bunny, you know about the long, lacy green tops of carrots that give you a handle to pull them out of the ground (unless the

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Serving gnocchi gratin with salad and garlic bread.

Gnocchi Gratin

I found a container of fresh mozzarella in the back of the refrigerator and have no recollection of buying it and it doesn’t match anything on the weekly menu. It

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Bean burrito served with avocado slaw.

Easy Dinners

While I was staying late after work, the rest of the family put together a dinner from an old Bon Appetit article about quick and easy dinners.[1] The funny thing

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Serving a large square of carrot tart.

Carrots

Last time I reported on carrots I had not come across this 10-year research project that looked at the colors of fruits and vegetables and how their color-associated micronutrients and

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Serving dinner on sunny patio table.

Brown Rice Stir-Fry

It turned out to be particularly ironic that my son volunteered to make a brown rice stir fry today, first because I forgot to point out that the brown rice

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Baking dish full of fresh gnocchi.

Gnocchi

Gnocchi is a versatile little potato dumpling with trademark grooves on one side. Homemade gnocchi is worth the effort once in a while, just like all homemade pasta and dumplings.

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Full pot ready to start to boil.

Vegetable Soup Base

Here are some ideas for vegetable stock and soup base from my neighbors. My next door neighbor saw one of my blog posts where I deposited the tough ends of

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Vegetables arranged like a sunburst on platter of risotto.

Risotto

I’m not going to say how old I was the first time I tried risotto, but I can tell you it was in the past year! It tastes so much

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