Welcome to Vegetarian Foodie Fridays! Where we’re not just Meatless on Mondays, but all week through! Hi! My name is Melodie and I’m a long time vegetarian who’s into real food, holistic nutrition, and healthy living but suffers from a sweet tooth! (I love homemade baked goods and ice cream). To learn more about why I [...]
Hi everyone. I’ve gone away for a few days for some “me time,” so there’s no recipe for you today. But please do link up so others can find you and I’ll come and visit when I return. Thanks and have a great weekend. Melodie Welcome to Vegetarian Foodie Fridays! Where we’re not just Meatless [...]
This week my mom had us over for dinner and for dessert she made blackberry tarts. I was thoroughly enjoying them until she told me the tart shells were made from lard. My mom is lactose intolerant so I knew there wasn’t any butter in the shells. I was already trying to block out the [...]
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We moved into our new house this week. All day yesterday I unpacked boxes only to take a break to pull some weeds from the overgrown garden. (I discovered a rosemary plant! Hooray!) As of today I still can’t find our cutlery or my blender or food processor. Good thing we have some old forks [...]
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I’m on a Mollie Katzen kick this week. I saw her cookbook The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without at our library and was compelled to check it out. If Mollie Katzen can’t live without these recipes then who am I kidding? I’m obviously missing out on something. No I didn’t get the recipe name [...]
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This is a modified recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook that I have made a couple of times to rave reviews. From everyone but my husband, that is. He calls cauliflower “the devil’s vegetable.” Truly. He said so just tonight. Then we all went around naming our favorite “evil vegetable.” Mine is parsnip, our friend’s [...]
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Hooray! Something new to make with cabbage! Part of my intention with Vegetarian Foodie Fridays is to make at least one, if not two or more, of the dishes posted on my linky each week. This week I decided to feature one of the dishes I tried at Vegetarian Foodie Fridays. This past week I [...]
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