Veggie Recipes

Vegetable Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert!!

Asparagus Season—A Reason to Celebrate Spring

Asparagus Season—A Reason to Celebrate Spring

 Spring —Now is the right time. If there is one reason to eat asparagus, there might be a dozen.   The flavor of asparagus is elusive to describe. Is it buttery or herbal, mellow or nutty, or delicious and surprising? Maybe all of these! The delicate taste of...

A Story about Walnuts

A Story about Walnuts

Did you know the botanically speaking, a nut is a fruit with a hard shell containing a single seed. The true nuts you might encounter in the produce aisle include hazelnuts and chestnuts. Many of the products sold as “culinary nuts” belong to other botanical...

Amazing Numbers—Merci Jacques

Amazing Numbers—Merci Jacques

Somewhere in the vast universe of cooking videos, I watched Jacques Pepin create 3 vegetable salads. I was riveted as I always am when watching this great man cook.   But here was the shocker:  the third recipe he demonstrated in the video was a Cream Dressing that...

Curious Tacos

Curious Tacos

Introducing truly unique cauliflower—roast in hot oven with pineapple and taco seasoning (scratch, of course). Fill a crunchy shell, top with shredded cheese and guacamole—Wow!! Will you miss the meat? Cauli Florettes

Fancy Cauliflower

Fancy Cauliflower

An open-faced tart in France is called a Galette, in Italy, a Crostata, in the United States we call them a Rustic Country Tart.  Whatever you call it,  this one is delicious.  Scratch cornmeal pie crust, thin raw cauliflower slices, diced  sopressata, chopped red...

Roasting Cauliflower at High Temp

Roasting Cauliflower at High Temp

"Cauliflower and broccoli look similar at first, and the goal is the same when you're roasting them—sweet nuttiness from browning and caramelization—but cauliflower and its cousin romanesco are much denser than broccoli, and thus need to be treated differently to get...

Appetizer Cauliflower Tart Slices

Appetizer Cauliflower Tart Slices

Pick-up slices of any vegetable tart make a surprisingly welcome appetizer.  This one  has a light bread crumb crust that when mixed with some cheddar cheese and pre-baked creates a perfect base for pan-steamed cauliflower. Cauliflower florets are sprinkled over the...

Broccoli Quiche in Progress

Broccoli Quiche in Progress

I hate soggy quiche crusts. No need to prebake this one with the added cornmeal in the dough. Broccoli is skillet-roasted and as can be seen, it remains green and tender. Tossed in a little butter sauteed leftover ham. We were so hungry, i forgot to take a photo of...

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