Category: Recipes
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Braised Vegetables
Our current social life includes half-a-dozen pot-luck meals each month. These often are short on vegetables. This week I adapted a few recipes to finish up a few items as we prepare to get underway again. Our discriminating neighbors consumed what I had made demonstrating the broad appeal of this dish. Traditionally braising softens a…
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French Toast without Eggs
A no-egg variation of a classic breakfast that tastes at least as good, if not better than the usual. If the price of eggs continues to climb, this could be on the table of many an omnivore as well as vegans.
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Zucchini Topped Potatoes
Our usual baked potato bar got a little creative with an Italian twist. Changing from a large baking potato to small red or golden or purple potatoes added depth to the potatoes. I use canned diced tomatoes since they can sit on my shelf until needed, but whole tomatoes should work well, perhaps better. As…
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Ravioli with Eggplant
“Let’s find a new way to prepare ravioli,” I was encouraged. The recipe we found looked rather bland. Thus I immediately enhanced it with garlic and oregano. This version was rated worthy of adding to our expanding rotation. Yield: 2 generous servings in about 30 active minutes. Ingredients Procedure
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Citrus Poached Spinach
A winery in Michigan offered something like this as one course of a five course meal. Ever since I have speculated how I might replicate it.
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Baked Tofu Hoisin-Sesame Salad
The recipe below adds baking the tofu to amp up the flavor. This made a nutritious and tasty salad to eat on a travel day.
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Vegetarian Quesadillas
We found this one-pot meal to be refreshing and satisfying. This adapted recipe combines comments from another site plus a few of my own modifications.
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Rainbow Vegetable Saute with Wild Rice
“Eat the rainbow,” a vegetarian friend had told us. Thus when this recipe appeared in one of the newsletters I read I had to try it. We enjoyed the version as I adapted it and look forward to having it in the future with a few tweaks. However my style of cooking differed from the…
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Pesto Asparagus with Penne
This one pot meal comes together in about fifteen minutes. This recipe makes two servings.
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Clam Sauce
Serendipitous adaptations to this favorite meal yielded delicious a flavor worthy of the effort to keep it handy. First, I had neither fresh parsley nor basil. Second, a distraction allowed the carrots to brown more than I intended.