Category: Vegetarian
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Fresh Pumpkin Pie (NO cans!)
So everyone’s got a recipe for pumpkin pie, and here’s the best one. (An instructional video for this recipe is located at the bottom.) Of course, the best one involves nothing from a can, which means WORK. I’ll throw you some shortcuts the deeper we get into the recipe, but if you want to make…
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Chocolate Espresso Cheesecake
Cheesecake is so indulgent, right? I have to make it every once in awhile, usually for special occasions, but it’s so rich and so expensive to make that I only do it a few times a year. Coffee is one of my favorite flavors, and that’s why I had to marry it with cheesecake. This…
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Rustic Italian Veggie Pie
I saw a picture of something like this in a vegetarian cookbook, and since my household is temporarily vegetarian while my veggie friend is visiting from Brasil, I decided to make my own version. This is a pretty easy dinner, very hearty, sort of like a calzone. You could really use a variety of ingredients…
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Wild Mushroom and Egg Yolk Raviolo with Black Truffle Cream Sauce
You probably shouldn’t make this. Food this good shouldn’t exist. It sorta ruins the rest of the food in the world after you eat it. But if you MUST… I first had a raviolo (“raviolo” just means a BIG ravioli) stuffed with egg yolk at Joe Bastianich’s restaurant Osteria Mozza, where Mario Batali is the…
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Crispy Eggplant in Pumpkin Coconut Curry
Indian food runs a close second to Thai food for me, in terms of complexity and deliciousness! Curries, which are remarkably simple between Thailand and India, are savory sauces with a complex blend of sweet, sour, spicy, and savory notes. My favorite curries are the ones with a coconut milk base, rather than a broth…
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Whole Grain Low Fat Banana Bread
My parents raised me on a whole grain diet with NO processed sugars. I’m talking course whole wheat and cornmeal, brown rice, with honey as the only permitted sweetener. Needless to say, many of my mom’s dessert recipes, particularly cakes and quick breads, suffered as a result. The texture was never comparable to recipes made…