Fatfree Vegan Kitchen

Wild Plum Sauce

2009-07-06T08:23:00.005-05:00

"You must not be from here." If I had an acre for every time I've heard that, I'd be a farmer by now. It seems that no matter where I live, I manage to say something that betrays the fact that I grew up somewhere else.This latest time I was at the...

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No Recipe but Some Begging and a Cat Photo

2009-07-01T12:39:00.007-05:00

Fatfree Vegan Kitchen is nominated again for a Veggie Award from VegNews magazine. Last year I admit that I felt a little guilty to be nominated two years in a row, but this year...you know what...I want to win! But the competition this year is fierce,...

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Strawberry-Blueberry Tapioca Parfaits

2009-06-28T06:43:00.012-05:00

Red, white, and blue and good for you too!Silly as they are, those are the words that popped into my head as I sat down to write about these luscious parfaits. I had the Fourth of July on my mind when I started planning a dessert with strawberries and...

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E's Samosa Wraps

2009-06-23T23:44:00.001-05:00

Like a lot of 12-year olds, my daughter E is hesitant to try new foods—and when I say hesitant, I mean she has to be bribed, threatened, or otherwise coerced into trying them. So when I recently picked up a couple of Amy's Samosa Wraps because they were...

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Potato-Green Bean Salad with Lemon and Basil

2009-06-14T14:40:00.004-05:00

Potato salads can be dangerous. I'm not just talking about Aunt Mabel's mayo-laden concoction sitting outside at the picnic all day, growing an army of bacteria. No, I mean the less immediately life-threatening danger that typical potato salads present...

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Blueberry-Banana Bread

2009-06-09T09:34:00.006-05:00

Q: What's black and yellow and soft all over?A: The bananas on our kitchen counter when we got home from the beach on Sunday.Of course, when we left on Thursday, the bananas were firm and yellow, even a little green. I'd meant to take them with me, but...

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Savory Swiss Chard Pie

2009-06-01T11:48:00.005-05:00

This year I got a little ambitious with my summer garden plans, and as a result, nothing's really as it should be. By this time of year, I'm normally harvesting the first tomatoes and seeing the promising beginnings of eggplants and okra, but because I...

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Oven-Roasted Corn-on-the-Cob

2009-05-28T12:37:00.007-05:00

This "recipe" goes beyond Ridiculously Easy. I may have to create a new category called Outrageously Ridiculously Easy just for this one. At the risk of hearing a great collective "Duh" from my readers, I shall now impart unto you my new favorite way...

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Ridiculously Easy Lentil Soup

2009-05-21T10:23:00.004-05:00

May is the month when I generally give up on opening our screened windows and settle into the reality of air conditioning. While not as hot as the sauna that is June or the pressure cooker that is July and August, the end of May usually gives us...

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Millet-Stuffed Artichokes

2009-05-18T17:24:00.003-05:00

I love artichokes, but I rarely cook them because the way I learned to eat them involves dipping each leaf into garlic butter. Look at the number of leaves on the average artichoke, and you'll realize that an incorrigible dip-scooper like myself could...

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Spicy Kasha Vegetable Salad

2009-05-13T10:32:00.001-05:00

If you're having trouble fitting a whole grain into your busy schedule, I have a suggestion for you: Pick up a package of Wolff's kasha. It can be used pretty much anywhere you'd use rice, quinoa, or millet, it cooks up faster than any of them, and best...

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Everyday Vegan Foods by Erik Marcus

2009-05-06T11:53:00.002-05:00

If you've been thinking of going vegan but have struggled with the question "What will I eat?" Erik Marcus, publisher of Vegan.com and author of The Ultimate Vegan Guide, has the answer for you. In today's guest post, he suggests three simple foods that...

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Italian Layered Vegetable Casserole

2009-05-03T11:16:00.001-05:00

I'm happy to announce that FatFree Vegan Kitchen has been chosen as the featured blog in this month's Tried & Tasted, a blog event started by Zlamushka's Spicy Kitchen and hosted this month by Vaishali at Holy Cow! The idea is simple: For the month of...

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Spicy Carrot Salad

2009-04-29T10:48:00.000-05:00

These lovely April days, when the temperature is getting hot enough to make being outside a pleasure but being inside with the windows open just on the borderline of too stuffy and uncomfortable, I'm choosing more and more often to skip cooking...

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Artichoke Tapenade

2009-04-22T10:58:00.002-05:00

When D and I got married, 13 years ago next month, we did the catering for our wedding ourselves. Now before you go and get all impressed, I have to point out that it was a small wedding, around 45 close friends and family, and the menu consisted of...

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Wasabi-Roasted Asparagus

2009-04-16T16:36:00.000-05:00

You know that feeling you get when you accidentally gulp down too much wasabi, that white-hot fire blazing through your mouth and up your nose? Well, I like that feeling. Now, I don't coat everything with wasabi, and when I do use it, I try to use...

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Fat-Free Mini Donuts

2009-04-10T11:50:00.002-05:00

If it weren't for my daughter, I probably wouldn't post this recipe. Cute though they are, mini donuts, even if they're fat-free and made with whole wheat flour, really aren't the healthy kind of food that I want to advocate.But my daughter couldn't get...

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Garlic Broth in the Pressure Cooker: A Pictorial Recipe

2009-04-04T12:50:00.003-05:00

In my last post, I asked you to weigh in with your thoughts about pressure cookers, and oh boy did you! I was gratified to hear that so many of you do use--and love--your pressure cookers (PC from here on out) but was disturbed to hear how many of you...

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Herbed Polenta with Beans and Bok Choy

2009-03-31T08:14:00.005-05:00

When writer, speaker, and registered dietitian Jill Nussinow offered to send me and one lucky reader copies of her new DVD Pressure Cooking: A Fresh Look, Delicious Dishes in Minutes, I said yes faster than you can pressure cook a potato. I've been a...

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Tunisian Vegetable Ragout with Quinoa

2009-03-25T10:42:00.004-05:00

Eggplant. For a long time it seemed to me as if being vegetarian meant eating eggplant. I'd go into a restaurant and the one vegetarian item on the menu would be ratatouille, eggplant Parmesan, or pasta with eggplant. Though currently the ubiquitous...

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Strawberry Snack Cake

2009-03-19T22:59:00.002-05:00

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Sherry Lucas, the food writer for our local newspaper, who asked if I'd like to be the subject of an article. Though naturally camera-shy (as well as people-shy), I agreed, and when she suggested that I cook a...

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Colcannon Puffs

2009-03-15T22:47:00.004-05:00

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, tonight I couldn't resist making one more Irish-themed recipe. I had a bunch of kale in the fridge that I needed to use up, so my thoughts immediately went to colcannon, the traditional Irish dish of mashed...

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Irish White Bean and Cabbage Stew

2009-03-11T13:51:00.002-05:00

What makes a dish Irish? Ask the average person on the street and he will probably tell you "corned beef and cabbage," although I have it on good authority that corned beef is not a traditional Irish food. I'm certainly no expert; though I'd like to...

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No-Queso Quesadillas

2009-03-05T00:35:00.002-06:00

I got a craving for quesadillas after seeing a recipe for them in the current Vegetarian Times—which is odd because I don't think I've ever had a quesadilla. Like a lot of popular foods (buffalo wings is another that comes to mind), quesadillas didn't...

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Quick and Easy Potato Soup

2009-02-24T11:15:00.005-06:00

When I first wrote about my new love, my VitaMix blender, and mentioned that my daughter was making herself a batch of potato soup every day after school, I figured it wouldn't be long before I posted the recipe. To tell the truth, it's such a simple...

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