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Eat Your Vegetables: Simple Boiled Kale

If greens were meat, winter kale would be the hangar steak. It's not like spinach (the filet, if we're sticking to our analogy), which takes mere seconds to melt down quickly in a pan. No, some tough,...

Quick Lunch: Sweet Potato with Maple-Pecan-Shallot Butter

Okay, so there's no protein to tide you over until dinner... But a baked sweet potato is one of our favorite quick, vegetarian meals. And the jazzed-up butter makes it so much more interesting. Get ...

Three Quick Suppers: Pasta, Broccoli, and Feta Cheese

We gave you a recipe earlier today for pasta with feta cheese and broccoli, but we blushed when we realized that this is not the second but the third pasta, broccoli, and feta cheese recipe we've publ...

From The Email: 5 Cookbooks for Gardeners, Harvesters and Lovers of Vegetables

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on May 16th. To sign up for our weekly email sign up in the column to the left or click here. This month, we've been touting garde...

Living the DIY Wedding: The Food

I got married a week ago. Instead of the usual fears -commitment, weather, stepkids' sabotage - I spent the weeks leading up to the event wondering if I was capable of cooking a meal for 50 hungry peo...

Jamie Oliver Kills Baby Chicks on TV

Whoa. Have you seen this yet? It's slightly old news, but still very timely. Last January Jamie Oliver invited guests to a dinner with cute centerpieces: baby chicks. He separates the males from the f...

Eating Vegetarian More Often

It's no secret that many of us eat meat, and enjoy eating meat. But we also recognize that it's easy to fall into a trap of putting it at the center of every meal - the way we ate growing up. Now we'r...

Look! Radishes and Buttered Bread in Bon Appétit

We couldn't help but notice this beautiful photo of thin-sliced radishes on buttered bread in the April issue of Bon Appétit, since it reminded us of a favorite snack we've shared with you befo...

Seasonal Inspiration: Raw Beet Salads

We've whined enough about wanting spring to get here already. So, in the interest of turning the page, here is a fresh, happy take on beets that might tide you over until the farmers' markets get colo...

Blogging Saveur: Best Vintage Vegetarian Cookbooks

The April issue of Saveur includes reviews of new and vintage vegetarian cookbooks. There are so many new cookbooks out every year, and we often feel overwhelmed with choices. It's refreshing to turn ...

Good Question: Resources for Going Vegetarian?

Here's a good question from reader Merrill. Merrill is thinking about taking the plunge and going vegetarian! Can you help? I've been enjoying all the posts generated from the beef recall (and accom...

Healthy Eating: Alternative Sprouts Sandwich

Earlier today we alerted you to an alfalfa sprout recall on the West Coast. Sad news, especially since one of our favorite vegetarian lunches is a sandwich made of good bread, a thick layer of cream c...

How to Cook Beans

Beans are an overlooked, sadly underused kitchen staple. The first time we tried Rancho Gordo beans we were stunned then seduced by the rich, smoky depths of flavor in a simple pot of beans. Our rec...

Good Magazine: Pampered Cows Taste Better ... Who Invented Tofurky?

The Food Issue of Good Magazine just got a lot more relevant. Have you seen it yet? ......

Weekend Eating: Back to Whole Grains & Vegetables We Go

OK - that's it. Valentine's Day is over, along with Baking Week, Chocolate Week and every other excuse to bake cookies or eat sugar for breakfast. We're cooking healthy from now on - or at least til...

Beating the Winter Vegetable Blahs: Battle Plan

Throughout November and December, we're happily content to eat winter vegetables in familiar and comforting ways. Big bowls of garlic mashed potatoes, sweet potato rolls, and braised onions are all fr...

Mark Bittman on Minimizing Meat

So. Did you read Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times this weekend? Bittman, who is definitely not a vegetarian, lays out the hard facts about meat, energy, and the American diet. ...

Bacon Salt: Vegetarian AND Vegan?

Our friend Michael of Herbivoracious (and of that splendid spicy chickpea stew) tells us, to our surprise, that bacon salt is both vegetarian and vegan! To demonstrate, he makes a vegan Farro with C...

Survey: Vegan, Vegetarian, or Omnivore?

New year, new foods, new kitchen choices. As we move into a new year of eating, we are curious about what you eat. It seems like there is a strong contingent of vegetarians in this community, and ve...

Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Stuffed Pumpkin

Turkey is the traditional showstopper on a platter at Thanksgiving, but what if you're planning a vegan or vegetarian holiday meal? This Pumpkin Stuffed with Vegetable Stew over at Epicurious is a g...

Veggie Sites for the Oberservant

Continuing on the theme of vegetarianism, veganism and Lent, we drummed up a few faith-based vegetarian and vegan resources for those who lean in that direction: • Veg4Lent • Christian Vege...

DUMBO Gets Raw: The Plant

Matthew Kenney, the man behind the raw, vegan and vegetarian food at Pure Food & Wine in Gramercy, and author of Raw Food Real World is at it again. The beauty-boy has built a new center for natural ...

A Word to the Vegetarians

Dear Vegetarian Friends, Pardon all the talk about turkey. We honor you for your food choices. We, too, are concerned about the health of the planet and the health of our bodies, and so we make cho...