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Savory Vegetarian Gravy
This vegetarian gravy (or make it vegan!) is every bit as savory and deeply delicious as its meaty counterparts.
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Roasted Chickpeas, Two Ways
Crunchy roasted chickpeas in two flavors: soy and lime, and pimentón and garlic. Take your pick!
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Homemade Soft Pretzels
Homemade soft pretzels make just about everyone happy.
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Baba Ghanoush
Easy, savory baba ghanoush recipe. This perfect Thanksgiving starter will please carnivores and vegans alike.
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Kale Chips
Kale chips are practically a national pastime at this point. Why not include some in your Thanksgiving lineup?
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Black Bean Tacos (Vegan)
These black bean tacos are one of my favorite meals, period. They also happen to be vegan.
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Homemade Almond Milk Recipe
Homemade nut milks are as easy as they are delicious.
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Pickled Red Onions
These incredibly easy pickled red onions are one of my all-time favorite condiments
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Vegan Pumpkin Muffins
Did you know November is World Vegan Month? These perfect pumpkin muffins are stealth-vegan. The cream cheese frosting...not so much.
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Ottolenghi’s Spiced Red Lentils
These spiced red lentils from Yotam Ottolenghi's new vegetarian cookbook Plenty make a mostly-plants diet a true joy.
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Honey Vanilla Broiled Figs
Broiled figs with honey and vanilla are the world's second-easiest fig dessert (after, of course, raw figs).
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Raw Kale Salad
Have you tried raw kale salad? You'll be surprised how easy it is to like. And as a bonus, you get to massage it.
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How to Cook and Eat a Whole Lobster
How to choose, cook, and eat a whole lobster
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Cherry Vanilla Crisps in Jars
Individual cherry vanilla crisps in jars. Great as gifts -- to others, or to yourself.
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Eggplant and Brown Rice Salad
Eggplant and brown rice salad is the perfect mid-summer picnic fare.
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Strawberry Tartelettes
Strawberry tartelettes with muscovado sugar in pâte sucrée crust.
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Swedish Smörgåstårta
Do you know what a Smörgåstårta is? Don't you wish you did?
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BLT with Avocado
BLT with avocado from Susan Russo's charming new Encyclopedia of Sandwiches
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10 Ways to Get Ready for Berries
The Crisper Whisperer's 10 Ways to Get Ready for Berry Season
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Herbed Deviled Eggs
Be a retro-vore with herbed deviled eggs.
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Homemade Mayo
With homemade mayo ready from the food processor in three minutes, you'll never need the store-bought stuff again.
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How to Cook Dried Beans
How to cook dried beans, and a crowd-pleasing recipe for refried beans.
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Aphrodisiac Rosemary
Rosemary is a powerful aphrodisiac, and she knows it. Add a little lovin' to your Valentine's Day dinner.
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Seriously Savory Nachos
Nachos, Crisper Whisperer style, with cilantro sauce, crisp cabbage, beans and cheese sauce.
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New Old-School Tomato Sauce
New Old-School Tomato Sauce, and an interview about canned tomatoes on NPR's All Things Considered.
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Lotta Jansdotter’s Cinnamon Buns
The Scandinavian cinnamon buns that restored my faith in America.
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Easy Red Lentil Soup
Easy red lentil soup is simple, healthy comfort food in the best possible sense.
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A Lifetime of Cookies
A nostalgic and delicious five-part series inspired by one of the best cookbooks of 2010, and a recipe for Moravian White Christmas Cookies.
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Classic Popovers
Popovers are crisp and buttery on the outside and positively ethereal on the inside.
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How to Stuff Winter Squash
Please your vegetarians on Thanksgiving with stuffed winter squash.
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Silver Palate Cornbread Stuffing
Annual Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup, and a vegetarian version of the Silver Palate's legendary cornbread stuffing.
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Chocolate Pudding
What's better than chocolate? How about $100 Chocolate Pudding.
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Warm Farro with Broccoli & Shiitake
Warm farro with broccoli and shiitakes makes a perfect vegetarian main dish for Thanksgiving.
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Spicy Skillet-Tossed Pepitas
These spicy pepitas make a perfect bar snack or hors d'oeuvre.
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Grilled Swordfish Salad
Grilled swordfish, eggplant and potato salad made with harpoon-caught swordfish
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Rhubarb Gin and Tonic
Rhubarb Gin and Tonic and Homemade Chicken Stock. Can you guess what they have in common?
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Vanilla-Poached Apricots
Lovely little golden things: Vanilla-poached apricots and our new baby chicks.
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Easy Blueberry Crisp
Blueberry Crisp, Yo. (Made with fresh New Jersey blueberries, if you couldn't tell.)
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10 Ways to Eat Joyfully This Summer
10 Small Ways to Eat Joyfully This Summer
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Homemade Lemon Curd
A gift-worthy homemade lemon curd and a book giveaway!
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House-Cured Gravlax
House-cured gravlax is easier than you'd think. By way of proof, I even got it right this time.
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Spiced Cranberry Chutney
Spiced cranberry chutney from the Williams-Sonoma Complete Entertaining Cookbook. Perfect for Thanksgiving.
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Vegetarian Mushroom Stuffing
A lovingly curated collection of the best Thanksgiving recipes and resources online, including this vegetarian mushroom stuffing.
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Salt and Vinegar Broiled Potatoes
Salt and Vinegar Broiled Potatoes
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Perfect Homemade Oatmeal
Learn the secrets to perfect homemade oatmeal.
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Banana Sweet Potato Muffins
Banana sweet potato muffins, and the skeletons in my Halloween closet.
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