Mother Cook

Meatless Lenten Fridays can mean rich vegetarian dishes
GrossePointeToday.com
... something hearty and vegetarian for the Lenten season for those of you who practice fasting on Fridays. Growing up in our east side Catholic home we did not eat meat on Fridays year-round. My mom was always looking for new recipes for these days.

Column: Entice your family to eat vegetarian fare
Shelby Star
I'd made my mashed potatoes that they love, and I'd found a vegetarian meat loaf recipe, and I had actually followed the directions and felt pretty good about my meatless loaf. My senior son walked in and asked, “What's for dinner?”

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VegOnline.org Relaunches Redesigned Website With Daily Vegetarian Recipes and ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
VegOnline.org has redesigned its website in order to deliver more vegetarian recipes, more information helpful for eating a vegetarian diet, and more to love for anyone even a little curious about a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, including nutritional ...

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Hamantaschen steeped in history, flavor
Poughkeepsie Journal (blog)
Today's Busy Cook in the Poughkeepsie Journal features a story on Purim and a vegetarian recipe for Turkish Red Lentil Balls. As in most holidays of all faiths and persuasions, food plays a big role in the celebration of this feast day.

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Vegetarian daughter forces mom to rethink recipes
STLtoday.com
A recipe from "Vegetarian Food for Kids: Nutritious and Delicious Recipes for Healthy Children," by Laura Washburn, will sure to please your little vegetarian in the house. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune/MCT) It's a familiar refrain.

STEPHEN FRIES: Catching up with Claire​ Criscuolo: Losing her husband, writing ...
New Haven Register
Hopefully, one day she will find the time and strength again to share her creative vegetarian recipes with us. When I asked Claire, why she decided to write her fourth cookbook, she replied, “Frank came home one day, after enjoying a cigar with their ...

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Vegetarian recipe: Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers
McPherson Sentinel
By Anonymous * Cut tops off peppers and remove seeds; set aside. In a large bowl, combine the rice, tomatoes, corn, onion and beans. Stir in the Monterey Jack cheese, olives, basil, garlic, salt and pepper. Spoon into peppers.

New York Times (blog)
Ravenous | A New Cookbook
New York Times (blog)
It's a vegetarian cookbook, and I'm decidedly not a vegetarian. I don't read cookbooks only for the recipes, though. I read them for the cooks and their particular passions. I've found that the best cookbooks are also memoirs, diaries or confessionals ...

Seattle Weekly (blog)
Recipe: Cuban Black Bean Soup
Victoria Times Colonist
By Patricia Reaney, Reuters February 28, 2012 Crescent Dragonwagon's latest cookbook, "Bean by Bean," contains 175 recipes for meat and vegetarian meals, as well as the basics about different beans and their origins, and selecting, preparing, ...
Legumes: Sustainable options meateaters can relishVancouver Sun
Cookbook review: 'Bean by Bean,' by Crescent DragonwagonLong Beach Press-Telegram
Bean by Bean Is Packed With Nutritious and Delicious RecipesSeattle Weekly (blog)

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Recipe: Cuban Black Bean Soup
StarPhoenix
By Patricia Reaney, Reuters February 28, 2012 9:09 AM Crescent Dragonwagon's latest cookbook, "Bean by Bean," contains 175 recipes for meat and vegetarian meals, as well as the basics about different beans and their origins, and selecting, preparing, ...

Modern Manna recipe / Artichoke bottoms with egg yolk and goat cheese
Haaretz
By Vered Guttman This lovely looking vegetarian dish can be served over a simple green salad for breakfast or lunch. You can get frozen artichoke bottoms in many Middle-Eastern grocery stores, or canned at Whole Foods. If you're using frozen artichoke ...

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Well-Fed Vegetarian: Geoffrey Zakarian's Creamy Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragout
Mouthing Off (blog)
BY JASMIN SUN, DIGITAL EDITORIAL ASSISTANT In Well-Fed Vegetarian, chefs spotlight fantastic Food & Wine recipes that are worth forgoing meat. The Next Iron Chef winner Geoffrey Zakarian created this creamy polenta-and-mushroom-ragout recipe out of his ...

The Herald-Mail
Clinic fundraiser a souper event
The Herald-Mail
While most of the diners at the 20th annual Potters Bowl headed to the nonvegetarian soups Sunday, Susan Stull went straight to Manny Shaool, who was once again serving Aushe Reshte, a Persian vegetarian soup. “I look forward to this every year,” said ...

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Lentils (and other legumes) for Lent | The Republic
The Republic
Although she's “The Passionate Vegetarian” (the title of another of her books, one that won her the James Beard Award), Dragonwagon isn'ta dogmatic vegetarian. Small icons at the beginning of each recipe in “Bean by Bean” indicate if they're vegan, ...

The Guardian (blog)
No parmesan please, we're vegetarian
The Guardian (blog)
Rose Elliot buoyed my former ignorance with her reliance on parmesan in several books I used to see as veggie bibles, while Delia Smith has been called for using it in Delia's Vegetarian Collection and online recipes. One commenter on her forum makes ...

What to feed the new vegetarian in the house
Lansing State Journal
A recipe from "Vegetarian Food for Kids: Nutritious and Delicious Recipes for Healthy Children," by Laura Washburn, will sure to please your little vegetarian in the house. (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune/MCT) / Bill Hogan/MCT It's a familiar refrain.

Taste.com.au
Spinach and ricotta stuffed half-moon gnocchi with butter and sage sauce
Taste.com.au
Stuffed vegetarian gnocchi with a buttery sauce deserves to be star attraction of any menu. Place potatoes in a large saucepan. Cover with water. Season well with salt. Bring to the boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium.

Telegraph.co.uk
The new vegetarian: caramelised chicory with roasted parsnip mash recipe
Telegraph.co.uk
By Vava Berry Peel quarter and core the parsnips, and blanch in boiling water for five minutes. Drain and place on an baking-tray lined with paper. Drizzle with the olive oil and season well. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until tender.

Philadelphia Inquirer
V For Veg: African Americans are indeed in the vegan mix
Philadelphia Inquirer
But there are many reasons and rationales for eating vegan and vegetarian. Redcross believes a more health-conscious attitude in her own community is helping bring people out to the vegan brunch she and her husband, Mercer, throw nearly every Sunday at ...

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Jewish Chronicle
Recipe: Sweet potato canneloni
Jewish Chronicle
JCI's delicious vegetarian starter or side. If your sweet potatoes are too small to make 5x10cm rectangles, line up smaller rectangles and roll them together. Lay them on a piece of clingfilm to help. Once rolled, the cannelloni can be refrigerated, ...