Welcome to my new occasional themed post: Jill’s Picks. In these posts, I’ll compile a few recipes, restaurants, travel spots, and the like that are inspiring me right now. Spring flavors have been inspiring almost all my cooking as of late. Lemon, spring greens like arugula, spring vegetables like asparagus and peas, and fresh herbs […]
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I’ve been loving wheat berries lately. I loved them in the winter Orange Wheat Berry Salad and I love them in this spring salad. They are a nutritious and versatile grain. Plus, I love their chewy texture. However, this salad is also good with any chewier grain – farro, spelt, barley, and millet are also perfectly
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It’s not as intimidating as it sounds. I’ve always balked at making my own vegetable broth. Buying vegetables specifically for broth seemed like such a waste! I may be squeezing out the flavor, but what about the nutrients? So many are left behind in the limp vegetables that are thrown away (or composted). I tried
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At first, I thought is was impossible. Ridiculous. No way was I going to be able to make this recipe taste delicious. Inspired by the 1967 cookbook An Apple A Day…Vegetarian Cookery by Doctor’s Wives, I wanted to take one of the outdated recipes and remake it for today. (Check out last week’s post
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Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite meals of the year! I love mashed potatoes and gravy. But most of all, I love stuffing. Unfortunately, gravy and stuffing is typically not vegetarian. Except when I make it! During recent years, my husband and I travel to his sister’s house for Thanksgiving where an eclectic group
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