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Sweet Potato Corn Chowder

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So I seem to have a bit of an obsession with orange vegetables lately. I feel like I've been posting a lot about pumpkin, butternut squash and sweet potatoes. Maybe it's just the season? Well here we go again. This recipe is from 365 Easy Vegetarian Recipes. Sweet Potato Corn Chowder Serves 4 1 big… Continue reading Sweet Potato Corn Chowder

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Lentil Chili

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I found this recipe AGES ago over at Hillbilly Housewife, a fun website about low cost cooking from scratch. I've had it in my recipe book for a long time and finally got around to making it last week. Click here for the original recipe. Here's the way I made it, with a few modifications:… Continue reading Lentil Chili

Resources

Great Food Blogs

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I've come across some great food blogs this week that I wanted to share: Happy Herbivore Vegan recipe site and blog with an emphasis on whole foods and low fat. I love her elephant logo! I'm dying to try this recipe: Baked Low Fat Whole Wheat Chocolate Glazed Vegan Donuts. Sounds to good to be… Continue reading Great Food Blogs

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Pumpkin Oatmeal

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I've been on an oatmeal kick lately. Maybe it's the cold weather that makes me want hot oatmeal for breakfast. Last week I blogged about Banana Berry Oatmeal and this week we are having Pumpkin Oatmeal. I love all things pumpkin but had never thought of putting it in oatmeal until now. Pumpkin is actually… Continue reading Pumpkin Oatmeal

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Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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For my birthday last fall my in-laws gave me a toaster oven. I had wanted one for awhile as a way to bake small things without heating up the entire oven. I think it will be particularly useful in the summer months when I want to bake but don't want to heat up the house… Continue reading Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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Butternut Squash & Sausage Pasta

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I've really been enjoying exploring vegan cooking and one of the best parts is getting exposed to all sorts of new foods that I might not have ever tried otherwise. One of those foods is Field Roast Grain Meat. Field Roast Grain Meat is actually a meat substitute made out of wheat gluten (sorry celiacs… Continue reading Butternut Squash & Sausage Pasta

Garden

Garden 2009: Failures…

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I wanted to write some posts to catch up on my garden from last year. A couple weeks ago I wrote about my garden successes in 2009. Today is the opposite - the plants that were complete failures in 2009. Cucumbers. Cucumbers were a complete and total failure. I tried planting them twice and barely… Continue reading Garden 2009: Failures…

Environment

Bite Bags

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It has taken some time, but I have managed to transition to using reusable bags when shopping almost all the time. I have a stash of them that I keep in the car at all times and actually remember to bring them in the store about 90% of the time. Then when I get home… Continue reading Bite Bags

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Surprise Harvest

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Look what we found in the garden today: Surprise! The carrots we planted last fall (and never picked) had survived the crazy snow. The snow has finally melted almost all the way so we were able to go check out the garden this afternoon. And we dug up these carrots. We already tried one and… Continue reading Surprise Harvest

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Banana Berry Oatmeal

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I came across this recipe over at The Discerning Brute, a blog for guys that I happen to read sometimes (hey it's interesting!). It looked super delicious and very healthy so I knew I would try it. I made it for a late breakfast/early lunch last weekend after we got back from a morning at… Continue reading Banana Berry Oatmeal