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Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Slashfood Ate, Thanksgiving, Vegetarian/Vegan While turkey may be the centerpiece of many people's Thanksgiving dinners, the meal would not be the same without its pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, winter squash, parsnips, pears, Brussels sprouts, and much more. In fact, the Thanksgiving turkey seems like the only ...

Today is World Vegetarian Day and also kicks off Vegetarian Awareness month. I tried complete vegetarianism out for awhile and it wasn't for me (my omnivore cravings were just too strong). But I still believe there are a lot of advantages to even a partial vegetarian diet: Eating less meat can be healthier, easier on the environment, and more ...

Zucchini squashing everything else in your garden? Talk about feast or famine. Some Epi members are frantically swapping recipes to keep up with the prolific produce. Do you have any tried-and-try dishes to throw in the mix? We've a whole feature on summer squash and zucchini, so check those recipes out too. I'm trying the Zucchini Curry tonight, ...

Filed under: Books, Cookbook of the Day, Vegetarian/VeganWe've got an oldie but a goodie in the spotlight today. Diet for a Small Planet was written by Frances Moore Lappé and was first published in 1971. It was controversial back then, in large part because it promoted a vegetarian diet at a time when most people in the US were still ...

Filed under: Recipes, Slashfood Bowl 2008 At a Super Bowl Party filled with Velveeta-laden spreads and greasy potato chips, crostini can be a welcome alternative. This recipe is one of my favorites: it pairs creamy goat cheese, tart red peppers and a toasty baguette for a refreshing break from the norm. Continue reading Super Bowl Week: ...

Filed under: Dinner, East Coast, Recipes, NewspapersMaking dinner every night can turn into something of a challenge. Without a little pre-planning, you can find yourself falling into the pattern of having the same things over and over again, every single week. However, with just a little bit of planning, you can make sure that you have everything ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, British Isles, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, Books, How To, Boiling, Roasting, America, Europe, Comfort Food, Spices My Slashfood friends, I am a sadist. Or is it masochist? I never knew the difference between the two. Either way, for some reason known only to, well, to no one, I decided to do the most punishing ...

Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegetables, Recipes, Roasting, Comfort Food Despite the fact that is summer, and the temperatures are going to climb back into the 90's by the middle of the week (at least here in Philadelphia), I have soup on the brain. Since I'm also obsessed with the summer crop of Jersey tomatoes that are rolling into the stores and ...

Filed under: Dessert, West Coast, Vegetarian, Recipes, Fruit, Spirit of Summer, How To, America My Slashfoodie friends, I am at a loss. I have about a bazillion (yeah, so I exaggerated when I said ''gazillion'') cherries sitting on my countertop, and I have no idea what to do with them besides wash them and just eat them straight out of the bowl. ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Recipes, Grilling All across the country, zucchini and other summer squashes are taking over garden patches. They double in size overnight, leaving home cooks pondering new ways to use them up so that their families don't say to them, ''You mean we're having squash? Again?'' The following recipe has ...