-
Recent Posts
- It’s St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with James Joyce and Guinness Inspired Recipes
- Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks: Beach+Food+Perfect Man=Romance
- How to Make Sweet Potato Fries: Because you CAN have your fries and bake them too
- How to Make Easy Chocolate Covered Strawberries: A Book Club Treat!
- How to Make Beet Pancakes: This Heart Day, Impress your Mark Darcy with Pink Food
Archives
Categories
- 5 ingredients or less
- A Christmas Carol
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Amy Tan
- An Irish Country Doctor
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
- Animal Vegetable Miracle
- Anne of Green Gables
- Asian
- Bet Me
- Beverages
- Book Club Snacks and Appetizers
- Books
- Breads
- Breakfast
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Cake
- Candy
- casseroles
- Charlotte's Web
- Cheese
- cook books
- Crime and punishment
- Desserts
- Dunaway's Crossing
- Easy preparation
- Harry Potter
- Healthy alternatives
- Holiday dishes
- House of Mirth
- Hunger Games
- Italian Food
- James Joyce
- Let the Great World Spin
- Lord of the Flies
- Lowcountry
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Meaty Main Dishes
- Mexican Food
- Miracle Girl
- Nicholas Sparks
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- one-dish meals
- Phillipa Gregory
- Pies
- Pregnancy Food
- Safe Haven
- Salads
- sandwiches
- Seafood
- Side dishes
- Soup
- summer desserts
- Summer dishes
- The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Crucible
- The Divine Comedy
- The Five People you Meet in Heaven
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Help
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- The Secret Garden
- The Shopkeeper
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- the view from the top
- The Vines
- The Water is Wide
- This Side of Brightness
- Uncategorized
- Vegetarian
- What to Expect When You're Expecting
-
Join 168 other subscribers
Meta
Category Archives: Vegetarian
How to Make Sweet Potato Fries: Because you CAN have your fries and bake them too
By: Melanie If you read our blog with any degree of frequency, you may have gathered a few things about me: I prefer paperbacks to e-books and classics to the weekly best sellers. I also have a culinary habit that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Easy preparation, Healthy alternatives, Side dishes, the view from the top, Vegetarian
Tagged baked sweet potato fries, book reviews, books, cooking, food, health food, healthy side dishes, how to make sweet potato fries, Recipes, side dishes, sweet potato fries, sweet potatos, young adult books
Leave a comment
How to Make Beet Pancakes: This Heart Day, Impress your Mark Darcy with Pink Food
By: Melanie It’s nearly Valentine’s Day, and this year, there’s real reason to rejoice: news just broke that there is another installment of my favorite guilty pleasure, Bridget Jones, in the works. The third book in the series is due … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Bridget Jones's Diary, Healthy alternatives, Holiday dishes, Vegetarian
Tagged beet pancakes, book reviews, books, breakfast foods, bridget jones's diary, healthy recipes, new bridget jones book, recipe for beet pancakes, Recipes, recipes using beets, valentines day, valentines day recipes, whole wheat beet pancakes
2 Comments
The Perfect Holiday Cocktail: A Clockwork Orange Vodka Fizz
By: Melanie Hooray! The holidays are upon us once more. Tis the season! The season for indulging. For chex mix, cheese logs, pecan pies, deviled eggs, and jell-o molds. (Or not. maybe you’re looking to be sensibly abstemious this go-round. … Continue reading
Posted in 5 ingredients or less, A Clockwork Orange, Beverages, Breakfast, Easy preparation, Holiday dishes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
Tagged a clockwork orange, anthony burgess, best holiday cocktails, drinks to serve for christmas, drinks to serve for thanksgiving, drinks to serve for the holidays, drinks with vodka, easy holiday cocktail recipes, holiday cocktail recipes, holiday cocktails, how to make a mocktail, how to make a vodka fizz, mocktail recipes, morning cocktail recipes, orange vodka fizz, themes in a clockwork orange, vodka fizz, vodka recipes
1 Comment
How to Make Baked Butternut Squash Risotto: An Unexpected Favorite of the Picky Toddler
By: Melanie There was a time, not so very long ago, when I was truly a devourer of literature. I mean, really, I practically ate books for breakfast. Though I still make time to do plenty of reading for me, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Easy preparation, Italian Food, Vegetarian, What to Expect When You're Expecting
Tagged baked butternut squash risotto, baked risotto recipes, book reviews, butternut squash, butternut squash recipes, butternut squash risotto recipe, Fall foods, fall meal ideas, fall recipes, food ideas for picky toddlers, foods for toddlers, how to make butternut squash risotto, how to make risotto, how to puree butternut squash, meal ideas for picky toddlers, meals for toddlers, risotto recipes, what to expect the first year, what to expect the toddler years, what to expect when you're expecting, what to feed a toddler
Leave a comment
How to Make Cheesy Grits: Musings from a Brooklyn Bound C Train
By: Melanie I recently took my first trip to New York City-an obvious hub of culture, history, art and society. My sister in law Diana, who also majored in English at Oregon State, was my traveling companion, and so the … Continue reading
Posted in Easy preparation, Lowcountry, Side dishes, This Side of Brightness, Vegetarian
Tagged cheese grits, cheesy grits recipe, colum mccann, grits recipe, grits recipes, how to make cheesy grits, low country recipes, new york food, new york subway, recipe for grits, southern food, this side of brightness
2 Comments
How to Make Cheddar and Chive Biscuits: Confessions of a Recovering Book Snob
By: Melanie It’s true, of course, that Christy and I write YA and I do love to read in that genre, but I cannot lie: my heart belongs to the classics. From Dickens to Rand, Wilde to Gogol, and Austen … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Breads, Breakfast, Holiday dishes, Lowcountry, Side dishes, The Shopkeeper, Vegetarian
Tagged biscuit recipe, biscuits, book review, cheddar and chive biscuit recipe, classic books, harry potter, how to make biscuits, james d. best, the shopkeeper by james d. best, western books
2 Comments
How to Make Tostones: Brief prep, Wondrous taste
By: Melanie I have a bit of a confession to make, and I hope this won’t come as a total shock to all the loyal readers[1] out there: I haven’t always been this cool. I know…take a minute. Wrap your … Continue reading
Posted in 5 ingredients or less, Book Club Snacks and Appetizers, Easy preparation, Side dishes, Summer dishes, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Vegetarian
Tagged Domican Republic food, Domincan Republic cooking, Domincan Republic recipes, fried plantains recipe, how to cook plantains, how to make fried plantains, how to make tostones, The brief wonderous life of Oscar Wao, tostones, Tostones recipe
4 Comments
How to make Valentine’s Day Candy: It’d be a crime not to try this treat
By: Melanie Though I’m slowly coming around, Valentine’s Day has never been my favorite holiday. While, sure, it’s cool to get a card or some flowers, I’d much rather receive something a little more personal: a thoughtful homemade note, perhaps. … Continue reading
How to make cornbread: Your ration day survival plan
By: Melanie I am an experimental cook. Though my husband, Brian, will attempt enthusiasm, there is always an underlying look of fear on his face when I remark that I’m making some totally awesome meal that I thought of in … Continue reading
Posted in 5 ingredients or less, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Breads, Easy preparation, Side dishes, Vegetarian
Tagged book reviews, bookclub, books, cornbread, food, Recipes
Leave a comment
Pregnancy Foods: What to Expect for your Grocery List
By: Christy Did you know (according to Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 5th edition) the most common food cravings among pregnant women are Chocolate (33%) Sweets of some sort (20%) Citrus fruits and juices (19%). I belong to the latter … Continue reading
Posted in 5 ingredients or less, Book Club Snacks and Appetizers, Breakfast, Easy preparation, Healthy alternatives, Pregnancy Food, Vegetarian, What to Expect When You're Expecting
Tagged healthy breakfast, healthy lunch, healthy pregnancy eating, how to eat when pregnant, pregnancy diet, pregnancy food ideas, snacks
3 Comments
Book Eats 