Carrot Pot Roast Recipe, A Hearty Vegan Main Or Side Dish

If you mention “pot roast” in the U.S., many people think of a hearty comfort food made by slow cooking a tough cut of beef in moist heat—chuck steak, short ribs, rump roast, and others. So what’s a carrot pot roast? It’s a vegan alternative to beef pot roast, that can made the same way:…
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Recipe For A Vegan Fall Cobb Salad, Delicious For Everyone

The Cobb salad was invented late one evening in 1937 when Bob Cobb, owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, was scrounging in the kitchen’s refrigerator for a snack. He grabbed a head of iceberg lettuce, an avocado, some romaine, watercress, tomatoes, a cold breast of chicken, a hard-cooked egg, chives, blue cheese and…
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Winter Squash & Peanut Sauce Recipe For Hispanic Heritage Month

If you like winter squash and peanuts, here’s a side dish that’s delicious and good for you. Called Calabeza Con Pipián Rojo in Spanish, it’s comforting roasted winter squash with beautiful seasoning, covered with a spicy peanut sauce. Pipián rojo is a peanut sauce from the central Pacific region of Mexico, and is typically served…
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Avocado Pesto Pizza Recipe & Avocado Holidays

[1] Avocado pizza with homemade avocado pesto. The recipe is below (photos #1 and #5 © California Avocado Commission). [2] Hass avocados (photo © Hass Avocado Board). [3] Avocado pizza with Serrano ham. The difference between Serrano and Prosciutto hams (photo © Avocados From Chile). [5] Grilled pizza with avocado, fig, and Prosciutto. Here’s the…
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Delicious Korean Dumplings (Vegan!) Shipped To Your Door

We have a quarterly tradition called Dumpling Night. Four times a year, we gather a group of dumpling lovers and order our favorite dumplings from four nearby Asian restaurants—Chinese (potstickers, shu mai, wontons), Japanese (gyoza*), Korean (mandoo/mandu), Thai (gyoza), and when we can get them, Vietnamese (hoanh thanh, Vietnam’s interpretation of the Cantonese wonton). Thanks…
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