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                                       This luscious Love Soup recipe is an adaptation  of a mushroom-leek soup recipe  in the cookbook called " Blue Moon Soup " by Gary Goss, with amazing illustrations by Jane Dyer. INGREDIENTS 2T vegan butter 1 small leek, chopped (1 to 1 1/2 cups) 1/4 C chopped chives 1/4 C sliced mushrooms (your faves, but do include fresh shitakes, if possible) 2 lg sweet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced 1 T cooking sherry or dry white wine OR apple cider vinegar (added when soup has been removed from heat) (optional) 1 tsp curry powder 1/4 tsp Celtic sea salt 1/2 tsp pepper 2 C soy, rice or unsweetened nut milk. INSTRUCTIONS:  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F 2. Melt the butter in a soup pot on medium heat. 3. Add the leek, chives, mushrooms, half of the sweet potatoes, the sherry if using, curry, salt, and pepper. Saute for 10 min, stirring with a ...

  This delicious Caraway-Cauliflower Soup is based on having had a bowl of it in a local restaurant one day for lunch. I had not tasted caraway for many years and had forgotten that I liked it. INGREDIENTS: * 1 onion, chopped * Golden Bouillion , 2+ cubes *4  carrots, chopped *4 potatoes, cubed *1/2 cauliflower, cut into small florets *1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds *filtered water to cover vegetables when cooking *1 cup plant milk (unsweetened) *salt and pepper to taste *vegan cheese shreds to garnish *lemon squeeze METHOD: 1. Saute the onion in the bouillion. 2. Add the carrots, potato, cauliflower, seeds, and cover with water. Simmer until the veggies are softened 3. Add milk and salt.  4. Add in all the vegetables and blend until smooth. Alternately, leave some of the vegetables in the pot so that the soup is chunky. Stir the soup in the pot to warm through. 5. Dish soup up and garnish with vegan cheese shreds, fresh cracked pepper,and perhaps chopped onion greens. 6. Pro...

Savor the rich, layered flavors of my Harvest Pumpkin Stew,  a vegan twist on traditional beef stew, served in a tender pumpkin shell!  Argentina is not a country that pops to mind when one thinks of Vegan or even Vegetarian fare. Argentina is renowned for its beef-eating, the average consumption of which is something like 150 pounds annually... My beef-raising brother and his wife went to Argentina just to see their famous wandering herds and horses. They had a wonderful holiday. It turns out that they DO actually have some marvellous vegetarian restaurants, probably because they have a large cosmopolitan tourist industry and have hopped on the bandwagon with the rest of the Global community (yay!). I'm featuring a really yummy Vegetable stew, an adaptation of a beef stew. If you are a lover of beef, I would be surprised if you were not delighted to find that you don't actually miss the meat in this particular multi-flavoured vegan stew. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 large Onion, cho...

  Beyond Yummy Smoky Butternut Squash-Apple Soup garnished with Crushed Toasted Squash Seed & Chipotle Ingredients Butternut Squash, fairly large (about 6 cups of flesh, if you can judge that) 1 T. Coconut Oil (or Ghee, if not vegan, or water or broth if excluding oils) 3 large Onions, chopped in Food Processor (or finely chopped by hand) 1 T. Hungarian Smoked Paprika OR 1 tsp. Chipotle Chili powder 4-5 Gala Apples, seeded, cored and chunked (about 3½ cups) 3/4 C. Water with 1/4 C. Apple Cider Vinegar and 1 T. Maple Syrup ( known as ACV Mix) 1 C. Vegetable broth (or use 2 Golden Bouillion cubes   in 1 C. Water) ½ tsp. Celtic Sea Salt ½ tsp. freshly ground Black Pepper INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING THE SOUP (Start preparations about 2 1/2+ hours in advance of meal) Butternut Squash waiting to be baked Preheat oven to 350F/180C 1. Cut Butternut Squash in two, lengthwise, and remove seeds (can be roasted for a few minutes with the squash, then remove from oven)  2. Lay squash ...

Recently I heard that a family member in her early 50s was being seen by a doctor for DVT and that she was hoping that there was a more natural way of dealing with it than the medications her doctor was prescribing. When I had digested this scrap of family ''information,'' I thought about my own lax position (denial, really) and how it would make sense for me to make some changes in my life while I still have some shreds of health and potential fitness. And, of course, I have inherited my mother's compulsive pop reading habit (in my case, the Internet mostly). So, I decided to research and write an article that would incorporate some preventative and alternative health principles into my life that might make DVT somewhat less likely to catch up with me than is likely the case now. I would also like to see our family member above and others benefit from these principles if they decide that they want to. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a critical health concern that af...

Gluten-free stove top stuffing-- a delish nosh bowl along with sauerkraut salad, hummus, broccoli, and kimchee.  The recipe for a plant-based gluten-free stovetop stuffing came about when I was using a little poultry seasoning in what I hoped would be a yummy savory quinoa flour waffle. For some reason, the waffle stuck to the iron (grrr) but I tasted the mess and it was quite lovely.  I filed the idea away for some sort of dish containing quinoa flour and poultry seasoning. After making a series of recipes for whole wheat crockpot bread and quinoa GF crockpot bread , I ended up with a heel of quinoa bread about five days old, needing some rescue recipe (too good to throw out or to allow to mold). Tonight was the night. INGREDIENTS FOR THE GLUTEN-FREE STUFFING RECIPE (Serves 4) The heel of a small heavy, soft  loaf of quinoa bread: about 4 slices + end/crust piece 1 cup of veggie broth (or like-chicken vegan broth) 1/2 cup toasted quinoa flour 3 tablespoons of coconut oi...