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Category: Vegetarian Stews

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo has never been easier… Or healthier!

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo has never been easier… Or healthier!

America’s Salute to Mexico has graced Chewing The Fat for years… Right after today’s story, you can read all about Cinco de Mayo. This year we’re making it easier than ever to celebrate. Here are  4 ready-eat recipes that Cinco and every Taco Tuesday a…

Ratatouille with Fairy Tale Eggplant

Ratatouille with Fairy Tale Eggplant

Now is the time to hit the Farmer’s Market and make this wonderful dish. This recipe is a riff on Tyler Florence’s Ultimate Ratatouille that dates all the way back to his 2006 “Tyler’s Ultimate” (Clarkson Potter). It is still one of my recipe bibles.…

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mushroom Ragout with a Poached Egg

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mushroom Ragout with a Poached Egg

A famous Vegetarian Chef shares a great recipe for Mushrooms as a main course. Yotam Ottolenghi’s posts on Chewing The Fat are some of its most popular recipes. The British-Israeli-Italian’s story has been told in great detail in some of them, the links to which…

Nate Appleman’s Lentil and Egg Stew

Nate Appleman’s Lentil and Egg Stew

Meatless Mondays have been missing from our house. It was not intentional but I had trouble finding recipes that appealed to the palate and to the eyes.  But on one of the daily e-mailings from Healthy-ish, Bon Appetit’s latest venture, I spied this recipe. It…