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Shiitake mushrooms are loaded with chitosan, a natural component that is said to attract fat and cause it not to be turned into blubber on your thighs, hips or middle. They also have a lot of antioxidants. Plus they are delicious.

Creamy Mushroom Sauce
This sauce is exceptionally yummy on Vegetarian crepes! [...]

Tomato Basil Soup
You can pretty much stick any stray veggies from the …
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Rate this: 3.3

Aging is such a bitch. You hear terms like “healthy aging” but what it boils down to is at about 30 you start to decline, bit by bit, at first so slowly you don’t even notice, but gaining speed as you go. Muscle is lost, Bone becomes brittle, perceptual acuity is lost, speed, [...]

This gorgeous raw salad popped up in my feed reader today.  Having just inherited a fridge full of beets, and having just purchased fennel at the farmers’ market, I viewed it as a message from above that I had to make it.  I hated to cut the lacey greenery off the fennel bulbs, but you [...]

We have this early translucent apple tree.  It should have been all done by now but everything was late this year.  It was productive this season, thanks to some expert pruning, and what’s more, the coddling moths aren’t too bad this year.  So I’m trying to keep my front yard picked up.  These apples are [...]

I know this is not a vegetarian recipe. There are those in my family who must have meat from time to time. If you eat meat, a recipe like this one is a good way to make a little meat stretch quite a way. And it has collard greens in it, [...]

Kinoko no takikomi gohan
Japanese Vegan Maitake Rice
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Rate this: 3.5

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I always wondered why the miso soup in restaurants tasted so good and mine was just barely edible.  One day I observed that the miso soup at my favorite Japanese restaurant (Aomatsu) was lighter colored than the stuff that I made at home.   Next time I shopped for miso I got mild white miso instead [...]

I came up with this original recipe when I wanted something cold, smooth, healthy and delicious. After several tries, this is what we landed on in the Dorkage test kitchen.
Notes:  If using a small papaya, use half a papaya in this recipe.  Virtually all of these ingredients are optional except the papaya. I would leave [...]