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Recipes using vegetables, legumes or grains as the main ingredient

Chopped Kale & Red Cabbage w/ slices of raw red peppers, shaved carrot, sliced green onions w/ brown rice & cilantro in a white bowl with a side of brown peanut salad dressing

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2 small wood bowls filled with brown miso soup with green onions and sliced mushrooms floating. 2 traditional Japanese spoons. Top view.

Easy Miso Soup

5 Roast Sweet Potato Slices on a white plate with a dollop of sour cream and chive garnish.

Roasted Sweet Potato Coins with Cumin

Browned whole head of cauliflower on an elevated rack above parchment paper. Side view.

Simple Whole Roasted Cauliflower

Top down view of white plate with rice and red curry garnished with sliced green onions and green herbs. Silverware on the side. Close up.

Roasted Mashed Eggplant Tomato Curry with Rice

Baked Crispy Kale "Chips" On A white plate. Side View

Crispy Oven Baked Kale Chips

Top view of white oval bowl of black beans with a cilantro leaf garnish.

Easy Spiced Up Black Beans

Wood bowl of pimento cheese with 3 crackers and a small spoon hanging out. Crackers on plate in background and one with pimento cheese on it.

Easy Homemade Pimento Cheese

Yellow Spanish Rice With Peas and Carrots In a Brown Bowl With a spoon On a Dark Wood Table.

Easy Homemade Yellow Spanish Rice

Guacamole in a wood bow with toasted pepita garnish with a spoon in bowl. Blue tortilla chips and bowl of salsa in background.

Pepita ( Pumpkin Seed) Guacamole

Apple, Celery, Raisin & Walnut Salad In A Brown Dish With a Spoon

Simple Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad

Top down view of pasta on a white plate. Pasta is filled with ingredients and has lemon zest and parsley on the top.

Mushroom Zucchini Pistachio Pasta with Parmesan

Pureed Black Bean Soup In a Brown Bowl (Side Angle) with A spoon with an orange container of lime wedges.

Easy Blended Black Bean Soup

Top view of white plate/bowl of white rice covered in a yellow curry sauce with cubed tofu, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and peas. Fork and spoon on napkin on side.

Tofu Vegetable Coconut Curry with Rice

White plate on white tablecloth. Plate has cooked chopped greens and onions and a fork on the side. Close up.

Easy and Simple Swiss Chard Recipe

4 roasted cabbage wedges seared brown sitting in brown broth on a white plate with wood bowls in the background. Top down view, close up.

Seared and Braised Cabbage Wedges

PInk grapefruit segments with black kalamata olives and fresh chopped rosemary in a wood bowl. close up. top view.

Grapefruit and Fried Olive RosemarySalad

3 Parmesan Crisps with specks of thyme on a Wood Cutting Board

Easy Homemade Parmesan Crisps (Frico)

Top down view of a large white bowl of bean soup in broth with bay leaves on top. Close up.

Simple Vegetarian Black Eyed Peas and Rice

Red purple sliced cooked cabbage in a stainless steel pan on a wood table. Close up.

Simple Sautéed Red Cabbage

Top view (close up) of 3 potato latkes on white plate with sour cream and chopped parsley and a small fork. Baking sheet with 3 latkes in the background.

Crispy Homemade Potato Latkes

Wood bowl of Kale greens sauteed with a fork sticking out. white table. colorful flower napkin. top view.

Easy and Simple Cooked Kale Greens

Crispy roasted chunks of celery root on a brown platter with a wood spoon and a green garnish. Top down view.

Easy Oven Roasted Celeriac (Celery Root)

Oval baking dish of carmelized Roasted cubed butternut squash. Wood serving spoon in back. Side view.

Easy Roasted Butternut Squash Chunks

Brown Roasted Brussels Sprouts, cut in half, and on a white plate with pink roses on the edge and a silver spoon.

Easy Roasted Brussels Sprouts Halves

White plate with yellow flowers filled with a slaw like recipe with nuts. Wood spoon and white plates in the background. Close up.

Sliced Brussels Sprouts with Almonds and Balsamic

Side view of chunked carrots in a tan bowl with orange zest garnish and a spoon out the side..

Orange and Ginger Glazed Carrots

Roasted cauliflower half face down sprinkled with cranberries, pistachios, and chopped rosemary.

Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Pistachios and Cranberries

Baked Mediterranean Frittata in Oval Baking Pan with cherry tomatoes, spinach, eggs, feta, capers, and olives

Healthy Oven Baked Mediterranean Frittata

Roasted butternut squash on top of arugula on a white plate. Garnished with chopped walnuts and red pomegranate kernels. side view.

Roasted Butternut Squash Arugula Salad

Scalloped Potatoes Cooked Golden Brown in Cast Iron Skillet with Thyme garnish.

Cast Iron Skillet Scalloped Potatoes

8 little crostini toast on a green slab board topped with goat cheese and cranberry sauce and garnished with rosemary. Side view.

Cranberry Goat Cheese Crostini

Side View of a brie wheel laying on a puff pastry and topped with brown sugar and nuts.

Baked Brie en Croute with Nuts

Roasted Figs sliced in half on a square white plate and drizzled w/ a brown Honey Balsamic sauce with a side of whipped cream.

Roasted Figs with Balsamic Honey Glaze

Mashed Carrots and Sliced Leeks in a cast iron pan with a wood spoon on a brown counter. side view

Mashed Carrots and Butter Leeks

Top down view of white bean dip with lemon zest on top in a wood bowl.

Creamy Lemon Cannellini Bean Dip

Creamy Orange / Yellow Squash soup in a white bowl. White napkin, spoon and black pepper shaker on the side. Top view.

Simple, Easy, and Hearty Butternut Squash Soup

Cooked Cranberry Orange Sauce & Orange Zest Garnish in White Bowl

Cooked Cranberry Orange Sauce (Relish)

Close up of elbow Macaroni & Yellow Cheddar Cheese Pie topped with golden buttery breadcrumbs.

Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pie

Spinach Gratin with a Crunchy breaded topping in a copper baking pan on a wood floor.

Creamed Fresh Spinach Gratin

Roasted Carrots & Radishes with Chevre On White Platter

Stovetop Cooked Carrots and Radishes

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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