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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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Sliced bok choy in a shallow bowl with white chopsticks sitting on the side. Glass of water in the background

Quick Baby Bok Choy with Soy Sauce

Two Bowls of Oat Groats with Strawberries & Blueberries & Pistachios in Bowls. Top view.

Oat Groats with Fruit and Nuts

Cooked quartered orange brown chanterelle mushrooms. on a black plate with small white flowers in the corner.

Easy Sautéed Chanterelle Mushrooms

Blue Bowl of Brown Peanut Sauce with a white chinese style spoon in it. On a bamboo placemat.

Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce with Soy

Corn, Edamame, & Red pepper Succotash with red peppers with a fork in a brown bowl. close up.

Easy Corn and Edamame Succotash

Pan fried and browned cooked tofu in a different shapes (wedges, cubes, slices, triangles) in a dark teflon pan. Side view.

Easy Marinated Tamari Tofu (Soy Sauce)

Two brown bowls with spoons of diced cucumbers and avocado salad. Green onion garnish in a black bowl on the side. White and burgundy patterned napkin on side. Close up.

Addicting Avocado Cucumber Salad

Top down view of a white plate with chopped greens with quartered figs and pine nuts and goat cheese. Fork on the side of plant and pine nuts on the side.

Fig and Goat Cheese Salad with Kale and Pine Nuts

Close up of Deviled Eggs Topped with Chow Chow (Pickled Tomatoes) on a white plate

Deviled Eggs with Pickled Chow Chow

Raw Okra on a Silver skewer over a bowl of cherry tomatoes and halved peaches.

Easy Whole Grilled "unslimy" Okra

Top View Corn & Lima Bean Succotash with diced Zucchini In A brown Bowl with a Wood Spoon

Butter Bean (Lima Bean) and Corn Succotash

French green beans in a white oval platter with a tan trim tossed with dill.

Easy Lemon Dill Green Beans

Egg Salad mixed with mayonnaise and topped with chopped parsley in a white bowl with a wood spoon with a white napkin underneath the bowl. Very Close up.

Simple Chunky Egg Salad

1 white plate with corn on the cob with butter and dusted with chile powder. 3 pieces of plain corn on the cob in the background.

Corn with Honey Lime Compound Butter

A piece of toast on a wood cutting board topped with pimento cheese, arugula, and sliced small tomatoes. 3 tomatoes in backdrop.

Pimento Cheese & Arugula Tartine

Sliced Peaches, quartered figs, chunked pecans, and crumbled blue cheese on a deep plate with fork and napkin. Top view.

Peach, Fig, & Arugula Salad with Blue Cheese

Side view of 3 jars of deep red cherry fig jam with spoons sticking out. Close up.

Easy Fig Jam - No Pectin, No Canning

Small wood bowl filled with shredded cole slaw with crispy tortilla chips in it.

Easy Cole Slaw Dip (Mexican Cabbage Dip)

3 Corn Grilled in Darkened Husks and peeled back to exposed charred kernals.

Grilled Corn On The Cob in Husk

Tomato Tart with different sizes and colors of tomatoes on golden puff pastry with basil leaves and sliced basil garnish.

Easy Tomato Tart with Puff Pastry

Crostini (little toasts) topped with spreaded mascarpone, a peach slice, and a mint leaf. Several crostini's ona wood cutting board.

Peach and Mascarpone Crostini

Patty Pan w Stuffed Wild Rice, Red Peppers, Onions, Celery, Carrots, and Herbs. Side View In A Shallow Baking Dish.

Vegetarian Stuffed Patty Pan Squash

Raw whole okra laid on spaciously on a stainless steel baking sheet.

Easy Oven Roasted Whole Okra

Cauliflower rice with whole cashews, raisins, carrots with curry and garnished with mint. White bowl with spoon. Side view.

Curry Cauliflower Rice with Cashews

Green Shishito Peppers blistered with dark sear marks in a cast iron pan.

Cast Iron Blistered Shishito Peppers

White bowl of ½ blended and ½ chunky cucumber and tomato gazpacho soup with basil leaf garnish

Fresh Cold Gazpacho Soup Recipe

Oval white bowl of corn salad w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, and cilantro. Side view.

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

Seared and browned caramelized sliced zucchini rounds on a white plate with red pepper flakes lightly garnished. Top view crop to a rectangle.

Simple Pan Fried Zucchini Rounds

Close up top image of cooked cherry tomatoes, sliced basil, creamy chunks of goat cheese, sliced pepperoncini, and garlic in a bowl.

Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

Scored, Pan Seared, and Baked Zucchini Halves

Close up of wood bowl of cucumber soup with chunky cucumber and red onion garnish. White bowl of cucumber garnish on side.

Cold Cucumber Dill Soup

Pink Watermelon Popsicles in plastic molds with coloful tops. Around 14 popsicles.

Easy Homemade Watermelon Popsicles

2 bowls of orzo pasta in a green herb sauce with diced cucumbers, red onions, and green onions. One bowl has shredded parmesan and a spoon. Side view.

Lemon Dill Orzo Salad with Feta

Top view of wood bowl filled with white mayonnaise sauce with pickles.

Easy Homemade Tarter Sauce

2 Mason Jars filled with sliced Pickles and vinegar and red pepper flakes and garlic. Side view.

Easy Quick Brined Refrigerator Pickles

White bowl with wood spoon of red quinoa, diced tomatoes and cucumbers and red onions, and chopped parsley mixed together.

Gluten Free Quinoa Tabbouleh

top view of oval shallow bowl and wooden small bowl filled with colorful sliced watermelon radishes, cucumber, fennel, carrots, and celery. Jar of red tomato dressing on the side.

Radish, Fennel, and Cucumber Salad

Chili Lime Compound Butter Roll on a wooden cutting board with a bowl of fresh lime juice with a teaspoon in it, fresh sliced bread, a lime, and ground chili powder with a butter knife.

Chili Butter with Lime and Honey

Top down view of sliced cucumbers and red onions in a tan bowl. Close up.

Cold Cucumber Dill Salad

Close up of Eggplant Parmesan with broiled on Mozzarella cheese and a basil garnish over zucchini noodles. White plate.

Eggplant Parmesan with Zoodles

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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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