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Food Gifts: Creamy Vegetable-Lentil Soup Dry Mix

Curious for ideas on savory, non-sweet gifts you could make up easily? Consider this one...which can be presented as a plant-based, minimally processed and vegan friendly gift, always a bonus? I adapted a recipe I saw in the 2012 issue of Better Homes and Garden Food Gifts: It is one of the thick "magazines" that are more… Continue reading Food Gifts: Creamy Vegetable-Lentil Soup Dry Mix

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Vegan Comfort Food: Blue Cornmeal Muffins & Broccoli Soup

Looking outside was dismal enough, wind screeching, rain dumping. Went and looked at Weather Underground's map...yikes, shouldn't have. The Cascade Mountains are being pounded with snow, a swath of green/yellow and orange over most of Western Washington (blue in the mountains). OK, soup day it is! It just seemed right. Up first though, I had… Continue reading Vegan Comfort Food: Blue Cornmeal Muffins & Broccoli Soup