The Blooming Platter Cookbook:
A Harvest of Seasonal Vegan Recipes 
Betsy’s first book is a celebration of the seasons, featuring a wide range of accessible and elegant vegan recipes for the home cook. Spanning regional American favorites and global cuisines, these 175 recipes and 8 pages of color photos feature all the essential goodness that fresh vegetables, fruits, and herbs bring to your table, all year ‘round.
Available on Amazon.
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What’s “The Platter”?
The Blooming Platter offers a growing collection of recipes for creative appetizers, beverages, snacks, soups, salads, sides and entrees with a tendency toward ethnic fusion dishes, lightened-up comfort foods and updated classics with a twist. A baker since childhood, I also include a burgeoning selection of dessert recipes that will tempt even the staunchest dairy-lover. Here's to compassionate plant-based cooking and eating!
~Betsy DiJulio
About Betsy DiJulio
When Betsy—an award-winning art teacher and practicing artist—is not teaching, making art, reading, writing, or walking her new dogs, Patsy and Urban, she can often be found in downward dog on her yoga mat.
And after that? A little food, a little more wine, and a lot of communing with friends, family, and students (well, no wine for her students).
In addition to authoring The Blooming Platter Cookbook, Betsy is a regular contributor, columnist, or featured writer for:
- SchoolArts
- Coastal Virginia Magazine
- VEER
- The Virginian-Pilot
- Alimentum
Look for the occasional link here on her website.
Besides art and cooking, Betsy admits to being a little obsessed with:
-Anything eco- or animal-friendly
-Artisanal and small business ventures
-Day hiking
-Consignment fashion
-Design in its many forms, especially interiors and landscapes
Did someone say mid-century modern?
Blooming Blogroll
I decided that, for a little puppy parity, I should post this lovely photo of Miss P, our aging Auzzie mix, in yesterday’s snow storm. At 11 with one hip replacement and one reconstruction, this former stray is the best old gal and she can still jump up on our bed.
February 7, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Hey Betsy,
Sorry I haven't posted the hot wings yet…Everything has been crazy lately. I just made a batch of seitan, so I will hop to it and post pretty quick!!!!! Love the pics of your puppies!!!
February 8, 2010 at 1:23 am
She's still beautiful. Ethereal even. I still remember the day we found her behind the center. The best thing that ever happened to her was the day she got you. Give her some smooches for me.
xo, s.
February 8, 2010 at 7:00 am
Don't apologize, VV! And no pressure! It's no fun if it feels like an obligation. 🙂 The pups are a joy. Have a great week!
February 8, 2010 at 7:04 am
Ethereal. Much more fitting than "best old gal"–ha! She is really a vision and still emotionally impenetrable in some ways. I remember that whole sequence of events like it was much less than 9.5 years ago. Remember, she went home with another staff member first who dropped her back at CAC, and Joe went to pick her up just before it poured? She was lying under that baseball player sculpture and the Chihuly 24-hour guard was trying to send the neighborhood kids packing, but they were gathered protectively around the dog. Sweet. oxo