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.
Cheers and thank you for your support!
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
March 25, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I wish I could get excited about a vegan diet, but I am a gourmet sinner for too many years to change now, but thanks for the invitation.
Chef Monroe Duncan
March 25, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I hereby absolve you. Don’t think of it as “vegan,” but as a new world of foods and flavors. Great to hear from you, you carnivore, you.
March 25, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Mrs. DiJulio, I am so excited about this blog. While not a vegan, I totally trust your recipes (I remember some good eats in art class)and can’t wait to try some out with my roommates and share your blog with my vegan friends. I can’t wait for more (I’ll keep you on my blog feed for sure)!
March 25, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Oh dear, Rachel, I don’t even know what a blog feed is. Does it involve food? Kidding. I’m learning about all of this as I go. Thank you for teaching the teacher. Great to hear from you!
March 26, 2009 at 8:05 am
Go, Girl! I’ll share your blog with friends who aren’t as dedicated a carnivore as I – some of my friends get close to being vegetarians. The brownies I have a chance of trying!
Take care and I look forward to more chocolate recipes. PS – the sweet potatoes with green onions you gave me years ago are now a must-have at our holiday dinners.
March 26, 2009 at 10:09 am
Sorry, DL, I removed my comment because I had a type-o and couldn’t figure out how to correct it. As I was saying…you won’t know those brownies don’t contain eggs; you’ll save money and reduce cholesterol if nothing else. And I’ve got plenty more chocolate recipes for you and yours, including a spiked mousse that’s to die for. I’ll post it soon. I still make those sweet ‘taters only with Earth Balance and soy sour cream and they’re still a favorite. Thanks for the reminder. I think I’ll post them, but I might wait until the fall.
March 26, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Brownies, grits and bagels … all the things I associate with my favorite former roomie chef! Can’t wait to try these recipes out.
March 26, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Betsy,
I LOVE the blog! I can’t wait to try some recipes. Maybe I’ll go totally vegan soon! Bon apetit! (Did I spell that correctly?)
March 26, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Welcome, Gattism! You forgot a sink full of dirty dishes “soaking.” So glad to see your smiling face. I miss you!
March 27, 2009 at 6:03 am
Hi Amy~I feel badly that there aren’t more recipes yet. I’ve got the recipes just not the photos. I guess I need to keep a camera in my kitchen. More soon!
May 31, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Hey, I just discovered your blog and I love it!
I’ve been a vegan for about a year now and have just gotten into cooking and baking. I’ll definitely be trying out the food on here.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the free recipes!
-Rachael
June 7, 2009 at 11:30 am
Hey Rachel~
I'm so glad we found each other, and thanks for your kind feedback. Recipe acquisition is so different nowadays with the internet, isn't it? I still purchase cookbooks and culinary magazines, but there's a whole world of food–literally–available at no cost. We're so fortunate! I hope you enjoy everything you find on The Blooming Platter and please share with others. I try to post weekly and am happy to honor special requests. Cheers!
~Betsy