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
Okay, so it wasn’t a vegan menu, but it was vegetarian. When the Obamas hosted their first official state dinner last night for the prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, health and vegetarian fare was gloriously forefront in their minds and on their plates.
November 25, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Those dumplings do sound amazing! This just makes me love Michelle Obama even more than ever.
November 25, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Yes, and did you take a gander at her dress? She was truly a vision.
November 26, 2009 at 2:20 am
NICE! This makes me irrationally happy. 🙂 Thanks for posting!
November 26, 2009 at 7:31 am
I know…it's so significant on so many levels. Are you celebrating Thanksgiving in Saudi Arabia? If so, hope it's happy!
November 27, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I would say prawns and Passion fruit and vanilla Gelees are not vegetarian at all. Plus a vegan would still have a hard time at that dinner. But it is a start and we must not forget: he pardoned the turkey 🙂
November 27, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Yes, I noticed the prawns and wondered about that. But there are ways to make vegan gelees using agar-agar. I don't know about you, but as a vegan, I have a hard time being satiated at any dinner unless it is specifically vegan. That's why I prefer to entertain at home!