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.
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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?
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Yield: 2 lunch/brunch servings or 2 dinner servings with a side dish or salad
February 21, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Sounds fantastic. I LOVE cherry tomatoes. Yum
February 21, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Me too! And it was SO good. I bet it would also be fabulous with bourbon instead of sherry, though I'm still a "chicken" when it comes to flambeing anything. 🙂
April 7, 2010 at 10:57 am
My mom sends me your Va Pilot clips sometimes and my dad just told me about your blog. I have a lot of catching up to do because there are so many good recipes here! I made the dish above, with seitan, a few nights ago, and it was great. It looks and tastes like I spent a lot more time cooking than I did.
April 7, 2010 at 11:09 am
Katie, for some reason your comment that I received via an email alert isn't showing up here, so I'm reprinting in order to respond: "My mom sends me your Va Pilot clips sometimes and my dad just told me about your blog. I have a lot of catching up to do because there are so many good recipes here! I made the dish above, with seitan, a few nights ago, and it was great. It looks and tastes like I spent a lot more time cooking than I did."
I'm so glad your mom and dad are looking out for your dietary needs! That's so thoughtful of them to keep you tuned in to "The Veggie Table" and "The Blooming Platter." I'm so glad you enjoyed this dish. I love it too both for its taste and the reason you say: it's so simple yet impressive-looking.
Hope you'll come back often!
April 7, 2010 at 11:10 am
Okay, that's odd, Katie: after I reloaded and reloaded the page, and tried all kinds of other things, I post my comment above and your original one mysteriously appears. Oh, well, I don't pretend to understand computers!