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
I’m posting this photo as a tease to entice you to return for more good things to come. Once the recipe and story are published in “The Big White Cake” edition of my vegan column, “The Veggie Table,” this coming Wednesday, December 16, in The Virginian-Pilot, I will post it all for you. (If you are local, please support the newspaper and check it out in the “Flavor” section.) Until then, may visions of sugarplums dance in your head!
December 13, 2009 at 2:57 pm
OMG that's one beautiful cake!!
December 13, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Thanks, Karen! And it tastes just as special…probably my husband's cognac. 🙂 I like the way it looks both homespun and harvest-y, yet festive and glittery. Coming soon!
December 15, 2009 at 12:08 pm
that cake…it looks absolutely GORGEOUS! i love the pecans decorating the outside!
December 15, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Yea! Thank you for saying so. I love decorating with something very natural and edible. Glad you like it too. I'll post the recipe tomorrow!