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: 4 servingsThis recipe was inspired by a chicken dish my mom used to make. Though I didn’t eat the chicken, even as a vegetarian, I loved the filling that she stuffed just under the skin. It was made of zucchini, Swiss cheese, torn up bread cubes and eggs. My vegan version relies on a tasty homemade Swiss “cheese” sauce, doesn’t include eggs, and uses bread crumbs to create a crunchy topping that contrasts beautifully with the creamy zucchini.
May 13, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Oh wow…this sounds amazing! I *love* zucchini, and "cheese" sauces are right up my alley too 🙂 I can't wait to try this! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe!
Courtney
May 13, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Thanks, Courtney! I think lots of vegans miss cheese–at least a little–so when I come up with something that fills that void, it's my duty to share! I hope you love it. I think it's really hard not to eat way too much of it, but if you do, it doesn't matter so much. Cheers!