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 thought that my vegan version of “pulled” barbecue plus tradition-trimmings-with-a-twist looked so pretty as an appetizer that I wanted to share this photo. For the recipes, just type this recipe title in the search box or scroll down four posts.
October 19, 2009 at 11:35 am
hey, what a fantastic idea to use spaghetti squash instead of meat in this recipe!! genius!!!!!
October 19, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Wasn't it?! All the credit for the idea goes to my friend Katherine, but it was fun to work out the recipe, a "keeper" for sure!
October 20, 2009 at 9:02 am
SO gorgeous! You are right, this really is a beautiful appetizer, and really creative too. Your blog is always such an inspiration!
October 20, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Oh, thank you. I was starting to feel like the colored bandanas were a little too much in the photos from this weekend.
I just had one of the appetizer portions for dinner and it's so completely satisfying to me. I love all the texture/temperature/color contrasts. I hope you find it as tasty as you do pleasing to look at.
Cheers!