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
Yield: 8 slices
March 27, 2009 at 6:04 am
Did you just say, “Vegan Pumpkin-Apple Butter Cheesecake Pie”? Oh my goodness, that looks amazing! I will certainly be trying this one. Didn’t I once tell you I wasn’t into dessert? I was crazy 🙂
March 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I’m glad you’ve come to your senses, Anne. 🙂 I’m a card-carrying member of “Desserts-R-Us.” This one is a great one to fall of the white sugar wagon for.
September 5, 2009 at 5:31 am
It is official! You are a genius! This recipe has my head spinning, I can't wait to make this! Thank you thank you thank you!
September 5, 2009 at 6:10 am
Why thanks! You must have been in a pumpkin frame of mind since you commented on the pumpkin-stuffed shells too. (Have you checked out my pumpkin cookies? Those are a favorite with everyone.) You're my kind of girl–I'm ALWAYS in a pumpkin frame of mind! And in my humble opinion, you have great taste. 🙂 If you're going to go over your calorie count for the day, this pie is definitely worth it. It's kind of funny: I get some of my best culinary inspiration from folks whose food I would NEVER eat as is, e.g. Paula Dean and Guy Fieri's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives." Here's to Thanksgiving all year round!