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: 4-6 servings
July 6, 2009 at 8:10 am
Wow! This is such a delicious sounding idea, and so unusual too! I have been hearing a lot about boiled peanuts lately, I must try them sometime! But I have never heard of sweet tea dressing, sounds yummy and refreshing!
July 6, 2009 at 8:48 am
Thanks so much for your enthusiastic response! I'm located in the south/mid-Atlantic and I wanted to create an ultra-southern salad that would be ultra-healthy unlike so much food that is considered "southern." Our farmer's markets are stocked right now with peaches, sweet corn and boiled peanuts–among other things–but those three sounded so good together in a salad…and they are! I'd never heard of Sweet Tea Dressing either. 🙂 But, since "sweet tea" is the quintessential liquid refreshment in the Deep South, and since both lemon and a little sweet note are perfect in vinaigrettes, it seemed like it would work. I loved the end result, though several batches of dressing, sadly, went straight down the drain! It was challenging to strike just the right balance, but I think I ultimately did. Please enjoy!