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Meatless Monday: Welcoming Spring With Many Celebratory Tarts Edition

March 21, 2026

Last month I had a post about a week where all the holidays aligned and I made like 8 or 9 special meals for an international and interfaith series of holidays (read more at https://blissfullu.com/2026/02/24/a-week-of-holiday-bliss-culinary-and-cultural-journeys/_. This week wasn’t quite as busy, but again I almost couldn’t keep up with all of the holidays we could … More Meatless Monday: Welcoming Spring With Many Celebratory Tarts Edition

Meatless Monday: Farmers Market Brunch (Including What’s Wrong with Ice Cream for Breakfast?)

July 3, 2022

I usually don’t eat breakfast. Yes, I know it’s “the most important meal of the day,” but I’m usually not hungry early in the morning and I don’t choose to eat when I’m not hungry. But when I do eat breakfast, or most commonly brunch by the time I get home, it’s usually after spending … More Meatless Monday: Farmers Market Brunch (Including What’s Wrong with Ice Cream for Breakfast?)

Meatless Monday: Holi Edition

March 30, 2021

The month is almost over, but we still have (well, we had it yesterday) one more holiday–Holi, which is the spring festival in India and some other Asian countries. The best-known part in the West is throwing colored powder at each other. Originally, the powders were ground from the new blossoms of the season, but … More Meatless Monday: Holi Edition

Meatless Monday: Bastille Day Edition

July 13, 2020

Things are really hitting their stride at the Cary Downtown Farmers Market. This weekend I could get all the vegetables I needed to make a traditional French dish in honor of Bastille Day for Meatless Monday–ratatouille! Ratatouille is a famous dish in Southern France, but it is kind of like chocolate chip cookies–there are a … More Meatless Monday: Bastille Day Edition

Meatless Monday: Vegan Black and Blue Chili

June 22, 2020

Today’s main course was a riff on something I made, who knows how many years ago, but it was when the Carolina Panthers were in the Super Bowl. I don’t care anything about football, but I care about parties, so for a local Super Bowl party I brought a chili recipe I made up called … More Meatless Monday: Vegan Black and Blue Chili

Meatless Monday: Farmers Market Bounty

June 8, 2020

This weekend was the first weekend that there was a full bounty of vegetables at our local Farmers Market, the Cary Downtown Farmers Market. So I really wanted to make something to showcase all the lovely produce available right now. I don’t like to do pasta two weeks in a row, but it seemed like … More Meatless Monday: Farmers Market Bounty

Meatless Monday: Use-It-Up Version

June 1, 2020

While eating more plant-based food is one great way to reduce your carbon foodprint, another is making sure you eat all the food you’ve got. Government estimates say that 30-40% of all food produced in America gets wasted, which means that all the energy, water, and land use resources used to raise that food get … More Meatless Monday: Use-It-Up Version

Meatless Monday: Memorial Day

May 25, 2020

Happy socially-distant Memorial Day! As I stated earlier, most of our traditional Memorial Day things are off this year. But I did take a walk in our local cemetery this morning where the VFW had placed flags by the graves of all the veterans, and I looked at them and tried to send a spiritual … More Meatless Monday: Memorial Day