Notes about Recipes in this book

• Vegetable chowder

  • bwhip on April 27, 2021

    This was excellent. Nice and light, remarkably flavorful. I needed to add some milk to help with the liquid ratio, and added more salt and pepper until it tasted just right. Delicious soup, we'll have this one again.

• Curried squash & mushroom soup

  • rwoods18 on October 16, 2011

    I double the spices and add lemon juice, cider vinegar, and a bay leaf.

• Brazilian black bean soup

  • JDeMarois on February 15, 2026

    This defied all expectations. I did make a couple of changes. I had already cooked my Rancho Gordo black beans, so added a cup of water at that step. I also didn’t have a bell pepper so shredded some cabbage for sweetness.

• Lowfat ranch dressing

  • TrishaCP on September 19, 2021

    Bland and using dehydrated onions rather than onion powder was not a good choice.

• Tofu salad

  • KNivia on February 17, 2026

    I made this to eat throughout the week and it does make a lot! The marinade is delicious! I added in some baby spinach to the vegetable mix and you must let it marinade. The longer it sits the better. I served mine with black forbidden Asian rice and an organic duck sauce that I found online. I also warmed my salad up! Delicious!

• Gingery marinated chick peas

  • michalow on April 07, 2013

    Easy and delicious. Cooked chickpeas with sage, bay leaf, and black pepper before marinating.

• Roasted green beans with garlic & pine nuts

  • Nancith on January 20, 2014

    Very yummy, used the red wine vinegar instead of balsamic. This was good at room temp, as well as hot.

• Caramelized onion sauce

  • dprostrollo on January 07, 2019

    Really good! Also very oniony do not for the faint of heart.

• Focaccia

  • Hellyloves2cook on October 13, 2013

    Great easy recipe!

• Pita bread (Arabic pocket bread)

  • michalow on January 03, 2013

    Variation = optional sesame seeds?

• Lasagne

  • dprostrollo on January 07, 2019

    This was lovely. Used cottage cheese in place of ricotta as per recipe. It’s shorter than some other lasagnes.

  • MsMonsoon on December 28, 2025

    Made it for Christmas. Made the tomato sauce which is elsewhere in the book and it had a nice pepperoni-like flavor from a large red bell pepper. Family liked the lasagne but I think I’d like to try a spinach lasagne, which can be found in Moosewood Restaurant Favorites.

• Bulgarian pepper casserole

  • KNivia on February 07, 2026

    This is a great dish to halve and freeze! We will be eating this yummy cheesy pepper casserole all week, but I froze 1/2 unbaked and will pull it from the freezer some busy week.

• Greek pilaf

  • joeljkp on November 06, 2022

    Really tasty, festive dish that's also easy to make. It's not the classic pilaf preparation that sautes the rice first, more like cooked rice tossed with mix-ins, but it worked out great. A contender when we want some kind of Greek-type rice side. This time I used white basmati rice and sunflower seeds.

• Broccoli strudel

  • dinnermints on December 19, 2015

    Yum! This took longer to make than I'd initially thought, since my filo dough was a bit aged and the sheets had broken into strips. The strudel looked a bit mummy-like, but the flavor was good. I sprayed olive oil on with a pump spray instead of brushing with oil, worked great. All chopped up, used about 1 1/4 lb broccoli, 6oz whole wheat bread for the crumbs, and 8oz cheddar.

• Spanakopita

  • Hellyloves2cook on October 13, 2013

    Love this recipe- made many many times.

• Samosas

  • eliza on January 02, 2014

    I love the filling recipe. Very adaptable, for example you can use powdered ginger if you don't have fresh, you can increase the spices for more of a kick, and omit lemon juice if it’s not to your taste. I always add the lemon, cayenne and peas. I don't use the dough recipe, instead I use kittencal's from the internet. I always include a couple of dipping sauces with the samosas.

• Orange cake

  • ethan_fauraq on March 28, 2026

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• Cardamon coffee cake

  • jdub1371 on May 07, 2019

    Nice enough coffee cake if you need to unload some eggs and sour cream. Needs more salt and vanilla. The cinnamon in the streusel pretty much drowns out the cardamom in the cake. I made this in two 8x8" pans (since I didn't have a 10x4" tube pan) with a single layer of streusel in the middle of each. The batter rose to the top of the pans in the oven but did not spill over. Two 9x9s would have worked a bit better. No one at the office complained! :) Note: this recipe calls for the walnuts to be minced, but I find it much easier to just give them a bash in my big mortar and pestle.

• Apple strudel

  • debnharold on November 13, 2013

    use this filling but deep dish style (see crescent dragonwagon)