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10 Pumpkin Recipes for Fall (Psst! They’re vegan!)
Does the blustery weather have you craving fall flavors? Try some of these delicious pumpkin recipes! More
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Sometimes, It’s OK to Turn Into a Pumpkin: 5 DIY All-Natural Pumpkin Beauty Recipes
After you’re done preparing your holiday dishes and desserts, take some time to pamper your skin with these five all-natural beauty treatments using leftover pumpkin and a few other pantry ingredients. More
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Pumpkin and Pancetta Soup [Recipe]
Pumpkin and Pancetta Soup This is a recipe from Jill Silverman Hough, cooking teacher and author of “100 Perfect Pairings: Small Plates to Enjoy with Wines You Love” (Wiley, 2010). Her work has appeared in Bon Appétit, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, Clean Eating, Napa Sonoma, and other magazines. “The hardest thing about making this soup is tackling the pumpkin-and that’s not very hard at […] More
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Vegan Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Instead of heavy eggs and cream, this pumpkin pie uses silken tofu to get its creaminess. The beauty of tofu is that it takes on the flavors of the other ingredients, so when this pie is done you won’t even know it’s there! More
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Top 8 Healthy Pumpkin Recipes
Pumpkin and pumpkin puree are the perfect seasonal addition to healthy recipes. Here are eight ways to use that extra pumpkin in your pantry. More
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Delicious Vegan Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Just in time for Halloween, here’s a delicious vegan pumpkin bread recipe. The recipe makes three small loafs, or one larger loaf, of pumpkin bread. More
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Pumpkin Green Smoothie
It’s a super green smoothie with a seasonal pumpkin twist! More
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Best Ever Dip Recipe: Pumpkin-Walnut Pâté (vegan)
If you’re throwing a party or attending a potluck this holiday season, this dip will have people begging you for the recipe. More
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Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes From Around the World
These ethnic vegetarian and vegan dishes are certain to spice up your Thanksgiving menu. More
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Pumpkin Soup with Coconut Milk and Curry
We had a sort of big pumpkin festival here in Wrocław (Poland) a couple weeks ago. We decided to pick up a pumpkin, a butternut squash and some other hard squash that I had never seen before. Neither of us had ever made pumpkin soup before. We were excited to make a good, wholesome, creamy […] More
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Healthy Halloween Treats: Pumpkin Bread, Raw Coconut Macaroons, Carob Balls, & More
The fun of costumes and sweet foods has become the focus of this time of year. Hot apple cider; warm pumpkin bread or pie; friendly spiders; and webs of community fun, mystery, and magic are all over the place. Sugary treats from the store, however, do not need to take center stage. On Halloween, we can […] More
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Outsmart the Pumpkin Shortage: Go Organic
[social_buttons]Nestle, who owns 85 percent of the pumpkin canning crop, apologized last week for a looming shortage on the classic Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin and Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Mix filling. This year’s harvest was smaller than expected thanks to heavy rains and saturated farm fields in the Midwest. More
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6 Reasons To Eat Fall’s Power Food: Pumpkin
Need a reason to eat some delicious fall pumpkin? Here are six of them! More
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Seasonal Foods: 5 Best Winter Vegetables
Winter veggies usually get short shrift, but there are many reasons to savor them. They add loads of vitamins and nutrients to our diets, do wonders for our immunity, and are wonderfully versatile. Plus, eating seasonally is eating green: as it takes us back to the old days of eating only the freshest available products, […] More
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Top 7 Posts About Ideas for a Green Thanksgiving
With the Thanksgiving Holiday just a few days away, you are probably focusing on how to have a green Thanksgiving. I have enjoyed reading tips and ideas from around the Green Options network and the blogosphere. Here are some of my favorite green Thanksgiving posts. More
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Beyond Pie: 10 Great Savory Pumpkin Recipes
We’ve all had pumpkin pie and it seems everyone has a favorite recipe or variation of it, but what about when you want to eat seasonally, but aren’t craving sweets? Here are 10 pumpkin recipes to satisfy your savory side and take advantage of the current farmers market bounty. More
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Seasonal Food Recipes: The Great Pumpkin Soup
Seasonal food is plentiful right now, much of it in the shape of squashes and gourds. Last night I took a page (literally) out of Barbara Kingsolver’s recent book, Animal, Vegetable Miracle. Ever since I read the chapter on smashing pumpkins, I knew I had to try the pumpkin soup experiment. For the uninitiated, she […] More
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Spiced Sugar Pumpkin Cake
Even those who cannot commit to an extravagant chocolate creation or a rich fruit dessert will find solace in the satisfying sweetness and texture of this simple and moist dessert. This cake has the texture of a quick bread and the autumn flavors of pumpkin and “pumpkin pie” spices. Pumpkin is one of those tastes […] More
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Roasted Squash Gnocchi with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
After spending my first autumn surround by the amazing micro-climates of the Rogue Valley of southern Oregon, I was inspired to give the classic potato gnocchi recipe my own twist by adding roasted squash along with the roasted potatoes. Just like other dumplings, the key to making gnocchi is to make sure that the dough […] More
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Winter Squash
In Alexander Dumas’ distinguished Grand Dictionary de Cuisine, he includes directions on how to cook an elephant. For many people, elephant cookery is less daunting than dealing with the large category of winter squash. Winter squashes (member of the Cuburbita family that includes cucumbers and melons) come in a plethora of varieties, shapes, sizes and […] More
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Fall Harvest Recipe: Amazing Pumpkin Spice Cookies
[social_buttons]I love the smell of fall. Dried leaves, roasting chilis, woodsmoke, and the aroma of fresh-baked cookies… Mmmm… During harvest season, when we go to the Farmers Market, we make sure to stock up on pie pumpkins, butternut, red kuri, acorn, and spaghetti squash. Some go into savory dishes, like a soup or stir fry, […] More
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Five Fall Foods That Will Boost Your Health (And Meal Ideas, Too)
>> Welcome Readers! Did you know that Green Options has 15 sites? If you like this post, please subscribe for our main RSS feed or the Green Options Newsletter! [social_buttons] When the summer heat breaks and the first cool days arrive, I feel melancholy, because it means the end of our local farmers market is […] More
