Category Archives: Appetizers

Baked Zucchini Fries

Baked Zucchini Fries

So I just joined a CSA. As a crunchy hippie yuppie metropolitan-area vegetarian, this was an inevitability I’m shocked didn’t happen sooner. I’ve actually considered it every spring for the last five or six years, but I was always deterred by: Cost – at anywhere from $25-50/week, is this an efficient use of my grocery budget?… [click for recipe and more]

Broccoli-Parmesan Fritters

Broccoli-Parmesan Fritters

I promised a two-week moratorium on appetizers, and I delivered. I went almost a month, actually. Man, it was tough. And that moratorium was only on sharing apps here – imagine if I couldn’t even eat them. I’ve actually been pushing to have these broccoli fritters for dinner for a while. Nor seems to feel… [click for recipe and more]

Seitan Buffalo “Wings”

Seitan Buffalo “Wings”

For someone who’s never had real chicken wings, I seem to have a little bit of a fixation on vegetarian variations. Of course, I do live with someone who was a chicken wing fanatic before he went veggie – but even if I didn’t, things that are breaded and fried and tossed in buffalo sauce… [click for recipe and more]

Oven-Fried Pickles

Oven-Fried Pickles

Do you ever go to Hooters? Me neither. Okay, let me amend my “ever” to “rarely.” I’ve been twice – once for a friend’s 23rd birthday (eesh, that one was a long time ago), and another time with clients during a work trip. As a vegetarian with walkable access to several charismatic local sports bars… [click for recipe and more]