Recipes

This salad uses the whole beet, which adds beautiful color and a bounty of vitamins to a simple grain-bean meal. The pumpkin seeds puff up and smell magnificent when toasted.

In this tasty version of tempura, vegetables are first dipped in a seaweed batter then deep fried.

Cilantro and mint add a refreshing kick to this zesty broccoli salad.

This rich-tasting, rice syrup-sweetened, dairy-free cream tastes too good to be true.

This creative salad highlights fennel, a crisp, fairly licorice-flavored vegetable.

Buttermilk is easy to digest and adds a rich flavor to pancakes.

Hazelnut Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies Yields 2 dozen cookies Use a variety of jams — raspberry, apricot, blueberry —

Herbed Chicken, Potato & Olive Salad Serves 4 as an entre, 6 as a first course If you have leftover cooked potatoes,

This recipe gives your kids more opportunity to play with dough. Let them have fun creating shapes such as letters from the alphabet, snakes or whatever they can imagine.