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20+ Vegetarian Recipes Requiring Extra Time and Love

If you have some extra time and enjoy a cooking project, then these healthy, made-with-love recipes are for you.

All recipes are vegetarian, with plant-based, vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free options. From breakfast to dessert, these are fun and special recipes to make with family and friends. 

For breakfast, try a satisfying Vegan Raw Buckwheat Groats Porridge topped with blueberries.

For a hearty plant-based stew recipe, try this tasty Vegan Heirloom-Bean Chili Recipe.

And for dessert, don’t miss the always-popular Gluten-Free Rhubarb-Strawberry Crumble. All that’s missing is a scoop of your favorite ice cream! 

 

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linzer cookies with raspberry jam

Linzer Cookies With Raspberry Jam

Tender, buttery cookie with a hint of lemon zest, and filled with raspberry jam. Classic Christmas cookie but tastes as good all year round.

Filed Under: Advanced, Czech, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Easy Raspberry Linzer Torte

Linzer Torte with Raspberry Jam is a delicious and show-stopping dessert with a tender, ground-almond crust, and addictive sweet-sour raspberry jam filling.  Like its cousin, the Linzer cookie, the torte originated in the city of Linz, Austria. It is a classic Austro-Hungarian tart (or cake, which is what “Torte” means in German). My father loved this […]

Filed Under: Beginner, Czech, Featured, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Slice of Blueberry Crumb Cake from verygoodcook.com

Easy Blueberry Crumb Cake

This quick and unfussy Blueberry Crumb Cake is a delicious coffee cake, featuring layers of juicy blueberries, soft cake and crunchy topping. Let’s start at the top: Buttery, brown-sugary, cinnamony streusel with a nice crunchy texture. Right underneath, juicy, plump blueberries, perfectly fusing with the crumbs. Seriously, when no one’s looking, I pick and nibble […]

Filed Under: Czech, Featured, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Poppy Seed Bundt Cake (Maková Bábovka)

Traditional Czech poppy seed bundt cake. It’s moist and airy, and at the same time, pleasantly dense and rich. In Central Europe, where I grew up, using poppy seeds in desserts is as common as pumpkin purée or cream cheese in the States.  And I’m not talking about adding a teaspoon to a muffin batter […]

Filed Under: Czech, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Czech Baked Rice Pudding with Apricots

Czech Baked Rice Pudding with Apricots is a casserole of sweet, buttery rice scented with vanilla and cinnamon, layered with preserved apricots, and topped with dramatic-looking browned meringue peaks. In the Czech Republic, especially in the countryside, where I grew up, it is normal to serve a sweet entrée at lunch or dinner. You typically […]

Filed Under: Czech, Gluten-Free, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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