Welcome to Mostly Plants

July 5, 2019Lynley Jones

Ideas for plant-based cooking, tips and advice on farmers market shopping, cooking seasonally, and more. Learn more here.

Inspired by the best and simplest advice for good eating:

"Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants." - Michael Pollan

BERRY SPECIAL PLANTS

Why complicate things?

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Berry Special Plants

Kicking off this summer's plant-based adventure with one of the highlights of summer: berries.

Flowers on the brain, and on the plate.

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Eating Flowers

Flowers on the brain, and on the plate. Cooking with chive blossoms, squash blossoms, broccoli flowers and lavender petals.

Broccoli leaves, stems and flowers, as well as the florets.

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There's More to Broccoli

Cooking with broccoli leaves, stems and flowers, as well as the florets.

Chat up a farmer, and get a great story.

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Meeting the Farmers Behind the Markets

One of the best things about any farmer’s market is the farmers. Chat them up, and get some great stories!

Keep cool with a classic, all-purpose vinaigrette and an addictive kale salad.

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Summer Salads

When it’s just too hot to cook, it’s time to chill with a summer salad.

What to do with garlic scapes, the green flower stalks of garlic that you find at farmer's markets.

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Summertime (e)Scapes

Invite the neighbors over and fire up the grill to turn this week's farmers' market finds into a buttery-garlicky cruciferous treat: cauliflower and garlic scapes.

There's nothing like a perfectly ripe, perfectly in-season tomato.

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Tomatoes Tomaahhtoes

There's nothing like a perfectly ripe, perfectly in-season tomato, a plump little package of summer sunshine. Here’s how to choose a good one, what to do with them while they’re here (and why local tomatoes are so good).

Be the all-natural hero in your family by making your own dang drinks this summer.

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Lemons, Limes and Tasty Cold Summer Drinks

Everything you need to make your own all-natural drinks this summer, including my exact formula for drink-making success, tips to serve a crowd like a pro, and how you can ditch the store-bought gallon jugs and squeeze your own dang lemons.

Summer veggie tacos, kohlrabi salsa cruda, Mexican crema, all the sides, and how to handle all those tortillas

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How to Throw a Vegetarian Taco Party That Rocks

It's summer, and you know what everyone wants? Something you can make without heating up the kitchen. Something you can eat outside, wearing shorts and a tank top. Party food that leaves you feeling good enough you just might strip down and jump into that pool after all. Check ...check ...CHECK!

If your peaches are less than perfect, you might be able to save them!

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A Complete Guide to Peaches!

What to look for, how to tell if it’s a bad peach or a good one, and how to cook with them. Recipes, advice, ingredients and spices that bring out the best in your peaches. Everything you need to know for peach perfection this summer.

A tasty party-salad on an edible plate

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How To Make Tostadas

Everything you need to know to make tostadas like a pro, and how and why Mexican tostadas should become part of your weeknight repertoire. (Hint: they're easy and healthy and everyone loves them.)

Hey, it's like two vegetables in one!

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Gorgeous Greens

Ideas for using quick-cooking greens in season, like spinach, Swiss chard and the green tops of beets and kohlrabi. And, grilled pizza!

A traditional Mexican casserole

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Don't Be Afraid, It's a Tortilla Casserole

Tortilla casserole: bizarre culinary mash-up, or one of the best things to make with what’s in season right now? (Psst - the correct answer is B.)

(I beet you’re getting tired of beet puns)

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If You Can't Beet 'Em

How to make friends with a beet. (With recipes.)

Ga-Lette’s Make Something Nice

Fruit tarts and galettes

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Ga-Lette Me Make You A Tart

How to make simple tarts and galettes with whatever fruits are in season.

Why Mostly Plants?

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Why Mostly Plants?

It turns out the best advice for good eating is also the simplest. Here’s why eating a seasonal and mostly plant-based diet makes a lot of sense - and how to go about doing it.

More Mostly Plants recipes:

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Mostly Plants Recipes

Recipes starring seasonal veggies, beans, grains, fruits and more. Sides, main dishes, desserts and snacks, all made mostly or completely from plants. Includes near-vegetarian as well as vegetarian and vegan recipes.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

By Michael Pollan

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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By Michael Pollan

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Mostly Plants Series

Welcome to Mostly Plants

July 5, 2019Lynley Jones

BERRY SPECIAL PLANTS

Why complicate things?

EATING FLOWERS

Flowers on the brain, and on the plate.

There's More to Broccoli

Broccoli leaves, stems and flowers, as well as the florets.

Meeting the Farmers Behind the Markets

Chat up a farmer, and get a great story.

Summer Salads

Keep cool with a classic, all-purpose vinaigrette and an addictive kale salad.

Summertime (e)Scapes

What to do with garlic scapes, the green flower stalks of garlic that you find at farmer's markets.

TOMATOES TOMAAHHTOES

There's nothing like a perfectly ripe, perfectly in-season tomato.

these 3 Citrus-Ades Can Be the Life of the Party

Be the all-natural hero in your family by making your own dang drinks this summer.

A Mostly Plants Taco Party that Totally rocks

Summer veggie tacos, kohlrabi salsa cruda, Mexican crema, all the sides, and how to handle all those tortillas

PEACHES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE MEALY

If your peaches are less than perfect, you might be able to save them!

How (and Why) to Make Tostadas

A tasty party-salad on an edible plate

Cooking With Those Gorgeous Greens

Hey, it's like two vegetables in one!

All Your End-of-Summer Produce In One Dish

A traditional Mexican casserole

You can’t Beet This

(I beet you’re getting tired of beet puns)

Ga-Lette’s Make Something Nice

Why Mostly Plants?

More Mostly Plants recipes:

Email Us!

Adventure Kitchen

Mostly Plants Series

Welcome to Mostly Plants

July 5, 2019Lynley Jones

BERRY SPECIAL PLANTS

Why complicate things?

EATING FLOWERS

Flowers on the brain, and on the plate.

There's More to Broccoli

Broccoli leaves, stems and flowers, as well as the florets.

Meeting the Farmers Behind the Markets

Chat up a farmer, and get a great story.

Summer Salads

Keep cool with a classic, all-purpose vinaigrette and an addictive kale salad.

Summertime (e)Scapes

What to do with garlic scapes, the green flower stalks of garlic that you find at farmer's markets.

TOMATOES TOMAAHHTOES

There's nothing like a perfectly ripe, perfectly in-season tomato.

these 3 Citrus-Ades Can Be the Life of the Party

Be the all-natural hero in your family by making your own dang drinks this summer.

A Mostly Plants Taco Party that Totally rocks

Summer veggie tacos, kohlrabi salsa cruda, Mexican crema, all the sides, and how to handle all those tortillas

PEACHES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE MEALY

If your peaches are less than perfect, you might be able to save them!

How (and Why) to Make Tostadas

A tasty party-salad on an edible plate

Cooking With Those Gorgeous Greens

Hey, it's like two vegetables in one!

All Your End-of-Summer Produce In One Dish

A traditional Mexican casserole

You can’t Beet This

(I beet you’re getting tired of beet puns)

Ga-Lette’s Make Something Nice

Why Mostly Plants?

More Mostly Plants recipes: