Vegetarian

Vegetarian diets exclude meat and poultry, sometimes branching into various subtypes depending on preference for animal by-products (such as Lacto-Ovo or Flexitarian).  Most still focus on whole, plant-based foods.  

Peeled Cucumber and Carrot Salad

Peeled Cucumber and Carrot Salad

22 June 2026
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I really like chilled cucumber salads (I have a crushed cucumber salad recipe I really need to post too). This one works particularly well for oryoki (IMHO) because the long…

Illustration of Sujata offering a bowl of rice milk to Siddhartha

Bodhi Day Dish - Kheer (Rice Pudding)

7 December 2024
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When Sujata brings an offering of "rice milk" or "rice pudding" to leave for the spirit of the sacred fig tree and instead finds a skeletal Siddhartha instead, she…

Oats in a Ball Jar

Overnight Oats with Oat Milk for (Oryoki.. or Not)

12 October 2024
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Many overnight-oat recipes call for a 1:1 ratio of oats to liquid. I like a ratio of 1:2 (plus fruit) for oryoki because it is more soupy and less sticky: easier to clean the…

Vegetarian