Best Everyday Vegetable Recipes of 2015 from A Veggie Venture

A Veggie Venture's Best Recipes from 2015, just one per month, all in one handy spot for easy reference, all "everyday vegetable recipes" to make again and again.

I'm going out on a limb this year. For the first time ever, A Veggie Venture's "Best Recipes" of 2015 are not the most clicked, pinned, shared or even the most liked recipes.

Forget popularity. I'm standing up usefulness!

So this collection of recipes are the most every-day recipes, special in their very every-day-ness, recipes destined to be made and remade so often they'll fast lose recipe status and become "just a little something you whipped up."

Truth is? I've personally made all but two of these recipes more than once, three many times, seven of the twelve many-many-many times. And I wasn't "recipe testing". I was just putting breakfast on the table. Or making lunch. Or a salad. In my kitchen? Those are the best recipes of all, the ones you pull out every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Best Everyday Vegetable Recipes. I hope one or two or three or even more will find a home in your kitchen too.

Anddddd ... because social media is oh-so-fun, I've already added each of these recipes to a Pinterest board called My Best Recipes – extra-easy for re-pinning! I will add recipes from prior years too, way back to 2002!

So okay, here you go, the Best Recipes of 2015. Which ones have your name on them? Let everyone know in the comments!

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SPECIAL, USEFUL & INFORMATIVE "STUFF" But before we get to those best everyday vegetable recipes, I'd like to highlight a few posts that are more than "just another recipe". Who'd like more of these in 2016? I would! KITCHEN DESIGN Ten Things I Love About Our New Kitchen from Kitchen Parade NEW HOW TO's How to Cook Dried Chickpeas Especially for Hummus aka "Jerusalem Chickpeas" NEW VEGETABLE 101's What Are Root Vegetables? NEW RECIPE COLLECTIONS Pretty Ways to Serve Summer's Best Tomatoes NEW MASTER RECIPES for VEGETABLES Never-the-Same-Twice Vegetable Frittata from Kitchen Parade

January: EAT A HEALTHY BREAKFAST EVERY DAY It's too easy to grab a cup of coffee and a muffin or a banana on the run. But making time for breakfast, well, the payback is huge. This year, I made breakfast a priority, especially a protein-packed breakfast. With vegetables! This spinach omelet works with fresh spinach or thawed frozen spinach. Breakfast never tasted so good! Vegetarian, Gluten Free, High Protein, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly with Paleo & Whole30 Variations: How to Make a Spinach Omelet

February: LUNCH ON THE GO I'm always on the hunt for quick, healthy, low-calorie, low-carb make-ahead lunches. Protein is a real priority, so is a healthy vegetable. Enter the tuna salad that for a year now, has captured my heart, one lunch after another. It's got olives, people! Gluten Free, High Protein, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly with Paleo & Whole30 Variations: Kalamata Tuna Salad Bok Choy Wraps

March: CRAY-ZEE, I KNOW, BUT CABBAGE CAN BE SO GOOD! Cabbage is cheap to buy and so good to eat. If mayo-slathered coleslaw is your only experience with cabbage so far, this cooked cabbage will be a revelation. It takes on a gentle, natural sweetness that's completely captivating. Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly: Crazy-Good Cooked Cabbage

April: CAN YOU SAY A-D-D-I-C-T-I-V-E? There's no counting how often I threw together this salad (and many of my own variations), including for a wedding brunch for 35! If you pick one recipe off this list of Best Everyday Recipes, make it this. And stock up on avocados ... Vegetarian (Easily Veganized), Gluten Free, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly: Smitten Kitchen's Avocado-Cucumber Salad

May: SPECTACULAR AFGHANI CUISINE Afghanistan is always in the news but never for food. Afghan cuisine needs to be celebrated! This eggplant dish blew me away. Great for Meatless Monday. Vegetarian, Gluten Free, High Protein, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly: Afghan Eggplant & Tomato Casserole (Borani Banjan)

June: MORE (VEGETABLE) JOY IN THE MORNING Yep, that's more vegetables for breakfast. Is that part of your own routine? We do our very best to work vegetables into breakfast every single day. Y'think they'd be good with Fruit Loops? Vegetarian, Gluten Free, High Protein, Low Carb, Weight Watchers Friendly, Paleo & Whole30: Baked Eggs with Ratatouille Vegetables

July: CALLING ALL BEET LOVERS! Some times the simplest of recipes produce the most special results. This is another salad I made all summer long, oh how the blueberries "pop" with pickled beets! They don't call me the Beet Queen for nothin'! Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Cal. Low Carb. Gluten Free. Paleo. Whole30. Not just vegan, "Vegan Done Real": Pickled Beet Salad with Fresh Blueberries & Mint

August: CAULIFLOWER + FRESH MOZZARELLA = HEALTHY LOVE This is my very first TwitteRecipe, so simple, it takes only 140 characters. And only a small amount of cheese, though you'd never know it, it's so cheesy. Vegetarian, High Protein, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly: Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole with Caprese Tomatoes

September: SILKY SMOOTH, SOFT & CUSTARDY FRITTATA If you could buy a red car for $15,000 and a green car for $5,000, really now, wouldn't you be happy as a bug on a green leaf in a green car? I thought so. Well that's why it pays to fall in love with green peppers for $.50, leaving their shiny-bright expensive red cousins in the grocery at $1.50. And when treated right – like in this silky smooth frittata that's an adaptation of this master recipe, Never-the-Same-Twice Vegetable Frittata – wow, you may never be tempted to go red again. Vegetarian, Gluten Free, High Protein, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly: Green Pepper Frittata

October: WELCOMING THE GREAT PUMPKIN, HEALTHY-STYLE Umm okay so there's a theme going on here, more breakfast food! I adore the texture of my Almost-Chewy Creamy Oatmeal, this is an October-November-ish variation, pumpkin and the all-important pumpkin spices and for natural sweetness, mashed banana. Vegetarian, Gluten Free & Weight Watchers Friendly: Creamy Pumpkin Steel-Cut Oats

November: WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF? EXCEPT DELICIOUS. It's half chickpea hummus and half eggplant baba ganoush. It's an ultra smooth spread, great for dipping or spreading. It's got a Middle-eastern feel. It's amazing. If only I knew what it was ... except delicious. Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly: Roasted Eggplant “Hummus" (Eggplant & Chickpea Dip & Spread)

December: COLORFUL CAULIFLOWER So you know how cauliflower, especially roasted, is kind of um, shall we call it plain? Not Christmas Cauliflower! Here's it's all dressed up in red and green finery and ready to par-tay. PS And I think kids would love the joke of Christmas in April, say. :-) Vegan, Gluten Free, Low Carb & Weight Watchers Friendly with Easy Adaptations for Paleo & Whole30: Christmas Cauliflower

SO THAT'S IT! What do you think?! I hope you like the collection because it belongs to you now, it's yours for everyday. If I missed a favorite recipe of yours, please do let me know! And if you'd like to explore the favorite recipes from other years, here are all the links. THE MOTHER of ALL PAGES for A Veggie Venture's FAVORITE RECIPES Favorite Favorite Vegetable Recipes, all the years since 2005, just the favorites sorted by vegetable, by course, by cooking method YEAR-by-YEAR Best Vegetable Recipes of 2014 Best Vegetable Recipes of 2013 Best Vegetable Recipes of 2012 Best Vegetable Recipes of 2011 Best Vegetable Recipes 2010 Best Recipes 2005 - 2009 from A Veggie Venture Best Recipes of 2015 (Coming Soon) Best Recipes of 2014 Best Recipes of 2013 Best Recipes of 2012 Best Recipes of 2011 Best Recipes of 2010 from Kitchen Parade

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