All too soon, we vegetable lovers will embrace the vegetables of autumn, the winter squash, the sweet potatoes, the cauliflower. But until then, food bloggers everywhere are reveling in the glut of produce at our farmers markets, truly, our cups runneth over. Every few weeks, I like to spotlight vegetable recipes from my fellow food bloggers, ones that I think readers of A Veggie Venture might especially appreciate. VegetableSpotting WEEK 37 - mid September (click the link for the recipe) RSS & e-mail readers: My apologies, the ten links above to vegetable recipes from other food blogs don't display in feed readers or e-mail. Please click through to today's post to view the list. VegetableSpotting - The Running List Many food bloggers list a 'blogroll' of their favorite blogs on their websites. Recently, I replaced my own blogroll with a running list of VegetableSpotting recipes. Check the lower right-hand corner of any page on A Veggie Venture for the

A rich casserole with the sunny-colored summer squash called 'yellow squash'. It's slightly creamy, slightly cheesy but lucky, lucky, no canned mushroom soup! Low carb and a great way to use the yellow squash that the garden throws off this this time of year. So who else grew up where each and every casserole tasted exactly the same as the last? No wonder. While the main ingredients changed, the binding did not, it was a can (or often two) of Campbell's mushroom soup. For an especially uptown casserole, the big guns were hauled out: Campbell's cream of celery or cream of shrimp. Yikes. These days, I pass by the casseroles with canned mushroom soup, the ones rife in the church and family cookbooks that I otherwise duly truly appreciate for homespun get-it-on-the-table-fast fare. This casserole recipe, however, caught my attention because I sensed it was trying to duplicate the smooth texture and rich taste of those potluck-friendly casseroles. And so it did – but

Today's vegetable soup recipe: A cold summer soup, tomatoes paired with cherries for a slightly sweet gazpacho. Adapted from the Spanish chef Dani Garcia known for whimsical and delicious interpretations of Spanish cuisine. Beautiful color, yes?! Low carb. Weight Watchers 0 points. Here in Missouri, we're into our third (and final, oh no!) month of summer tomatoes. Those first few weeks, we eat tomatoes like apples, straight from the hand, or slice them onto plates and salads, no recipes required. But by September (yikes!), that first tomato lust has been slaked and it somehow feels right, again, for tomatoes to become 'ingredients' in recipes, even if simple-simple recipes like this riff on a classic gazpacho, the cold tomato-based soup that has no recipe twins, just first and second cousins. This gazpacho recipe from Dani Garcia, a rising-star chef in Spain, pairs tomatoes with cherries -- not cherry tomatoes , but sour cherries from Wisconsin, thanks to the generosit

Today's vegetable recipe: Slices of pattypan squash simmered in water with a little butter, tossed with lemon juice and fresh basil. Low carb. Weight Watchers 0 points. Boiled zucchini. (Or in this case, zucchini's cousin, another summer squash called pattypan.) It just sounds bad, doesn't it? And truth is, this is not a recipe that will knock your socks off, not like stuffed zucchini boats , say. It's good , of course, just not a recipe any of us are going to moan over. But it's so quick, so easy, so perfect for the lovely little pattypan squashes (you know, the ones that look like spaceships from Planet Plant) so abundant at the farmers markets right now -- that's more than ample compensation, at least in my book. I made the pattypan ahead of time to serve at room temperature, but they're so quick and easy, make them at the last minute to serve hot. QUICK PATTYPAN SQUASH Hands-on time: 10 minutes Time to table: 10 minutes Serves 4 1 tablespoon butter 1

Ooo-la-la, now here's something special! It's a classic zucchini fritter, you know, just grated zucchini held together with a little egg and flour. But what pushes the Zucchini Fritters over the top is a little bit of lemon zest and get this, a dried chile in the oil that adds just a tiny touch of heat to the fritters. What a great technique! Low Carb. Weight Watchers friendly, just PointsPlus 3. ~recipe updated from the Recipe Box, first posted 2008!~ ~ more recently updated recipes ~ Waste Not. Want Not. Welcome to "zucchini week" here on A Veggie Venture, a serious attempt to keep up with baseball-sized summer squash that appear overnight on my kitchen counter. Without real effort, their next stop would be compost, especially because the big and dense zucchini can't be used with just any recipe. In addition, after being obsessed with baking all summer long, all of a sudden, turning on the oven is dead last on a long list of cooking ideas. This is the firs

Today's easy-easy summer salad dressing recipe: A simple vinaigrette made with fresh blueberries. Low Carb. Vegan. Very Weight Watchers friendly, just PointsPlus 1. How easy is this? Just a big handful of blueberries plus the usual suspects for a vinaigrette, olive oil, garlic and vinegar. It tasted so fruity fresh – chalk up another successful entry in the continuing quest to never buy salad dressing again . Plus, the mix of blueberries and blue cheese and blue peaches – oh wait, that would be just peaches, perfectly ripe – was magnificent.

Big chunks of cucumber with tomato and onion in a simple balsamic vinegar dressing. Low carb. Weight Watchers friendly, just PointsPlus 2! Not just vegan, " Vegan Done Real ". This recipe originates from rural Missouri and a 1940s farm wife widowed young with four children, the youngest only 18 months old. It's plain. It's thrifty. It's filling. I suspect Old Liz might tsk-tsk me to task for even calling it a recipe. My mind hears her harumph, "It's just cucumbers and tomatoes from the garden. Don't make a fuss." So no more imagining a woman whose spirit I can know only through the legacy of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren – and her cucumber salad. Maybe she wouldn't mind just a small fuss. This is a good salad for those baseball-bat sized cucumbers from the garden. It needs a good rest before supper (30 minutes, say) but is even better the next day. MORE OLD-TIME CUCUMBER RECIPES These are also simple cucumber sa