{"id":25647,"date":"2025-10-24T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:21:20","slug":"quick-and-easy-pumpkin-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/quick-and-easy-pumpkin-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and Easy Pumpkin Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25648\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/photo-by-Valeria-Boltneva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/photo-by-Valeria-Boltneva.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Valeria Boltneva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pumpkin is an ingredient to use year-round, but most people think more \u201cpumpkin-y\u201d in the fall and winter. There are two ways to obtain pumpkin as an ingredient: fresh or canned. There is a third option, a pumpkin \u201cstand-in\u201d if you will, frozen winter squash. Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, shares some quick and easy ideas for preparing vegan dishes based on pumpkin including a pumpkin latte, creamy pumpkin soup, creamy pumpkin spread, pumpkin rice pilaf, and more. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue4\/2017_issue4_cooking_tips.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue4\/2017_issue4_cooking_tips.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pumpkin is an ingredient to use year-round, but most people think more \u201cpumpkin-y\u201d in the fall and winter. There are two ways to obtain pumpkin as an ingredient: fresh or canned. There is a third option, a pumpkin \u201cstand-in\u201d if you will, frozen winter squash. Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, shares some quick and easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25649,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions\/25649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}