Vegetarian Star

Several years ago, Giada De Laurentiis predicted vegetarianism as the next big culinary trend.

But the Food Network star has embraced plant-based cooking long before it was trendy.

Today’s Meatless Monday recipe features one of many vegetarian/vegan dishes she’s created, Grilled Tofu with Avocado Cream.

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Giada De Laurentiis‘ latest cookbook, Giada’s Feel Good Food, contains over 100 recipes plus healthy living tips designed to make your body feel as great as your tastebuds do.

Giada is no stranger to vegetarian meals, and Feel Good Food is no exception.

Her Stuffed Red Bell Peppers with Whole-Wheat Couscous and Avocado Sauce is just one example of her creations you can have as a side dish or main entree.

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Giada de Laurentiis‘ latest cookbook, Giada’s Feel Good Food, may be her most veggie friendly yet.

Last week, Vegetarian Star featured a Mexican dish for a chili slightly different from the usual–no beans.

Giada does such a good job of making plant-based cuisine, why not make this week’s Meatless Monday recipe an encore?

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The Queen of Italian has a new cookbook out with at least one recipe that borrows cuisine from Mexican culture.

Giada de Laurentiis‘ Giada’s Feel Good Food: My Healthy Recipes and Secrets contains 120 recipes that highlight the healthier side of her cooking, which, along with a few of her favorite good living tips, she uses to “maximize energy and remain fit.”

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Giada De Laurentiis has shared her holiday health tips with PopSugar.

The Food Network chef is a supporter of Meatless Mondays and personally made it a priority to cook more plant-based foods when her mother became a vegetarian.

This year, Giada’s tips include eating plenty of greens, grains, legumes and fruits and suggests looking to one of her several vegetarian recipes for inspiration, like her White Bean and Roasted Eggplant Hummus.

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Giada de Laurentiis had the opportunity to cater an all-vegetarian dinner for Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton.

The event was a benefit for one of the Prince’s late mother’s charities and Giada told Extra it was “one of the biggest highlights” of her career.

As expected, the main course consisted of one of the most popular and traditional Italian dishes–vegetable lasagna.

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Giada De Laurentiis has already predicted that vegetarianism is going to make it big this year.

The Food Network chef who’s mother’s vegetarianism inspired her to to create more plant-based meals recently expressed her appreciation for the Meatless Monday initiative, which encourages everyone to eat vegetarian once a week for better health.

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It’s a little too early for New Year’s, but Giada de Laurentiis is already predicting the next big trend of 2012.

The Italian chef, Food Network star and cookbook author says next year will be all about “vegetarian, vegetarian, vegetarian.”

“I think people are just really looking for lighter food on a regular basis,” Giada said.

“Because of that I’m testing out a lot of pizza recipes with gluten-free flours. Almond flour and quinoa are two of my new favorite ingredients to use in everything. I’ve been playing around with them a lot — how to make fresh pasta with it, how to put it into baked goods — and then, of course, agave as a substitute for sugar. I’m trying to find fun ways to incorporate these things that have actually been around for a long time, not necessarily in our culture, and make them more mainstream.”

In the video below from the Food Network, Giada explains her motivations for developing vegetarian recipes, which include both her fans and her family.

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