Veggie Annie

07/06/2025

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery Final Pop-Up (For The Foreseeable Future, So Stock Your Freezers)

Please order by 9am on Monday, June 9, 2025 for delivery on Friday, June 13, 2025.

We deliver to Frederick MD, Washington DC and everywhere in between.

Don’t forget to leave out a cooler with some ice packs.

Each dish is $35. Please order at least 3 quarts, for a minimum of $105.

Venmo is my favorite way to get paid.

Creamy Chicken Chili - This dish is a hug in a bowl. Shredded chicken, beans and corn in a super-flavorful creamy-salsa-y base. Not spicy - feel free to add your own hot sauce, if that’s your thing. This Chili gets THREE thumbs up from every taster! One quart. Gluten-free. (Freezes great!)

African Peanut Stew - A runaway favorite! Veggie-full, super savory and complex. We send along salted peanuts and lime wedges to garnish - we recommend adding your own sriracha. One quart. Vegan and gluten-free. (Freezes great!)

Moroccan Roasted Veggies - A harmonious blend of vegetables, including eggplant, sweet red peppers, carrots, onions, green and black olives, plus Moroccan spices, and fragrant olive oil, roasted to melting perfection. One quart. Vegan and gluten-free. (Freezes great!)

Cauliflower Snowflake Salad - Fresh cauli chopped very tinily contrasts gorgeously with purple cabbage, fresh green herbs, feta, and lots of lemon zest. A creamy vegan avocado dressing and a scattering of chopped pistachios finishes this vegetable glory! Let us know if you’d prefer vegan feta instead of dairy feta. One quart. Vegetarian or Vegan. Gluten-free.

Carrot White Bean Sesame Salad - An old Veggie Annie classic! Lightly steamed carrots tossed in a cumin-and-garlic dressing, with creamy white beans, parsley and white sesame seeds. Topped with sesame sticks, or, for a gluten-free topping, crushed sesame rice crackers. Please let us know which you prefer. One quart. Vegan. Salad is gluten-free.

Veggie Annie’s Curried Lentil Salad - Our flagship dish! If you know, you know - if you don’t, we welcome you to the secret club. Vegan, gluten-free. One quart.

Email or text to order!
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301-401-0913

02/06/2025

Happy Pride Month, my darlings! Loving mom hugs from me, always, to anyone who could use ‘em - and also my fierce, teeth-bared, tough-old-broad defense of your gorgeous existence. Also, the kettle’s always on. 🌈 💚 🌈 ☕️

27/05/2025

Hello, Dinner Delivery Friends!

We are giving you lots of notice that we are having what may be VEGGIE ANNIE’S FINAL DELIVERY POP-UP on June 13. Menu posted on Saturday June 7, ordering window closes on Monday June 9 at 9am, and delivery on Friday June 13.

One half of our team, our beloved Veggie JuJu, is moving out of the country in mid-July. She does SO MUCH WORK that a pop-up is hard to run without her! While we never say never, and we wouldn’t want you to hold us to anything, we imagine that June 13 will be the final VA Delivery Pop-Up.

We haven’t finalized the menu yet, so please tell us - what dish do you dream of seeing/stocking your freezer with?

If you want to be absolutely certain not to miss the menu, shoot us a message and we can add you to our text or email list.

Menu posted: Saturday, June 7
Ordering window closes: Monday, June 9 at 9am
Delivery: Friday, June 13

Love and Kisses,

Veggie Annie

12/04/2025

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery Pop-Up - April Edition! If you celebrate Easter, this is a DELIGHTFUL menu with which to surround your ham or lamb or tofurkey! If Easter is not in your tradition, then just do not sleep on gathering up some Veggie Annie goodness while it’s available.

(No idea what food prices might be like this year, and we know that there’s a limit to what we can charge and still expect to sell - so if things get too spendy for us, we might possibly have to shelve these pop-ups. We’ll always keep quality high, never fear.)

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery to your home on Friday, April 18, 2025.

Please order by 9am on Monday, April 14, 2025.

We deliver to Frederick MD, Washington DC and everywhere in between.

Don’t forget to leave out a cooler with some ice packs.

Each dish is $35. Please order at least 3 quarts, for a minimum of $105. Venmo is my favorite way to get paid.

BMW Salad - A Veggie Annie classic from back in the day! Lightly steamed Broccoli, deeply marinated, tamari-and-garlic Mushrooms, and toasted Walnuts arrive at your home separately, and you combine them deliciously just before serving. Vegan, gluten-free. One quart.

Quinoa Salad - Fresh, fresh, fresh! Peas, sun-dried tomato slivers, grapes and arugula, in a lemon-garlic-fresh-dill dressing. A perfect dish for any Springtime celebration. Vegan, gluten-free. One quart.

Cream of Asparagus Soup - This GORGEOUS pale green creation can be made dairy or vegan - please let us know which you prefer. Start your festive meal with a small bowl of this, and you’ll be very elegant indeed. Vegetarian or vegan, gluten-free. One quart.

Roasted Cabbage and Chickpea Casserole - We send you the Roasted Cabbage and Chickpeas, plus a separate container of a fab topping of panko breadcrumbs, walnuts, garlic, lemon, and a whisper of Parmesan - you combine and bake for a rich and succulent dish. Please let us know if you’d prefer this to be gluten-free and/or vegan. One quart.

Celery Salad - A new dish in our Delivery menu! Humble celery reaches unexpected heights of deliciousness and fresh crunch in this delightful salad. Dates, cherry tomatoes, toasted almonds, green apples, loads of fresh herbs; sparked-up with a green peppercorn vinaigrette. Vegan, gluten-free. One quart.

Veggie Annie’s Curried Lentil Salad - Our flagship dish! If you know, you know - if you don’t, we welcome you to the secret club. Vegan, gluten-free. One quart.

Email or text to order!
[email protected]
301-401-0913

08/02/2025

Waking up to awful and cruel things in the news every day lately - a little treat is sometimes called for.

Iced (or Hot) Coffee Topped with Sweet Maple Cream

Makes 2

As much cold coffee as you like - here I have a cup, divided between 2 vessels. I wanted this treat to be extra luxurious. You might like a whole cup of coffee for each person, for a slightly more moderate treatie.

Crushed ice

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
a 2-finger-and-thumb pinch salt

Put cream, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a quart Mason jar, put your immersion blender down in it and blend til you have softly whipped cream. Or you could use a blender, or a hand mixer and a bowl.

Put crushed ice in your glasses, pour over the cold coffee, and gently spoon the cream on top, to float.

This cream is equally nice over hot coffee, if that’s your thing. The great pleasure of sipping unsweetened black coffee THROUGH the sweet cream is just the boost I needed today!

01/02/2025

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery Pop-Up!

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery to your home on Friday, Feb 7, 2025. Please order by 9am on Monday, February 3, 2025.

We deliver to Frederick MD, Washington DC and everywhere in between.

Don’t forget to leave out a cooler with some ice packs.

Each dish is $35. Please order at least 3 quarts, for a minimum of $105. Venmo is my favorite way to get paid.

Smoked Pork Mac and Cheese - Comfort in a bowl. Our best cheesy, creamy homemade Mac and Cheese, with Smoked Pork stirred through it, to elevate it to maximum scrumptiousness. One quart. Contains dairy, meat and gluten.

Chickpea Two-Tomato Rosemary Soup with our Homemade Croutons - Roasted tomatoes plus sun-dried tomatoes plus fresh rosemary from our herb garden make up the intriguing broth in this lovely soup. Plenty of chickpeas fill in the rest. One quart. Vegan. Soup is gluten-free. Ask us if you’d like a GF substitute for the Croutons.

Picnic Broccoli Salad - This scrumptious salad is a way yummier vegan take on Southern Broccoli Salad, with a sweet miso dressing, red onions and chopped dates. You’ll especially love the topping of toasted cashews and BBQ potato chips! One quart. Vegan. Gluten-free.

Harissa Honey Lentil and Veggie Salad - The roasted cauliflower and carrots are succulent, the tiny black lentils are an extremely pleasant texture, and the topping (fresh green onions-toasted almonds-feta) is fresh and delightful - but even with all that going for it, the Harissa Honey Dressing is still the star of this show! One quart, vegan except for the feta in the topping (let us know if you don’t want it), gluten-free.

Veggie Annie’s Curried Lentil Salad - Our Flagship Dish. IYKYK. If you don’t know, we’re so excited to welcome you to the club! Lentils, capers, raisins, onions, the secret spice mixture - it all goes together to create this Veggie Annie classic. One quart. Vegan and gluten-free.

Veggie Annie’s Curried Lentil Salad Mix….$25.00
Each mix contains organic dry lentils, organic raisins, our special spice mix, plus a jar of capers. You cook the lentils, then add the spice mix to your own oil and vinegar, stir in the cooked lentils, raisins, drained capers and your own diced red onion. Makes about 6 cups of my famous and adored Curried Lentil Salad.

Email or text to order!
[email protected]
301-401-0913

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06/01/2025

Snow Day (here in the mid-Atlantic) Fancy Coffee!

The Dirty Earl

Makes 4-6 coffees, more or less - depending on your milk ratios

Flavorwise, keep in mind that it takes a strong flavor to match the flavor of a strong cup of Joe. To my taste, this recipe is a perfect balance of flavor, but Juliana likes hers with an extra tablespoon of tea leaves or an additional 2 teabags

3 cups of milk or oatmilk
2 tablespoons loose Earl Grey tea leaves, or 3 teabags - if you love Earl Grey and have a special one that’s extra bergamot-y or anything, this is a lovely place to use that.
1/4 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups strong, hot coffee - If you’re near Frederick MD, you know that the outstanding Serina at Dublin Roasters Coffee has been my go-to coffee human for decades.

Two hours before you want to drink your Dirty Earl:

Heat the milk to hot-but-not-boiling. (You can put it in a quart Mason jar and put it in the microwave, or you can heat it in a pan on the stovetop. Remove from heat before adding anything.)

To the hot milk, add the tea, 1/4 cup of sugar and a two-finger-and-thumb pinch of salt. Let it sit on the counter til cool, then refrigerate and allow to steep for 2 hours.

Strain out the tea leaves.

Make coffee.

Gently reheat the tea-milk or tea-oatmilk, and add 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.

If you like a foamy top to your coffee, use a handheld, battery-operated milk frother to froth up the tea-milk mixture. (We have several of these, and I wish I knew how to make a nickel when people order them on my recommendation, because I recommend them ALL THE TIME - because frothing up a beverage at home is a pure dopamine hit! Also, though, some dairy milk brands don’t froth - you just have to experiment. Oatly Oat Milk, full-fat and unsweetened, froths GORGEOUSLY.) This drink is delightful even unfrothed, so don’t let lack of a frother stop you from making it.

Warm the mugs by filling them with hot tap water or boiling water from the kettle - let them sit briefly, then dump out the water.

Put 1/2-3/4 of a cup of hot coffee in each mug, top with 1/2 cup of hot tea-milk.

Enjoy your Dirty Earl!

04/01/2025

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery Pop-Up!

Happy 2025, Beloved Dinner Delivery Customers! Here’s one of our occasional Dinner Delivery Pop-Ups. We are thinking of you, and wishing lots of happiness, health and prosperity to all.

(No idea what food prices might be like this year, and we know that there’s a limit to what we can charge and still expect to sell - so if things get too spendy for us, we might possibly have to shelve these pop-ups. We’ll always keep quality high, never fear.)

Veggie Annie Dinner Delivery to your home on Friday, January 10, 2025. Please order by 9am on Monday, January 6, 2025.

We deliver to Frederick MD, Washington DC and everywhere in between.

Don’t forget to leave out a cooler with some ice packs.

Each dish is $35. Please order at least 3 quarts, for a minimum of $105. Venmo is my favorite way to get paid.

Creamy Chicken Chili - This dish is a hug in a bowl. Shredded chicken, beans and corn in a super-flavorful creamy-salsa-y base. Not spicy - feel free to add your own hot sauce, if that’s your thing. This Chili gets THREE thumbs up from every taster! One quart. Gluten-free.

African Peanut Stew - A runaway favorite! Veggie-full, super savory and complex. We send along salted peanuts and lime wedges to garnish - we recommend adding your own sriracha. One quart. Vegan and gluten-free.

Veggie Annie’s Curried Lentil Salad - Our Flagship Dish. IYKYK. If you don’t know, we’re so excited to welcome you to the club! Lentils, capers, raisins, onions, the secret spice mixture - it all goes together to create this Veggie Annie classic. One quart. Vegan and gluten-free.

Moroccan Roasted Veggies - A harmonious blend of vegetables, including eggplant, sweet red peppers, carrots, onions, green and black olives, plus Moroccan spices, and fragrant olive oil, roasted to melting perfection. One quart. Vegan and gluten-free.

BMW Salad - A very popular Veggie Annie classic, from way back in the day. Lightly steamed Broccoli, garlic-and-tamari marinated Mushrooms, and toasted Walnuts make up this dazzling salad. I can’t not say it - you should take it for a spin! One quart. Vegan and gluten-free.

Veggie Annie’s Curried Lentil Salad Mix….$25.00
Each mix contains organic dry lentils, organic raisins, our special spice mix, plus a jar of capers. You cook the lentils, then add the spice mix to your own oil and vinegar, stir in the cooked lentils, raisins, drained capers and your own diced red onion. Makes about 6 cups of my famous and adored Curried Lentil Salad.

Email or text to order!
[email protected]
301-401-0913

24/12/2024

For our little family, today is Christmas Eve, and if you celebrate it, you might be looking for one or two things to whip together today to give or eat tomorrow. If you celebrate Hanukkah, you might be looking for some lovely treats for the upcoming festive days. Or maybe you’ll visit friends or relatives in the Week Between the Years, and would like to take a small offering that’s not a bottle of wine. No worries - I’ve got you! Free subscribers get my very classic and delicious Molives (posted annually around this time!), and paid subscribers get a brand new set of DELIGHTFUL treats - Three Fancy Nut Butters.

Molives (Martin’s Mother’s Marvelous Mexican Olives) (https://veggieannie.substack.com/p/veggie-annies-skillet-molives-martins)

Molives are a famous treat in the Veggie Annie universe - green olives marinated in lime juice and garlic - and are beloved for their out-of-the-ordinary taste AND for their extreme ease of prep. Try one in a martini, or on a cheese board. Or just eat them!

Three Fancy Nut Butters (https://veggieannie.substack.com/p/veggie-annies-skillet-three-fancy)

Almond Latte Crunch Almond Butter

Spicy Thai Peanut Butter

Gingerbread Pecan Almond Butter

Ok, so the Fancy Nut Butters involve peanut or almond butter, plus some ingredients you either have or can grab in a very quick trip to the store, and containers. I had a bunch of 6 ounce glass jars lying around (oh, the catering supplies I have lying around!) or you can get larger or smaller glass or plastic containers. If you add a loaf of bread or a basket of apples (apple slices plus Fancy Nut Butters are the stuff of my SNACK DREAMS) to one or all three of these jars as a gift, you will not regret it! You can also stuff pitted Medjool dates with any of these for some very Amazing Dates.

Happy Holidays, darling cooks!

See you in the kitchen!

Love and Kisses,

Veggie Annie

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19/12/2024

Hello, lovely Cooks and Creators!

As we swing towards the end of 2024, with lots of holidaying ahead of us, as well as behind us, I’d like to suggest celebrating one teeny little extra festive day. I know - those of you who labor physically, emotionally and mentally to create Holiday Magic™ for your households, offices and friend groups might groan at the thought of DOING MORE FREAKING LABOR - but hear me out. This is pretty light lifting, and it’s not steeped in any Perfect Homemaker lore (so you can do anything you want), and it’s fun! And jolly! (And in fact, if Big Fancy Holidays have unpleasant associations for you, try this in place of them, rather than in addition to them.)

I’m talking about celebrating the Winter Solstice, Veggie Annie style.

At our house, we have celebrated the Solstice for years, creating a little rest stop off the Busy-Interstate-Highway-to-Big-Deal-Winter-Holidays. We love to pause the intensity and just get a little silly for the day. And while it IS one more thing to organize, it’s so loose and fun that you might welcome it as a breather, too.

Ok, here’s the way we do it:
1) We eat only round, red, orange, yellow, spicy-hot, and / or temperature-hot things, to honor the sun. (English muffins with either lemon curd or orange marmalade, sunny-side-up eggs, a corn tortilla fried in a round skillet with orange Cheddar and sautéed sweet peppers and hot salsa.) Or sometimes green things, to honor the plants-chlorophyll-growing-things effects of the sun. (Wagon wheel pasta with pesto or chimichurri, pizza with sautéed spinach.) Or sometimes things which grow or are manufactured in, or are associated with particularly sunny parts of the world! (Coffee, of course! Pineapple! Or how about Turkish coffee? Hummus in a round bowl with round crackers. Etc.) Also, remember that MANY COOKIES AND CAKES ARE ROUND. So you’re covered there.

Here’s a link to Nigella Lawson’s DELICIOUS Orange Cake - it’s gluten-free and very elegant and also, it reliably turns out great. We like to make a little chocolate whipped cream to top it with, but it’s totally lovely just as is. Nigella calls it “damp”, which is a gift for people who hate the word “moist.” It is the opposite of a dry cake. (https://www.nigella.com/recipes/clementine-cake?offset=36)

2) We give each other small gifts which we can connect to the sun or fire or light or plants or round, hot, yellow, things in some fashion. They can be obvious, like a bag of tangerines, or a beeswax candle; mildly more elaborate, like a box of strike-anywhere matches wrapped in gold wrapping paper, with a Sacajawea golden dollar taped to the box; or complex and requiring an explanation, like a vintage handkerchief, because if you’re trying to encourage a reluctant sneeze, you should look up at a light and the sneeze will happen. Or a Cookie Monster t-shirt, because cookies are round and often made of grain, which grows under the sun. You’re beginning to see the fun of this holiday, right? It’s delightful to us to make these connections.

3) We make a playlist - any holiday songs we especially like (“Good King Wenceslas” is never absent from a holiday playlist, at my house), plus “Here Comes the Sun”, of course. (Plus “Why Does the Sun Shine?”, by They Might Be Giants, OF COURSE.) Plus any sunshiney songs you can google or dream up.

4) If we get around to it, we decorate an evergreen bough with gold lights and yellow ribbon - this is super casual and NOT about glossy-magazine-perfection. (Sometimes, Christmas tree sellers will just give you a leftover bough for free if you stop by an ask.) Stick the branch upright in a Mason jar filled with marbles (round!), or lay it flat on your table and decorate it with pretty dead leaves and sticks. The more it looks as if Festive Raccoons decorated it, the better I like it, personally.

This year, Juliana and I are planning to give each other flashlights to use on our evening walks, but other years it's been a tiny vial of grapefruit essential oil and a wee jar of saffron, or a pack of metallic gold Sharpies, or a beach towel, or candied sunflower seeds.

We are wishing you a relaxed and fun holiday season, and much love and health in the New Year.

See you in the kitchen!

Love and kisses,

Veggie Annie

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25/11/2024

It’s Thanksgiving Week! Every food publication in the US is currently posting useful food-prep timelines and matrixes (matrices?), easy pie recipes, impressive and tricky pie recipes, and debates about brining / not brining turkeys. (And let’s not forget the Butterball Hotline, which figuratively dries more anxious kitchen tears than a kindly Grandma.)

Your old pal Veggie Annie is re-posting my most perfect Thanksgiving side dish ever, free, as my gift to you!

Seeing as how Juliana and I are caterers, who make big-fancy meals almost every weekend for our living, the VERY LAST thing we ever want to do on Thanksgiving is make a big-fancy meal for potentially difficult relatives, with extra-fancy potential emotional minefields - AND have to clean the house first, just to add insult to injury. We like to just be together, be relaxed, be thankful, and maybe make some giant sandwiches, or get takeout.

If you are hosting the Big Meal, or are going to a lovely Friendsgiving potluck, or staying home in blissful peace and solitude, we wish you love and happiness and pants with an elastic waist and solemn reminders of the Native land on which we live, and so much gratitude for being here and breathing in and out. We are endlessly thankful for you.

This DELICIOUS dish is a fantastic addition to the Thanksgiving table! Bright, refreshing, crisp; an utterly perfect foil for all the rich, savory dishes on the menu. Another major plus: no oven required. You can take this pretty and delightful dish to someone’s house for dinner, and your hosts will be thrilled to know that you only require a serving spoon. (Make it just before you leave home, and wait to add the crystallized ginger until just before serving.)

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06/11/2024

Guest post by Veggie Juliana -

Please join me in wishing our beloved Annie Marshall a happy 57th birthday!

She says that this morning’s news is the worst birthday present she’s ever gotten.

In this dread and despair filled hellscape that we are, apparently, now living in, I’m extra grateful for my Mama’s fierce love, her passion for justice, and her constant desire to right wrongs.

The horrors persist, but so does our Veggie Annie.❤️

All of us at Veggie Annie send our love to all of you, with particular tenderness for our LGBTQ+ and BIPOC beloveds.

Here’s a reposting of our recipe for Kitchen Witch Hot Cocoa, to stave off the darkness. https://veggieannie.substack.com/p/veggie-annies-skillet-kitchen-witch?utm_source=publication-search