I have been a vegetarian cook for over 20 years. I love to read cookbooks and try new recipes and experiment with them. Pasta dishes are my very favorite, followed by casseroles and desserts Since I did not grow up in a vegetarian home I don't really have any "traditions" and have no children to pass them to. Baked pasta dishes always win raves at my dinner parties. Cardamom Snap cookies. Blue cheese crackers. Whole wheat bread that was a hefty brick.