Helena based blog shares vegetarian baking recipes and tips

HELENA — DearPotato.org is a Helena-based weblog the place bakers can discover vegan and vegetarian recipe concepts to bake at dwelling.

The proprietor, Shea Conley, stated she by no means thought she can be a enterprise proprietor, by no means the much less a baker, “I by no means picked baking it kinda simply discovered me, and it demanded that I take that as a profession. And I simply actually ran with it.”

She stated it began when she was residing in Seattle. A bakeshop pulled her in and requested her to work the morning shift; from there, she was hooked.

Shea Conley of dearpotato.org shares some fast baking recommendation

When the pandemic shut every little thing down, she misplaced her job, discovered her manner again to Helena, however she did not need to put the rolling pin down.

Conley began a weblog referred to as DearPotato.org, a reputation that has a private which means.

“I’m a vegetarian, so I eat quite a lot of potatoes, and I joke that potatoes are my favourite meals. And, then additionally it is a time period of endearment, form of, as a result of, like, my mother and I or my husband and I, are such as you candy little potato.”

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Conley says readers should not get the concept her recipes are nearly potatoes. Whereas her baked items are about ninety p.c vegan and embody some gluten-free choices, she provides the purpose isn’t essentially low-calorie.

“The purpose is it isn’t wholesome. The purpose is that every little thing is vibrant, actually flavorful, colourful, bizarre, stuff like that,” she stated.

Her substances would possibly go far past what you discover in your grandma’s kitchen. Her purpose is to open folks’s eyes to what’s on the market.

“Dietary yeast is like an inactive dry yeast, that could be quite a lot of vegans find out about, however perhaps quite a lot of newer vegans or vegetarians do not find out about, and it is like a very good cheese complement.”

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There’s a little one thing for everybody for customers who won’t be as adventurous together with your pallet.

“Right here is the form of safer gadgets that everybody will like, but additionally you would possibly need to attempt some Matcha tea cookies, and people are just like the adore it or hate.”

You too can discover Conley and Pricey Potato on the Helena and Capital Sq. Farmers’ Markets.