Comments on: Vegetarian Style

By: My New Recipe Source | Messy Canvas

My New Recipe Source | Messy Canvas — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:06:31 +0000

[...] for our family should look like. It’s even helped me dip my foot in the waters of eating vegetarian [...]

By: mandy

mandy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:08:16 +0000

It’s so cool to hear that many of you are eating vegetarian as well. It always seemed so foreign a concept to me. I love it that it’s feeling more natural now. Now we have meat a few times a week instead of every night.

Karen – I put Love Soup on reserve at the library. Thanks for the suggestion. Yea for a toddler eating veggies!

Abbi – Yes, you know all about putting the “why not” into action. And Tony used to be a strictly meat and potatoes guy, but that’s changing.

Amber – Thanks for the suggestion about the Asian diet pyramid.

Mandi – I am so excited you gave me this recipe. Just a couple days ago someone was telling me I had to try lentil tacos, and I just bought lentils tonight for another recipe. I’m going to try these next week!

By: Mandi

Mandi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:10:54 +0000

You must try this recipe for tacos. It costs about .75 cents and we use it in place of beef in our tacos.

3/4 Cups lentils
1/2 Cup brown rice
1 pkg taco seasoning
3 Cups water (a little scant on the 3rd cup)

Mix in covered casserole dish. Cover. Bake for 100 mins at 300 degrees. Use just as you would regular tacos.

By: Abbi

Abbi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:03:18 +0000

Why not sing karaoke in public while wearing a wig?

Sounds like a fun adventure, trying something new. And I love to cook, so it would be fun to trade recipes. I like most vegetarian dishes, while my hubby, on the other hand, would stage a revolt if I removed meat from our daily meals.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:31:20 +0000

That’s great you are incorporating veggie meals! Check out the cookbook Love Soup, I absolutely love it, and it is all vegetarian. It is by the author of the vegetarian epicure (which I love also!). The two year old was eating turnips and rutabagas this week the way I was preparing them from the book! Last night he said, “more chard please!” The more veggies the better.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:45:56 +0000

That meal looks great! And a great lesson in “why not?”
If you’re interested, check out the Asian diet pyramid- it’s roughly what we do, not because we try at it (I think I’m like you with the cooking consistently but have also been doing better lately!), but because it just naturally suits our tastes and lifestyle. It’s great if you like the occasional poultry/fish. Check it out! Glad you all had a great vaca!

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:47:23 +0000

My family is vegetarian. My husband was raised vegetarian and I was raised by a vegetarian (my father.) I must say that tofu is not something we make very often. I grew up cooking vegetarian meals. I don’t miss meat.

By: paige

paige — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:02:39 +0000

we have evolved to eating veggie almost all the time at home — it does take a bit of getting used to, and there are some things that are just better w meat (pizza, for example, w mushroom and SAUSAGE.. yum. and bacon. sometimes you just need bacon..) – but i encourage you to keep trying. the spices and veggies and textures begin to define your food instead of the meat being the defining part. it can be fun AND tasty – i promise. and tofu is hard for me too. i almost never use it.