Wanted: Good vegetarian recipes

[piperdbh]

Hey everyday is meatless for me! Guess I'm doing my part for the Great Recession!

Glad to hear it, Ern! Keep up the good work.

Sushi, I don't usually cook from recipes; I just throw some things together, add rosemary and it usually turns out pretty good. For saving electricity, the all-raw diet is a good thing to do, but it can old. Do you have a grill to cook things on without having to use electricity?

[CDNSushi]

Glad to hear it, Ern! Keep up the good work.

Sushi, I don't usually cook from recipes; I just throw some things together, add rosemary and it usually turns out pretty good. For saving electricity, the all-raw diet is a good thing to do, but it can old. Do you have a grill to cook things on without having to use electricity?

Absolutely. I can grill, but also my oven and stove are all propane gas -- not electricity, so if I stay away from my microwave and toaster oven, there's no problem.

I've seen some really good recipes in here so far though. And I'm looking forward to trying them! And I'll check out the links too when I get a chance.

[CDNSushi]

Do you have quinoa in your area? Thought I'd ask while I'm thinking up recipes. That's another versatile ingredient.

So I was in our local Brazilian supermarket today, buying some lentils and other goodies, when lo and behold -- I saw a package of something I'd never recognized before.... Read the package and it said: "quinoa." Score!

Guess I do have quinoa here. The local Japanese may or may not have it, but the Brazilians sure do. Bought a package of it -- now I gotta figure out what to do with it... Maybe with a bit of advice....

[Cynthia]

Excellent -- glad you found some! There has been a quinoa recipe posted on the previous page, I think. I need a little more coffee and to see if I can write down my fave since I don't use a recipe for it either.

[Mael Coluim]

One of my diet mainstays is greens & beans.

Kale the Scottish soul food is my favorite. I have a steamer that I put in
crushed garlic
sliced red or sweet onion
sliced mushrooms
as much kale as I can stuff into the steamer

Any type of beans will do.

One of my favorites is northern beans cooked in carrot juice with sliced carrots

[TurboKittie]

I also like a good vegetable soup.

Sweat out one diced onion in a pot with a little oil and salt. (You can also carmelize them a little by letting them brown around the edges) Add a sliced carrot and celery rib and let them seat out a little in the pan. Add about a cup of shredded cabbage. Add one small can of tomato paste. Cover with water and bring to a boil.

You can add anything else you like. Sometimes I've put in Brussel sprouts, corn, rice, peas or beans, all with tasty results.

[kc8ufv]

Absolutely. I can grill, but also my oven and stove are all propane gas -- not electricity, so if I stay away from my microwave and toaster oven, there's no problem.

I've seen some really good recipes in here so far though. And I'm looking forward to trying them! And I'll check out the links too when I get a chance.

Just remember, if you are using air conditioning, even using a different fuel to cook with indoors will still cause an increase in your electric consumption... (I cook on a grill outside my back door)

[MacBean]

Large rectangular glass baking dish
Tomato sauce, ricotta (+ 1 egg if you wish), grated mozzarela, parmesan, pepper, basil, frozen peas
Boil pasta as directed
Layers: tomato sauce, lasagna noodle, ricotta, grated mozzarela x 4
I put basil, pepper, and peas between some layers

Bake covered with foil 30 min and 10 uncovered.

(more later)

[MacBean]

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/

I've been a vegetarian for most of the last 40 years. This is the place to go for all knowledge "vegetablarian".

Vegetarian diet tends to be more varied than other diets as no plant source of amino acids is "complete" - you need to browse among them to get the whole set of required a.a. The typical pairing is beans and grain, where the beans provide the methionine lacking in grains.

[Bugbear]

Grazing on snacks all day can be good.

From what I have read, hominy corn, beans, and squash or pumpkin, especially the seeds, should provide a fairly full round of proteins and minerals etc. I pick and eat the beans fresh out of the garden; the pumpkin seeds are dried or I like to eat the miniature pumpkins steamed and whole; corn, if you can eat it, can be made into a number of snacks, including chips or pop corn. I also eat whole sunflower seeds, lots of chewing required. Crunchy seems to be the underlying characteristic of all of them. Just a thought from the Southwest U.S.

I do eat meat for the one meal I eat each day, so no idea if it really is fully balanced.