Entries tagged with 'vegetarian'
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[Photograph: Herbivoracious] It's called Turkey Day not Other Non-Turkey Stuff Day for a reason. Vegetarians are usually stuck piling on the sides on Thanksgiving, which isn't the worst thing in the world, but they could use some entrees with a little more heft. This photo of squash stuffed with orzo in a sage brown butter sauce from our Seriously Meatless man Michael Natkin is a great example of a turkey alternative—and we're not talking the turkey-flavored proteins. Here are some others, and feel free to chime in with your ideas. Acorn Squash Lasagna with Béchamel Sauce Pumpkin Ravioli with Brown Butter and Sage Sauce Blue Cheese, Pear, and Pecan Quiche Grafton Squash Casserole Pumpkin Orzo with Sage Spaghetti Squash...
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] Today, October 1, is World Vegetarian Day to kick off Vegetarian Awareness Month. Here are some suggestions for how to raise awareness of vegetarianism throughout the month; if you're not vegetarian, you can try including more meatless meals this month. Check out our vegetarian column Seriously Meatless and other vegetarian recipes for ideas. Related Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: The Temporary Vegetarian Snapshots from South Korea: Vegetarian Temple Food at Sanchon Menu: Vegan Thanksgiving Meatless in Saigon...
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked you to go temporarily vegetarian by making a satisfying meatless main. This challenge proved to be a popular one, here are some of our favorite herbivorous responses: Cantaloupe Alone is no vegetarian but this Fall Flavored Red Lentil Soup with Eggplant was a hit. ElizabethS and friends made a spread of vegetarian Spanish-inspired tapas. Check out the pictures over at The Manhattan (food) Project. The ambitious morgancain made not one but three vegetarian dishes, a mushroom rice casserole, a quinoa lentil curry, and a grilled corn and black bean salad. NotAmerican and family are mostly vegetarian so it's no surprise they have great ideas for veggie...
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Serious Eats contributor Michael Natkin shares a recipe for Latin-American French lentil salad at his blog, Herbivoracious. He mixes French lentils with with tiny roasted potatoes, cucumber, red onion, avocado, radish, lime juice, and ranchero cheese....
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It seems like vegetarian meals are always met with back-handed compliments. "This nut loaf is so delicious, I don't even miss the meat!" Or "those portobello burgers were divine, almost as good as a real cheeseburger!" Too often vegetarian dishes try to compensate for their lack of animal-based protein with meat mimicry. In my opinion, this emphasis on meat simulation is part of why vegetarian cooking has developed such a bad reputation over the years. I was a strict vegetarian for almost ten years and I have eaten countless veggie burgers, soy dogs, and buffalo "wings." A Tofurkey graced my Thanksgiving table for more years than I would care to admit. I am currently a happy omnivore who thoroughly enjoys...
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In looking for a real estate broker, I'd want to know his experience, his commission, his accreditation. But his vegetarian tendencies? As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, broker Daniel Berman, working from Palo Alto, California, sells himself as a "vegetarian reeltor." (And no, that's not a typo; due to trademark concerns with the National Association of Realtors, he's using the term "reeltor" in lieu of the normal spelling.) Believing that a customer and a broker should share fundamental values, he actively seeks out a veggie clientele. "Why should the real estate profession be the exclusive domain of meat-eating right-wing conservatives?" he asks. (Is it really?) He also offers to take a lower commission, if some portion of the savings are...
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Last month I visited Seoul, South Korea, for the first time. Here's a look at something I ate from my one-week trip. It wasn't until I had asked friends for food recommendations in Seoul that I first heard of temple cuisine, traditional vegetarian (or vegan, to be more specific) food served at Buddhist temples. Because I can't just eat fried things and noodles all the time, I was grateful to come across Sanchon ("Mountain Village"), one of the most famous restaurants in Seoul (and worldwide) that specializes in temple-inspired cuisine, while walking around Insadong with Rachel Yang and her mother on my last full day in South Korea. The restaurant was opened in 1981 by Kim Yon Shik, a former...
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Every once in a while, a girl's got to take a break from baking cookies, cakes, and brownies and start cooking some vegetables. For this week's Mixed Review I decided to prepare an uber-healthy cauliflower dish using an Arora Creations Indian spice mix. Like a lot of people, I love to eat Indian food in restaurants but am intimidated to make it at home because of the numerous and unusual spices required for many dishes. Fenugreek? Nigella seeds? Where am I going to find them? And what am I going to do with the leftovers? What attracted me most to the Arora mix was the fact that it was made entirely from organic, exotic spices, including ground turmeric, ajowan...
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Photograph from cobalt123 on Flickr Going almost vegetarian, while allowing a few specks of meat here and there into the diet, is good for Mother Nature. That makes our Meat Lite contributors Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond, who focus on delicious almost meatless recipes, model environmentalists. A piece in Audubon Magazine explains that daily meat consumption per capita should drop from about 12 ounces in America to 3.1 ounces to protect the climate. That's about the size of a deck of cards, explains U.S. News and World Report. Where do your loyalties lie—meat, the earth, or both?...
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The real deal turducken (meat involved). Photograph from Phil Romans on Flickr The name might inspire an "oh, my!" face, but tofucken is actually just turducken made with tofu. Adapted from a recipe by Chef Paul Prudhomme (the bearded, hat-wearing dude from Louisiana with a line of cajun seasonings), Stefany Anne Golberg of Table Matters turns the "infamous carnival of carnage that involves three unfortunate birds" into an infamous carnage of soy beans and wheat gluten. If you could combine multiple meats (real or fake) for a turducken-esque mishmash, what would they be? And what potentially inappropriate-sounding name would you give it? Related Qua-duc-ant (Quail, Duck, Pheasant) Fake Turk'y Taste Test...
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