Veggie dilemma

[portiafaceslife]

For various reasons - the health of the planet, the health of my wallet & my own health - I've been thinking again about cutting back further on eating red meat and chicken. By Australian & American standards I don't eat a lot of meat anyway, only two or three days a week, but I'd like to go further

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[idlewild_]

We're on it... will dig through the sundry recipe books and see which ones are most helpful. I think seitan is wheaty at heart, so no damn good even if you did like it. TVP's still useful as filler stuff, but that's more tricky with the lack of tomatoes/peppers.

Anyway, we have stacks of vegan cookbooks so I shall see what I can find.

[portiafaceslife]

Thanks - a good veggie burger recipe wd be appreciated as I can't think what I'd use other than lentils.

I made a delicious & filling mushroom, spinach & brown rice slice, using up some barley I had as no brown rice. Barley takes an hour to cook, so it wasn't a quick meal. It used lots of cheese - well, I used lots of cheese, more than the recipe suggested!

[idlewild_]

Mmm... that sounds good except for the cheese. ;)

I dunno how much use this is, but it's something: http://www.vegetariantimes.com/2007/pdf/vegetarian_starter_kit.pdf

Will consult with various sources on the best veggie burger. One of our vegan friends has an eidetic memory for cookbooks and which recipes are good in which books.

[portiafaceslife]

The new 4 Food Groups was good, plus some of the suggestions. No veggie burger recipe though. Hope you eidetic friend can come up with the goods!

veggie lifestyle

[anonymous]

I can offer you a tasty mushroom risotto recipe, but I imagine you've already got that one taped. Or chilli beans, although that one does call for tomatoes which I think is something you can't eat? However given this is a dish that now varies greatly from the original I'm sure you could be equally creative with it & use more mushrooms instead.
I know you say you have a surfeit of lentil recipes, but have you tried the black lentil variety? Sometimes known as dupuy lentils? They are seriously delicious (even John was impressed!). Take a little longer to cook than the red variety (but not as long as the green/brown) but the flavour is terrific, & I've used them successfully in recipes that otherwise call for red lentils. Anne

Re: veggie lifestyle

[portiafaceslife]

Yes, I have a mushroom risotto recipe and a couple of chilli beans ones. But I haven't tried or even hard of black lentils. Do you have a recipe for those?

I made felafel yesterday. from a packet mix, & was pleased how easy they were & how good they tasted, so they'll be a fairly regular addition.