April Vegetarian and Vegan Livin' Thread

cheesecake pie is one thing i just made

i have some kale salad marinating in the fridge.
last night i made chana saag aloo (recipe from http://www.veganmania.com) for dinner and had the leftovers for lunch. tonight i'll probably make bean burritos (red&black beans, red onion, and red&green peppers) served with raw cheese, vegan sour cream, guacomole, and salsa. mmmm, typing that out made me hungry!

the fake meat discussion on last months thread reminded me of one of my favorites, so i splurged and bought the tofurkey sausages to cook with pasta this week. i am definitly looking forward to that dinner!

well, the girls and i use regular wheat tortillas. chip uses corn ones, which isn't really a sacrifice to him because he really likes them (especially the hard ones, though we only buy those once in a while because they're more expensive). i haven't found any GF wraps locally (though i haven't looked very hard). i found some at the www.glutenfreemall.com but they had partially hydrogenated oil in them so i didn't bother getting them. : they were also really expensive.

Hi everybody

I was in Santa Barbara for the weekend to celebrate my birthday. They have so much more selection for healthy and veggie food. I had dinner at this great cafe - vegan portabello ravioli and yummy desserts. It was so good.

I love this thread!!!!
Anywho i have to be short ds has art class. any ideas for bunnycake or a welcome spring dessert?
thanks
laura

Good question Laura. I'll have to think about that one and get back to you! Last night's dinner was yummy! We didn't make the biscuits, but we made a garbanzo bean dip to go with dinner. It's sort of like hummus but lighter. It was yummy. The recipe was out of "May All Be Fed." I really love their recipes. I have a bunch of new recipes that I'm trying out this week. I have a really brave family! Tonight I'm making a ginger tea stir-fry with garlic and tempeh. Also new for this week is grilled (or baked depending on the weather) tofu with five flavor (soy) yogurt dip, baby spinach salad with avocado, grapefruit & poppy seed dressing, Louisiana greens & sausage, lime rice with black-eyed peas, and yam good biscuits! Hmmm, that's a lot of new recipes for one week!

Welcome to the veg world Danna!

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Oh...I this cookbook. I bought it 2 years ago at the library used book sale for 25 cents!!!

Tonight I made a noodle dish-dd is on this noodle kick. Any suggestions to change it up would be great
I am going to make a portabello, red and green pepper, onion and garlic dish tomorrow night. Not quite sure what w/ yet

Here's a question for your veggie mamas w/ little dcs...my dd is almost 2. She is veggie and hasn't ever shown interest in meat, until recently. We went to visit family, who know we are veggie and will accomidate us, but will also serve meat. Dd kept asking for the meats. How do you deal w/ this if it arises??

Just subbin', ladies.

Oh--Sunday night made a huge batch of baked mac and cheese and green salad, last night we had veggie brats with spicy mustard, and leftover mac and cheese, and tonight we had penne with a spicier-than-usual tomatoe sauce and green salad. Using the crock pot tomorrow morning to make black bean chili, which we'll have with sourcream. I usually make enough to have this for two nights. Thursday I'll make homemade pizza. Friday, hmmmmmmm??? I haven't thought that far this week!

Oh, mother nurture, this is a good question. And I'm interested to read your replies. Our older DS has asked questions about the way we eat, but has not yet been tempted by anyone else's meaty food. I'm sure it will come up at some point, though.

Oh, a bunny cake is fun! Bake your cake in two round cake pans. Use one round as the face. Cut a bow tie out of the center of the second round, extending to the edges on 2 sides. This will leave you with 2 long ear shapes (on either side of the bow tie). This is hard to explain without a visual! Arrange on a platter and decorate however you'd like. We don't eat candy, so we use colorful fruit (such as red raspberries, strawberries), dried fruit, etc. for the eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers. You can sprinkle with coconut or frost whatever color you want it.

The bunny cake sounds fun.

We are starting to approach the issue of dd (17 mos) wanting foods that we don't want her to have. She doesn't really have that much exposure to meat, but dh eats a lot of cheese, which I really don't want dd to eat. So far whenever she asks for a piece of pizza, I have something else to give her, and she's fine. But I know the day will come. I've mentioned it to dh, I feel it's really his issue, and I don't know how he will handle it.

There are foods I eat that I prefer dd not have, but it seems wrong to withhold it if I'm eating it. Like junk food. So far if I give her a little tiny piece of a cookie she is fine with that. But really I know if it's not good for her then I should give it up for myself. Some days thinking that way motivates me to avoid the junk, other days I just wait till she's asleep. :

I've recently added fish to my diet. I sometimes offer it to dd, but interestingly she has never had the slightest interest. I'm not sure she's ever tried it before pushing it away.