Newly vegetarian
Monday 17 December 2007 at 1:24 pm.Last summer, we started to cut in our meat consumption, resulting in half a week of vegetarian cooking and half a week of 'regular' cooking with fish or meat. (Hey, I still come from a family of carnivores.) But in the last weeks, I've had more and more trouble buying meat... it's just dead animal, which has had an unnessecary poor life, which we don't really need to eat, which is bad for the environment, which stimulates world hunger by not being part of the solution, which is full of stuff we don't need and which is expensive. So I stopped buying it.
Now, I've got a totally new challenge... how to cook vegetarian all the time? Some cookbooks helped, and some friends did too. At first, I tried a lot of veggie-burgers and things. But they're expensive too, while plain tofu is cheap. But what to do with plain tofu? Surfing the internet, I found some great sites... tofu 101 explained everything you need to know and everything you don't nessecarily need to know. And for recipes, always trust the BBC.
So what did I do with it? I've made some gnocci with herby-tofu-tomato-sauce, some pasta with spinach-garlic-tofu-sauce and wacked the remaining tofu in our smoker oven (10 minutes, wood: pure maple). Made a smoked-tofu-salad and a pasta with smoked tofu-pesto-broccoli-pine nuts sauce.
No comments
