It’s been in the 80’s here. (I will change my location back to my real location, Maryland).
Any way if you make the corn chowder, Naan tastes great dipped in it, and corn chowder makes great leftovers.
What you should know about naan, you can make it with only flour, yeast, water, time and a greased skillet, you do not need to make it as complicated as this recipe. Just cook the dough on a skillet.
I do naan with both yeast and baking powder. I’ll try it in the skillet – my recipe has it made in the broiler, but I miss the nice buttery flavor it has in one of the local restaurants. Plus it won’t heat the house up so much. Do you suppose the loaves can be frozen raw?
Going from a diet with meat to a diet without can be difficult for some.
When people i know want to change theirs, i suggest they keep 2 days a week for chicken (or other birds) and/or fish dishes. This helps them into eating less meat, while avoiding the “meat cravings”.
Most dishes with ground beef, it’s possible to exchange the ground beef with chicken or turkey.
The one bit of advice I used to give people making the switch was to “eat as if meat had never been invented.” For example, I don’t generally recommend using meat analogs (“fake meat”) for at least the first six months, or if you do, I recommend keeping it minimal to avoid the “this is OK, but the real thing was better” blues.
For me, making the switch was an adventure. I learned to cook in an entirely new way. Cravings were few and far between…but that’s mainly, I think, because we were already in the habit of using meat more as a “condiment” (i.e., a small part of the overall dish) than as the food at the center of the plate. Because my husband grew up in various developing countries, ethnic food has always been a major part of our diet…we were never the classic “meat and potatoes” kind of diners.
But most mentally healthy people would agree that watermelons are different from dogs or cows.
That’s only because you have trained yourself to filter out the sounds of plants. For those of us who are attuned, the watermelons’ screaming is unbearable.
LOL. I expected a backlash of protest to my “graze” comment. There goes my fun for the day.
Yep, Kalamazoo MI. While your in Lansing be sure to go to Elderly Instruments.
Now back to our regular broadcasting.
And remember, beer is completely vegetarian so everyone can enjoy!
Vegetarian Express by Nava Atlas and Lillian Kayte. This one has been a favorite for so long, I’m about at the point where I’m going to need to buy a new copy because I can’t read all the recipes. Some of our favorites from that cookbook include Pinto Bean Sloppy Joes, Simple Sesame Noodles, Chick Pea Curry with Green Rice, Peanut Butter Pasta Spirals and Bulgar Tacos.
Fresh From the Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Robin Robertson. Favorites include Arroz non Pollo, No-Hurry Veggie Curry, Hoppin’ John, Almost Irish Stew, Lentil Soup with Kale, Cornbread-Topped Southwestern Pot Pie (my favorite comfort food!), and “What a Dal” (best dal I’ve ever tasted!)
I have lots of cookbooks I love, but these are the two I couldn’t live without.
Deborah Madison’s books are worth a look see. I still use Anna Thomas’s Vegetarian Epicure books, Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood books. The spines are all broken so they stay open real nice, that’s important too.
Oh, geez, you’ve brought back a repressed memory. I lived in a triple freshman (first) year of college. One of my roommates decided to become a vegetarian about 3/4 the way through the year. About a week into it, he comes back to the room and says, “I feel so much better, but I do seem to be having a gas issue.” Before that remark, he spent all his time in the library. After that he spent all his time farting (really rank farts) in the room where we all at the very least had to sleep. It really smelled like something had died in there. A long time ago. Before that we had had to fight to get a couple of people not to smoke in the room, but when it was like that nobody even wanted to strike a match for fear of blowing the place to kingdom come. (Actually nobody wanted to enter, but that’s obvious.)
It’s a great book. You know, for years after I stopped eating meat, I didn’t use my slow cooker at all…had no idea what to do with it other than making pot roast! Now I use it at least once a weok.
We’re having the “Almost Irish Stew” this week, in fact. There’s not much Irish about it, really, other than it has some kale in it (the flavors are actually more Mediterranean than Northern European), but it’s absolutely delicious (and a good excuse to make brown soda bread!).
Hey, Doc…
I’ve tried many dietary modes over the years. Vegetarianism for quite awhile. (Spiritual reasons, at the time…)
From much personal experience, I’d advise keeping the chickens happy!
