DISQUS

Almost Vegetarian (New): Dinner in a hurry – or – what we ate last night and a healthy recipe for dinner on the table in ten minutes

  • tiny morsels · 2 years ago
    If I had 10 minutes to get something on the table, I would either spaghetti with olive oil, garlic, a can of artichoke hearts, and fresh baby spinach, OR fruit smoothies and frozen waffles.
    Or maybe grilled cheese and boxed soup.
  • Carla · 2 years ago
    When I have 10 minutes, I usually pop in a frozen dinner LOL i don't have to worry about cooking for anybody else (except maybe my parents at home, but then I know ahead of time to prepare).
  • thefoodsnob · 2 years ago
    I do something similar to tiny morsels that we call 'Popeye pasta.'
    Pasta (of course) with spinach sauteed with garlic, crushed red pepper and cannelini beans.

    One of my go-to dishes.



    Lisa
  • Lesley · 2 years ago
    The vegetarian cheese thing is a tricky one. While there is no meat in the cheese per se, many vegetarians consider cheeses made with animal rennet (ostensibly, from calves' stomachs--the calves that are slaughtered so that they don't drink the milk) to be vegetarian. You know, because an animal had to die for it. There are a lot of non-animal rennet cheeses (Sargento and Tillamook to name two), but I have read that it's darn near impossible to make a hard cheese with anything other than animal rennet.


    There's still some controversy over the label of "vegetarian" and there have been many discussions. Many restaurants seem to think that animal broth is vegetarian since it's not meat. Oh, and then there's white sugar refined with bone char...the list goes on. Don't even get me started on how many people think fish and chickens are vegetables ("but you eat fish, right?"). If not for my love of cheese, leather shoes and wool sweaters, I'd be a vegan just so it'd be simpler to explain what I eat and what I don't!