Want to eat less meat (soy, food, vegetable, indian)
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I am not a vegetarian but I would like to eat less meat. Can you recommend a book for a family that isn't too over the top and restrictive? We really don't eat seafood and nothing weird like tofu-sorry to those who love it. I just want pretty basic and easy. Thank You!
I understant not eating tofu, but don't turn your head immediately to a recipe calling for tofu. If tofu is the main feature--like baked tofu sticks--then, no, don't try it. But often tofu is used in recipes and masked. Silken tofu is used this way all the time (like tofu pumpkin pie where the tofu replaces the eggs and milk). I often crumble tofu up to replace a lot of the cheese in lasagna. You get the idea. Tofu takes on the flavor of what it is cooked with, so when it is used in recipes like this, it is far less noticeable. Just a FYI, since most vegetarian cookbooks will have a least a couple recipes using tofu and I didn't want you to automatically turn the page in whatever book you decide on.
Unfortunately, I don't have many basic cookbooks, so I can't recommend one right now. I will think on it, though.
I am not a vegetarian but I would like to eat less meat. Can you recommend a book for a family that isn't too over the top and restrictive? We really don't eat seafood and nothing weird like tofu-sorry to those who love it. I just want pretty basic and easy. Thank You!
Are you sure? Tofu is pretty good.
If you want to eat less meat, make friends with a cow. They are very gentle, amazing animals. Once you get to know them, it's hard to imagine eating them. In fact, it's awful.
I eat mostly vegetables, breads, pasta, and eggs, and I don't feel like I'm missing much.
It's hard for me to watch people eat steaks and venison and lamb all the time. I start to wonder, do they think about where this food comes from? Do they care?
I am not a vegetarian but I would like to eat less meat. Can you recommend a book for a family that isn't too over the top and restrictive? We really don't eat seafood and nothing weird like tofu-sorry to those who love it. I just want pretty basic and easy. Thank You!
My first Vegetarian book was: Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon. It is NOT vegan so there's still egg/dairy used in the recipes. There's some tofu (bean curd) recipes but it there Eastern influences (Indian, Thai) as well as American. Good stuff. Oh, and the recipes aren't complicated (there are some with longer ingredients list but those don't dominate the book - pretty straight forward (to me at least).
I recommend to people who want to reduce meat is to focus on veggies as the main ingredient - so, don't buy meat and build around it, by a vegetable and build around THAT instead.
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