Save a cow, share vegetarian recipes please!

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm a vagitarian. I've only got one recipe, but it's really, really good.

[Pyrrho]

Okay, here are a couple of vegetarian blogs to consider:

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com

http://ohsheglows.com

Now, if you are wanting general advice for cooking, I recommend the Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book second edition (aka revised edition) from 1956, like this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nice-1956-dated-...541d71b349

Please note:  I have no connection with that seller and make no claim about that particular copy.

What is great about that cookbook, which is not vegetarian, is that it explains how to cook.  Like how to make gravy that is not lumpy or oily.  Anyone wanting to know how to cook should get a copy of that book.  For the recipes in it, I would recommend cutting back on the salt by 50-75% (that is, using 1/4- 1/2 of the salt they recommend).  It is, however, a great book to teach someone how to cook.

For going vegetarian, what I did at first was to try to buy only vegetarian things for my home, but when I went out with friends to a restaurant, I would order whatever vegetarian item was on the menu, but would order meat if there was no vegetarian option.  That was a very easy way to live, though I also had no clue about rennet in cheese and the fining ingredients in wine at that time.

I also recommend going with eggs and cheese at first, and then, if you are up for it, eliminating those things later.  If you do go vegan, you will need to concern yourself with B12, but if you are eating eggs and cheese, you do not have to worry about that.

Feel free to PM me for more on this, though as I do little cooking these days, I may not be the best source.  However, I have eased myself into eating vegan and can give you general advice, even without asking my wife anything (who is only a vegetarian).

[Minimalist]

[IATIA]

I always liked;

I didn't claw my way up the foodchain to eat rabbit food.

[Ravenshire]

Vegitarian as in no animal products or vegetarian as in no dead animal products, i.e. milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, bird nest soup, snake pee soup or whatever?  What about insects?  Chocolate covered ants, fried tarantula, etc..

I'm not a vegetarian. I'm just a person who feels really bad for the animals. I'd like to be a vegetarian, but I need to find meals I can enjoy.

If you really feel bad for the animals, here's some food for thought:
Agriculture to produce wheat, rice and pulses requires clear-felling native vegetation. That act alone results in the deaths of thousands of Australian animals and plants per hectare.

There's far more to it than "nobody had to kill a cow for me to have this salad." I'm certainly not going to say that the article is justification for an omnivorous diet (which is what you're evolved for) but it is, as I said earlier, food for thought.

[Catholic_Lady]

I'm a vagitarian. I've only got one recipe, but it's really, really good.

Ew.

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Okay, here are a couple of vegetarian blogs to consider:

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com

http://ohsheglows.com

Now, if you are wanting general advice for cooking, I recommend the Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book second edition (aka revised edition) from 1956, like this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nice-1956-dated-...541d71b349

Please note:  I have no connection with that seller and make no claim about that particular copy.

What is great about that cookbook, which is not vegetarian, is that it explains how to cook.  Like how to make gravy that is not lumpy or oily.  Anyone wanting to know how to cook should get a copy of that book.  For the recipes in it, I would recommend cutting back on the salt by 50-75% (that is, using 1/4- 1/2 of the salt they recommend).  It is, however, a great book to teach someone how to cook.

For going vegetarian, what I did at first was to try to buy only vegetarian things for my home, but when I went out with friends to a restaurant, I would order whatever vegetarian item was on the menu, but would order meat if there was no vegetarian option.  That was a very easy way to live, though I also had no clue about rennet in cheese and the fining ingredients in wine at that time.

I also recommend going with eggs and cheese at first, and then, if you are up for it, eliminating those things later.  If you do go vegan, you will need to concern yourself with B12, but if you are eating eggs and cheese, you do not have to worry about that.

Feel free to PM me for more on this, though as I do little cooking these days, I may not be the best source.  However, I have eased myself into eating vegan and can give you general advice, even without asking my wife anything (who is only a vegetarian).

This is some great info! Thank you to the moon!!!

I will PM you when/if I have questions.

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I'm not a vegetarian. I'm just a person who feels really bad for the animals. I'd like to be a vegetarian, but I need to find meals I can enjoy.

If you really feel bad for the animals, here's some food for thought:
Agriculture to produce wheat, rice and pulses requires clear-felling native vegetation. That act alone results in the deaths of thousands of Australian animals and plants per hectare.

There's far more to it than "nobody had to kill a cow for me to have this salad." I'm certainly not going to say that the article is justification for an omnivorous diet (which is what you're evolved for) but it is, as I said earlier, food for thought.

This is so sad.

Thanks for the info, though.

[robvalue]

It's virtually impossible not to cause harm of some kind through what we do and what we eat. All we can do (if we're so inclined) is to try and minimise it based on what we think is most important.

I dislike the attitude I've heard from some people that since you can't be 100% harm free you may as well not give a fuck at all.

[IATIA]

Everything kills to eat, but we do not have to torture it first.

I take issue with things like egg-laying chickens kept in small cages. The excuse is control, but the result is torture.

[robvalue]

Yes, indeed. It's absolutely horrendous. Sadly some places that claim to be free range aren't a lot better, I have heard. This is why I have nothing to do with eggs, or if I did I'd only ever get free range from a place I had first hand info about. Getting products with any sort of egg in where it isn't specifically free range is guaranteed torture product.

Milk... Milk is quite possibly even more evil, though in a different way. Ironically I find it more brutal than the actual meat industry. It wasn't until my twenties that I found out the details which are glaringly obvious when you stop to think about it. Hence now vegan.

[Silver]

Grass.