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What is your favorite non meat dish (no beans please)
I am going to try to cook on non meat dish each week. Though DH and I don't like beans. What is your favorite dish?
TIA
Re: What is your favorite non meat dish (no beans please)
here are a few of our favorites/staples:
slice eggplant into rounds, and coat the rounds in egg and panko breadcrumbs. put a spoonful of marinara on each, and some mozzerella and then bake at 375ish until brown and delicious. i have also layered the rounds/sauce/cheese in a 9x13 dish to feed more people.
-i also roast cherry or grape tomatoes with some garlic, olive oil and salt until they all burst open, and then just toss them with some cooked pasta and top with parmigiana cheese...it is AMAZING!
-a new favorite is Israeli (or middle eastern) couscous, cooked, and then mixed with curry powder, roasted peppers, and roasted potatoes.
Homemade pizza is a good, easy meat-free (well it can be!) dinner.
We like to top with fresh thin sliced green peppers & onions. You could do varying degrees of "homemade"...pillsbury refrigerated crust, buy dough from local pizza place, or make from scratch!
Stuffed shells w/spinach & mushrooms are really good too. I have that recipe in my blog!
You can make your own sauce w/ this if you want...
Tomato Alfredo Lasagna
1 box lasagna noodles
1 jar Classico? Four-Cheese Alfredo sauce
about 7-10 Roma tomatoes, depending on size, sliced short-wise
? medium-sized sweet onion, sliced thinly
two large cloves garlic, minced
? cup fresh parsley, chopped or torn
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/8 tsp. dried red pepper flakes
1 bay leaf
about 3 or 4 oz. freshly grated parmesan cheese (i.e., package, not shaker kind)
dash ground mace or nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 400?. Boil noodles in salted water with mace or nutmeg. Remove from heat when al dente. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in skillet with garlic until hot. Add pepper flakes, bay leaf, and onions, and continue to saut? over low heat until onions begin to soften. Add a little more than half of the parsley and the tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper and continue to cook until tomatoes soften, turning gently for even cooking. The tomatoes should be soft but slices should still be intact. Add lemon juice about halfway through cooking.
Spread a thin layer of Alfredo sauce in the bottom of your lasagna casserole dish. Layer noodles, tomato mixture, sauce, and cheese in that order until you run out of tomato mixture. For me, that was after only two layers of tomato. Finish with a layer of noodles spread with sauce and topped with cheese. Sprinkle a little more of the parsley over the top, season with pepper, and place on middle oven rack.
Cook at 400? for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool before slicing. Garnish with the remainder of the parsley, if desired.We're having meatless lasagna tomorrow--gluten free noodles, marinara sauce, cottage cheese/mozzarella/egg white, spinach/carrot/celery/onion, and a Greek salad (Romaine, beets, feta, tomato, cucumber, garbanzos).
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Pizza!!! I make Puff Pizza (found the recipe in the Simply Green book), both DH and I love it. Here's the recipe:
2 eggs
1/2 cup of milk
1/2 cup of flour (NOT wheat, use white or sift)
2 tablespoons of butter
Dash of salt
Preheat over to 400. Mix the eggs, milk, flour, and salt together. Put the butter in a 9 inch round cake pan and put it in the preheating oven to melt. Once the butter is melted pour the egg/milk/flour/salt mix into the pan. I like to add a dash or two of garlic salt at this point for flavor. Bake for 20 minutes.
Remove the crust from the oven. It should be puffy. Add marinara sauce, cheese, onions, peppers, olives, whatever else you want to put on it, add some more cheese on top, and cook again for about 5 more minutes or until cheese is melted.
And enjoy! It makes 1 9-inch pizza. You may want to make two for two people. DH and I only make and eat one but always want a little more.
Btw, take out the salt and garlic salt and the crust is really a German Pancake. Add some butter on top, mix it with some powdered sugar, and sprinkle the juice of a lemon on top. You'll be in Heaven!
my blog is veg and i do not use beans that often...
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Veggie korma (or anything Indian, really).
Quinoa Tabbouleh, hummus, feta and a few kalamata olives stuffed in a pita or Middle Eastern flat bread. It's also good with falafel. Hummus and falafel use garbanzo beans but you really wouldn't know it from taste or texture.
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