I’ve been trying to eat a lot less meat lately, with varying degrees of success. Late last year someone alerted me to Meat Free Week, on from 18-24 March 2013. I was intrigued and thought what a great idea.
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| We’ll be eating lots of these during meat free week! |
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| And these… |
Eek!
I’m not at all organised, and need some serious help in getting together a tasty repertoire of meat-free meals to feed myself, my mega-carnivore hubby [who, unless he reads this blog post, won’t actually know what’s happening until it does… mwah ha ha…], and my ultra-mega-carnivore and super picky 12yo stepson.
Our week of meat-free awesomeness is going to run from Friday 15 March – Thursday 21 March.
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| This is a meat-free fave |
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| And so is lentil-bol |
Needless to say, I’m quite pleased wine is meat-free. Particularly as we have Mr12 here for half of that time.
I’m really curious to see how we all go.
If you have any meat-free favourites, please let me know. The more “meaty” the better. And if it has tofu or tempeh please don’t bother sending it. Absolutely can’t stand either of them.
THANK YOU! And stay tuned to see how we fare…
Well done, Mel. It’s always a good idea to improve your meat-free repertoire. We eat a lot of vegetarian meals, and I’ve always found it easiest if I stick with Indian, or a range of SE Asian cuisines that are heavy on vegies (though admittedly some of these might have a sauce that isn’t vego, such as fish sauce…). Our hands down favourite veg dish (maybe just favourite dish full stop) is palak paneer kofta, which you’ve probably seen me post? http://www.tammijonas.com/2009/10/23/palak-paneer-kofta/ I have loads more if you want, as 7 years as a vegetarian definitely set me up well. Who would guess I’m a pig farmer now, right?! xo
I have two fave meat free meals Mel,
One is a wine soaked risotto (your choice of vegetables) that sits on top of a big baked brown mushroom. Delish.
The second is a lentil dish with cumin, lemon, yogurt to top, coriander, red onion. I serve this in a bed of spinach leaves (which wilt with the heat). Just georgeous.
Check out the Kind Cook for some inspiration http://WWW.thekindcook.com
Good luck with that! I considered partaking in meat free week but it coincided with a major restaurant review period and a birthday … mine – so decided against it. I have similar problems getting meat-free meals past the bloke in the house. I put “meat free week” in our joint electronic diary and he was none too pleased about it. Needless to say, he was thrilled to bits when i abandoned the idea. Looking forward to seeing how you go.
I love how great vegetarian food is for everybody 🙂
How did you go?
I have loads of meat free favourite recipes, many of which had to be approved by a very traditional meat and three veg 6’6 fisherman for many years so they had to be hearty, filling, nutritious and most of all very tasty so I get what it is like XX
PS found you through the twitter world 🙂
this is a very belated thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions. Our week was a success, and I’ve just blogged the update – http://cooks-notebook.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/meat-free-week-update.html
And Rebecca, isn’t twitter great?? Actually, that goes for all of you, as I’ve met all of you that way 🙂