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I had cooked the rice before and let it cool
I lightly greased the pan with butter or you can use pam.
Layer with brown rice, then add a layer of zucchini, squash, carrots, onions, garlic, tomato sauce, soy mozzarella sauce, basil, salt, pepper- repeat with another layer as above

cover with foil and bake for 20 min at 375 and at the last 10 mins take off the foil and continue to cook.

Music by Erik Rabasca used with kind permission

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Ingredients:
Brown Rice
Zucchini
Squash
Carrots
Onions
Garlic
Basil
Salt
Pepper
Tomato Sauce
Soy Mozzarella Cheese
Parmesan Cheese

Bake 375 for 20 mins

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In Lahore I have visite the famoust food street where are 45 restaurants but t was very hard to find some vegetarian food and I was asking why ?
V pakistanském Lahore jsme navštívil známou ulici jídla kde je více jak 45 restaurací a zajímalomě proč tam nemají skoro žádná vegetariánská jídla

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Here are a few words on what it really means to be a meat-eater and a vegetarian. Advice I hope everyone will follow. We can stop cruelty and harassment! Cruelty towards animals is no worse than cruelty toward people. Don’t support animal genocide, go vegetarian!
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*Recipes*

Sweet Dumpling Squash Stuffed with Lemon-Herb Rice

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Roasted Wheatmeat with Oyster Mushroom and “Sausage” Stuffing
Brown Gravy
Cranberry Relish
Roasted Sweet Potato Sticks

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Black Bean Chili with Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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Vegan Eggnog / Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

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Roast Tofurky baked with Caramelized Onion and Cherry Relish / Vegetarian Stuffing

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Vegan Green Bean Casserole

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Pumpkin Cookies With Icing (optional)

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Straight-Up-Thanksgiving Burgers

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Vegan Apple Pie

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Raspberry Cheesecake

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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls / Very Simple Blueberry Muffins

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“Turkey” Pot Pie

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“Chicken” Vegetable Casserole

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Ginger-Pecan Baked Peaches with Lettuce, Tempeh Bacon, and a Potato Pancake

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Creamy Chickpea Salad with Fresh Herbs

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Pumpkin and Black Bean Casserole

Basic Crusty Bread

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Have a great Vegan Holiday and if you have any questions regarding the vegan recipes or anything about veganism I can help you. I know I should have posted this earliers so maybe some turkeys may have been spared but you can also use the same recipes of Christmas

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Check out these sites:

http://101cookbooks.com

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com [the smoky refried bean soup is fast and tasty]
http://vegweb.com [orange tofu or general tso's tofu isn't super long to make]

http://vegandad.blogspot.com

I also like these cookbooks (you can borrow from the library to test them out):
Veganomicon
Vegan Planet
Vegetarian Sandwiches
The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet
The Vegetarian Family Cookbook

Hope that helps!

My baby is 4 and a 1/2 months and i want to start him on supplementary feeding. he is exclusively breastfed and we are vegetarians. today i gave him mashed banana with some expressed breastmilk. He took to it allright. Any suggestions as to other fruits/foods that i could prepare for him. I am not too interested in buying ready made food and would like to prepare my own , however as he grows older custard and yoghurt preparations are some things i would buy. I have asked my mum for advice and surfed the web a bit but i am also interested in your experience. Only experienced parents/caretakers reply please.

Pumpkin and Rice Cereal Mash
Serves: 1

Ingredients:
1 Tbsp cooked mashed pumpkin
1 Tbsp HEINZ Rice Cereal
Cool boiled water

Method:
1. Add pumpkin to baby’s serving bowl.

2. Blend in HEINZ Rice Cereal.

Add water to make a porridge-like consistency

Variation:
Substitute carrot, sweetcorn or sweet potatoes for pumpkin.

Baby’s own custard
Serves: 2 serves

Ingredients:
100mls baby’s regular milk – breast milk or prepared formula
2 teaspoons custard powder or arrowroot.

Method:
Pour breast milk or prepared formula into a small saucepan and heat gently. In a small bowl mix custard powder with a little water to a thin paste. Add to milk and stir until mixture thickens.

Spoon out required amount into baby’s bowl. Allow to cool. Refrigerate remaining portion.

Hint:
Serve with pureed or mashed fruit.
Pureed Carrots
Ingredients:
2 fresh carrots.

Method:
Peel and wash carrots, dice. Microwave or place in a small saucepan with 1 tablespoon of boiling water and simmer gently with lid on until tender.

Allow to cool. Blend in a food processor until pureed or fork mash.

Place 1-2 tablespoons in baby’s serving bowl, place the remainder in an airtight container and refrigerate or freeze.

Hint:
Substitute potato, pumpkin, squash, sweet potato (kumara), fresh or frozen beans and peas for the carrots.
Use the food processor for fibrous vegetables such as carrot, parsnip, peas or beans as they are sometimes difficult to mash.

Any suggestions for vegetarian recipe sites and/or cookbooks? Thanks

There are a few hundred nice vegetarian and vegan recipes at www.101cookbooks.com

I want to try a week of being a vegetarian simply for the healthbenefits.
I’ve had quite a few vegetarian meals before and I really like them, but I’m not sure how to go about meeting all the nutrition requirements etc.
Plus I don’t like fruit -.- I know, right? But I do love vegetables.

So, any tips?

I don’t care for fruit like raw apples and oranges hate bananas but I like tinned fruit and soft fruits like strawberries. I like a lot of dried fruits too. So keep investigating fruits. Will you eat cherry pie or apple crumble for example.

It is possible to live without fruit because there is plenty of goodness in the variety of vegetables available. Some ‘vegetables’, tomatoes cucumbers and squashes are actually fruits anyway. Rhubarb which is served like a fruit in sweets is really a vegetable.

What needs to be decided is do you want to keep up with eating dairy products, eggs and fish?

Break up the day into Breakfasts
Lunch time meals
Evening meals.

Then find some ideas for these meals and make your own list. It has to be tasty so consider if you like dressings on salads and make up your own in advance. A good sauce or gravy can turn a dull plate full into something very tasty.

When starting out you can always have a tiny amount of meat in a cottage pie type meal then gradually wean off meat altogether. Or try doing a vegetarian main meal every other day. I make a bolognaise sauce using a vegetarian ‘beef’ tasting mix, and there are fake bacon and sausage mixes too.

Nuts are a good source of nutrition and each has it’s own flavour which is quite strong.

Changing any diet takes preparation.

Try looking at these recipes

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Everyday-Cooking/Vegetarian/Main.aspx

The only tip I would like you to strongly consider is not to taste something as a single element. such as herbs, they can be very strong tasting and you probably wont eat a thyme leaf on it’s own and enjoy it, but chopped up and mixed in to a dish it adds a flavour which you may think is great. 00

I want to go vegetarian but I want to do it in a healthy way. Also, I am having trouble avoiding meat (especially at school, not alot of vegetarian choices). I have had a bit of a revalation and no longer want to consume innocent little animals. Help please?

1. Do it slow. You are more likely to stick to it if you make it part of your lifestyle instead of making the change all at once.

2. Read about nutrition requirements and understand everything that you need to eat. You have to make up for the protein with beans and greens. It isn’t hard once you figure it out, but you need to be sure you understand what your body needs.

3. Take your lunch to school.

4. Take advantage of the meat substitutes in the grocery store. They make it easy to still pack a sandwich and cook many of the same recipes that you are used to. There are fake turkey slices, fake beef and chicken fajita strips, veggie meatballs, fake hot dogs.

5. Read labels – you will be surprised at how many things have animal fat in them.

6. Don’t feel bad when you backslide. It happens. It happened to me a lot when I was working the kinks out of becoming vegeterian. I felt discouraged a lot because I felt like I was out of options as a teenager who really didn’t have a lot of control over her environment.

7. Talk to your parents. They may be at a loss as to what to cook. After you become educated on vegeterianism you can give them some recipes. A lot of people are surprisingly open to a vegeterian diet. I talked to my parents about it when I was a teenager and they were very supportive. Of course there were some evenings when I had to cook for myself but thats part of life. Over time they have become more vegeterian also and tofu is a regular part of their meals. However your parents may not want to give up meat. Mine were never big meat eaters to begin with, and my dad was actually looking for a low cholesterol diet at the same time so it all worked out.

8. Don’t get bummed out when it is hard to fit with your friends. I felt kind of isolated sometimes because people considered it weird to be vegeterian. It was hard to eat at a friend’s house.

I started going vegeterian when I was 16 but wasn’t a full vegeterian until about 2 yrs later. It just takes time to make such a big switch, but I am so glad that I did! Good luck! By the way tonight my boyfriend and I ate curry tofu which I cooked. He isn’t vegeterian but usually likes my veg cooking.

My staple is beans and rice. I can not live without beans and rice because this is an excellent source of protein. There are hundreds of recipes out there so find one you like, and buy a pressure cooker. The pressure cooker is a vegeterian’s best friend because dried beans are a great source of protein and a pressure cooker will cook them in a fraction of the time it takes in a pot (about 30 min compared to several hours)

A review of the scientific literature for raw food risk and benefits.

1. Dental erosions in subjects living on a raw food diet.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9831783

2. Consequences of a long-term raw food diet on body weight and menstruation: results of a questionnaire survey.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10436305

3. Low bone mass in subjects on a long-term raw vegetarian diet.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15795346

4. Thermal stability of organophosphorus pesticide triazophos and its relevance in the assessment of risk to the consumer of triazophos residues in food.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11170565

5. By how much does fruit and vegetable consumption reduce the risk of ischaemic heart disease?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9725654

6. Long-term consumption of a raw food diet is associated with favorable serum LDL cholesterol and triglycerides but also with elevated plasma homocysteine and low serum HDL cholesterol in humans.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177198

7. Mortality in vegetarians and nonvegetarians: detailed findings from a collaborative analysis of 5 prospective studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10479225

8. Detection of IgE, IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies against raw and processed food antigens.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19435515

9. Effects of a raw food diet on hypertension and obesity.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4012382

10. Antioxidant status in long-term adherents to a strict uncooked vegan diet.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7491884

11. Effects of eating an uncooked vegetable diet for 1 week.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1482162

12. Uncooked, lactobacilli-rich, vegan food and rheumatoid arthritis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9566667

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