Vegetarian

Vegetarian is a lifestyle choice revolving primarily around eating plant-based foods to the exclusion of meat for reasons that include health, respect for animals, and concern for the environment. A vegetarian might consume some animal products, but nothing with “legs.”

There is a growing awareness that producing animals for food has environmental implications. With the growing awareness around eco implications, societal response now commonly promotes vegetarian philosophies on t-shirts and bumper stickers.

A recent book, The China Study, perhaps unintentionally backs the long held idea by vegetarians that a meatless diet may have health benefits. Results of a 35-year study of 8,000 people in China in 65 counties, tells how degenerative illness was virtually reversed or eliminated with a maximum of 7% animal foods in the diet.

For those seeking to test out or expand their vegetarian lifestyle, there are many recipes from simple to complex, to tempt the palate.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Vegetarian”

• Meat Free Monday - Carrot Soup & Welsh Rarebit

  
  Foodycat — Authority: 118
  As Tennyson said "In the Spring a young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love". He could just as well have said "In the Autumn a young womans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of melted cheese" but he seems to have idealised skinny, consumptive women who didnt know how good fondue and raclette could be. The ...
  4 hours ago

• Homemade Twix Bars and 100 Other Vegan Delights

  
  Alice Q. Foodie — Authority: 110
  While I cant honestly say Im giving any serious thought to going vegan, I am the first to admit that I think we should treat the food we eat from animals with greater reverence. Its all too easy to forget about the messy process that comes before that hunk of flesh (or butter or cheese) hits the table, and thats the ...
  6 hours ago

• Feel Good: Carrot and Red Lentil Soup with a Hint of Cumin

  
  What's For Lunch Honey? | Experience Your Senses — Authority: 500
    It’s been fairly quite around here, I know. I’ve been feeling rather low and a funny kind of flu seems to have taken hold of me. I say funny because it’s not a full blown flu – it seems it’s fighting inside of me. It wants to come out but I am fighting to banish it from taking control.... [Read the ...
  7 hours ago

• Chilled Cucumber Soup

  
  Notecook — Authority: 156
  Chilled cucumber soup has the perfect combination of veggie flavors. This delicious vegetarian soup is really easy to prepare and it has a rich, creamy texture and sublime taste that is stupendous. This cucumber soup recipe should only take a half and hour to make and about another hour to chill. Ingredients ...
  8 hours ago

• Statement following Lord Stern comments on climate change and meat consumption.

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat ...
  9 hours ago

• Fruit on the Bottom Yogurt

  
  Weelicious - Fast, Easy & Fresh Homemade Home Made Baby Food Babyfood Recipes, Toddler Food and recipes for the entire family! — Authority: 422
  One of my favorite snacks growing up was Dannon Fruit on the Bottom yogurt. I loved sliding my spoon through the top layer of plain yogurt and down into the sweet fruit puree at the bottom. When I say “sweet,” I mean SWEET! Until recently, I had no idea how much bad sugar was in the Fruit at the Bottom (sugar, ...
  9 hours ago

• Vegan Rice Cupcakes

  
  SHIZUOKA GOURMET — Authority: 430
  Just discovered this cupcake recipe for my vegan (I’m not) friends with the extra bonus of possible variations! Japanese style vegan rice cupaakes! INGREDIENTS: For 1 mug cup (arrange quantities accordingly for a greater number) -Rice powder (Ris Blanc): 4 tablespoons -Cornstarch: 1 tablespoon -Sugar (of your ...
  9 hours ago

• Spanakopita Dip: Big “wow!” with little effort.

  
  Foodie With Family — Authority: 404
  When is a dip not just a dip?  When it’s something transcendental.  When it’s born to be a superstar. When it’s…  Spanakopita Dip.  (And that is NOT anti-climactic.  It isn’t.  Let me expound.) Spanakopita Dip is the dip that can do it all. A meal-of-a-dip full of spinach, studded with feta cheese, ...
  10 hours ago

• Slow Cooker ‘Baked’ Potatoes

  
  Yeahtips.com — Authority: 122
  Slow Cooker Baked PotatoesStab potatoes with fork. Wrap each in foil. Fill slow cooker with potatoes. Cover and cook on High 3–4 hours or until potatoes are tender. Do not add water.Watch this great video on how to make Slow Cooker Baked’ Potatoes. Tweet This Post
  11 hours ago

• Curried Pineapple Rice

  
  Chow Vegan — Authority: 491
  Looking through my stash of cookbook recipes, I found one that I haven’t made in a long, long time. Curried Pineapple Rice. I remember how good the dish was but not why I stopped making it. Too lazy? Got tired of it? Misplaced the recipe? I don’t know.So I made it again. Still tasty and [...] a
  11 hours ago

• The Importance of Presenting Food

  
  QlinArt — Authority: 404
  I recently met my fellow blogger Kim Vallee and, as always, we exchanged great ideas on how to help people and make the world a better place.....kidding. We did actually have ideas that would touch that area, in a more artsy and less political way, by talking about our own experiences on the Art of Receiving. My last ...
  12 hours ago

• Are These Potatoes Still Vegetarian Approved?

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 572
  This morning, Harold and I were sitting at the counter at Millie’s waiting for our breakfast and I noticed how the potatoes, pancakes and french toast all share the same tight grill space as the corned beef hash, bacon, sausage and pork chops. I’m not vegetarian, but I began to wonder if this is something that ...
  13 hours ago

• Lentil Soup

  
  the domestic fringe — Authority: 421
  This soup is good and good for you!  This recipe is also proof that I’ve learned to eat my veggies.  I’m a good girl now. Ingredients: 1 bag dried lentils (rinse) 5 peeled and chopped carrots 1 bag baby spinach 1 large onion (chopped) 6 cloves garlic (pressed or chopped) 1 lb. ground beef 4 large beef ...
  13 hours ago

• Roasted Sunchoke and Mushroom Bisque

  
  eggs on sunday — Authority: 451
  I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for gnarly, knobby vegetables. As much as I love a gorgeously tapered rainbow carrot, or a voluptuously round tomato, my heart is full of enough vegetable love to look past appearances and see the hidden beauty in hairy, lumpy celeriac and bulbous tubers like these sunchokes. ...
  14 hours ago

• Roasted Parsnips

  
  Chow Times — Authority: 428
  Christina and June roasted some parsnips for the South Arm Cooking Club for Seniors.  Roasting parsnips really brings out the vegetable’s sweet flavour.  This recipe can be multiplied endlessly – just count on about one medium parsnip per person. Roasted Parsnips have a strong aroma to it.  Not everyone ...
  15 hours ago

• Moroccan Carrot Soup with Green Beans with Roasted Red Onion and Peppers

  
  Sensible Living — Authority: 118
  Thanks to Megan at a Sweet Spoonful for this lovely soup and Ezra Pound Cake for the bean recipe. Both were so delicious but particularly together. Here’s what I did: Moroccan Carrot Soup 1 tbsp Olive Oil 1 tsp Fennel Seeds 1.5 lbs Carrot, sliced 1/2 lb Yam, peeled and cubed 1 large Granny ...
  16 hours ago

• Roasted butternut and sage risotto

  
  Cook sister! — Authority: 118
  Earlier this year at the start of summer, I bought a bunch of packets of herb seeds.  I planted them in teensy pots and waited for them to sprout.  Some sprouted almost immediately, others took a little longer, and one bunch did not sprout at all.  I had three little baby plants in one pot with wrinkly leaves so I ...
  17 hours ago

• Jaffa Drizzle Sponge Cake

  
  Tinned Tomatoes — Authority: 103
  When I saw this cake on Annes blog I was bowled over. I was due to start work at 1pm that day, but I had to make this cake right away. I had an hour and a half before I set off for work and I figured I could just about manage it, so I rushed downstairs to confirm I had all the ingredients. As luck would have it I ...
  17 hours ago

• Rose petals and yoghurt: A recipe

  
  A Life (Time) of Cooking — Authority: 406
  It has been a most satisfying week, relaxing, warm, full of reading, sleeping, thinking, writing. I am afraid that the kitchen has been neglected somewhat, thanks to some major dental surgery that has left my mouth sore and definitely unable to eat anything that is not mushy. Porridge is excellent. Soup good. Congee ...
  18 hours ago

• Getting Twiggy with It: A Toasty Love Affair

  
  The Yum Diary — Authority: 113
  Turns out my cat is just as bonkers for twig tea as I am. As of last week, I am making (and drinking) a pitcher of twig tea each day for a 45-day detox (see below). Its actually completely delicious! (For reals.) I drink it unsweetened, hot or cold. It has a toasty, earthy, nutty flavor. YUM. So, ...
  19 hours ago

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