Easy Menu Items - Pizza

[Guest guest]

Veggie burgers are good. Using tofu instead of chicken or crab -- say in a corn

chowder -- work well. Mostly I don't use meat substitutes. Instead I think

lentils and beans, or rice and beans. Combined they provide protein. Gratins;

pasta with vegetable sauces; and add or use shredded (julienne) veggies - like

zucchini and broccoli -- these are sometimes available precut as " slaw. "

eggplant is versatile.

 

About pizza -- one of our favorite pizzas is vegetarian. I usually just wing it

but here goes...

 

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Mediterranean Pizza

 

1 focaccia (8-inch square/round)

or pizza shell (prebaked)

or 2 pita breads (Etc)

2 tbs olive oil

1/4 tsp basil pesto

minced fresh thyme

minced fresh rosemary

minced roasted garlic, to taste

1/2 red onion, or less, thinly sliced

1 roma tomato

sun dried tomatoes, softened

red pepper flakes

cashews

grated Mozzarella

 

Preheat oven to 400F (200C).

 

Mix oil, pesto, herbs and garlic. Spread on the bread. Spread the onion slices

on top.

 

Cut a slice off the stem end of the tomato and squeeze out the seeds and juice.

Thinly slice the tomato. Chop or dice the softened sun dried tomato. Spread the

tomatoes on the pizza. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes. Spread the cashews. Top

with cheese. Sprinkle with additional olive oil (optional; don't want it too

oily). Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until cheese melts and is starting to brown.

(Can bake it directly on a pizza stone or on a heavy cookie sheet or on the oven

rack -- middle of oven )

 

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At 11/24/2003, you wrote:

>Message: 1

> Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:09:52 -0000

> " iseethelight7 " <iseethelight

>Easy Menu Items

>

>Hello,

>

>I love this website. I have found some wonderful recipes. I would

>love to have some suggestions on some basic menu items. When I was

>growing up and my family ate meat things seemed so much easier. You

>could have one night a goulash, another night hamburgers, another

>meatloaf, then pizza etc. From what I have seen there are no real

>simple recipes like that for vegetarians. Everything is more

>complicated. Maybe I just feel that way, because it is different

>types of foods and different then how I grew up learning to cook and

>plan meals. Does anyone else feel this way? So many times I will

>look at recipes and they will have one thing or another in it that I

>can not eat. Sometimes the food can be taken out, sometimes the food

>can be substituted, sometimes you can not make the recipe. Any

>suggestions will be appreciated.

[Guest guest]

I think ease is all about what you are used to cooking or eating. In

our house the following are sort of stand by quick and easy recipes:

 

1) 3 bean chile (no meat and no meat analogs)

2) clean the fridge vegetable soup and corn bread or biscuits

3) vegetarian refried beans and fixings for tacos. Here I use the

faux burger crumbles.

4) " shepherds pie " Also uses burger crumbles. This also freezes

beautifully and usually there is one in our freezer for a quick meal.

5) Mac and cheese and a salad.

6) vegan patties on buns and potato wedges. (If you want the recipe

let me know. They are easy and freeze great. But email me off list

as I don't have mastercook!)

7) faux chicken a la king. (we use an analog called Diced Chix that

we buy in bulk at an ABC health food store.) This is a winter time

comfort food!

8) beans and rice. We precook our beans and freeze them and

sometimes have cooked rice in the freezer as well. Super fast and

filling. Can also be mixed up and mashed a bit and stuffed into

flour or corn tortillas.

9) spinach and tofu lasagna rolls(I make ahead and freeze.)

10) bean and cheese burritos. (I cheat and get them at the store!)

11) Home made pizza

 

We have other stuff that we eat too but these are the quick and

easy's that show up routinely over the weeks.

HTH

Lee