RE: Re: No Turkey Turkey Day

[Guest guest]

The only thing I can't understand is why vegetarians who do not eat meat

keep trying to create things like tofurkey, that TASTE like meat. Makes them

seem like closet carnivores to me. <VBG>

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Re: No Turkey Turkey Day

I keep offerin' you my tofu lasagna recipe and you keep avoidin' it! LOL!

My prediction for your vegetarian feast: there will be a creation made of

TVP and shaped into a turkey --- yummy! With a miso gravy! and lots and

lots

of luscious seaweed stuffing! ROFLMAO!

Seriously though vegetarian dinners can be surprisingly delicious! Nuts,

cheeses, for the protein, soy stuff that can be masked quite brilliantly ...

but

you are right, probably carb heavy.

So listen if you ever want to get even with these folk, there's always my

tofu lasagna recipe! It's lethal!

Have a good gobble gobble just the same!

Lucille

In a message dated 11/25/2003 5:51:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

>

>

> Okay, weird thing on the horizon for me - Thanksgiving Day at the

> home

> of a VEGETARIAN!!! Sort of got roped into this -- can't quite imagine how

> this happened. All I can think right now is that this is going to be a

> carbohydrate disaster. Of course, I'm going ahead and getting my free

> turkey from the

> grocery store (free with $50 purchase...heck, I can't walk by the place

> without spending $50!) and cook it over the weekend -- got to have my

> protein!

> OY!!! I just thought.... mashed potatoes without turkey gravy...the

> travesty of it all!

>

> Beth

>

[Guest guest]

my experience is that with the meat replacements, if you eat them on their

own merit and not with the " replacement " concept, most of them are okay. If you

expect them to taste like their " meat counterparts " , then you will be sorely

disappointed.

Loree in NY

ORNY 11-5-02

BMI at surgery consult: 62.9

highest: 404

surgery: 373

5-21-03: 273 HIT THE 100 MARK!!!!!! (6 MONTHS-16 DAYS)

11-04-03 234 (-170--H/-139--S)

[Guest guest]

Me!!! Me!!! At the risk of offending the others....I want the tofu lasagna

recipe! Never did I think I would say it...but I actually like tofu. I have

even made special trips to the store just for tofu.

Funny story....

one night I stopped on my way home from work for groceries. I picked up tofu,

Amy's organic frozen stuff, some fresh veggies, bean sprouts, hummus, fresh

veggies, all healthy type foods. No garbage. Matter of fact, I even commented

to the cashier that there was no junk foods in my order. On the way out I

stopped to play $5 in video poker (this is Las Vegas after all, and we have

machines at the grocery stores) and when I got up to leave I discovered my

groceries were gone!! However, they were replaced with someone else's food.

And here's the funny part. This person no doubt accidentally took home my food

and left me their porterhouse steak, shrimp, mushrooms, wine, ice cream, candy

and cereal!! (guess the last 2 was an afterthought)

Can you imagine how angry they were when they got home, ready to cook dinner and

find tofu instead of steak in their bag??!! Heck, I got the better basket I

guess....but as it turns out, they did call, return my groceries and I got my

goodies back.

And I did double my money on the $5 I gambled too!

Sue in Las Vegas

Re: No Turkey Turkey Day

I keep offerin' you my tofu lasagna recipe and you keep avoidin' it! LOL!

My prediction for your vegetarian feast: there will be a creation made of

TVP and shaped into a turkey --- yummy! With a miso gravy! and lots and

lots

of luscious seaweed stuffing! ROFLMAO!

'

[Guest guest]

> The only thing I can't understand is why vegetarians who do not eat meat

> keep trying to create things like tofurkey, that TASTE like meat. Makes

them

> seem like closet carnivores to me. <VBG>

I think it's a mindset thing. We don't know how to have a meal without meat

as the focal point. We're raised on " meat & potatoes, " or at least main

dishes made with meat, and we can't see any other way to eat. I know I have

a hard time coming up with nutritious meals that don't have fake meat for

them. All our normal foods have meat. I'm cooking for kids -- so we think in

terms of sloppy joes, tacos, hamburgers and hot dogs, casseroles (lots of

casseroles -- gotta make the money stretch). So I use meat replacements for

that. My vegetarians are not into the beans and grains lifestyle, they just

think that killing animals is wrong. (They didn't get this from me, I'm

convinced my canine teeth were created for a reason.) But they like the

taste of meat, so, when we can afford it, we do meat replacements. Some of

them are actually not too bad, and my meat-resistant pouch likes them quite

a lot. Not Tofurky -- yuck. But Gardenburger makes these little barbecue

riblets that are fantastic... so we adapt.

~~ Lyn, who can't WAIT to cook " normal " food again! LOL!

[Guest guest]

I have always hated all meat replacements... with one exception now. The

Boca Burgers. I think they taste terrific. Problem is they are higher in

carbs than real meat. So NOW they are out for me. hehehehe

Re: Re: No Turkey Turkey Day

> my experience is that with the meat replacements, if you eat them on their

> own merit and not with the " replacement " concept, most of them are okay.

If you

> expect them to taste like their " meat counterparts " , then you will be

sorely

> disappointed.

>

>

> Loree in NY

> ORNY 11-5-02

> BMI at surgery consult: 62.9

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