Meatless meatballs...

[Guest guest]

I saved all the six recipes for the meatless meatballs, and plan on trying a

couple the next days.

As always, I feel a bit frustrated when I see brand names on U.S. recipes,

because, despite my experience on the Web which has taught me a lot about

American ingredients, many times I don't even know what it is, let alone

have it in my local supermarket. Okay, we do have Cheerios but I never buy

them, they're loaded with sugar and artificial things. Quaker oats yes,

they're okay.

Why can't people just describe the ingredient as well, 1st for non U.S.

residents and 2nd for people who don't want to use ready made things but

want to substitute a healthier option?

See, I understand this practice when it's a brand name recipe. I have also

downloaded tons of recipes from brand websites like Libby's pumpkin or Gold

medal flour or all the fabulous recipes from a rapid rise yeast website I

don't remember the name of. They all had their brand name in the

ingredients, that's normal (I used the Edit-Find-Replace feature of Word to

get rid of all of them, as well replace all " margarine " with " butter " ). But

so many regular folks also have this habit. Not only in the U.S., mind you!

I have many friends who tell me, for instance " use one pot of Fage brand

yoghurt " and I interrupt them asking them to say how much exactly, because I

may wish to use another brand, which has pots of a different size. Sometimes

they don't, they've never noticed, so I go to the supermarket and note how

much is a pot of Fage yoghurt and add this info to the noted recipe. My

children may not have access to the same brands and they'll wonder, much as

I do looking at my grandmother's notebook, where sometimes the brand is

mentioned without any explanation of what the heck this thing is - sometimes

it's not obvious from the name...

 

Well, I finally found a very nice website, that has a list of ingredients

and substitutions for all of them. Not only brand name versus homemade, but

emergency substitutions in the case you don't have the ingredient called

for.

 

http://www.geocities.com/~webcipes/sub.html

Cook's thesaurus http://www.foodsubs.com/

http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~robsond/solutions/nutrition/docs/janan322.html

 

 

By the way, would any of you have any nice idea for substituting

" meat " words? Something that would look better in our vegetarian recipe

notebooks?

 

For instance, instead of meatballs. What about patties, croquettes, kofta

(that's what they are called in India and Turkey, the Greek word begin

kefte)

 

Irene

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[Guest guest]

I am thinking that " patties " indicates flattened... I feel that " meatballs " is

one of those generics you were speaking of... like using a Kleenex when it's

any brand. I have been trying on synonyms (sp?) like " veggie spheres " and " tofu

roundies " but can't find anything that rolls off the tongue-- pardon the pun!

-dawn

Irene Maradei <shantima wrote:By the way, would any of you have any

nice idea for substituting

" meat " words? Something that would look better in our vegetarian recipe

notebooks?

 

For instance, instead of meatballs. What about patties, croquettes, kofta

(that's what they are called in India and Turkey, the Greek word begin

kefte)

 

 

 

 

 

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