once-a-month vegetarian cooking, was: Question

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>Would you share your once a month cooking recipes? I had a lot of them when

>we at meat but I would love some veggie freezer recipes!

>

Laurel,

 

Sure. One quick tip....I use a lot of meat-based recipes that call for

ground beef and substitute TVP or frozen/thawed tofu. The tofu is a great

little trick for making crumbles to add to casseroles and chilis. I freeze

a block of tofu for about 24 hours and then let it thaw it room temp. The

freezing completely changes the texture and the block of tofu looks like a

sponge. I then squeeze out the water and have tofu crumbles, which I

season and add to things. We even season them with taco seasnings for

tacos and buritos for a change from beans. I then make chilis, casseroles

etc. following the regular directions, but adding the tvp or tofu crumbles.

 

I also found a very useful site on oamvc and have tried several of their

recipes. I've only had one recipe from there that was a bust....crockpot

mac & cheese...tasted good, but it got too mushy. The site url is

http://www.frugal-moms.com/cooking/vegplan.shtml.

 

Hope that helps,

Denise

 

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