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Another white lie

I actually started MM somewhere between 6-12 months ago and took pictures after each meal so I have a whole bank of these which will go up.  Sadly,  I didn’t pay much attention to the order but I’ve decided that that doesn’t much matter as I don’t think my vege culinary skills have improved over this time!

Let’s start with Vegetarian Pizza, this was one of the first things we made because lets face it, you don’t have to do much thinking with pizza.  X Toppings + Sauce + Cheese = GOOD! and it was good! We made one roast potato, sundried tomato and courgette pizza; and one roast kumara, avocado and leek pizza. I know what you are thinking: “jeez there is a lot on those pizza’s”.  Masterchef would tend to agree, pizza’s look much better with minimal toppings but we weren’t out for looks, it was all about cramming everything on we wanted to eat.  NOM NOM NOM.  For the sauce fans I believe we had a periperi mayo on the Kumara pizza and a tomato salsa on the potato pizza.

It’s surprising that we haven’t reprised this one actually – super easy and you can make them to taste with what ever toppings you like.  I can highly recommend pine nuts too if you can stomach paying 1GAZILLION dollars per kg for these.  Overall Vege Pizza = 8/10, loosing 2 points because Pizza is an easy cop out for a Vege dinner!

Ps. If you like a good old recipe and want to try something different:

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianpizzarecipes/tp/Vegetarian-Pizza.htm

Why Meatless Mondays?

When I decided to start Meatless Mondays (MM) I don’t think I had ever cooked a total vegetarian dinner in my life except maybe when I was super lazy (cough hungover cough) and just ate seasoned wedges for tea.

Why would I do it? Well I’ll tell you why I didn’t do it, certainly not for any health benefits or to try and loose weight or to save money – good because none of that occured.  I did it for the environment.  That sounds pretty cliche but I’m serious: even though I’m just person and it’s just one day, it’s a start.  A start to reducing intensive resources sunk into farming and a start to reducing greenhouse gases.  You’ve got to be in to win as they say in lotto and I’d like to think I’m in for fighting global warming.

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Now, one teeny lie I told.  It’s not really “I”, me, myself, “I” have help of a husband.  If I’m 100% keen on MM I’d say he is about 50% and that is 50% guilt from my global warming lectures.  But he makes some of the meals and eats them……the enjoyment of them is another story!

So lets start!