Generally Speaking, “Meat Loaf” should probably use “Meat”
Last night I was looking for recipes and learned of all the “evils” of having a meat-based diet and how vegetarians tend to live 5-10 years longer than you meat-eaters. I guess that’s all fine and good.
I found a recipe for some kind of vegetarian “meat” loaf, and decided to try it out. This is how most of the recipes sounded, I’m not sure why they are going so far to try to imitate meat, the thing they hate. It also took me quite a while at the store since I didn’t know where all the fake meat was as I had never looked for it before. The vegetables weren’t very expensive though, so I could get behind that.
April had already eaten, so it was just for me. The “meat”-loaf was pretty to put together, and didn’t LOOK too bad, as shown in my in-no-way-horrible-or-staged photo below:
Spoiler alert: It was disgusting.
Tags: cooking disaster
June 7th, 2009 at 11:49 am
That’s a splendid photo. By the way, the best vegetarian food doesn’t try to imitate meat. Legumes, quinoa, milk products, soy (tofu) and eggs are good sources of protein and amino acids. I’m assuming you’re not going totally vegan or anything.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Nah, I’m not doing the vegan thing. I gathered that the imitation meat is probably not the best way to go. We stocked up on some vegetables today so hopefully I’ll be able to get creative this week (though not creative like this meatloaf).
June 15th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I have never heard of fake-meat-in-a-can, and I’ve been with a vegetarian for 9 years. That is a bad sign for FMIAC.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Yeah, it was atrocious. Definitely not a good introduction into the “lifestyle”. I had some boca burgers recently and those were actually pretty good. You need to make me a menu!