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u/Thraximundane · 11 pointsr/vegetarian

Recipe credit: https://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Vegetarian-Anniversary/dp/1118455649

This book is amazing, and it has really changed my perspective on eating a vegetarian diet. It's not as hard as I thought, but there are still some challenges.

Over the last couple weeks I've decided to reduce my meat consumption, beginning with replacing about 3-5 meals per week with something vegetarian. Some of the local restaurants are tricky because I'm not much of a salad person (I like salads, I just hate ordering them out), and outside of salads in the southern US vegetarian options are limited in a lot of spots.

Recipe summarized:

2Tbsp olive oil

1.5 lbs of your favorite vegetables (in this pic I used zucchini, yellow squash, broccoli, and carrots)

3/4C heavy cream

fresh grated parmesan

1 lb. of your favorite pasta (cooked) (we like the mini penne)

S/P to taste

Red chili flakes (if desired) - my wife doesn't like spicy, so I omit)

my modifications:
fresh garlic to the mix after the cream and parmesan is added
I also add dried oregano and fresh chopped basil

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Oil in skillet

Sizzle the red chili flakes until fragrant

Add any root veggies if you're using them (you want them in there first to soften up) 5 minutes before your other veggies

Add other veggies

Cook and stir for 5 minutes - salt and pepper

Add in 3/4c heavy cream, 1c fresh grated parmesan, and however much fresh minced garlic you want (I use 3-4 cloves)

Cook until thickened

Add in 1 lb. of your preferred pasta (save 1 cup of the pasta water)

Stir it in, and add pasta water as needed to loosen the sauce

Garnish with parsley, or whatever you want (I use basil because I'm obsessed with it).

u/AlarmedWeather · 2 pointsr/Cooking

In my opinion I think that as a beginner, looking online for recipes can be so overwhelming and it's hard to find what's good and what's garbage without an established sense of taste/cooking. Sure, you can look at the comments, but it takes a lot of time and without knowing how to cook it's hard to know what you're even looking for.

I would highly recommend trying out a beginner's cookbook (Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything: The Basics or How to Cook Everything Vegetarian are great ones). Look through it, read up on techniques/skills, and pick something you think you'll like and cook it.

Also, you can probably check out cookbooks from your library if you want to try them out before investing money on them.

Remember that we all started somewhere. Nobody is born a good cook, it's a learned skill that you have to practice. Same with taste - if you're used to tasting the same types of foods, you're going to have to adjust to trying new foods. I didn't eat any vegetables at all growing up and now I love them! I just realized you need to put salt and cheese on them, lol. But really I also just needed to get used to the taste, which took some time.

u/Shizly · 2 pointsr/thenetherlands

Zo te zien is De Dikke Vegetariër de vertaling van het boek How to Cook Everything Vegatarian. DDV is wel nog de eerste druk, het gelinkte boek (ook op Bol te koop) is de nieuwe versie. Als je kijkt naar de "100 Essential Recipes" achterin bij de index lijkt 50%+ ook wel vegan, en de reviews laten het klinken alsof bij de gene die niet vegan zijn er staat hoe je ze makkelijk vegan kan maken.

Mocht de andere commenter niet meer reageren over DDV, dit is de productpagina van de 1e druk op Amazon (en dus het origineel van de DDV). Helaas geen inkijkexamplaar, maar misschien heb je wat aan de recensies.

u/ham_solo · 1 pointr/vegetarian

When you say "no time", what does that mean? If you have no time to cook, it doesn't matter what diet you follow you'll likely be eating a lot of frozen/convenience food. There's plenty of vegetarian options for that. If you mean that 6 days a week you're busy, but one day a week you have a block of time, you might want to look into meal prepping. r/MeatlessMealPrep may help with this. You'll eat a lot of the same things during the week, but that can actually save money and be quite healthy if you're using whole foods (minimally processed things, not the grocery chain).

If you don't know how to cook, that's the most important step. You'll never last if you are eating pizza, bean burritos, and veggie chinese food all the time. Buy a cookbook or two and practice before you move out. Here's a good start.