Congratulations Mary Clare, the winner of this week’s giveaway, who eats “veg most of the time, but the one thing I always crave is a hamburger.”
We’re in week two of our five week giveaway of Cook without a Book: Meatless Meals
This week I’m sharing an example of my creamy roasted vegetable soup; it’s the one I mentioned in The Perfect Wedding on Friday. This soup is nice enough to enjoy as a first course with company (or even as shooter appetizers as I did at the wedding!) and simple enough to pair with a sandwich or salad. I’ve known for a long time that roasting the vegetables for this style soup heightens flavor and in some of my earlier creamy vegetable soup formulas I’ve “roasted” them right in the soup kettle. It works but it takes a lot of time and attention and there’s only so much surface area in a pot. By roasting the vegetables in the oven, it saves time and allows you to roast a large quantity very simply.
This week I’m interested to see how you answer the following question: If you were contemplating a vegetarian lifestyle, which meaty dish you’d have hard time giving up. Having just visited my parents in Florida this weekend and enjoying sausages and biscuits for breakfast, I think I’d miss sausage.
Same deadline as last week. You’ve got until 9PM ET Wednesday, October 3rd to enter. We’ll announce the winner on Thursday morning. I’m really looking forward to hearing your responses to this one!
It would be a tossup between a killer burger and a great steak.
I like my veggies buy I’ve got to have a piece of meat to go with them.
Bacon. We seem to eat a lot of it in my house, as a breakfast food or as a garnish in other recipes.
Roast chicken. The whole family loves coming home to the smell of chicken roasting in the oven. Comfort food at it’s best.
I will miss a juicy medium rare cheeseburger
I would miss canadian bacon in my eggs benedict.
Hamburger. I eat veg most of the time, but the one thing I always crave is a hamburger.
Hard to choose, Steak tips, shrimp risotto, lobster, pulled pork, bacon, cheeseburgers…..
Hamburgers!
I was going to say bacon (because it’s, well, BACON!) and then I was going to say a perfectly grilled bone-in ribeye and then I was going to say a big juicy burger and then I was going to say falling-off-the-bone babyback ribs … but in the end I think I would most miss chicken, because it’s so versatile and healthy and inexpensive and delicious.
Turkey, on Thanksgiving.
A good marbled new strip steak, without a doubt!
I think I would miss lean grass-fed ground beef most of all. The stuffed peppers, the cheeseburgers, the tacos… Nothing else is really a good substitute when you really want beef.
I am a vegetarian, hoping to get the book for co-workers who contemplate the veg diet. But I miss buffalo chicken wings the most…and crave them often.
Definitely steak would be hard to let go
I’m mostly veg but like Maryclare, I love me a good burger.
I would definitely miss my beer braised beef and onions.
I’d have to agree with Dwight — it would be a toss-up between a good burger and a juicy steak.
I have to agree with Mary Ann. A perfectly roasted, brined turkey. I would miss it’s Southern version, deep-fried turkey, as well.
I think I could give up most meats, but I absolutely love pulled pork and can’t figure out what would be a good substitute for it. (I put it in sandwiches, on pizza, nachos, pastas) Any ideas would be appreciated!
Actually Shewanna, I find highly seasoned lentils are a good stand in for ground beef in dishes like sloppy Joe’s and tacos.
I would miss a big juicy hamburger smothered in lots of ketchup the most.
I would definitely have a hard time giving up steak and chicken.
I can’t decide between meatballs and meatloaf. I make many different varieties of both and would miss them.
I don’t think I could give up steak, I love it TOO much!!! Also salami! It’s amazing!!!
My Grandpa has recently had to give up meat due to health reasons so I’m always on the lookout for good vegetarian options for him.
I’d miss lamb- my favorite
I would say it would have to be steak! I do try to eat less meat, cant wait for the book!
Bacon! It’s the only type of meat (or meat-like product) that I ever crave.
i don’t eat a lot of meat, but i love a delicious burger made with great quality meat.
steak, tho I rarely have it is the first thing that came to mind as something not easily replaced with a veggie lifestyle; however, I saw someone else mentioned Thanksgiving Turkey. That would be really hard, as would the Christmas Ham. Those holiday dishes would hit me harder than steak for sure.
A big juicy burger – when you are craving a hamburger, nothing else will do!
I don’t eat a lot of meat…but it would be the ribs that I order often when I eat out.
Bacon!!! .. and chorizo sauage.
Sausage and pepperoni pizza!!!
Steak. I love steak!
sausage and peppers, or a really good beef ragu.
I would miss Bacon Cheeseburgers the most.
Bacon…sausage…a really good burger…
Pork was always present in our chinese kitchen and there are so many dishes I’d miss. In particular the steamed black bean and garlic pork riblets that my mother makes or her steamed minced pork with preserved cabbage.
Steak! Medium rare with gorgonzola and caramelized onions and sautéed mushrooms. Drool.
Lasagna… for certain…. it’s a comfort food from my childhood.
The husband’s meatballs.
brats! yummmm
I would miss steak. A perfect grilled, medium rare steak!
I would miss turkey. I love turkey burgers and turkey sandwiches but most of all I would miss having turkey with dinner on Thanksgiving.
Filet Mignon with Hollandaise sauce. Yum.
I think I’d have to agree with many others and say a really good burger.
For me, it would be bacon – hands down. Bacon crumbled in pasta salad, bacon stirred into black bean soup and my favorite – bacon eaten straight. Strip after strip of it.
I would miss beef, nothing beats a good steak or juicy hamberger
We are not big meat people anyways but I would still miss chicken in my pasta…if that counts..;)
I would miss bacon, or ham, or sausage, or pork.. Aren’t pigs wonderful?
Prime Rib – I don’t have it very often, but I’d hate to give it up!