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[which_chick]

Lovely food. Take some red and green bell peppers, olive oil, sliced garlic cloves. Sautee in large frying pan over fairly low heat until really wilty. Salt, y'know. Serve over spaghetti. Use enough olive oil that it kind of helps the peppers make a bit of sauce, maybe three tablespoons or so. This was fantastic, v. yummy. If you have end-of-season peppers from your garden or someone else's garden, this is a good way to get rid of 'em.

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[cousinsue.livejournal.com]

That sounds wonderful.

Wish my family didn't insist that a meal must be meat and starch with a picture of a vegetable somewhere in the kitchen.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

You need to wean them off the meat, see. Make the meat portion smaller, or in more pieces. Example: Beef Stew. Then, proceed to make the meat less important. Example: Spaghetti with some-meat-and-sauce. Make the meat less important in the meal. Example: Stir Fry Beef with Bell Peppers (lots of peppers, very little beef). Work toward things like "Ham and Bean Soup" or "Beef Vegetable Soup". There should be more bean than ham, more vegetable than beef. Tout it as healthy. Pitch it as a cost-savings measure (a large portion of why I don't eat meat is that it's too damn expensive for what you get). Say it's for cholesterol levels. It doesn't really matter what rationalization you use. Just, y'know, less meat.

Eventually they'll think that peppers and garlic over sketti is a great meal. It's all a matter of acclimating. :)

[cousinsue.livejournal.com]

That's been tried.

Life has been stressful lately. And stress means that there must be Meat and Starch.

I already do a lot of stir fry (little bit of chicken), spaghetti sauce, stews. Braised pork with mostly vegetables.