Vegetarian Festival

[Humbert]

Time to kin jay again. My wife is forcing me to go along with her on a 10 day purge eating only vegetarian food, no alcohol and no coffee. Starts tomorrow so today I'm going to eat a big plate of bacon.
Anybody have any good vegetarian recipes?

[Tom O]

Good Luck. Don't think I could last ten days without a bit of meat.

[killerbees]

Go to the Chinese temples nearby, if there are any, and eat the food there. It's delicious, fun, and free. You can eat at large communal tables with all sorts of interesting people you might not ordinarily get to bump into, so that's nice also.

[aging one]

Not only vegetarian but in general not good tasting. For some reason garlic and onion are not allowed as well. The kids and I will stick with our regular diet. Kids got sick last year trying to get on with "Jae" food.

[slackula]

Good luck with the dietary change Humbert, I tried it once and lasted about 3 days.

Right now my house seems to be under an artillery barrage (I live quite close to the Tessaban in Kathu), the fireworks were pretty good but as usual the dogs and cats didn't appreciate it much!

[Ramseth]

The Chinese (and of course Thai-Chinese) tradition of a vegetarian festival in the 9th lunar month came from ancient China (of course again). For livestock farmers, the mating season is from spring to autumn, after mid-autumn, they prepare the livestock for winter hibernation. Therefore, a vegetarian festival of about 10 to 14 years to mark the fact that meat may not be available everyday, and eating up all livestock means no meat in future. They do still eat meat in winter after the festival, but only the older livestock not suitable for mating next spring. But the winter weather in China makes the older meat more easily preservable.

How religious and superstitious connotations got attached to this practice, I don't know, it's anyone's guess or believe.

[Humbert]

Last night the wife offered up some awful, fake gai tawd mit mamuang made with tofu I guess.

[Fabian]

sounds like you have to suffer a lot.

[Humbert]

Tonight some kind of namai kaeng, kow pad pak and ruam mit tua nork. Not that bad. Maybe a good thing to let go of the animal products for a while. No coffee is real torture though.

[Schyler]

Time to kin jay again. My wife is forcing me to go along with her on a 10 day purge eating only vegetarian food, no alcohol and no coffee. Starts tomorrow so today I'm going to eat a big plate of bacon.
Anybody have any good vegetarian recipes?

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes


Ingredients

• 1 medium head garlic
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
• 4 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/2 cup milk
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Drizzle garlic with olive oil, then wrap in aluminum foil. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
3. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes, and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and chop. Stir in butter, milk, salt and pepper.
4. Remove the garlic from the oven, and cut in half. Squeeze the softened cloves into the potatoes. Blend potatoes with an electric mixer until desired consistency is achieved.

[aging one]

Cant use garlic sunshine. Nice first post.

[jandajoy]

Finest quality hash.

Chocolate cooky mix

combine.

eat.

Worry not.

[reinvented]

should be no sex for 10 days
reason enough n ot to bother

[Carnwadrick]

My son has been vegan (if it does not have roots it is not vegan) for the past 12 years, at first it was a bitch to create tasty food with protien and the stuff that is supposed to keep us healthy, while I still prefer meat and eggs vegan/ vegetarian food really is better for us. BTW you should switch coffee for green tea you really will be suprised at difference in how your body feels