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Recipe: Sweet and Savory Vegetarian Meatloaf

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Vegetarian Meatloaf RecipeThose who visit my blog’s fan page on Facebook got a glimpse of this Sunday night and convinced me to blog about it so, here it is! Originally from Family Circle magazine, this sweet and savory meatloaf recipe converted into a vegetarian meatloaf recipe with ease. The major substitution was using two 12 oz. packages of Boca crumbles in place of 1 1/4 pounds of ground beef. I also kept the egg in the recipe because I’m not familiar enough with alternative binding foods. If anyone could recommend something that might hold this together, I’m all ears!

I made these in mini loaf pans, which unmolded perfectly but, as you can see, were very tender when sliced. Still, they were quite delicious. And, the serving is very generous… could definitely get by eating only half the mini loaf. (For those following the Weight Watchers program, one mini loaf is 9 points according to my calculations.)

Oh, and, as some of you may know, hubby isn’t a squash fan… he hates the stuff, but enjoyed his mini loaf. He said he could taste the squash. Yet, we also debated whether or not he would have “tasted” it if he didn’t know (prior to eating it) that it was made with squash. Next time, I ain’t sharing my secret ingredients with him. :-p

Sweet and Savory Vegetarian Meatloaf – Serves 4
2 – 12oz. packages Boca crumbles
2/3 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup sweetened applesauce
1 large-ish zucchini, peeled and shredded
2 large-ish carrots, peeled and shredded
3 tablespoons ketchup
1 egg
1.5 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic pwder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mist four mini loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray and set aside. Combine Boca crumbles, oats applesauce, squash, carrots, ketchup, egg, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Scoop mixture evenly into the four mini loaf pans, packing it down into the molds. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes before turning the loaves out onto a plate.

He eats, she eats… Buffalo Wild Wings

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She eats a Boca burger. He eats a dozen boneless hot wings.

For a long time now, I’ve wanted to introduce a “He eats, she eats” feature for this site. I thought it would be an interesting way to demonstrate the differing palettes of our union and show how a vegetarian married to a meat eater copes with various dining situations.

What’s held me back is usually hubby and I are consuming the same foods. When we eat at home, I cook vegetarian food and he eats it. Our main differences show through when we dine out, but that is not very often. Yet, I’m ready to take the plunge and give this feature a try, with the hope that some of my readers will help me!

Recently, hubby and I dined at Buffalo Wild Wings — one of his favorite restaurants. I ordered the Boca burger and hubby chose a dozen boneless hot wings.

Buffalo Wild Wings doesn’t have anything vegan on the menu, according to an e-mail from their research and development department.  They went on to say…

We do have a few options that would fit a vegetarian life style. Boca Burger,  Flat Breads minus the Chicken, Garden and Side salad.  We do fry all our products in a beef tallow oil which we understand would not be an option.

They fry all of their products in a beef tallow oil – which means, I should not have eaten the fries since they are not vegetarian when cooked that way. I tried to confirm that the fries, specifically, are cooked in the beef tallow oil, but all I could pull out of the customer service e-mail staff was the same canned response above. Therefore, you have to assume that the fries are cooked in the tallow oil. :( I understand why restaurants do this but I get frustrated when a perfectly good vegetable is deemed nonvegetarian due to how it’s prepared!

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Hubby and I dined out over the long holiday weekend, so I’ll have a few more “He eats, she eats” entries in the coming days but I’d like to open up this feature to my readers who may be in similar relationships.

If YOU are a vegetarian or vegan married to an omnivore, I’d love to know how you handle mixed-diet situations. Please send YOUR images along with a brief description to veggiecookster [at] gmail [dot] com and I’ll feature it here on the website in a future post. :)