Portabello Chycken Rice Noodle Recipe

I have so many precious recipes that I am crafting into a cookbook at the moment. My husband has been asking me for a number of years now to put all my recipes in a cookbook that he can refer to if I were ever to die. I`m sure many other aspiring vegetarians will also benefit from this cookbook and see that it`s not that strange to cook vegetarian. Many long hours of typing till 1 oclock in the morning but it will soon be done....and then comes the editing and imaging...but that`s another story.

For now,
Here`s one of my recipes that I made for the extended family last night. Everyone loved it and I`m hoping you will too!
Give me some feedback in the comments if you like it... or not...

Portabello Chycken Rice Noodles

Olive oil

2 large Portobello mushrooms

2-3 Chyckenless breasts (Gardein or President`s Choice)

1 medium red onion, chopped

½ cup tomato sauce

1/3 cup apple juice or water

¼ cup mandarin orange salad dressing (or other fruit based salad dressing)

2 tbsp tamari

1 tbsp seasoned rice vinegar

2 tsp chili powder

1 tsp garlic, puréed in a jar

½ tsp pepper

½ cup carrot or butternut squash purée (optional)

½ cup peas

Rice stick noodles

Combine all liquid and spice ingredients in a blender. Reserve.

Clean mushrooms and cut into strips. Also, cut the chycken into bite sized pieces.

In a large saucepan, sauté the onion in oil until softened. Add the chycken and mushrooms and cook for an additional 5 minutes.

Pour sauce into pan with the mushroom mixture and add peas. Cover and cook over low to medium heat for about 10 minutes.

During this time, cook the rice stick noodles. To do this, you can either do it in a saucepan according to directions in the package or you can simply boil some water and pour it over top of the noodles in a bowl or Tupperware with a lid. Cover and let the noodles soak for 5 minutes then turn them with a fork and let sit for another 5 minutes in the covered container.

To plate: Start with the noodles at the bottom and add mixture of mushrooms with sauce. Garnish with a sprig of parsley for added fancinessJ

Bringing Vegetarianism to the People (That`s You!)

I have been a vegetarian for 30 years now! To celebrate this event, I`m starting this blog to help anyone make the transition to vegetarianism. I`m not one of these preachy vegetarians...at least I don`t think I am! 

However, people ask me all the time how they can integrate vegetarian food into their life. To me, it`s so normal to eat this way since I have never really cooked meat.

My Mom tells me that in the shopping cart as she was pushing me along at the grocery store I used to question everything she put in the basket, especially if it looked like dead animal parts. I asked: Mom, is that a dead pig? She would say: Don`t worry Sophie, it`s just Pork, you like pork.

Well, that worked on and off until the age of 10 although she says she had to do some quick thinking on numerous occasions to change my focus off the dead cow my Dad would cook up on the BBQ as steak and the chicken`s wings we ate on Friday nights. But there is no way she could get me to cook up the flesh foods. I preferred baking at that age.

At the age of 10, we went on a family vacation that would be a turning point in my life and change my way of eating forever..and my sister`s too. One night while we were in Prince Edward Island in the maritime provinces of Canada, my parents bought lobster to cook up at our campground site. When my Dad threw  the live lobster in the boiling water to prepare supper, the lobster of course began his mournful wail. At that moment, it hit me! We were eating a live being that had donated his life to feed us. From that moment on, my sister and I refused to eat animals, ever again.

There are SO Many things to eat besides dead animals! The plant world is filled with hundreds of thousands of possible meal ideas and I intend to share my favorites with you through this blog. I want to show you that it`s not that hard to eat vegetarian. As a matter of fact, you probably already eat some vegetarian meals every day without even realizing it!

Let me make something clear before we get started... You don`t have to become vegetarian all at once if you think that is too much for you. You can become a flexitarian at first if that appeals to you. So eat vegetarian once or twice a week for one or two whole days and progress from there... The less meat you eat, the more animals you will save.

Did you know that by quitting the meat habit, you can save 95 animals a year. That`s right! You heard me... 95 animals will be allowed to live a peaceful life because of your change in diet.
I don`t know about you, but that gives me shivers!

And so, my goal is to help 10,527 people become vegetarian and save 1,000,000 animals. Call it my New Year`s Resolution for 2012.
Please sign up on top at right to start receiving my updates and help get you started in this healthy new way of eating. Thanks from me and the animals!!