Adventures in cooking 2.0

Before Liam was born I was a vegetarian. I ate eggs and milk products but I had cut meat, poultry and fish out of my diet. I did it for me. Something I had always wanted to do, and had dabbled in a few times before. But, I made a committment and I stuck to it, I was amazed actually how easy it was for me to not eat me, within a month I didn't even crave it. But, I ended up cooking a lot of prepared chicken dishes (can someone say "boxed broccoli and cheese chicken") for Dave instead of the healthy homecooked meals that I had usually prepared. He wasn't too happy about it, and either was his waistline. I am sure his salt intake jumped through the roof too. So, when I was about 3 months pregnant, had been diagnosed with extremely low iron and had a saliva inducing dream about a chicken breast sandwich I decided that I should probably add some meat back into my diet. Thus the scene of Dave preparing me a steak and me sobbing while eating it over the sink in the kitchen.

Now that Liam is starting to be weaned (another post or a different day) I have decided to go back to the veggie route and I couldn't be happier about it. Dave on the other hand...

So, I am scouring blog sites looking for delicious recipes that can be easily altered two ways, with meat and without. I made a delicious stuffed spaghetti squash this way and we were both extremely satisfied and it made enough for lunch for a few days. Liam even got in on the action and ate some plain squash and avocado for supper too!

Here is a meatless meal option that I have made for my family even complete with the review of the in house carnivore, my lovely husband!

Potato & Spinach Quiche and Borscht. I know they don't sound like they go together but we had all of the ingredients IN THE HOUSE and I didn't think that one on its own would be sufficient.

Both were good, not delicious, but good. I will be making the quiche again, but probably for breakfast. Dave isn't a huge fan of eating breakfast foods outside of the morning, so he wasn't quiche's biggest fan from the get go.