Ex-vegetarian seeks meaty advice

gemmaj

After 10 years I am no longer a veggie... except I am rather unprepared for this meat-eating lark!!

I got a bit carried away when I went shopping and could do with some help using ...

a tin of pilchards in tomato sauce (something other than putting on toast!)

2 chicken legs (thought I could roast them? Or any other ideas.)

Turkey rashers (like bacon except nothing like bacon... lol!)

I have a slow cooker, and all the things you expect to find in a kitchen!! I also have a very tasteless yellow marrow - any dishes I could make it dissapear into??

(Definately going back to growing traditional green courgettes next year - mine are revolting :mad: )

So, any suggestions?
:beer:

katglasgow

Hi gemma, just thought I'd say hello as a fellow meat eater who was veggie for 17 years. I started eating fish when pregnant and then as I was weaning my son just found myself eating meat again too. I have found the deliaonline.com website great for searching for recipies to make with a particular ingredient. Funnily enough someone gave me a huge marrow yesterday, sadly delia let me down but found 2 nice recipies on bbc.co.uk/food. One is for marrow stuffed with couscous, chorizio and red pepper and the other is just chucks of marrow roasted with rosemary.
We try to eat veggie at least twice a week still in the house (main meals) and also eat a lot of fish but one of my favourite meats since I turned back has been pork fillet.
There are lots of nice recipies for casseroled chicken pieces, theres one I do with onion, chopped tomatoes, peppers and also some bits of bacon - so you could try this using 1 or 2 of the turkey rashers? its nice with pasta.
Or maybe you could stuff the marrow with rice, turket rashers etc....
karyn

gemmaj

Karyn - snap! Started eating fish when found out I was pregnant, so much about omega everywhere, and if i'm going to eat fish then I choose to eat meat too. Sadly not pregnant anymore, but still trying.

I now love fish ... but only white fish (cod etc) in batter. Sadly its the oily fish (trout etc) that have the omega and they dont come in batter :-( Hence the pilchards! And I *really* dislike the idea of bones in my food!

Thanks for the sites - will have a look!

Ta. G.

mrbadexample

Hmmm....can't really help with what you've bought, but I think you need to ease yourself back into eating meat gently. Try a nice Cauliflower cheese with bacon.

Oh, and you don't have to bother about the bones in the pilchards, they're very soft and wont hurt at all. Unless you don't like the texture.

Pooky

You could always use the chicken in the slow cooker with the marrow - make a sort of stew type dish...bit of white wine, few other veggies, stock cube.....

Or wrap the chicken in the bacon and cook off in the oven.....

Snow_Angel

gemmaj - I'm a pescatarian (fish only .... health reasons .... can't afford to buy organic meat as I'm a student!). Why did you go back to meat incidentally?

Anyway, pilchards in tomato sauce - I just chuck them in tomato based pasta sauces or add them to a salad to make it a bit more interesting. I don't think I've ever had them on toast!

black-saturn

I was a veggie for 11 years and gave up when I was pregnant with my DD2. She was much healthier than DD1 when she was born but I don't know if that was anything to do with having a balanced diet. I didn't know the difference between pork, lamb, beef or anything when I gave up being a veggie. To me it was all the same.

Have you got a slow cooker? You can buy cheap cuts of meat and cook them slowly in a sauce and they come out really tender.

sarahmelita

I'm glad I'm not the only ex vegetarian around! I was veggie for 7 years and fell off the wagon while watching banger racing and had a hotdog! No pregnancy reasons for me! I found eating chicken the easiest to start off with and still don't really eat red meat.

Raffles_3

I am told that the cure for vegetarianism is a bacon sandwich.

scheming_gypsy

sod easing yourself into it. Get a mixed grill down you.
Look at meat as 4 legged religion, Jesus died for our sins and animals die for our meals..

Like Raffles said, get a bacon sandwich down you and never look back.

Snow_Angel

scheming-gypsy - your avatar is scaring me!