So in searching my cookbooks I found a recipe for chickpea cutlets. Thank you Veganomicon and authors Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero! My thought was: perfect, this will be our “meat ” for the evening. Grill King laughed at the thought of something called chickpea cutlets taking the place of chicken, ribs, or steak. I had to agree, anything with the word cutlets sounds like a meat dish. But I was determined to have a complete vegan meal no matter what. Therefore, I hid the butter! After I mixed together the ingredients for the chickpea cutlets, threw together a salad and cooked some quinoa (I have a really big bag of this stuff – COSTCO), Grill King did the honors of cooking the cutlets. I placed this meal on the table and called everyone in. My daughters reaction to seeing the cutlets – “I thought we were having a vegan meal, this is fish, you can’t have fish.” Ah Hah! Maybe chickpea cutlets can replace meat. Although to be honest with all of you, I have not yet given up fish or seafood (this will be a really hard road for me and I’m not sure I’m willing to travel it at this point.) Does an oyster have a mama or a face? Tiptoeing remember? However land meat/things with hooves or beaks are in the past. They’re out-a-here! for me anyway. So we ate our “vegan meat”and even my pickiest eater ate the chickpea cutlets. Both kids liked the meal and Grill King stated that I am welcome to make these cutlets anytime. See, miracles do happen and everyone in my family had a completely meatless meal that they enjoyed and that was also veganified (a word?…probably not). Sounds good though.
A Vegan Meal!
September 20, 2011 by Leslie
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