This weekend, let's not eat meat at all - suggested my children's father just before the big shopping on Friday, when I imagined myself in the endless line in front of the butcher's counter, practicing yoga breathing in the market conditions before the three-day weekend
He has never made such a statement in the ten years we have known each other, and although before that I had talked a little about reducing meat for the sake of sustainability, which I stick to on a part of the weekdays, it was very nice that he, the Vergílius of home-made sausages and BBQ, the the patron saint of offal, who probably had a beef cheek as a sign even in kindergarten, agrees with me in this as well. On the weekend (!) And not only does he stay with me, but he made such a simple and refreshing Buddha dish from my prepared vegetables that the children also loved.
October is the month of vegetarian awareness, which we can join for reasons of sustainability, conscience or savings, and have more or less vegetable days, but it is also a good adventure because it is instructive to see children outside the comfort zone of meat and potatoes. If we leave it at that, in their wonderful minds, meat-eating and vegetarianism are not mutually exclusive concepts, and in the best case, they don't have templates like lacto/ovo/semi/vegan/flaxiterian/don't like cute animals, but only beautiful/not beautiful, good texture/bad texture, fine/non-fine value pairs shape their choices. Here, the two small predators are happy to eat all kinds of greens (well, I have to fight for the kohlrabi to pass through the filter), if it's good.
And the Buddha-bowl is a great invention and also child-friendly in that its elements are colorful, spectacular, and can be held, crumbled, and tinkered with. The difficulty, however, is that here we cannot hide vegetables with a chance of disqualification in pasta sauce, all participants play with open cards. The ingredients of an originally vegan bowl, built from a free combination of vegetables, fruits, grains, or even seeds, are prepared separately and meet in a deep soup or muesli bowl. The round shape of the richly packed bowl reminded the unknown namesake of the belly symbolizing abundance in fat Buddha depictions. According to another source, it is named so because it will make you as full and happy as the big-bellied Buddha.
This genre supports all kinds of improvisation, raw and fried, cooked elements together and bolder associations. A big advantage for us is that vegetables like cauliflower or broccoli are more sellable if they have a joker next to them, say chickpeas. I started this lunch in the morning by peeling the eggplant, adding 2-3 cloves of garlic, and roasting the cauliflower and Brussels sprouts in the oven with a little spice. spices, and then I will figure out how to organize all of this. Then we left home, and arriving home shortly before lunchtime, the head of the family added the vegetables out of spontaneous ambition and seasoned them with tahini sauce. Like this:
And if you are interested in the exact recipe, click here and see how to prepare this super dish on Dóra's blog, Édes Pofá!
