Almost always, when I mention that I’m a vegetarian, I get asked the following questions:

What do you eat?

How do you have time to chop all those vegetables?

Where do you get your protein?

Add in that we don’t have a microwave, and well, that’s even more inconceivable. We don’t have a microwave because a few years ago, I gave ours to our nephew, and realized that I didn’t need it. It takes about as long to cut some vegetables, steam or stir fry them, and serve them up as it does to heat a frozen dinner on high in the microwave.

Not that I don’t occasionally throw an Amy’s tofu lasagna or a Tofurkey sausage pizza into the oven, but most nights, I’m happy to make something from scratch, even if that includes frozen (read: timesaving) vegetables.

Feel free to drop by this blog, for my semi-regular postings and recipes.  I’ll post photos when possible. And if I ever get around to adding the nutritional calculations (or if you do the calculations yourself), you too will be able to answer the “where do you get your protein” question.