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I went vegetarian for a six-month period about a year ago with my wife to see if we could to it. It wasn't _easy_, but it's certainly do-able, especially if you have someone else going through it with you for moral support.
Now if I had to give up cheese, that would be another thing entirely. No veganism for me, thanks.
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Egyptian Kushery 1/4 C brown rice 1/4 C lentils 1/2 C macaroni onion powder, garlic powder, cumin and salt, to taste
Put the spices in a pot of boiling water. Add the rice, cook for 15 minutes. Add the lentils, cook for an additional 5 minutes. Add the macaroni. When the macaroni is cooked, drain water. Stir the sauce in (see below).
The sauce In a quarter-cup measuring cup, pour in cayenne pepper to taste. Fill about 3/4 of the way with seasoned rice vinegar (if you must use a different kind of vinegar, you should use less). Top it off with olive oil. Do this while the kushery is cooking, so that the cayenne flavors the vinegar nicely. After draining the water, pour sauce over pasta mixture and stir well.
This makes a meal for one person, or side dishes for two. The recipe scales easily; my husband has made it for groups of twenty before. If you want a shorter cooking time, you can either pre-cook the brown rice and mix it in at the same time as the sauce, or substitue white rice instead. White rice should be added at the same time as the lentils.
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