Vegetarian Frugal Housewife

So today was my first try of corn pasta. The last attempt at non-wheat pasta was disastrous and, well, disgusting.

That was back in May and I will not be buying that Bionaturae wheat-free variety again. It was a mixed flour pasta with soy, rice and potato and the result was a rather slimy, not-very-pasta-like pile of stuff.

Tonight we had corn pasta by DeBoles along with regular Prego spaghetti sauce and Nate’s Zesty Italian meatless meatballs.

The corn pasta was wonderful! It was a yellowy color but tasted exactly like regular pasta and, though it took a bit longer to boil and made the water an interesting cloudy white, it came out the exact same texture that one would expect of wheat-based pasta.

Quite groovy I say!

Having been a vegetarian for a only a short time now, I was also pleasantly surprised at the quality of the meatballs. Very meaty in flavor and relatively natural in ingredients.

I will be attempting a veggie meatloaf soon and hope that it comes out half as good as those frozen meatless meatballs that we picked up in the Stop-n-Shop natural foods section.

Well me? Hmmm… Recently returned to vegetarianism after a 15 year hiatus. (Long Story) Definitely trying to learn more fun and creative ways to be frugal.

I’m an inspirational writer and psychic medium in my other life and I aspire to run my own farm someday.

What can you expect to find here?

Anything that strikes my fancy really: vegetarian recipes, hand crafts such as spinning and crochet, musings on raising animals and kids, reviews of books and products of interest to vegetarians, old-time anecdotes, natural healing, chatter about folk music and hippie living as well as simple things that we can all do to be a little more eco-friendly and a little less gimmee gimmee.

I hope that your readings here are fun and inspiring!