The Tuesday Special: Manfood with FLAWMIO

Not a vegan myself, I am nevertheless pleased and excited to be here contributing. In the interest of parity I will provide the vegan alternative to any blatantly unvegan recipes I post. In the spirit of TVLV's moniker, it may be appropriate to refer to me as the Far Lazier And Way More Imprecise Omnivore, or familiarly, Flawmio.

Without further ado, tonight's featured recipe:

SOMEWHAT INNOVATIVE PROTEIN FRENZY

Things you'll need:
> ground beef or turkey (substitute TOFU or something else that vegans substitute)
> onion
> red or green pepper
> spinach
> coconut milk
> pasta
> peanuts
> raisins
> soy sauce
> oil
> ginger, salt, pepper, sesame seeds if you have them

First you assume the position in front of your stove. Do you have the oil? Put the ground meat/tofu/whatever in a frying pan and stir-fry it with some oil. Then when that's brownish chop up the onion and red/green pepper coarsely--big pieces are the key--and throw it in. Douse it with soy sauce, ginger, salt, pepper, sesame seeds, garlic if you want. Throw the raisins and the peanuts in now. Then after that's been cooking for a while--cook it at like a highish medium flame--pour in the coconut milk, or regular milk if you don't have coconut milk, or an egg white if you want. An egg white would be fine with the milk as well. Unless you're a vegan, that is. We're still cooking on a pretty high flame, mind you, but make sure those onions aren't getting all crusty. If that's happening you need to turn it down.

Next we have the remaining ingredients, spinach and pasta. Now start boiling the water for the pasta. When the water is boiling, that's a good time to put the spinach into the meat/nonmeat concoction. Also, turn the heat down to pretty low. Of course you don't want to put the spinach in until now because it'll wilt and all the vitamins will leave the leaves, sort of like the warm and toasty feeling disappears when you take too long to drink your coffee. It just mysteriously gets cold.

When the pasta is done, drain it and dump it in with the rest of it. Everybody in the pool! Stir it all around and keep it cooking for another minute or so. Afterwards, eat it.

I think that carrots would be good for this dish too, and broccoli, if you've got all that. All in all this dish is very southeast Asian, although I don't know specifically where it might be placed since I really honestly don't know anything about cooking.