One of the things that's kept me going in my quest to eat meat free over the past twelve days has been other people's willingness and enthusiasm to suggest great vegetarian or vegan recipes. From suggestions of risotto to lasagna, curry to burritos, my experience of veggie food has been well and truly widened, my culinary creativity stretched and my willingness to try new things has increased ten fold.
But as we're almost half-way through Meat Free March now, a little extra inspiration wouldn't go amiss.
That's why Food Fables Fay and I have been busy organising a meat free recipe swap - in the hope that it'll stop us from resorting to a basic bean burger to curb our rumbling stomachs and keep our kitchen creativity intact.
How will the Meat Free March recipe swap work?
The idea is to gather together a group of people who love food, love writing about food and are either already eating meat free or are looking to expand their repertoire of veggie or vegan food.
We'll team interested parties up with a fellow blogger by popping you over a quick survey of food don'ts and food loves.
After that, you'll have a few weeks to scour recipe books, blogs and other foodie bibles, looking for the perfect recipe to send you veggie pal. As I really love brown paper packages tied up with string, we thought it'd be nice if we sent each other vegan/veggie recipes by post, so that you can include one or two low-cost ingredients for the recipe if you so choose.
As per the food bloggers code, we'd encourage you to tweak recipes taken from cookbooks or to provide your swapee with a link to the cookbook writer's site if you are using the recipe with out alterations - they have to earn their bread and soya butter too!
We'd love nothing more than to see everyone's culinary attempts at their swap pal's recipe, so we'd really enjoy it if people wrote up their escapades in a blog post, and take lots of pictures too!
We're also currently in talks with a few nice bods to be able to offer the best post a little something - watch this space for more info...
In addition to writing about your recipes it would be great to share hints and tips on Twitter, which you can do using the #MFMuk hashtag.
Some key dates
- Participation confirmation to be received by this Friday March 15th
- Recipes to be arrive with partner by Monday March 25th
- Blog posts to go up Sunday March 31st
- Matches sent out Sunday March 17th
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