VEGETARIAN January 2012 OAMM Menu (OAMC, Freezer Cooking, Bulk Cooking, Power Cooking)
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For the start of the new year, you’re in for a real treat: an all-star menu of favorite vegetarian breakfasts, lunches and dinners from 2011. A few of the highlights include Fire Roasted Vegetable Pasta, Zucchini Fritters and Black Bean Corn Salsa Quesadillas. You’ll be waking up to the delicious aroma of Blueberry French Toast made in your slow cooker as well as a hearty, fruity Breakfast Quinoa.
Due to the fact that this is a seasonal menu, you may find that some of the produce items are out of season in January. Feel free to make substitutions or to ask us about potential substitutions. We didn’t want to eliminate All Star recipes based on season, after all, you think they are the BEST!
Breakfasts
- Blueberry French Toast (June)
- Mini Quiche (June)
- Breakfast Quinoa (June)**
Lunches
- Black Bean Corn Salsa Quesadillas (June)**
- Homemade Tomato Soup (July)
- Crockpot Falafel (June)
- Spicy Lentil Tacos (July)
Dinners
- Fire Roasted Vegetable Pasta (June)
- Zucchini Fritters (August)**
- Lasagna (July)**
- Spicy Rice Balls (June)
- Vegetarian Buffalo “Chicken” Bagel Pizzas (July)
- Asparagus Risotto (July)
- Baked Empanadas (August)
- Grilled Polenta Cakes (August)
Add Ons
**Indicates meals that require NO COOKING on your OAMC BIG DAY!
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Grocery List
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Pinterest:
Are you a person that likes to see the menus visually? Perhaps you should check out the January 2012 Vegetarian Menu via Pinterest to see the yummy goodness you will be cooking up on this menu. Not sure what Pinterest is all about, check out what Once A Month Mom has to say about it.
Facebook Fan Party:
OAMM Facebook Fan Page Party – January 15 2012, 9:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST – We will be able to chat via video AND messaging during the event through FACEBOOK! How cool is that? We will be talking about the current month’s menus, answer your burning questions about freezer cooking and have fun getting to know one another. You can also see other past recordings from that tab as well.
Instructions for viewing live-stream:
- Go to the Once A Month Mom Facebook Fan Page.
- Click on the “Facebook Fan Page Night” Tab on the left side margin.
- Hit “view live recording” – If I am live streaming it will show you what is happening in progress. If I am not live streaming at the time, you will have the option to click through other videos that I have recorded in the past.
- Enjoy!
Test Cooks
Each month we have some wonderful volunteers who “test” out the menu prior to publication. They do an amazing job of helping to eliminate confusion and mistakes. They may not catch everything but they sure do catch A LOT! Here is a little bit about this month’s test cooks:
- Andrea Kruse: Andrea is a Stay-at-Home Mom to two toddlers and a farmer’s wife. Her days revolve around food and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She blogs at http://adventuresinallthingsfood.blogspot.com
Helpful Hints/Resources
- Saving and Printing the OAMM Menus Using Google Docs
- Creating Your Own OAMC Menu Series
- Preparing For A Successful OAMC Day
- Adapting The Menu for YOUR Family
- Making the Menu Healthier
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Shopping For Your Cooking Day
- Final Shopping Trip For Your OAMC Day
- Choosing The Right Containers
What do you think of VEGETARIAN January 2012’s menu?
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Hi Once a Month Mom! I just stumbled upon your website and so far it looks great! I’m a flight attendant so I’m not home very often and when I am I’m always way too tired to cook, so I usually end up ordering in. This seems like it could be a great way to start eating from home and eating way healthier. You put so much detail into your site so I just wanted to say a big thank you!
Great site! I saved a copy of the recipe cards in my Google Docs and the Mini Quiche isn’t converting properly. Any hints? Thanks.
It might be that the “conversion” is a little different than you expect it to be because there are eggs involved in that recipe. When there are eggs the formula is a bit different to ensure that the eggs don’t come out in fractions. Therefore it may make a bit more than you expected. Or is there something else that doesn’t seem right? If so, you will have to be more specific.
Thanks for the reply Tricia. I looked at the conversion for my family of four again and decided I think the amount seems to be smaller than I expected. The recipe card noted 12 per serving :-) I figured there would be about eight total servings, or is this where I am wrong? I checked the original link and it was the same as my converted recipe card for four (4 servings?). Doing the recipe in my head I figured the two eggs, two egg yolks, a cup of milk and a cup of cream seems about right for four servings not the eight I figured i should be making. Thanks for the help!
Or is it 12 per meal! LOL
The original recipe makes 48 mini quiches (for a party, more of an 8-10 person snacking affair I believe). So, if there’s a “1″ in your yellow box, that will make 12 mini quiches, which should be enough for two meals for one person (our menus are intended to produce two meals for whatever number of people you put in the yellow box). So that’d be 6 mini quiches per person for a meal (they’re tiny little mini muffin size). If you’re using the number “4″ in your yellow box, it will convert the recipe to two meals for 8 people and you should be able to make 48 mini quiches with that batch for two meals of 24 mini quiches. Hope that helps!
Hello,
I am a bit confused on which recipes would be better. I am a vegetarian who is trying to lose weight. Therefore I found myself in a predicament should I try the vegetarian January recipes and change the recipes a bit, or should I try the January Diet recipes and change the recipes to be vegetarian friendly? Your insight would be much appreciated. Also, wanted to say thanks for your incredible site and idea! It seems a perfect solution for college student like me on the go.
If you’re converting ingredients, I think you’d likely find it a lot easier to use the vegetarian menu and use diet versions of the ingredients (e.g. skim milk Mozzarella). If using the diet menu exclusively, switching meats to mock meats can be tricky as they sometimes behave much differently than the traditional meats.
Having said that, there are several meals on the diet menu that are naturally meat-free, so you may prefer to mix and match a bit between the two menus! Some of the meat-free diet meals from January’s diet menu include: Breakfast Bars, Raspberry Kiwi Smoothies Black Bean Burgers and Egg Casserole Cups.
Let me know if I can be of any more help!
Thank you so much for the quick response I love the idea of mixing and matching but mainly using the vegetarian menu! I can’t express enough how excited I am about this site and to start the semester off right!
The 6 per serving for the mini quiches helped a lot! I would have been trying to make 96 of them out of that recipe to get the 12 per serving as noted on the recipe card. Thanks for your reply.
I just stumbled upon your site and am so excited. I have a question already. What (if any) substitutions can you make to the blueberry french toast in the Veg menu to make it vegan? More specifically the eggs.
We have a great post for you here on egg substitutes: http://onceamonthmom.com/going-egg-free-how-to-substitute-eggs-in-recipes/
It looks like the asparagus risotto link is broken. I believe this is the correct link: http://www.themeltaways.com/2011/04/06/asparagus-risotto/