After all those delicious and cheesy goodies from you, I thought why not go for something which is light, simple and yet very healthy cuisine for this months theme. I mean after seeing the Chef's whipping up such goodies, a little more challenge is a must - dont you think so? You proved your talent and posing simple themes henceforth will be considered an insult to your prowess - me thinks!
Hence, A.W.E.D goes a bit into not-so-known category. I know there are quite a bunch for whom vietnamese needs no introduction, but there are also many of us, who have no idea of the differences between say Thai, Vietnamese or Chinese. Every dish could be wither Vietnamese or Chinese Well you are not completely wrong if you thought so since they do have lots of similar essence to them but with subtle differences. I am no authority but from my experience Thai reminds me of peanut sauce and lemongrass and generally the dish is on the sweeter side while Vietnamese would make me picture a dish full of greens/vegetables and herbs. And when I say lots of vegetables, you know that this theme is going to be a breeze for you in the sense that not that much work is involved in trying to make Non-vegetarian into Veg.
They have lots of Buddhist vegetarian dishes and most of their dishes can be easily replaced to make into a vegetarian.So with a cuisine which has a key words like Vegetables, Herbs and Spice built into it, it should sure be easy and of course be good for you isnt it?
Here are few pointers to Vietnamese dishes - both vegetarian and non-vegetarian - to give an idea of their cuisine which you must convert into vegetarian/vegan to fit into this theme. I emphasise on the convertion since I still recieve meat based dishes and it is time consuming for both you and me - for you since you sit and prepare and do the linking and for me - since I have to unfortunately say No to your entries. I hate to do that in case you dint realise ;-)
- http://www.vietnamese-restaurants.com/recipe/vegetarian.html
- http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2000mar/2000marvietnam.htm
- http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?categ=vietnamese%2Cvegetarian
- http://asiarecipe.com/vieveg.html
- http://vegweb.com/index.php?board=384.0
- http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/vietnamese.html
- http://vietworldkitchen.com/recipe.htm
1) Make any dish – be it Appetizer, Main Course , Snack or Dessert ( do mention that in your blog) - Vegetarian/Vegan and post the same in your blog /site and link it back to the announcement. Feel free to use the logo.
2) Multiple entries are more welcome than ever, since more the recipes, more the choices available to all of us.
3) Take a snap showcasing your creation and send it across with a size of 300 X 300 pixels.
4) Send me your “Name”, “Recipe”, “Recipe URL” and “Photo” to : i(dot)am(dot)awed(at)gmail(dot)com
5) Last date for the entries are Sep 30th 2008.
6) Not having a blog is no excuse to let you get away with your tasty creations. So Non-Bloggers pls do send me the same details as above to the mail given.
Did you check out the round up of last months AWED Theme : Italian round up?
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