Meatless Mondays: Caprese Polenta Pizza

These days I am constantly running between my master thesis work and my (paid) work. I should really get a bike... So when I get home starving, express cooking is the way to go. That, and when even takeaway Chinese costs 20 bucks, there is just no option but to home cook all the time.

So, I am super happy to have found out about polenta. It cooks so quickly and is ready in minutes. This vegetarian version of the polenta pizza I made last week makes a super speedy and colourful dinner!

Meatless Mondays - Swiss Chard (Krautstiel) Pesto

I just realised recently that I’ve been pretty ignorant when it comes to vegetable shopping. When I first started cooking (fresh out of college and finally got a real kitchen in a share house), my champion dish was always the Mie Goreng. From all the vegetable choices out there, for some reason I have always stuck to zucchinis, capsicum and mushrooms which I always put in my Mie Goreng. This became a habit and for a long time these were the only three veggies I would even think of buying!

Meatless Mondays - Three Bean Shepherd's Pie with Baked Celeriac Mash

Celeriac: possibly the ugliest vegetable around but so much goodness and a guilt-free substitute for potatoes.

I just heard about this thing called Meatless Mondays. It’s a great American initiative that started in 2003 to get people to give up meat one day a week. As we know (and often ignore!), animal products in our food chain contributes to a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. That’s because the meat industry uses masses of energy to raise the livestock and poultry. Additionally, grazing livestock also add to the problem of land degradation. According to the good guys at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, simply turning your meal into a vegetarian one already reduces the carbon footprint of your meal by 70%.