From: Anne (lib0120.lib.msu.edu)
Subject: just double up one of the other ingredients (m)
Date: September 22, 2006 at 5:56 am PST
In Reply to: Zucchini/squash posted by Marianne on September 21, 2006 at 8:43 am:
Otherwise, you will probably have to substitute according to what will work in that particular recipe. Remember that zucchini is in there because is is a green/yellow vegetable with lots of fiber and few calories. Choose another vegetable you like from this category (green beans, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, kohlrabi - it's a huge group).
I feel about eggplant the way you do about zucchini. If you start to read a book about vegan diet, for some reason the writers ALWAYS put eggplant in the menus, even though it is exactly the kind of horrific impression the average American has about vegan diets. I've always thought of vegan proponents as having an eggplant aimed at their foot (like the saying about shooting yourself in your own foot).
However, I have more recipes than I know what to do with while successfully avoiding egglplant. Maybe you could go over to fatfreevegan.com and find some recipes that don't include zucchini to replace the recipes in the MWL book. There are a lot of MWL type recipes over there.
Good luck! You don't have to eat zucchini if you don't like it!
