Vegetarian ‘Meat’Loaf

When I was a young and novice vegetarian, I spent most of my time trying to come up with meals for dinner that emulated classic meat entrees.

I guess that’s a good way to transition yourself from the ways of eating meat to the ways of not eating meat.  New vegetarians may suffer from the panicky thought of “where’s my main course!?” when they remove meat from their diet and rightly so: meat is generally the center of attention in most meals.

Before I became a vegetarian my husband and I didn’t eat a lot of meatloaf.  After I became a vegetarian, we ate a lot of meatloaf.  This meat-free lentil-loaf quenched my desire to have a main course and it is something I would whip up along side the Omnivore’s real meatloaf.  I’d bake them off side by side in the oven and when we would sit down for dinner our plates would look remarkably similar (something that was sort of important to my husband!).

Eventually I got to a point where I was tiring of cooking two main entrees and since I was doing the cooking the meaty entree was on the chopping block.

My husband is the first to confess his love of ‘loaf’ (he refuses to call it anything other than simply loaf).  Though I’m back into eating meat, this is one recipe that I make time and time again.  I first blogged it way back in 2009 so if you feel like you’ve seen it before, you have.
Lentil Loaf – vegetarian meat loaf