What To Eat: Lunch

It's not always easy observing Meatless Monday, especially when your next-door neighbor, downstairs neighbor and ground-level super all appear to be frying bacon. But it's Meatless Monday, I'm powerless to cheat at this point, so I turn to the meatiest vegetarian non-meat substitute I know: baked tofu. Pull it off using today's lunch advice after the jump. 

Tabouli is one of those dishes with a million recipes. The Middle Eastern salad screams warm weather so loudly it's genuinely hard to enjoy it in the colder months. Also, winter produce sucks, and this is a produce-heavy situation: your own ratios of finely chopped parsley and mint, diced cucumber, tomato, onions or scallions and tons of extra-virgin olive oil, fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper, plus your preferred amount of the following options. 

Adding these two ingredients to a reasonably willing dish will turn it Asian. "Reasonably willing" means no outspokenly conflicting ingredients. Examples: you don't want soy sauce in your fettuccine alfredo and you don't want sesame oil in your pimento cheese. Let's just stay away from dairy altogether, as a good rule of thumb. Read on for recipes to test this theory.