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It's so weird that people ate like that. I'd have altered the soup similarly, allowing for different eating requirements. But yes, pea soup without onions is just ridiculous.

I have an amazing and terrifying cookbook that Carol Kennedy found at a yard sale. It is Betty Goes Vegan, and it contains five hundred Betty Crocker recipes from some massive book I don't have, all veganized.

I've mostly just read it and marvelled. I did try one recipe, a vegetable side dish of green beans and spinach, that had grotesquely wrong amounts -- a cup of green beans, a cup of spinach, and a cup of lemon juice. (There were a few other ingredients too, but their proportions weren't so wildly off.) I increased the vegetables and decreased the lemon juice, but it was still unbearably sour.

I've been deterred from making many of the other recipes because they tend to call for something like a teaspoon of silken tofu, which comes in ten- or twelve- or occasionally fourteen-ounce blobs. The contortions I'd have to go to to use up the rest of the block just stopped me cold. I won't even use half an onion in a recipe: I either just put in twice as much or else double the recipe. I know the rest of the onion will just rot, unless I happen to want some on a sandwich; and the rest of the tofu would similarly slink to the back of the fridge and go slimy.

Anyway, I hope you find an acceptable lunch for Saturday!

P.