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One of the big reasons for doing Vegtember is to try and consume food in a more sustainable way. There are reasons why eating less meat helps in this. But one of the biggest environmental factors in respect of food is the “food miles”. How far the food has to travel to get to your store, or to your plate.
This is an issue for meat, and for vegetarian products. This is especially pronounced when food stuffs are perishable and need to be refrigerated as they are transported.
One of the best
Continue reading Vegtember: Local Farmers Market
It is starting to get cold again, and as always when cold my thoughts turn to soups and stews. I cant help thinking a stew might be pretty disappointing sans meat. But most soups I cook are Vegetarian anyhow, so I thought that soup was most definitely the way to go!
So I decided to go to the grocers and just to see what takes my fancy. They had a number of Butternut Squashes that looked ripe and lovely so I snapped them up. I like soup to be hearty, tasty,
Continue reading Vegtember: Butternut Squash Soup
Since mooting the suggestion of doing Vegtember, and explaining some of the reasons why, many people have spoken to me about meat replacement products. Specifically many people have extolled the virtues of Quorn chicken style pieces (other meat replacement products are available).
I have been told on many fronts that the chicken pieces are a perfectly adequate replacement for normal cheap chicken and great for stir-fries and curries etc, with the added advantage of being healthier, cheaper and easier than using chicken.
I must say I was dubious. Ages ago when cooking
Continue reading Vegtember: Quorn Satay Curry
At lunch today I was perusing t’interweb and I read this article about Chillies in the Grauniad. Having read that there was only ever going to be one thing I could have for dinner tonight and that is Vegetarian Chilli.
Now as one of the challenges I am hoping to do at some point this month, particularly at the urging of this thread on h2g2, I did consider making this with Soya Mince. However I decided in the end to save that for another day (might make a Malaysian Satay curry
Continue reading Vegtember: Three Bean Chilli
Had a late finish at work tonight and some ingredients that needed eating up. I had little idea of what to cook, walking home it struck me…. why not do a Masterchef style “invention test”.
So I got all my ingredients out, set the timer for half an hour and came up with the following. Now I have to be honest, I didn’t stick to the 30 minutes it wasn’t ready and I realised that rather than being on telly in a prestige cooking competition I was alone in my flat
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Had a meeting at CWU HQ which meant a couple of days away from home in the big smog. I wondered if this might represent a bit of a challenge. Easy to make sure your pantry is stocked to the gills with lovely veggie food at home. But when “out and about” The worry is always going to be being caught short and ending up eating a pork pie or something.
I was able to hold the feral carnivore in me back thankfully, and I recorded a Video blog about my
Continue reading Vegtember: Broccoli Ricotta Risotto & London Trip
So not done a Vegtember blog for a couple of days, was busy playing Mafia 2 on Sunday, and I was knackered after work yesterday. So below are the recipes from my vegetarian meze platter on Sunday. Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures as was a little big rushed so apologies for that.
All these dishes were very nice, but it didn’t quite work as a main meal; I have to confess I was busy thinking about how much better it all would have been with a nice Lamb Kofte kebab!
Continue reading Vegtember: Lebanese Meze Platter
Saturday was always going to be tricky for me. It is my normal “bacon buttie” day. I have already said I am a massive carnivore and bacon is probably the foodstuff I love more than anything else in the world. So my first Saturday of Vegtember was one in which I intended to keep myself very busy, and my mind firmly off the topic of various pig related products.
My new toy!
Lots of the vegetarian recipes that people have sent me call for the use of a Griddle pan, a
Continue reading Vegtember: Using local Greengrocers
Day two of Vegtember and I am jonesing for a curry. Now I think it is fair to say that it is very much a western thing that all curries have to contain meat. Mostly on the subcontinent the food will be predominantly vegetarian. I love curry, and I think that cooking vegetarian ones this month will probably improve my skill as I will be less likely to rely on the meat and think more about the flavour.
This recipe is another of my kid brothers (thanks Dan!) slightly adapted to
Continue reading Vegtember Day Two: Spinach and Mushroom Curry
So, the first day of Vegtember. And I frankly woke up pretty excited about the whole thing, I’d already made my vegetarian lunch for today last night. I had humus, cherry tomato, cucumber, red onion and romaine lettuce sandwiches. Not particularly adventurous but very nice and a good way to ease myself into Vegtember.
Having had a frankly busy day I wanted something pretty easy for dinner. So I decided to plunk for a traditional old family recipe. Pasta with peanuts and tomato sauce but using my little brothers twist of
Continue reading Vegtember Day One: Spicy Peanut and Tomato Pasta
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