Vegetarian & Vegan food

Will do

Great to hear, Rich, fire away!

My recommendation is always to find a cuisine with great vegetarian/vegan recipes and cook your way into that. For me, that was Keralan cuisine, which is also my favourite (as repeated in these pages ad nauseam) and a complete revelation. I still cook from it regularly.

If you can already cook, most of the rules of cooking are the same, of course. And as for 'coping'--if it's delicious, there's no such issue. :)

thanks Oliver will check out the Keralan food sounds great, yep if it tastes good its just good food. But i need to shake many years conditioning of meat and vege = a good meal.
im quite looking forward to trying new things and a new way of eating :)

Covent Garden/Holborn/Strand/Fleet Street for a leaving dinner next week. One vegan, one vegetarian and a few meat eaters. Any suggestions that aren't Sagan, Mildreds or the now closed Food For Thought? Thanks!

Vegan Hippo in Soho is good. But small..

Amico bio by Smithfields?

Any suggestions that aren't Sagan

Haha.

Shuang Shuang
http://www.shuangshuang.co.uk/menu/#broth

Amico Bio has closed for business recently - there's a notice on their website

Is it awful? I've never been.

Any other suggestions?

Check your spelling. :)

Recommended:

Piadina Genuina - 251 Wick Road, Kenworthy Road - http://4sq.com/2ohq1eq

First night in Brighton leaving home for student life, treated my daughter to Food for Friends.. portions are epic, enough to save half for home

skewers starter / Katsu sweet potato curry

just wow.. was pescatarian trying to go vegan.. Brighton should be good for that, but any recommendations for shops here would be great..

anybody have a decent bean chilli recipe?

Not a shop per se but Terre a Terre is amazing if pricey.

Edit: Just seen this a month ago...

Girlfriend's bday is coming up, reccomendations on nice vegetarian/vegan restaurant's that aren't mildred's?

The Gate Hammersmith

Which area?

Farmacy is amazing. And very fancy if you're looking to celebrate. Good cocktails too

Not really that fussed as long as its not miles out, i work east, my girlfriend works central and we live in south east, if that helps narrow it down :)

Thanks @Double_J will check that out!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/11/farmacy-london-w2-horrible-bullshit-food-restaurant-review

Lol well this is rather damning. Though I get the feeling this person has it out for vegan/health foods in general.
"Very fancy" does put me off a little though, something along the mildreds level would be ideal!

Jesus ! Jerusalem Artichokes .

I have a surplus ...

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Does anyone have a good recipe for vegetarian gravy? (doesn't need to be vegan)

Usually I use bisto with some additions, but won't be able to. How do you make it from scratch?

Cheers.

My tried and tested onion gravy:

• Slice a medium white onion in to 3-4mm half-moons.
  
• Slowly saute the onions and some fresh thyme/rosemary springs in a bit of butter and olive oil for 15-20 mins until starting to colour.
  
• Add a glass of red wine and cook off the alcohol.
  
• Add 750ml-litre of veggie stock (Marigold Bouillon is nice).
  
• Stir in a teaspoon of dijon mustard and a teaspoon of marmite (you won;pt taste it but it adds body and umami).
  
• Couple of shakes of veggie Worcestershire sauce and some malt vinegar.
  
• Cook the gravy for 30 mins minimum and as long as you like to develop the flavour, can add more stock if it boils down too far.
  
  

-Thicken with a slurry of cornflour and water to your desired consistency. Don't add cornflour directly to the pot as it will form clumps.
-Season to taste with black pepper and serve.

This can be frozen ahead too.

Cheers! That's really helpful.

Good to know it can be frozen as well. Not ideal but I guess I can use normal flour to make a roux. My mum always uses wine to make the cornflower slurry, which works well