Food

Recently I've started to feel very unhealthy. And to be fair my diet hardly ever contains fruit or veg in large quantities. Can people point me in a couple of basic and easy vegetarian meals other than stir frys? Most of my meals do contain red meat, so is fish a good substitute?

I would definitely recommend making your own veg Vietnamese Pho 'style' noodle soups - they are a great, healthy vehicle for a shit load of veg. Middle Eastern recipes as well tend to be light and fresh as well - making things like Baba Ganoush / Tabbouleh / Fatoush are all delicious and full of good stuff!

As an aside - here is a whole plethora of free Ottolenghi recipes - all veggie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/thenewvegetarian

Thanks for the recommendations guys. I will definitely be trying out lots of these meals, as they're mostly out of my usual comfort zone, diet wise, which will be exciting :)

manky lettuce

says you

How does he know it's Mancunian?

Oliver, you can't beat veggie curry.

Loads of easy recipes out there (even the Hairy Bikers are at it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/saag_aloo_with_roasted_95304) and Das Sreedharan (co-owner of Rasa) is a genius: Fresh Flavours of India: Amazon.co.uk: Sivadas Sreedharan, David Loftus: Books

Mr Schick will concur.

Often, if the list of ingredients is daunting, you can just make a load of spice paste/mix and store it somewhere cool for the next time.

Indeed.

As missmouse indicates, the RASA recipes are very simple once you've mastered some basic techniques.

It's a shame the second book isn't available any more, as that was even better.

Thanks for the recommendations guys. I will definitely be trying out lots of these meals, as they're mostly out of my usual comfort zone, diet wise, which will be exciting :)

So we'll give you a few weeks and then come round to yours so you can share your new repertoire with us ;)

sounds like a pretty nang plan! if worst comes to worst, ill just get bags of mini carrots and dips haha.

For all those ''trendy'' food lovers, little video feature on MEATliquor, Burger & Lobster, Goodmans steak over at Crane.tv

http://youtu.be/veIPYus2xzo

I have a load of tortillas laying around, but I don't wanna just do plain old fajitas.
Wut do, foodies?

This but with more tortillas used

Why more tortillas? Looks good.
Any others? I have A LOT of tortillas...

Quesadillas.

Bacon and egg tortillas for breakfast. Quesadillas for tomorrow night perhaps...

Ate at Rita's diner in Dalston last night (which is in Birthdays)
Tasty bloody food. The place was fucking heaving, on a Wednesday night - people just want an on trend beer I guess.

I ate so many chicken hearts it's un-true.

Bacon and egg tortillas for breakfast. Quesadillas for tomorrow night perhaps...

Huevos con tocino breakfast tacos are always a good call.

I've been doing this a lot lately:

1 x chicken breast, butterflied
2 x tablespoons of green pesto, cheap stuff in a jar

Apply pesto to chicken, slather, season, pan fry, add lemon juice. Even the crispy black burnt bits of basil from the pesto taste lovely with the lemon juice.

I have a load of tortillas laying around, but I don't wanna just do plain old fajitas.
Wut do, foodies?

Slice up, toast, apply to variety of dips.

Fish is meat!

Huevos con tocino breakfast tacos are always a good call.

Googled. Should have known really.

I have a load of tortillas laying around, but I don't wanna just do plain old fajitas.
Wut do, foodies?

I girl used to live with did layers of tortillas with a mango, tomatoe and basil salsa and cheese and lime juice between alternating layers then cut like a pie.

Fairly healthy too.

Sounds interesting.. Might have to try.

Don't know if this should go in here or budget foods.

Have been given a slow cooker and fancy something more than keema peas. So have got a whole chicken and wanted ideas for what I could cook. Need some inspiration/ideas.

SOY CHICKEN! It's amazing, I have no idea of recipes though...

chicken pot roast: start with couple of cups of chicken stock, root veggies, rub salt and pepper into chicken and bung it in.

pluck first