Vegetarian & Vegan food

Nice, this weekend's recipe, cheers

This also works well with firm tofu

I've just had 4 teeth extracted and 5 more to go over the coming months so I've invested in a saute/soup maker . Its going to be a lot of soups so I just wondered if anyone can add anything new to this thread from 7 years ago - https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/145438/?offset=100#comment7760255

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My favourite soup at the minute is red lentil and chickpea soup. I normally add celery and carrot in the beginning. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/333614/red-lentil-chickpea-and-chilli-soup

Pretty adaptable as well, swap chickpeas for black beans and cumin for Chipotle etc.

Any recommendations for veggie cookbooks? Along with every man and his dog we've decided to have a few non-meat days each week but have quickly exhausted our recipe knowledge of chickpea curry, tomato sauce with pasta, etc.

Not too keen on veg like aubergine, courgette, mushrooms, etc which seems to make up a lot of recipes.

Cheers

Something by Ottolenghi would be good: https://www.ottolenghi.co.uk/plenty-shop

My standard recommendation:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13018538/

Really good for starting to get into veggie cooking. Delicious dishes. You can even try out the food by going to RASA before you buy the books. :)

In a somewhat unprecedented move I've decided to try and eat Vegan for the next month or two to try and break my routine of eating the same unhealthy shit all the time and hopefully drop some weight at the same time by excluding myself from pretty much everything I would eat normally.

I'm not much for veg heavy meals thanks to a childhood of boiled to mush roast dinners such that the smell of boiled carrots is enough to turn my stomach to this day, so consider me firmly in the 'I want stuff that's vegan but pretends its not' camp until I get a bit more used to it and I'll supplement with the handful of veg that I do enjoy when cooked properly.

so really healthy processed food i guess is the step i'm looking to take first.

any good recommendations on places to shop and good brands/foodstuffs to try that I can get my hands on somewhere along my cs7 commute from clerkenwell to morden.

I basically went through every item in the vegan category on ocado for this weeks shop and have a handful of veggie burgers, sausages, chicken pieces, falafels and wraps and some fake bacon/ham/cheese. while everything has been palatable so far I think variety will be the only thing to keep me on track after a couple of weeks. so what are the buy this/not that top tips for a n00b like myself?

Try some kimchi to recalibrate your opinion of cabbage/cabbage-like vegetables.

Loads of vegan stuff in Spar these days. Not just weird hippy smelly shops.

I fully endose these

Anything by Taifun is good. With some chips / mash / hash browns and some veg maybe.. winner.

If you like a roast..

This I found the best veg meat thing. But havent tried Tofurky. People also like that.

thanks will check them out.

We get riverford meal boxes each week. Last year we stopped getting their meat meals and as a result we now have at least three veggie or vegan meals a week. It is extremely rare that I finish a meal and think “what it really needed was a lump of meat”.

Their meals tend to be interesting and are always fresh and seasonal. They also use some techniques I have tried and have some unusual substitutions I haven’t tried before Plus it saves the debate as to whose responsibility it is to source the ingredients for a few of our meals each week.

Also @TW

Frys do good stuff. Especially the chicken burgers. Morrissons and ocado have them. The No Bull burgers from Iceland are good too.

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I fully endose these

Good typo.

Try to look for cashew cheese. It's currently my favourite thing. Mostly made by small producers and accordingly very expensive, but delicious. Most of them have an on-line presence. My favourites are Kinda Co. and I Am NUT OK!, but there are lots of others--Mouse's Favourite, Tyne Chease, etc.

You could also try looking in on a vegan shop, e.g. Green Bay in North End Road. They have a large selection of that kind of stuff.

You also have a vegan restaurant quite close to you, in Wallington:

http://www.the-brook.co.uk/location-wallington/

They've moved their main operation to Hackney but have just (yesterday) re-opened in Wallington for the summer.

I can't recommend it, as I still haven't been, but people report good things.

Frys do good stuff.

I've got their chicken tenders in the fridge but not tried them yet though I had one of their sausage rolls for lunch today and a 3 bean pasty yesterday and both were very good (pastry much better than normal ones tbh).

I saw the chicken burgers but we don't have a freezer so will try them when I can get the shopping delivered just before dinner time.

had vivera veggie burgers tonight and they were quite nice too.

You also have a vegan restaurant quite close to you, in Wallington:
http://www.the-brook.co.uk/location-wall­ington/

the menu sounds pretty good. will take Emma sometime next month I think.

+1 for Taifan, their sausages are great.

Gaining a newfound respect for the Vegans and how fucking hard it is to find decent food.

Went to Food for Friends in Brighton on sunday and had a cracking meal but even then as a vegetarian restaurant there was maybe 20% vegan options across the menu (2/10 dishes per course). I'd seen the menu online and decided in advance on some aranchini but when we got there the dish was different and contained feta so no vegan option available, by which time my stomach decided that it didn't care (particularly as this is a fairly weakly self-imposed vacation into veganism on my part).

This morning I brought my breakfast in (raw cacao cereal and cacao mylk) but ran into Waitrose and picked up a Vegetable tikka massala with a big vegan sticker on it for lunch just before starting work. It wasn't until just now I went to heat it up when I looked at the back and milk is in the ingredient list about 6 times. again for me this is more of a first world problem and of little consequence but if I was a "proper" vegan I'd have been left with no lunch.

The effort required to keep on top of this stuff particularly when shopping somewhere like a supermarket just seems exhausting.

Oh, it's not that hard once you get used to it, but there certainly is a transition period during which you learn a very great deal. :)

The main thing is (as the old cartoon has it) that you have to read labels. It's something you don't even think about any more after a while.

Had my first go at making crispy tofu tonight. Nailed the crispy part but was a bit lax when it come to knocking up some teriyaki flavouring for it. Solid 6/10.

My gf and I have been dating for seven years on tues so we are going to eat at the gate in clerkenwell. Menu looks great, quite excited about it.

Try lentils to replace minced beef - a couple of tins of lentils into a ragu to make a bolognese, you can then use that in a lasagna as well, or could make it into a chilli. Love the texture from the lentils and if you make a good soffrito it will be really tasty.

Or pulses to make a veggie chilli, chickpeas have such good texture as well, they're essential.

Agree but also mushrooms as meat replacers. You want something on the shittake end of the spectrum.
I also love turning them into ‘bacon’ with smoked paprika and baking in oven.

ohhhh. will try this.

Something like this:
http://brokeassgourmet.com/articles/mushroom-bacon