Vegetarian Foods Archive

Welcome to October's Round Up for  'Eat Your Greens' .     This is a monthly vegetarian and vegan cooking challenge for food bloggers  to make something with a green vegetable (or fruit) each month.   The Veg Hog brings to the table some rather tasty and crunchy Broccoli Nuggets .  Its both naughty and nice.   Dom from Belleau Kitchen shares a mild and nutty Slow Cooked  Cauliflower, Carrot and Green Bean Korma .  If your feeling poorly, this is the curry to make as it will lift you up.  Janet from the Taste Space shares a Follow this link on how to participate .  I hope you will also be able to join in the # Vegetable Palette challenge too, the theme is White.  Also welcoming #FruitPalette recipes. 

Nothing supernatural about this quiche, its really just a Broccoli Quiche on a green pastry base.  The shortcrust pasty is naturally dyed green with the addition of spirulina powder to the dough; and the eggy filling.  Well I steamed some broccoli and blitzed half of it with the milk, then poured it into a bowl and whisked it with the eggs and poured it over the pastry case that had been lined with the remaining broccoli heads and doused with some Welsh cheddar cheese.  At one point during the cooking process, I actually panicked and thought the quiche was not going to set but fortunately it did.  This Broccoli quiche was packed with lots of flavours.  Even the spirulina powder in the shortcrust pastry imparted its sea earth flavours.  Its just a  shame the photograph here doesn't pick up the green in pastry, though I must admit it is a little scorched here and there.  Here's a song by the Jamaican Reggae Band The Dread & Terrible called...

I have already mentioned in a previous post that I am having a thing about veggie meatballs at the moment.   This is my third dish featuring vegan meatballs in one month.   Before I went vegetarian, there were only a few meat dishes I would eat: chicken wings to hush my mother from nagging me for not eating meat when I was growing up under her eyes, minced meat samosas and meatballs.  When I left home for University, I did not miss meat dishes and accidentally found myself becoming a vegetarian, these days my diet is probably 95% vegan, so I guess I am veganish - but not vegan at all as I still eat cheese and consume a little milk and eggs on occasion, mostly in recipes.  For some reason these crisp sienna coloured 'meatballs' have been calling my name and I am so pleased in the knowledge that I can make my own , but there are also some good brands out their, that all you have to do is defrost them and pan fry in a little oil.  The veggie meatballs that ...

I don't know if he was just very hungry or being honest, but D complimented on how delicious this Harissa Butternut Squash Stew was, not once but twice with a Thank you Lady.   I thought it was going to one of those stews that would benefit from overnight rest in the fridge, but we had it within an hour of making it and it was most enjoyable.  The harissa and the smoked paprika offset against each other wonderfully. Be careful with the cooking of the vegetables, especially the broccoli towards the end, you do not want it really soft, but still with bite, otherwise it would be more bordering on soup than stew, which is not a bad thing, but sometimes you want texture not bambino  food. I served this Harissa Butternut Squash Stew with some Cook Once Eat Twice hosted by Searching for Spice as this was good a couple of days later too; and  with CookBlogShare hosted by Easy Peasy Foodie. Harissa  Butternut Squash Stew with Broccoli and Chickpeas Ser...

The bookmarked recipes on my blog continue.  This Roasted Broccoli and Apple Salad is my second bookmarked recipe from Kristy Turners  But I could Never Go Vegan, the first was  Veganopoulous review of But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan click here I am sharing this Roasted Broccoli and Apple Salad  with   Soups, Salads and Sammies  hosted by  .    I was tempted to make this Roasted Broccoli and Apple Salad for two other reasons. First, its nearly summer and we need more salads in our diet; and secondly, my blogger friend Johanna who blogs over at Green Gourmet Giraffe had made this very salad a few months back and it got me interested in trying it, especially as apples are replacing bananas in my fruit bowl at home and in the lunch box.   So over the weekend, I made an effort to make it.  It was lovely with lots of varying textures and bursts of flavours.  We both really enjoyed the freshness of this salad. ...

Did you see the red sun yesterday?! It was truly Amazing - I am not one of those people who throws the word around lightly, it really was amazing.   Early on in the week I made a Red Tomato Curry, today I share a bowl red soup which by all means should have been green according to the both the photograph in the cookbook, but also the ingredients including broccoli.  Upon a little research on blogophere,  I noted that other food bloggers had also made the  Cheesy Broccoli Beer Soup  and it was also not the vibrant green featured in the cookbook Street Vegan, so I felt relieved that I was not heavy handed with either the soy sauce  or tamari and smoked paprika.     Anyway, this  Cheesy Broccoli Beer Soup with S moky Sunflower Chorizo Croutons  was ridiculously flavourful, but in a very good way.  I especially loved the different levels of flavour from the topping the beer, the cheesiness from the nutritional ye...