Vegetarian Foods Archive

Welcome to May! And April's Round up of #EatYourGreens We have  7 vegan and vegetarian Eat Your Green recipes to share this month.  The first Eat Your Greens recipe comes from Lisa's Kitchen .  Lisa shares with us a bowl of Herbed Potato and Green Beans Salad with Olives .  Lisa writes that potatoes are are so versatile that she could imagine cooking a different dish with it every day.  I absolutely agree, not only that, this dish is perfect for all kind of gatherings such as pot lucks and picnics and suitable for all dietary needs.  Sadhna who blogs over at Herbs, Spices and Traditions   intrigues us with a rather indulgent bowl of Creamy Spinach Curry.  Sadhna writes this is one of her favourite recipes and one she makes quite regularly.  It was introduced to her many years ago when she was on holidays overseas and the chef after learning that most of her family were vegetarian.  Johanna who blogs over at Green Gourm...

It's Friday evening and the start to our weekend. Yay, even better its a long weekend with the public Bank Holiday in the UK on Monday. Later on this evening, we will be sipping white wine and snacking on some crackers with some homemade red Nut Cheese. Nut cheeses are all the rage right now with vegans.   I first came across Nut cheeses in 1990s when I stumbled across publication by a little known vegetarian writer calle d Dave Dutton - I think the cookbook was The Green Revolution Cookbook, but I cannot remember for sure as he has a few publications.  His vegan nut cheese recipe also contained soya flour which is not used often as it once was. However, the recipe I made was not based on his recipe, as I could not locate the book on my shelves.  The red in this vegan Nut cheese comes from smoked paprika.   To give you an idea of how this red nut cheese sliced. I have served it on some red crackers.  It was really good with umani undertones ...

Regular blog readers will know that D and myself will nip over the Welsh border into England and visit some places we like.   So its no surprise that we ended up in Bristol again.   We rarely ever go into the city centre as we like visiting and supporting independent places, so this time we decided to take a wander in a part of the city that we have wanted to see for a long while  - St Paul's.   St Paul's in Bristol has history.  Here's a link to UK Port Cities:  District of St Paul's   and an  article in  The Guardian (2016)  about St Paul's   from 2016 to give you some insight.   St Paul's was one of Bristol's first ever suburbs. Many people know of St Paul's Carnival - a rival to Notting Hill Carnival, but sadly in 2014 it had been halted due to funding .  Last year I read my fist serious non fiction book in years  The Good Immigrant.   I re-read it again early this year an...

Yesterday and much of today we have spent in our allotment garden plot. I am not going to complain about the weather.  It's been hot, very hot but I was thankful for it as we have got loads of done between the two of us.  The ground is ready for planting.  We have some seedlings in the greenhouse, but not many - as I mentioned before, our greenhouse was badly damaged and although fixed now, we have not been able to grow much from seed and D wants to get tomatoes in before we go away on holiday.  So next weekend, the plan is to go to a garden centre or nursery and pick up some vegetable plants and put them straight into the ground. Food today is easy fare. Jacket potato, paprika nut cheese , salad and home-made coleslaw, but I share with you something I made a few days back - Baked Tandoori Cauliflower Wings.   These Baked Tandoori Cauliflower Wings were served them with a mint yogurt sauce.   There are lots of good Tandoori Spice Blend P...

In my kitchen this month  I have some blood oranges.   I have made an Blood Orange Tart. I will write more about it later in the week, but what I will tell you it was unlike any Orange tart I have ever eaten. In My Kitchen is a wooden measuring ruler with vegetable names.  I picked it up on a whim from a charity shop for a £1.  I don't quite understand the numbers relating to the vegetables and the holes as there is no way I would get a runner bean seed through them or even a pea, so if anyone can shed light on the purpose of this - it would be appreciated. Regardless, I still like it. In my kitchen, I have No Nonsense Chili and Chocolate Jam .  This was a present to myself when I was in Cardiff Bay from a book shop of all places a few weeks back.  Its a local product in that it is made in Cardiff.  Its not  Chili and Chocolate Jam i n the traditional sense, its more of a chutney or relish to be enjoyed with savoury meals like veg...

I have tucking into vegan junk food fairly a bit recently, but mostly when we go to Bristol .  And I don't mean burgers as I make a good vegan and vegan burger myself ,  its the other stuff - greasy, deep-fried.  I am a little excited to learn that Cardiff will soon be getting its first vegan junk called Greazy Vegan .  In 2015, Cardiff  got its first vegan eatery Anna Loka  and its good.  I know if I lived in Cardiff, I would be a frequent diner.  However, this blog post is when I went to Plymouth, England with some close young girl friends, well truth is their parents wanted them chaperoned - yes, people still do that and they felt they could trust me, don't know why?!.  I agreed as long as I was able to choose where we went to have breakfast - lunch = Brunch; and it was my treat. When I told them we were going to a vegan eatery called Samphire Brasserie to eat, two of them turned their noses and proceeded to tell me that had or...