Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Funkyfairy! said: The ultimate chilli recipe in this book is absolutely amazing - infact I'm making it tomorrow night Im doing Worlds Best Pesto Lasagne as I write... Edited January 19, 2021 by Ted Dansons Wig change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkyfairy! Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, Ted Dansons Wig said: Im doing Worlds Best Pesto Lasagne as I write... ooo not tried that one .... I'll await the feedback and may try that next week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 21 minutes ago, Funkyfairy! said: ooo not tried that one .... I'll await the feedback and may try that next week It's great - have done it a few times. Its a bit time consuming in that you roast the courgettes and aubergine, then make the pesto, then create the "Cheese" sauce using cashews and a blender. Then its all layered in and baked. Not one you want to start late - but tastes wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkyfairy! Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 8 minutes ago, Ted Dansons Wig said: It's great - have done it a few times. Its a bit time consuming in that you roast the courgettes and aubergine, then make the pesto, then create the "Cheese" sauce using cashews and a blender. Then its all layered in and baked. Not one you want to start late - but tastes wonderful. one for a sunday then 🙂 thanks for the warning 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalopsia Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Thanks for all the great suggestions! I've ordered 'BOSH!' lets hope it goes well 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Funkyfairy! said: or manic organic - a manic organic curry after the headliners Stop it. Now all I can think of is my traditional Wednesday afternoon starter of a bowl of No Bones Jones fritters 😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisp1986 Posted January 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Just had an amazing Mung bean curry. Never known what to do with them before but made it up quite thick and served in a wrap with a quick fresh salsa and baby spinach. Best meal of the last 3 weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august1 Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 6 hours ago, Kalopsia said: Thanks for all the great suggestions! I've ordered 'BOSH!' lets hope it goes well 🙂 I would have started with Bish first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirjonnyp Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 This is the only recipe book I have, which I think I bought after someone linked it on here in the Nick Cave thread a few years back. It's certainly odd, but there are a few recipes in there that are good. People have bought others for me in the past, but they have sat unloved on the shelf before making their way to the great cookbook shelf in the Oxfam purely because I rely on the internet too much and google some recipes. Someone mentioned the Thug series of recipe books - apply caution when parting with your money there as the white hipster couple behind them changed their brand name last year after years of criticism for cultural exploitation and racist connotations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Finn Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Great to read of so many people enjoying Veganuary. Have been vegan for the last year/18 months, after accepting a bet at Glastonbury. If I knew of the benefits I would have converted sooner. I've found food easy to adhere to, but beer is a bit more of a challenge. I've certainly been tripped up a few times unwittingly. I'd be interested to hear from people what they eat for a casual lunch/meal, for example. Cookery books (Bosh etc) are great if you're got a few hours to prepare for a weekend evening meal, but I find the run of the mill Monday-Friday meals with work in between tough to keep interesting. I normally resort to the supermarket vegan burgers, which I'm not totally convinced are altogether that healthy, or a homemade soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 13 minutes ago, Huckleberry Finn said: Great to read of so many people enjoying Veganuary. Have been vegan for the last year/18 months, after accepting a bet at Glastonbury. If I knew of the benefits I would have converted sooner. I've found food easy to adhere to, but beer is a bit more of a challenge. I've certainly been tripped up a few times unwittingly. I'd be interested to hear from people what they eat for a casual lunch/meal, for example. Cookery books (Bosh etc) are great if you're got a few hours to prepare for a weekend evening meal, but I find the run of the mill Monday-Friday meals with work in between tough to keep interesting. I normally resort to the supermarket vegan burgers, which I'm not totally convinced are altogether that healthy, or a homemade soup. At the weekend I'll do a massive tray of roasted red onion, peppers, courgette and aubergine, tub it up and stick it in the fridge. That provides a really good base for some lunches, along with some good store cupboard fillers. I'm a fan of cooking up a tub of brown rice and sticking that in the fridge as well. Pasta, pesto (vegan one if that's your thing) and the roast veg, plus quorn pieces or something like cannellini beans. A couple of blocks of frozen spinach blasted in the microwave and stirred through it also works. Brown rice, quorn pieces (you can cook them in at the time or in advance with some cumin seeds and smoked paprika), the roast veg and some avocado, topped with falafel. Tinned soup and a bagel; I'm a big fan of a couple of the Baxter's veggie soups, and the Amy's Kitchen tomato soup is really good. I bulk the soup out with beans or chickpeas, and the tomato one works really well with the roast veg and (believe it or not) falafel out of the oven and sat on top. If you don't fancy the bagel, some of them also work really well with some brown rice mixed in and stirred through. WFH these days so these are all something that can be knocked up in about 10-15 minutes if I've done a bit of weekend prep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Huckleberry Finn said: Great to read of so many people enjoying Veganuary. Have been vegan for the last year/18 months, after accepting a bet at Glastonbury. If I knew of the benefits I would have converted sooner. I've found food easy to adhere to, but beer is a bit more of a challenge. I've certainly been tripped up a few times unwittingly. I'd be interested to hear from people what they eat for a casual lunch/meal, for example. Cookery books (Bosh etc) are great if you're got a few hours to prepare for a weekend evening meal, but I find the run of the mill Monday-Friday meals with work in between tough to keep interesting. I normally resort to the supermarket vegan burgers, which I'm not totally convinced are altogether that healthy, or a homemade soup. Theres only two of us I cook for now the kids have flown the coop, though we're both working at home We still cook the same amount as when the kids were at home and save the rest for lunches. Last night I did a vegan lasagne and we've got at least half of it left for lunch. I also do a couple of soups at the weekend which we then lunch on during the week. BBC Good Food has loads of great soup recipes. We go through gallons of the Indian Winter Soup, the chunky minestrone and the hearty mushroom soup from on there. Soups dead easy as mostly its just cut up veg, add stock, boil the hell out of it. Done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Work colleague just sent me this recipe for vegan nutella, think I'll be giving it a go this weekend! https://www.pickuplimes.com/single-post/2017/03/30/best-ever-vegan-nutella-a-step-by-step-guide The site itself looks interesting as a whole, will be doing a bit of browsing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Quark said: Work colleague just sent me this recipe for vegan nutella, think I'll be giving it a go this weekend! https://www.pickuplimes.com/single-post/2017/03/30/best-ever-vegan-nutella-a-step-by-step-guide The site itself looks interesting as a whole, will be doing a bit of browsing blimey - thats looks worth a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Quark said: Work colleague just sent me this recipe for vegan nutella, think I'll be giving it a go this weekend! https://www.pickuplimes.com/single-post/2017/03/30/best-ever-vegan-nutella-a-step-by-step-guide The site itself looks interesting as a whole, will be doing a bit of browsing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigpusher Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 I've ordered some recipe boxes to save going to Supermarkets over the last year and some of those recipes are pretty good and once you have them you can remake them yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted January 24, 2021 Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 This lady is amazing. Her recipes are easy to follow and don’t use incredible amounts of ingredients, really helped me when I first turned vegan. Charm x https://minimalistbaker.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaf Nobby Burton Posted January 24, 2021 Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 11:01 AM, Huckleberry Finn said: Great to read of so many people enjoying Veganuary. Have been vegan for the last year/18 months, after accepting a bet at Glastonbury. If I knew of the benefits I would have converted sooner. I've found food easy to adhere to, but beer is a bit more of a challenge. I've certainly been tripped up a few times unwittingly. I'd be interested to hear from people what they eat for a casual lunch/meal, for example. Cookery books (Bosh etc) are great if you're got a few hours to prepare for a weekend evening meal, but I find the run of the mill Monday-Friday meals with work in between tough to keep interesting. I normally resort to the supermarket vegan burgers, which I'm not totally convinced are altogether that healthy, or a homemade soup. For easy meals I tend to just add veggie sausages/meat balls/quorn pieces/oomph pieces/tofu to some vegan pasta sauce, or vegan pesto and a bit of pasta. As I live on my own if I’m feeling really lazy/pushed for time I’ll just have some Huel, but that’s no good if you actually enjoy eating food! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 11:01 AM, Huckleberry Finn said: Great to read of so many people enjoying Veganuary. Have been vegan for the last year/18 months, after accepting a bet at Glastonbury. If I knew of the benefits I would have converted sooner. I've found food easy to adhere to, but beer is a bit more of a challenge. I've certainly been tripped up a few times unwittingly. I'd be interested to hear from people what they eat for a casual lunch/meal, for example. Cookery books (Bosh etc) are great if you're got a few hours to prepare for a weekend evening meal, but I find the run of the mill Monday-Friday meals with work in between tough to keep interesting. I normally resort to the supermarket vegan burgers, which I'm not totally convinced are altogether that healthy, or a homemade soup. Also worth mentioning theres a Speedy Bosh book. A lot of them are speeded up versions of the recipes in the other books. Still miles better than eating processed stuff. They generally take half hour or so to prepare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigpusher Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 For those on a budget Jack Monroe does lots of vegan recipes and some of her recipes are really good. https://cookingonabootstrap.com/category/vegan-recipes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 26 minutes ago, gigpusher said: For those on a budget Jack Monroe does lots of vegan recipes and some of her recipes are really good. https://cookingonabootstrap.com/category/vegan-recipes/ Vegan Pastitsio. Will be well into that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 OK, next hive mind question! Now I've got my milk situation sorted with oat milk (which I've also discovered is nice just on its own), the next one is butter. So many spreads out there, is there any consensus on the best ones? I feel like I've tried loads of sunflower / olive oil spreads, but they always just feel a bit like they're a yellow bread lubricant than actually providing a decent taste. Something that goes well on toast with marmalade, or just on its own on a cinnamon bagel. Accept I might be hoping for too much here and the answer's probably going to be something obvious like Flora, but as always all thoughts are welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Dansons Wig Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 20 minutes ago, Quark said: OK, next hive mind question! Now I've got my milk situation sorted with oat milk (which I've also discovered is nice just on its own), the next one is butter. So many spreads out there, is there any consensus on the best ones? I feel like I've tried loads of sunflower / olive oil spreads, but they always just feel a bit like they're a yellow bread lubricant than actually providing a decent taste. Something that goes well on toast with marmalade, or just on its own on a cinnamon bagel. Accept I might be hoping for too much here and the answer's probably going to be something obvious like Flora, but as always all thoughts are welcome! Good question. Can I also add Cheese to it? Love cheese - is there anything out there that gets anywhere near in terms of texture and taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, Ted Dansons Wig said: Good question. Can I also add Cheese to it? Love cheese - is there anything out there that gets anywhere near in terms of texture and taste? We've certainly not found anything for Mrs Q. I've kind of accepted that I can strip out milk and butter, but cheese will remain something where I have the proper stuff. Just won't have it that often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 Cheese is the holy grail, but I've found a couple that are decent for day to day use. For slices I recommend Go Vegan. Norwegian company apparently but sure some places in the UK will stock it For grated I've just discovered Simply V. Melts nicely under the grill, had it on toast this morning. Was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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