Vegetarian recipe ideas

You should take a look at her (Fuchsia Dunlop's) book The Food of Sichuan, I love it

 

I've got the every grain of rice one, will check the other out ta

 

Good veggie cookbook:
Nigel Slater ‘Greenfeast’
Spring/summer
Autumn/winter

 

Iceland store. giant yorkshire pudding chicken buna/jalfrezi. Chuck some chopped up tomatoes in, save thi faffin abart.

 

Every grain of rice is my bible, love it. Braised pork with potatoes is a family favourite.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/diets/vegetarian

 

Totally agree, I've been a vegetarian for 50 years and I'm quite happy with a plate full of vegetables. What I don't want is something pretending to be meat or fish, which tends to be the norm these days.

 

Favourite lunch to take to work is black bean burrito with red onion, red peppers, tomato, soured cream, cheddar, spinach leaves, jalapeños and some Chipotle hot sauce. Fupping gorgeous.

 

Its a very dark chard like shaped cabbage. Imagine the outer leaves of savoy at their darkest, but thinner (I tend to cut the stems out as they can be very thick and hard to soften).

 

I love most veg, always have... Sprouts, Aubergine and to a lesser degree courgettes, I just can't manage though.

 

In the pandemic, we did our bit trying to help restaurants, so bought in quire a lot of 'kits'... I can't remember where it was from, but they had a charred cabbage and lettuce in it which was super tasty. I think we've done it with Chinese cabbage which we use in things like bun cha.

 

The reasoning for us doing this is purely environmental. My wife works in ESG and the info around emissions from cattle and farming is frightening. We try and buy meat and fish from local places and always free range and/or organic but thats a bit tricky sometimes, we eat venison more in autumn and winter rather than beef (which we rarely have, maybe once, maybe twice a month) but we also try and avoid things like avocado, palm sugar and oil and soy which are hugely damaging, water intensive and are destroying biodiversity.

 

Saw Nigella make a banana peel and cauliflower curry on TV last week. I've not tried it yet, but it looked nice.

 

We occasionally try and do a veggie day, well just a veggie meal to be honest. We like a risotto with plum tomatoes and tenderstem broccoli; red pepper, mozzarella and pesto ciabatta with wedges; burritos/tacos with black beans rather than mince; oh and good old jacket potato/beans on toast when can’t be bothered to do anything fancy!

 

I get where your coming from, but this one does mask the aubergine a lot with the deep frying and spices used. My wife's not a big fan of aubergine, but she likes this. She can't stand tofu though, no matter how I cook it.

 

One of the first things i cooked my missus when we first started seeing each other way back when was a recipe called turkey bean bake. Sounded fine to a novice looking to do something novel. Little had I fathomed was I'd never tried aubergines at the time and I wasn't a fan of Greek yoghurt.

Most of it went in the bin and despite a couple of other forays into their blacky purple exterior, I've given them their widest possible berth since!

 

Well I've just had, Baby leaf spinach, coriander, diced onion & baby cucumber, a ball of beetroot drizzled with raw organic apple cider vinegar, but had to have a little Tuna with it. It was really nice.

Edit:

And a cup of Organic black Coffee.

 

I had stuffed peppers with couscous feta, tomatoes, cucumber, spring onions and pine nuts with some snipped chives from the garden. Had to be veggie given we're having left over beef rendang from our freezer for dinner!

 

Daft question, but are there more cattle now than when majestic herds of wilderbeast, bison, buffalo, elephants etc roamed the earth?

 

There is an astonishing amount of cattle emitting methane which is I believe, 8 times more damaging than carbon dioxide. Obviously you also have the impact of farmers, feeding and rearing them (faster than is natural in some countries) and the loss of natural habitat and biodiversity. And whats not often considered, the amount of land given to growing feed for those animals.

A quick Google for stats shows in 2022, there were estimated to be 1.55 billion cows eaten. Up from 1.51bn in 2021.

Edit, looking at Uk ONS figures, cattle numbers have fallen by around 125k over the last 4 years to 1.675m... So perhaps people are changing diets slowly or dairy farmers have had enough, and given the significant amount of farmland and farmhouses that seem to come on the market, that could well be playing a part.