Planet Veggie

This recipe, from Leith’s Vegetarian Bible, was so amazingly nice that, after eating it, I didn’t want to eat anything else ever.  I just wanted to eat this every day.  I don’t eat a lot of eggs; they have a bit of a squeamish factor for me as they’re a bit too close to an [...]

Woo hoo, don’t get too excited, but here’s a meal I made up myself, and not copied out of a book.  OK, so it’s only spinach and ricotta pasta, which is hardly new and original but I had leftover spinach and leftover ricotta from the spinach and ricotta soufflés I made the other day so I  [...]

Another one from Leith’s Vegetarian Bible tonight, although not a lazy one, as this dish took around an hour to make. As well as blogging my dinner, I’ve somehow been talked into drawing it too.  My mountain mate David has started a Facebook group called Draw Your Dinner where people draw pictures of their dinner [...]

Another cookbook I don’t use that often is Leith’s Vegetarian Bible, although I don’t know why, as it’s great.  It has 1000 recipes arranged by vegetable type, so if you’re wondering what to with those leftover mushrooms, just turn to the mushroom section and this book will give you a load of options.  There are [...]

After Jo responded to my ‘how to get pizza base less soggy’ question on my previous pizza post, The Meat Eater and I skipped off to our local Robert Dyas (ok we drove 10 miles to the nearest Robert Dyas) and purchased a pizza tray with holes in.  So, of course, we had to test [...]

Another recipe adapted from the trusty old Good Housekeeping Step by Step Vegetarian Cookbook. According to Anita Bean, there’s no place for pastry in an athlete’s diet, but I haven’t been very athletic lately so I don’t care. And pastry’s nice, innit? I’ll post the original recipe but my adaptation included mushrooms I needed to [...]

I am truly a domestic goddess.  I know this because I make pizza from scratch, including the dough, and therefore this makes me a domestic goddess.  Even if I do make the dough in a bread machine.   And even though I can never roll the dough into a circle. After you’ve rolled the dough into [...]

Tonight’s dinner was made from the brilliant Veganomicon.  I love this book. This is the only vegan cookbook I’ve ever made anything nice out of, although a lot of the  ingredients are items I’d find difficult to get hold of in London, let alone in a small village in Kent. I kept quiet about it [...]

Another one from the Good Housekeeping Step by Step Vegetarian Cookbook, and another attempt to stay away from those nice but full of fat cheese-based meals.  It was nice and The Meat Eater said “mmmmmmmmmmmmm”, so I think he liked it too.  Actually though, although it’s called Vegetarian Paella in the book, it is vegan.  [...]

Back to an old faithful cookbook tonight, the Good Housekeeping Step by Step Vegetarian Cookbook.  I’ve never made a bad meal out of it and it has the added bonus of every single dish in it being indexed at the beginning with a colour photograph, along with plenty of colour photographs in the main sections too.  [...]