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Robbie

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #200 on: February 04, 2018, 09:03:30 AM »
You're not a vegetarian Littleroses so may not appeal tho' I always loved cauliflower au gratin even when a meat eater, usually home made. Obviously a vegetarian needs to eat more than just that sort of pie but it is very tasty and surrounded by salad, potatoes (however cooked), and coleslaw is quite nutritious.

My husb (Chas) likes it very much indeed and he's a steak man!  Went out yesterday evening with my brother in law and three nephews for a meal at an Argentinian (or maybe Brazilian) restaurant in Blackheath & had steak with accompaniments. Yet he loves Higgedy pies!  We all like different things. There's no right or wrong.

Sometimes I fancy salmon, especially if I see it cooked on the TV, but that's how life goes. A carvery - which always has veggie options - smells lovely too. I'll often have cauliflower and cheese sauce there with roasties - & Yorkshire puddings! I don't ask about what fat is used but have been told it's usually olive or veggie oil. As long as it doesn't leave an oily taste I don't mind.

Roast chicken, marinated in honey and mustard with white wine poured over, is tempting too but I'm OK with a variety of veg, 'specially if served with sauce like caul. au gratin, plus nice potatoes etc. Non-meat gravy is easy if well seasoned.

Goodfellows cheesy sausages are lovely as are feta and spinach lattice flans.
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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #201 on: February 04, 2018, 09:09:55 AM »
I really dislike the taste of cauliflower.

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #202 on: February 04, 2018, 09:22:40 AM »
If you don’t want to say something nice why say anything, Floo?

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #203 on: February 04, 2018, 09:28:14 AM »
Robbie, I make a big veggie hot pot with celery, parsnips, carrots, onions and lentils topped with potato and serve that with home made Yorkshire puddings and a green veg. It’s gorgeous, mid week or on Sunday.

Not having that today though as I’m going out for lunch. Very traditional pub near here does amazing veggie options including Sunday lunch. Will report back later with what I end up having.  :D

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #204 on: February 04, 2018, 09:35:53 AM »
Sounds good to me Rhiannon. We all like different things eg I hate coconut in cakes. Don't mind coconut milk in curries, etc. When I was at school I couldn't stand the lumpy mash and cabbage they served, everything with brown (very brown) gravy! It was a relief when we could take a packed lunch (fish and chips once a week was fine of course  :D). My ol' man loved the liver and bacon at school with thick gravy - no accounting for taste.
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« Reply #205 on: February 04, 2018, 09:40:57 AM »
Just had a look at today’s menu online. As I don’t like coconut in curry (the second veggie option) I’ll be having the spiced sweet potato soup followed by spinach, mushroom and pine nut strudel.

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« Reply #206 on: February 04, 2018, 10:35:26 AM »
If you don’t want to say something nice why say anything, Floo?

That could apply to you too on other topics! ;D

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #207 on: February 04, 2018, 11:23:28 AM »
That could apply to you too on other topics! ;D

I don’t interrupt other people’s discussions on things that they like/love just to shout ‘yuck’ at them. Not unless it’s Jacob Reed Mogg they like at any rate.

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« Reply #208 on: February 04, 2018, 11:24:55 AM »
I don’t interrupt other people’s discussions on things that they like/love just to shout ‘yuck’ at them. Not unless it’s Jacob Reed Mogg they like at any rate.

You are just as bad Rhi, but let's leave it at that.

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #209 on: February 04, 2018, 11:26:13 AM »
You are just as bad Rhi, but let's leave it at that.

That’s your opinion, but I think what you actually mean is that I disagree with your prejudices. Which I do. Vehemently.

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #210 on: February 04, 2018, 12:36:34 PM »
I'm not a vegetarian, love cauliflower, as I do most vegetables.  One of my favourite dishes is a Greek salad as long as it's prepared with genuine feta cheese, rather than the supermarket variety.

Also love yogurt with honey, or cherries marinated with honey.
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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #211 on: February 04, 2018, 05:42:05 PM »
I'm not a vegetarian, love cauliflower, as I do most vegetables.  One of my favourite dishes is a Greek salad as long as it's prepared with genuine feta cheese, rather than the supermarket variety.

Also love yogurt with honey, or cherries marinated with honey.

Cauliflower is a gift from the gods, you can do so much with it. Love it roasted with Parmesan, in a masala or in old fashioned cauliflower cheese with broccoli and leeks.

I like yoghurt and honey too, with some toasted oats and/or nuts.

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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #212 on: February 05, 2018, 07:10:39 AM »
I'm not a vegetarian, love cauliflower, as I do most vegetables.  One of my favourite dishes is a Greek salad as long as it's prepared with genuine feta cheese, rather than the supermarket variety.

Also love yogurt with honey, or cherries marinated with honey.

Sounds like sheer bliss to me Rhi!

Cauliflower is a gift from the gods, you can do so much with it. Love it roasted with Parmesan, in a masala or in old fashioned cauliflower cheese with broccoli and leeks.

I like yoghurt and honey too, with some toasted oats and/or nuts.

All good stuff, we'd enjoy sharing a meal tho' I prefer the purple sprouting broccoli to the big variety.Leeks are great.

Around Christmas, I bought some of that cauliflower that looks like little Christmas trees! Frozen and still in freezer but intend to give it an airing next weekend. Didn't do much cooking over weekend as working, a couple of hours morning and same in afternoon on Sat., went in on Sunday (Sunday working doesn't happen very often). I had soup (detailed below), husband had chicken and sweetcorn and fish fingers in a roll & was quite happy with all that! He's a good cook but neither of us felt like doing much in way of cooking & were happy with what we had.

For 'simple' I love broccoli and stilton soup - have had all sorts, including fresh which ol' man bought from Sains., but most of all like tinned Cross & Blackwell. I can make it myself and have made it but it's handy to have it in cupboard.  Also like Heinz cream of tomato, especially if not well.

Ta ta 4 now, off 2 wk in a min.  CU lata.

I'm a 'cheesy' person, enjoy most cheeses. Was disappointed to have to throw away a bit that had been in fridge from Christmas - some does go off.

Pine nuts in things is lovely and lentils are marvellous.
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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #213 on: February 05, 2018, 08:38:46 AM »

 cauliflower au gratin


If you are going to use French - do it properly:

     chou-fleur au gratin

I have a friend who is gluten intolerant (she has coeliac disease).  For her I make chou-fleur au gratin as a soufflet. I also put oatflakes into a coffee grinder to make flour (coffee flavoured oat flour - it seems to be ok). Incidentally, she is fed up with people refusing wheatflour products in the belief that they are removing a health hazard from their diet. She points out that she has an immune-system problem - not a trivial affectation!
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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #214 on: February 07, 2018, 03:20:32 PM »
1/4 of dinners in UK vegetarian/vegan




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Re: Be a vegetarian this Easter!
« Reply #215 on: February 07, 2018, 03:32:41 PM »
I really dislike the taste of cauliflower.
I really love the taste of cauliflower.
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