Easy veggie recipes

[IanD]

Serves 2 if your hungry

Fry a red onion few a couple of min
Add and fry 1 red and 1 yellow pepper for a couple more min
then add 3 courgettes fry until they are just starting to soften.
The add a tin of chopped tomatoes.
Add Mexican spice mix
Add 100g of the small soup pasta
Then top up with hot water to cover the ingredients
simmer for 15 min

Serve with crusty bread

[edward]

Lasagne made with quorn mince. I prefer it to 'proper' lasagne with meat in, and I'm a confirmed carnivore the rest of the time.

Or, give her a spoonful of frozen peas, then have a lovely steak and chips fried in beef dripping yourself. Or did you like her??

On that subject, is the chip shop near aquanauts (on the road behind the edinburugh woolen mill glass-walled shop) still using beef fat? crap for your arteries, but tasted just like my nan used to make them

[principia]

mixed grill, they would probably never cook you a steak at their place.

J.

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by tom

texture (e.g. gristle), ethics, knowing what it once was, health.

Re the ethics, presumably you disagree with the way chickens, for example, are raised and killed to be eaten. So why would you eat a product, Quorn for example, which is specifically produced to resemble chicken meat? Or soya mince which resembles beef?

I'm not being argumentative, I'm genuinely interested.

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by edward

On that subject, is the chip shop near aquanauts (on the road behind the edinburugh woolen mill glass-walled shop) still using beef fat? crap for your arteries, but tasted just like my nan used to make them

Yep! And very good they are, too

[tom]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

Re the ethics, presumably you disagree with the way chickens, for example, are raised and killed to be eaten. So why would you eat a product, Quorn for example, which is specifically produced to resemble chicken meat? Or soya mince which resembles beef?

I'm not being argumentative, I'm genuinely interested.

I don't see why I should kill another animal to eat it, when it's not necessary for me to do so.

If it was necessary, I'd do it, but I don't think it is.

I think products are made to resemble various meats (which they never do, really) largely for commercial reasons. We don't have names non-meat flavours and forms, so the manufacturers say it's a bacon-style strip or whatever. I'd love for someone to market a product as Soylent Green though

If quorn was marketed as 'quorn flavoured' or 'mycoprotein steaks' I'd still buy it, because I actually think it's a good food product.

[Jimbo200SX]

I did have a very nice Carrot & Orange Stir Fry once (Admittedly I did add meat to it, but im sure it would taste fine without), can find the recipe if you like.

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by tom

I don't see why I should kill another animal to eat it, when it's not necessary for me to do so.

If it was necessary, I'd do it, but I don't think it is.

I think products are made to resemble various meats (which they never do, really) largely for commercial reasons. We don't have names non-meat flavours and forms, so the manufacturers say it's a bacon-style strip or whatever. I'd love for someone to market a product as Soylent Green though

If quorn was marketed as 'quorn flavoured' or 'mycoprotein steaks' I'd still buy it, because I actually think it's a good food product.

Fair point

Have you always been a vegetarian? If not, be honest, are the substitutes as good as the 'real thing'? Do you miss anything?

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by Jimbo200SX

I did have a very nice Carrot & Orange Stir Fry once (Admittedly I did add meat to it, but im sure it would taste fine without), can find the recipe if you like.

Thank you, all suggestions gratefully received

[Stesh]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

Re the ethics, presumably you disagree with the way chickens, for example, are raised and killed to be eaten. So why would you eat a product, Quorn for example, which is specifically produced to resemble chicken meat? Or soya mince which resembles beef?

You can be veg for many reasons, one is you don't like meat and therefore you won't like fake meaty stuff either (I knew a lad who didn't like mushrooms because they have a fleshy texture?)

Then there's veggies who miss bacon sarnies and like the taste of meat but not the factory farming side of getting it on the plate.
And the taste difference on some stuff like sausages and burgers compared to the real burgers which only need a percentage of meat in them, isn't that great and sometimes even taste better.