The vegged up 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread

Little Alex

Roasted tomato, red pepper and veggie green pesto soup, made by Mrs. Alex:

Feathers

Little Alex wrote: »

As far as I can make out Goodall's Yorkshire Relish is a veggie version of Worcester sauce. Anyone know any better?

Hi Alex,

you posted pages back at this stage, so not sure if anyone got back on it. But yes, Yorkshire Relish would be a good substitute for Worchester sauce (didn't know you could still get it though?)

Goodall's used to do another sauce — YR — which was brown sauce, like Chef but much better. Had the tagline 'Yorkshire Relish thick'. This was bought out by Chivers though a few years back & has never been the same since, they made it far too sweet and runny. (HP is your best bet for a brown sauce these days…)

The original stuff should be good though if it's still Goodall's! Didn't know you could get it any more. Not quite the same as Worchester sauce, but will give a good kick all the same

--LOS--

I may have mentioned this already but you can easily get veggie worcester sauce, 'LIFE (free from)' makes one which you can pick up in tesco.

Little Alex

Feathers wrote: »

Hi Alex,

you posted pages back at this stage, so not sure if anyone got back on it. But yes, Yorkshire Relish would be a good substitute for Worchester sauce (didn't know you could still get it though?)

Goodall's used to do another sauce — YR — which was brown sauce, like Chef but much better. Had the tagline 'Yorkshire Relish thick'. This was bought out by Chivers though a few years back & has never been the same since, they made it far too sweet and runny. (HP is your best bet for a brown sauce these days…)

The original stuff should be good though if it's still Goodall's! Didn't know you could get it any more. Not quite the same as Worchester sauce, but will give a good kick all the same

Yeah, Goodall's Yorkshire Relish is still available. Haven't tried YR for years, but I'll get a bottle the next time. Used to like it, though!

--LOS-- wrote: »

I may have mentioned this already but you can easily get veggie worcester sauce, 'LIFE (free from)' makes one which you can pick up in tesco.

Thanks for that. I'll keep an eye out for it!

Tonight I made stuff out of leftovers, including wilted lettuce revived. And some homemade piccalilli.

--LOS--

made myself a crepe, I didn't make it look too much like a crepe since I just made it on a frying pan. Mushroom, spinach, olives, tomatoes, cheese and homemade garlic butter, I'm gona go a bit easier on the garlic butter next time though

Little Alex

Well done. LOS! That's a tidy crepe! Nice.

You can never have enough garlic!!! I got a bag of fred garlic slices today from the Chinese Supermarket. They look and smell awesome. They're crunchy, just like the fried onion/shallots they have (the same as Röstzwiebeln, if you know them).

Little Alex

Leek and asparagus soup...

Little Alex

This is a salad that herself made a few days ago:



And this is lasagne and bruscetta that I made yesterday:



Quorn mince, tofu sheets instead of lasagne ones and bechamel sauce made from soy milk.

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Saturday night's dinner:



Paella, with rings of citrus fruit, like I had it the first time in Spain.

Dessert was Des' 2011 Cooking Club recipe. It's fabulous and takes literally two minutes to make:



This tme I made it with strawberries and raspberries.

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Sunday morning breakfast/lunch was Rösti, mushroom and poached egg:

Tar.Aldarion

1000! Never made any of this before so was interesting.

Mushroom, spinach, onion, garlic, white wine and quorn vol-au-vents.
Spinach, blueberry and cranberry wensleydale cheese, nuts, olives, cherry tomatoes, babycorn salad, with greek hummous.
Homemade coleslaw.







For dessert it was toasted pecan and coffee icecream along with dark orange chocolate icecream. Mmmmm.

Stompbox

Epic work.

ToniTuddle

You guys and girls should be on Masterchef! Seriously all that looks amazing.

Tar! Did you make the icecream or can you buy that stuff somewhere?

Tar.Aldarion

I'm pretty sure little Alex is already a chef in a Michelin star restaurant, while I am more likely to work with the tyres.

I made the ice creams and they are lovely! It was easy enough, I didn't simmer it like people do, and I think that might improve it. I just made it all cold so it was fast, apart from heating the chocolate and coffee. It doesnt take that long, try it out and post it up!

fillefatale

Lunch today - Roasted red pepper stuffed with butternut squash risotto with grilled asparagus & tomato comfit on the side with a parsnip crisp on top!

It was delicious, the risotto could have done with more seasoning, maybe some paprika to liven it up, but I ate it all!

From Eala Bán in Sligo.

Stompbox

My God, that looks divine. How do you prepare the pepper? I don't think I ever leave mine in the over for long, yours looks perfectly softened.

EDIT: Just realised that you were eating out!

Little Alex

ToniTuddle wrote: »

You guys and girls should be on Masterchef! Seriously all that looks amazing.

Tar! Did you make the icecream or can you buy that stuff somewhere?

Hi TT!

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I'm pretty sure little Alex is already a chef in a Michelin star restaurant, while I am more likely to work with the tyres.

I made the ice creams and they are lovely! It was easy enough, I didn't simmer it like people do, and I think that might improve it. I just made it all cold so it was fast, apart from heating the chocolate and coffee. It doesnt take that long, try it out and post it up!

Yeah, right. Have a look at fillefatale's post. I think that just blasted me out of the water!

Tar.Aldarion

I believe that was cooked as somebodies job, and I don't think so

Mmm I really want that pepper!

--LOS--

I have the urge to make parsnip crisps now!

Little Alex

--LOS-- wrote: »

I have the urge to make parsnip crisps now!

So did you? Courgettes work well too!

Have you tried Tyrrell's root vegetable crisps?

Anyway, tonight we had Tesco Vegilicious! Bean Burgers, dill and lemon potatoes and a stuffed courgette made by Mrs. Alex. So it was a team job!



The bean burgers were quite good, much better than the other type which Tesco have; cheese and onion or something like that. They weren't so good.

Herself's courgette was savage!

--LOS--

No I didnt yet! Used to loved M&S parsnip crisps but they've just put up the price too much now. I really like those tesco bean burgers too, tried the cheese ones but found them to be typical of veggie burgers....just full of potato.

Tar.Aldarion

Lentil bolognaise on a bed of skinny noodles.






Baked poha cakes, recipe kinda made up. Came from this http://indianfood.about.com/od/sidesandsalads/r/poha.htm but used an egg to bind and made them into cakes.

--LOS--

flattened rice is awesome, such a quick thing to use, I made some rice pudding there with it, just washed off some flattened rice, blended it up into a paste, added it to boiled soya milk, flavoured with a cardamon pod and sugar, yummy

DonnieScribbles

Black bean and mushroom burgers, salad, and tortilla chips for me.

--LOS--

Made Dum Aloo, had it with some naan and mango chutney. Recipe from here (I baked the potatoes though and threw in some leftover kidney beans and lentils)

all the stars

I made the most yummy Curry Parsnip soup was fab - given i've not made soup in years it came out great! Just used vegetable stock and lactofree cream.
http://www.cookwithavonmore.ie/recipe/curried-parsnip-soup-2/

Also, came upon this website... some amazing looking veggie receipes on here!! http://www.tinnedtomatoes.com

Feu

looks great all the stars, me love me some soup. And she is doing the alternate Day fasting diet, which i've just started, so good to get some recipes for that too.

DonnieScribbles

I made this pizza the other day. It was rectangular and delicious.

fillefatale

I'm living in Venice for 5 weeks for work and eating a lot of pizza. Here's one I had a couple of nights ago in my favourite local restaurant - margarita with courgette and aubergine, sliced so thinly here, I adore it.

--LOS--

made some roast butternut-squash soup, roasted the squash with some honey on it, made it extra nice.

--LOS--

made some carrot and coriander soup, so easy, so yummy

--LOS--

..and now with added homemade croutons