Topic: So you're vegetarian?

[supersprout]

I can't find a sub for Chicken Stock!

vegan dashi tim?
(see under 'soup' at http://www.btinternet.com/~bury_rd/japanese.htm)
Best book imo:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Food-Japanese-Temple-Tradition/dp/0870115278/sr=8-3/qid=1159383516/ref=sr_1_3/202-1970606-0279044?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Marymary]

Just had a lovely tea of udon noodles cooked with loads of stuff from the garden & enough left to take to work for lunch tomorrow.  But the best bit was it was cooked for us by our Chinese house guest while I sat with my feet up!

[Palustris]

The Japanese site and book look fascinating SS, will have to do some more reading up. Ta ;D

[tim]

Thaks, Sarah - love kelp, but not enamoured of Japanese food generally.

[Moggle]

Some of my menu ideas for a vegetarian restaurant would be:

Tumeric and cream potato bake
Pumpkin/Butternut Squash soup - thick with a dollop of cream on top
Beetroot Risotto - a veggie mate of mine had this recently when at a posh restaurant
Veggie sushi rolls - filled with Avocado, red pepper and spring onion, sliced omelette, and probably some mushrooms for you funghi eaters
Roasted Mediterranean veggie lasagne
Houmous, babaganoush, pita bread and other mezze type dips and salad
Felafel
Quattro Fromaggi pizza
Mexican red bean tortilla wraps
Greek Salad
Polenta with olives and roasted tomatoes & peppers
Buffalo mozarella, avocado, rocket and balsamic vinegar salad

Sorry Palustris, some cheesey options there, but not all are cheesey!

Barnowl, I like the sound of your soup. Bet it would be nice (but unhealthy) with a bit of coconut cream in it too.

[Barnowl]

Absolutely right. I forgot the coconut milk/cream - essential ingredient!

Not that unhealthy - sweet potato is a good source of fibre, vitamin C  and has a low GI

http://www.waitrose.com/food_drink/nutrition/superfoodsforhealth/sweetpotato.asp

[Palustris]

Ah, but think of all the air miles and pollution those ingredients have as their hidden costs!. We tend to only eat that which we grow ourselves or can buy locally grown.
Opened up a real can of vermicelli here, have you not Tim?

[greyhound]

Ah, but think of all the air miles and pollution ..... Opened up a real can of vermicelli here, have you not Tim?

Well, Tim's original post was about airline food!

 ;D

[Barnowl]

Well I'm currently trying to grow my own lemon grass (sticking them in water), I grow my own chillies and onions and have a kaffir Lime tree (anniversary present). Next year I promise to try to grow sweet potatoes, I think it's warm enough down south,  but you've got me on the coconut milk :)

On the other hand doesn't our vegetable growth on the allotments count towards reducing our personal carbon emissions (apart from the Jerusalems that is!)?

[tim]

Air miles, Eric?  Chick Peas, Rice & Pasta are difficult to live without?  Worms? That's what I'm for?

As to Garlic cures, Greyhound - now gone - who told you it worked?

[greyhound]

As to Garlic cures, Greyhound - who told you it worked?

Oooooooooooooh!

OK, Tim, no offence taken! Well, I have tested it by huffing at people who would not hesitate to tell me I stink of garlic.  Plus when one has eaten copious amounts of garlic, people normally have a tendency to recoil when they come near you.  I've never noticed anyone keel over after I've employed the cardamom cure.
 
I can also say it has worked when I've offered it to peeps who've eaten garlic when I haven't. 

Having said that, it may not work for everyone as the effects of garlic do vary.  I used to know a woman who exuded stale garlic from every pore of her skin the day after she'd eaten it.   :o

[bennettsleg]

Oops - what can you sweat in other than butter?

water
stock
wine
it's own juices over a very loooow heat
oil
pvc catsuit etc

[greyhound]

pvc catsuit

[Barnowl]

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pvc catsuit

excellent  ;D

[Palustris]

Air miles, Eric?  Chick Peas, Rice & Pasta are difficult to live without? 

But we did Tim, we did! For most of my childhood and teens. Rice was the only one available and that was mostly served as a sweet dish!.
Personally I could live without all of them very easily.

[Mrs Ava]

Well you could make your own pasta and grow your own chick peas, or at least something very similar.  Rice I can't help you with though.  :-\

[tim]

But he doesn't need it?

But Jalousies?? "'Twas all over my jalousie? "

"A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light." Very tasty??

[Palustris]

Vegetable jalousie
1 packet of puff pastry(500 grams)
Filling.
2tbsp. butter or margarine
1 shredded leek
1 red pepper. halved deseeded and sliced. Ditto yellow pepper
50 grams sliced mushrooms
75 grams small asparagus spears
2 tbsp plain flour
6 tbsp Veg, stock
6 tbsp milk (dairy or soya)
4 tbsp dry white wine
tsp oregano or equivalent fresh
Saute leek in butter, add reaming veg and cook for 3 or 4 minutes. Add flour and cook for a minute.
Remove pan from heat , stir in liquids. Boil and stir till thickened.
Add oregano and season to taste.
Roll out pastry.
Put filling on half.
Using sharp knife cut diagonal slits on the other half to within  an inch of the edges.
Wet the edges of the base and place the top piece over and seal round the edges.
Cook Gas 6 or 200c. for 30 to 35 minutes.
Alter veg content to suit (Yuck garlic!!!!)
We put in French beans, broad beans, cauliflower, courgettes, whatever is available and in season.
This serves 4.

[tim]

Oh! A veg pastie?? Thanks, Eric.

Must do more of them. Just threw out all our pastry - too old.!

[bennettsleg]

Vegetable jalousie
1 packet of puff pastry(500 grams)

But puff pastry contains lard AND butter.