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testertube wrote:I'm vegetarian friendly. I don't love meat.

but I'd bored of food without some meat thrown in. like I needs chicken in my salad. I could easily get over chicken and beef by eating more crab, squid, shrimp.

hardcore vegetarians that preach being vegetarian like it's a religion scare me. why be so passionate about what other people are eating? eat what you want, yo! but I don't want to accept veggie jesus.

devnulljp wrote:Stopped eating meat 30 years ago. Don't let the cavemen get you down.
As for recipes, wouldn't it be great if there was, like, a worldwide network of computers, almost a web of sorts, where you could look stuff like that up?

OK, so here's my variant of Henderson's Vegetarian Haggis (Hendersons is in Edinburgh, but otherwise it's great)
It's a PitA to make, but a lot less so than boiling a pig's lungs in boiling water for a day to make sure you siphon off all the black goo out the trachea.

50g kidney beans, soaked overnight, cooked, chopped (or 200g canned, drained)
75g brown lentils, soaked for a few hours
50g pinhead/steel cut oatmeal, soaked for 1 hour <---most important ingredient; not the flaky easy cook stuff
1 tbsp olive (or peanut) oil
150g onions (1-2 medium), finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
150g carrots (1-2 medium), grated
50g mushrooms, finely chopped
50g roasted chestnuts (or mixed nuts if you can't be bothered, but the chestnuts are best), finely chopped
⅓ cup water or veg stock (spoon of marmite in hot water is good too)
50g butter / marg / vegetable suet
1 tbsp shoyu
½ - 1 tsp garam masala
2 tbs. chopped mixed fresh herbs
pinch of grated nutmeg
juice of 1 lime
salt & pepper
Rosemary, thyme
Wee dash of whisky close to the end

The most time-consuming part is all the soaking and chopping. Shelling the chestnuts takes forever.
Heat oil in a big deep iron skillet or a wok.
Fry the onions, carrots and garlic until soft (~5-10 minutes).
Add the lentils, garam masala, shoyu and water (or stock).
Simmer for about 20 min or until lentils are soft and water has been absorbed. Stir often to stop it burning and sticking.
Add mushrooms and cook a few minutes til soft.
Add chestnuts and cook a few minutes.
Add kidney beans and butter/margarine and cook another minute.
Finally add oatmeal and cook until heated through. The oatmeal should keep some texture.
You can chuck an egg or two in if you like, but it's really not necessary.

I usually bung that lot into a greased loaf tin and finish it off by baking for ~45 min at 190C (375F).

Serve hot with clapshot (neeps and tatties) and onion gravy.

gravy is just finely chopped onions, sauteed til soft with some fresh chopped rosemary.
Stir some marmite into boiling water.
Chuck some flour into the onions, then slowly add the marmite/water mix. Stir and cook over low heat til it thickens.


No lips, no assholes, no guts or lungs and no faces peering up at you from the oven.

Mudfuzz wrote:

testertube wrote:I'm vegetarian friendly. I don't love meat.

but I'd bored of food without some meat thrown in. like I needs chicken in my salad. I could easily get over chicken and beef by eating more crab, squid, shrimp.

hardcore vegetarians that preach being vegetarian like it's a religion scare me. why be so passionate about what other people are eating? eat what you want, yo! but I don't want to accept veggie jesus.

Here's my hard core Veggistism for you
The smell of meat cooking makes me want to hurl.
I hate people that sit around eating burgers while talking about saving dogs.
If you can't kill it your self and take responsibility for the death that your Mcnugget came from should you be eating it? I have friends that hunt, I hav no problem with it.
Do you know how much shit have to hear all the fucking time about me being a vegetarian? It never ends I don't say shit intill I am annoyed to do so which usually gets me to try and convince them that they should eat their pets, by the way you should if you have any eat your pets

htsamurai wrote:

Mudfuzz wrote:

testertube wrote:I'm vegetarian friendly. I don't love meat.

but I'd bored of food without some meat thrown in. like I needs chicken in my salad. I could easily get over chicken and beef by eating more crab, squid, shrimp.

hardcore vegetarians that preach being vegetarian like it's a religion scare me. why be so passionate about what other people are eating? eat what you want, yo! but I don't want to accept veggie jesus.

Here's my hard core Veggistism for you
The smell of meat cooking makes me want to hurl.
I hate people that sit around eating burgers while talking about saving dogs.
If you can't kill it your self and take responsibility for the death that your Mcnugget came from should you be eating it? I have friends that hunt, I hav no problem with it.
Do you know how much shit have to hear all the fucking time about me being a vegetarian? It never ends I don't say shit intill I am annoyed to do so which usually gets me to try and convince them that they should eat their pets, by the way you should if you have any eat your pets

Mudfuzz wrote:Sounds cool but yeah what a lot of work!

jarder wrote:Check out Food Inc. if you want to see why going vegetarian is a good idea, or at least treating veggies as the main portion of the dish and meat as the side. I still eat meat but I have decided to start buying from local farms that I can see how the animals are treated and fed. Vegetarian is not necessarily good for you if the veggies you are eating are genetically modified and shipped half a world away. That being said many recipe sites have good vegetarian recipes. I have found a few different curries (search for a sweet potato and collard green curry its amazing), another Indian dish that is delicious is korma. Vegetarian sushi is real easy to make, as well as tacos and pasta dishes. A real easy [asta dish is:

1 box pasta
3 medium tomatoes diced
1 medium onion chopped
several cloves of garlic

Boil pasta
Sauté onions and garlic till soft enough to bring out the sweetness
when pasta is cooked add raw tomatoes olive oil and onion garlic mixture. Adding olives and pepproncini is really good to. Use good kalamata olives though, not green olives with pimentos.

htsamurai wrote:
if food inc was a wake up call for you, you were really living under a rock :/
I'm a big fan of all the stuff thats terrible for me, mainly to even out the over zealous douchebags who feel it's their god-given right to convert me to veggie

htsamurai wrote:I'm a big fan of all the stuff thats terrible for me, mainly to even out the over zealous douchebags who feel it's their god-given right to convert me to veggie

devnulljp wrote: You don't want to eat beans or carrots or broccoli?