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Hey neither of my parents can cook (veg or not) worth shit. I cook my own occasionally but it invoves planning before they buy stuff because our house is very not vegitarian friendly and I haven't really been eating well because of it (mostly salads, occasionally rice and microwavable lasagnas and burriots, which is okay sometimes but I'd rather have homemade stuff because it tastes better and I haven't eaten anything else in over a month and I usually don't eat because I hate it). So anyway, I was looking up recipes on the internet and I don't really have a many ingredients that are required so any recommendations would be appricated as I haven't eaten to day and I'm hungry and bitchy damnit! So, yeah thank you.

Well, first you take your vegetarian and peel him...

;) Incidentally, Cabra West did a thread on this very subject recently. If you search for it you'll find our previous pearls of wisdom.

Well, first you take your vegetarian and peel him...

;) Incidentally, Cabra West did a thread on this very subject recently. If you search for it you'll find our previous pearls of wisdom.
Thanks, sorry for the copycat thread.

Tofu. You can add it to stuff, spice it up, or eat it as is! :rolleyes:

I advise eggs if you can't do anything with them I suggest Beans on toast or your local Indian

Tofu. You can add it to stuff, spice it up, or eat it as is! :rolleyes:

but as we recently found out tofu makes you gay so you can't use that

General recipe.

Chop 1/2-1 onion. Fry it until golden. Put Kettle on to boil. Add chopped vegetables (if you have hard veggies like carrots add them with the onion). Once veggies have been added put boiled water in a separate pan and add 1 cup of rice (use pasta if you want, but rice goes with pretty much anything (use more than 1 cup of pasta if use pasta instead though)) - stir the rice once and cook for ten minutes with lid on. Add spices and herbs and/or sauces to taste (tell me what you have and I might be able to make a specific recommendation - tell me if you have honey, vinegar, lemon juice and stuff like that as well). Add tin of chopped tomatoes if you want a more bulky sauce or add half a cup of water if you want a watery sauce. Leave to simmer. Add small amounts of water if sauce begins to dry out.

Once rice is ready drain through a sieve and wash with freshly boiled water. Leave to stand for a minute or so. Add rice and sauce to plate. You should have something that's pretty damn tasty (it's about about the herbs and spices) and only takes about 20 minutes to cook and prepare - start to finish.

Thanks, sorry for the copycat thread.

Hardly copycat, the other was a week or two ago. Just thought you might like to know.

Beans on toast

Much better: get an onion (or some leeks if you ain't got no onion), slice and fry it with a smattering curry powder, add baked beans and more curry powder and a few traces of whatever herbs take your fancy (parsley/oregano/whatever). Serve on toast.

well, you suck it up and meat.

Much better: get an onion (or some leeks if you ain't got no onion), slice and fry it with a smattering curry powder, add baked beans and more curry powder and a few traces of whatever herbs take your fancy (parsley/oregano/whatever). Serve on toast.

Baked beans have refined sugar.

To the OP, if you are lacto-veg there are a ton of italian recipes for pasta and sauce that are meatless. Not all cheese is lacto-veg however so be carefull.

The easiest to make is Dahl/lentil. You can get it in any Indian store.

Wash a cup of it in water.

Boil it in a pressure cooker (faster), or ordinary vessel with 1 part lentil : 2 part water ratio.

Add a pinch of turmeric and couple of red chillis and if you like tomatoes you can either put it as a whole inside the vessel and later mash it or wait until it is cooked and then cut the tomatoes and add it later.

Add salt and you have a meal ready (if you kept rice in a seperate cooker).

If I am in a hurry, I cook this and I can have food in ten mins flat.

Much better: get an onion (or some leeks if you ain't got no onion), slice and fry it with a smattering curry powder, add baked beans and more curry powder and a few traces of whatever herbs take your fancy (parsley/oregano/whatever). Serve on toast.

Have you tried soaking Garbanzos overnight and using it in the above process? Makes a good Chana masala.

well, you suck it up and meat.


:rolleyes:

The easiest to make is Dahl/lentil. You can get it in any Indian store.

Wash a cup of it in water.

Boil it in a pressure cooker (faster), or ordinary vessel with 1 part lentil : 2 part water ratio.

Add a pinch of turmeric and couple of red chillis and if you like tomatoes you can either put it as a whole inside the vessel and later mash it or wait until it is cooked and then cut the tomatoes and add it later.

Add salt and you have a meal ready (if you kept rice in a seperate cooker).

If I am in a hurry, I cook this and I can have food in ten mins flat.

How spicy is that?

How spicy is that?

Depends how much red chillies you add. For one cup lentil - two red chilly is mild. I usually add another two and a pinch of chillipowder on top of it.:eek:

Lentil is a staple food in India.

http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch22.html
Nutritionists consider lentils a great substitute for meat because they are high in protein and loaded with minerals. One hundred grams of lentils has as much protein as 134 grams of beef.

There are many types of lentils. So you can have variety. The procedure is the same as above.

General recipe.

Chop 1/2-1 onion. Fry it until golden. Put Kettle on to boil. Add chopped vegetables (if you have hard veggies like carrots add them with the onion). Once veggies have been added put boiled water in a separate pan and add 1 cup of rice (use pasta if you want, but rice goes with pretty much anything (use more than 1 cup of pasta if use pasta instead though)) - stir the rice once and cook for ten minutes with lid on. Add spices and herbs and/or sauces to taste (tell me what you have and I might be able to make a specific recommendation - tell me if you have honey, vinegar, lemon juice and stuff like that as well). Add tin of chopped tomatoes if you want a more bulky sauce or add half a cup of water if you want a watery sauce. Leave to simmer. Add small amounts of water if sauce begins to dry out.

Once rice is ready drain through a sieve and wash with freshly boiled water. Leave to stand for a minute or so. Add rice and sauce to plate. You should have something that's pretty damn tasty (it's about about the herbs and spices) and only takes about 20 minutes to cook and prepare - start to finish.

that sounds great thank you what herbs would be good with it? I'm not big on sauces.

If you like curry, any of the ones that come ni jars, like the sharwoods ones, are good with mushrooms and green beans instead of meat.

Tomorrow im going to eat a peice of beefs the size of my head. Mmmm tasty beefs. Im balancing out for all the meat youl never eat.

Roasted vegetables are good too. Get a bunch of cherry tomatoes, sliced peppers, red onion, and anything else you fancy, cover in olive oil and roast till they look good, bout 30 minutes probably. I usually acompany it with an animal but its fine by itself.

3 cups chopped dolphin
1 cup raw hamburger
2 cups elephant hide
3 eggs
2 teaspoons butter

Do not cook. Mix in bowl.

that sounds great thank you what herbs would be good with it? I'm not big on sauces.Sorry, I'd already gone to sleep last night.

Mint is a good herb though. It goes with practically anything. However I normally just play the whole thing by nose. However...

For an indian style sauce - fry onions with a teaspoon of cumin seed (add garlic and ginger if you have some), two bay leaves and teaspoon of tumeric. Add the tin of tomatoes with a teaspoon of dried corriander. Add chilli to taste.

For sweet and sour. Cook onions with garlic (two medium cloves) and ginger (twice volume of garlic). Do not add tomatoes. Instead add two capfuls of vinegar, a similar amount of soy sauce, a tablespoon or two of honey (normal sugar works well too, but I prefer honey), and half a cup of water. Turn down heat (to avoid carmelisation of honey/sugar) and mix thoroughly. Add more water if mixture reduces too much.

For pasta style sauce (goes well with rice too). Fry onions with garlic, and maybe a bayleaf or two. Add tomatoes with mint and the juice of half a lemon. Feel free to add oregano, basil or majoram if you like.

But yeah, play it by nose and tongue. Taste the sauce evey so often. It helps you to think what the sauce might need - a bit of chilli, some honey, lemon juice, a certain herb or spice (if you can't remember what they smell like then just take sniff of spices and herbs you do have). And experiment. You can come up with the most amazing stuff.

Like this once I decided to use marmalade and a pinch of chilli in the pasta style sauce above. It was amazing. I think I might have added a pinch of nutmeg as well, but I can't remember.

my favorite vegetarian recipie is to take a whole chicken, and a beercan. Then I pour my favorite seasonings into the beer can, along with a cup or so of a nice dark ale. I impale said chicken with said half full beer can. Place as tripod (;egs and beercan) on barbq grill and grill until done (medium heat)

the vegetarian part? I DO get the drink the beer while my chicken is cooking...:D