Come On, Are You Serious?

[joggerjayne]

A pal has hitched up with a new BF while I've been away.

And then she drops the bombshell ... he's a vegetarian!

This is the last of my pals whom I'd have expected to go out with a veggie.

She must've been hanging around up in Kemp Town, or something.

So now ... buy a veggie cook book and have them over for supper? or just go out for dinner.

Maybe easier to go out. There's a veggie restaurant on the corner opposite The Black Lion.

[joggerjayne]

(I could have a burger in The Black Lion before I met them, LOL)

[DTCwordfan]

Veggie or Vegan? JJ, - there's a big difference - veggies are easy to cook for, vegan's a pain in the sphincter...

[ChuckFickens]

"vegan's a pain in the sphincter"

It's all that fibre that does that.

[RATTER15]

My daughter is one of them, Im not sure how she caught it, abroad I think!!

[mrs_overall]

Mr O is a veggie and meal times are easy - he cooks for himself

We once went to a pizza restaurant in Tenerife and he asked for a veggie pizza. What he got was a basic cheese & tomato pizza...with 6 brussel sprouts plonked on top.

[EcclesCake]

Try this on him.....


Roasted aubergine with walnut and raisin dressing

2 aubergines
olive oil
1 onion , chopped
2 garlic cloves , crushed
50g raisins
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
handful walnuts , chopped
½ small bunch coriander , chopped , plus extra to serve
yogurt , to serve
lemon wedges , to serve


Halve the aubergines lengthways, slash the cut side, brush all over with olive oil, season and roast at 200C/180C fan/gas 6 for 40 mins or until really tender.

Meanwhile soften the chopped onion, crushed garlic, raisins, ground cinnamon, cumin and coriander in a little oil, then stir in the chopped walnuts and most of the chopped coriander.

To serve, scatter over the aubergines, sprinkle with more coriander, and eat with yogurt, lemon wedge

Serve with tabbouleh and a tomato salad.

[mrs_overall]

Eccles, that sounds lush!

[EcclesCake]

Or this, I'm having this tonight as it happens....


Squash & Barley Salad
1 Butternut squash, peeled de-seeded and cut into slices
1tbs Olive
Oil
250g Barley
100g Sun-dried tomatoes
1 small red onion, thinly sliced
2tbs Pumpkin seeds
Handful black olive, pitted
1 Bunch basil, chopped

Dressing
5tbs Balsamic vinegar
6tbs Olive oil
1tbs Dijon mustard
Salt & Pepper


Place the squash slices on a baking tray and drizzle with olive oil and cook in an oven preheated to 180C for about 25 minutes or until tender and slightly charred around the edges.

Rinse the barley in cold water and then boil in salted water for about 30 minutes or until tender but still with some bite.

Make the dressing.

When the barley is cooked drain well and put in a bowl and pour over the dressing, give it a good stir and leave to cool.

When the barley is cool and all the other ingredients and mix well. Place on a platter and serve.

Leftovers keep well in the fridge for 3 days.

[boxtops]

why is it such a bombshell, JJ? - I'm not veggie but tbh, a lot of the time I eat veggie dishes.

Is Food for Friends still open in the Lanes? That used to be nice.

[joggerjayne]

I'm not sure I could cook an aubergine without gagging.

I don't think he's vegan. I didn't go in to detail.

I was too busy trying to cover myself after I'd gone ... "Oh, god, tell me you're kidding ... I mean no, hey, that's great, no no, sorry, I was just looking at something in the paper, so hey, great, we'll have to try some new restaurants ... he'll be able to tell us the tastiest things to order."

I'm not sure I got away with it, really.

[craft1948]

Am pmsl at the "buy a veggie cook book"..................you couldn't cook before she was a veggie so why start now!!

[EcclesCake]

It's a doddle to eat veggie in Indian restaurants......

Oh, the squash recipe should have blanched French beans in it.

[boxtops]

JJ, most restaurants have vegetarian options on the menu - it's no big deal.

[joggerjayne]

"Is Food for Friends still open in the Lanes?"

Wow, Boxy ... !

When I said there's a veggie restaurant on the corner opposite The Black Lion ... that IS Food For Friends! The Black Lion is one of the two pubs straight opposite ... The Cricketers is on the corner, and then The Black Lion is next to it. Tall thin building, that looks really, really old, but in fact it was rebuilt some time.

I can't say that I've been a regular at Food For Friends. Maybe when they diversify a bit, and put steak on the menu.

[Baldric]

Our Daughter and her partner have been Veggies for years, don't think they're doing it right, always at the Docs for something, vitamin deficiency was the latest. :o(

[joggerjayne]

"you couldn't cook before she was a veggie so why start now"

(1) Harsh but fair.

(2) I don't think "she" is going to become a veggie. Yeesh, I hope not. She's one of my "bottle of white and two lasagnes" pals.

[ChuckFickens]

Veggie lasagne is nice.

[bookbinder]

My sister-in-law and her husband are vegetarians, have been for years. She's only recently realised that, when they go to friends for dinner, said friends serve a veggie meal out of respect for them, but when s-i-l invites same friends over, she serves them a veggie meal. It didn't occur to her that she ought to reciprocate by serving meat etc. to their friends.

[joggerjayne]

Baldric ...

I'm sure veggies don't always run short of vitamins.

As any veggie will tell you, many top athletes are vegetarian. Although, curiously, they always cite the same example ... Carl Lewis ... who autographed copies of The Bible at his press conference after the Games ... which made him a bit of a weirdo. Maybe they need to find a new example.

[RATTER15]

>>Veggie lasagne is nice.<< wind up!!!!

Nice one chuck!! *Chortlesplutters*