I have been a vegetarian for 32 years. My children and my husband are also vegetarian. I am not a confident or accomplished cook and yet most of the cooking does fall to me.
After many years of eating pretty much the same things week in week out I have decided I want to learn to cook. Simple beautiful tasty vegetarian food is what I am after. How bored we are of quorn and pasta with tomato sauce. Inspiration was needed!
My old and very dear friend and food writer Chris Mosler has just given her food blog a bit of a relaunch and Life is Delicious really is looking better than ever. Check out her recipe for Sweet Potato and Chestnut Pie with Mushrooms, Stilton and Thyme for a Perfect Vegetarian Christmas
This is most definitely what I want for Christmas dinner !
Life is delicious is a vegetarian family life that is filled with tasty recipes with clear instruction and the most tempting photos! They certainly make me want to cook!
Ive also been sent a lovely recipe book this month from Tibits the London and Switzerland based Vegetarian restaurants. Tibits was voted The Best Vegetarian Restaurant in the prestigious Cook Vegetarian awards in 2014 and has a wonderful reputation.
Their cook book has tantalizing photography and showcases some simple and achievable recipes that have really made my mouth water!
Ooh this white asparagus with orange sauce looks divine!
The Tibits at Home cookbook recreates some of their fabulous food and you can learn to make it in your own home. Oh how I need this!
The Tibits at Home book can be bought from any of the restaurants and is available from Amazon in hardback at £22. It is split into seasons and has over 50 recipes and it is definitely a beautiful book.
Would you like to win a copy?
To be in with a chance of winning a brand new copy of this gorgeous book simply tell me your favourite veggie dish in the comments below.
Good luck and watch this space I will learn to cook in 2015!
T&C’s : Competition open until 30 November at midnight. Over 18′ s and UK residents only please. No prize alternative.
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I love vegetable lasagne, its soo delicious! With crips edges.
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Three bean curry ๐
Marconi cheese or nut roast
Veggie bake covered in breadcrumbs and cheese ๐
Vegetable Lasagne
Caulifower Cheese
I love lentil lasagne!
I cannot eat Gluten and tend to find dairy a real problem too so cooking without meat as well is very difficult. However, I love vegetable crumble, using gluten free flour and a dairy free ‘butter’ and with home made veg stock (made from various bits of veg left in water in a slow cooker for 2 days).
Mushroom pancake. Love it.
Love macaroni cheese
Vegetable lasange ๐ xx
Butternut Squash, Barley, Almonds, Blue Cheese and Sage. Absolutely delicious
My favourite veggie dish would have to be spinich quiche. It’s just so tasty.
One of our favourite dishes is old three bean chilli! Always goes down well
I love my homemade leek, potato & onion soup.
Macaroni cheese
A vegetarian korma curry is our favourite
I love something simple, hearty and easy to prepare. My current favourite for these colder months is a lovely vegetable and barley broth. Served with some crusty bread – perfect!
Mixed vegetable chow mein
veg lasange
Love lasagne and my best friend makes the BEST vegetable lasagne I’ve ever tasted. Not sure what she does to make it so tasty, but it’s gorgeous. ๐
Cheese & chilli naans
Been a vegetarian for over 2 years and my favourite food is spicy veggie pizza with lots of jalapeรฑos and onions (I desperately need to learn to cook other, healthier vegetarian foods as I’m not a fan of mock meat!)
Mushroom balti
mushroom pancake
Wild mushroom rissotto
vegetable curry with basmati rice
A hearty root vegetable stew.
Vegetarian lasagne
Vegetarian cottage pie, substituting Quorn for the beef and adding a dash of BBQ sauce for a bit of a zing. Firm favourite in the family.
Courgetti and not so meaty meatballs in a fresh tomato sauce!
I love <3 veggie quesidillas with a nice spicy mexican rice or wedges ๐
My favourite all time veggie meal is mushroom stroganoff
Any curry with lentils and loads of veg
I’m a big fan of spinich & lentil lasagna! …with some kind of green salad on the side.
Roasted Vegetable Lasagne
VEGGIE LASAGNE
My favorite (at the moment anyway) has to be chestnut and goat’s cheese tarts. SO unhealthy, but too gorgeous to not eat. Plus freeze brilliantly.
I love chargrilled aubergine, courgette, peppers and halloumi with greek yoghurt ๐
I make a pretty good veggie moussaka with lentils!
Char grilled vegetable lasagne and I add mustard in cheese sauce to give fiery kick
Aloo Gobi and chick pea curry, I could eat that almost every day!
chickpea curry, healthy, vegan and cheap
mushroom curry x
Cauliflower and leek cheese.
I love spinach vindaloo
macaroni cheese
homemade veg soup xx
Veggie lasagne
Veggie lasagne is brilliant and you can change it using different ingredients depending on the season
My fave veggie dish had to be mushroom halloumi wraps mmm with an aoli x
Tuscan Bean Stew
veggi jalfrezi sluuurp ๐
Vegetable Dhansak and naan bread. Mmmm.
Mushroom Strogonoff
a nut roast
my husband makes a lovely potato and vegetable bake
Mushroom risotto YUMMY
Lentil curry
My family is all vegetarian and our favourite veggie dish is a leek, parsnip and pasta bake
I make a lovely veggie casserole in the slow cooker with all the root vegetables like parsnips, butternut squash and carrots.
vegetable lasagne
my favourite veggie meal is Indian style potatoes and vegetables, shallow fried, with Indian spices
Mushroom Curry. Batch cook it so always a few for the freezer. Ideal ‘readt meal’.
My fave veggie dish a broccoli and cauliflower bake, which is broccoli and cauliflower cooked in a puff pastry with white wine sauce and cheese. <3
Having a vegetarian daughter we’ve gradually added to our meal plans more of a focus on Vegetarian dinners for the whole family. Probably our favourite is a mushroom risotto!
My favourite veggie meal is roasted pepper and mushroom lasagane. yum yum! x
I love many veggie dishes but after spending lots of time in India around my mother-in-law who is an amazing cook, I would have to say her Makhani Dal served with roti and raita (made with homemade curd, apples, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, boondhi and lemon juice) is the most delicious. It’s simple traditional food but sooo tasty!
My favorite vegetarian meal is wild mushroom lasagna
Thank you so much for such a glowing recommendation! I can thoroughly recommend Tibits at Home to all your readers, I have a well thumbed copy on my shelf – beautifully presented and bloomin’ tasty veggie food, I love it!