Oatcakes Here we are back offshore again. It is not all that easy eating healthily in this environment. The meals are always heavily meat orientated, loads of pasta, rice and potatoes, not to mention the desserts like apple crumble or bread and butter pudding. I was thus reminded of a tasty and healthy snack we …
Spicy Eggplant and Tofu Stir-fry We were visiting a friend of Karen’s the other day, and guess what? – Discussing healthy eating! The usual comment – that it is difficult to know how to eat healthily, particularly when you come home from work and need to knock up a meal. So yes – you resort …
Vegetarian patties Well – Karen has numerous low carb vegetarian cookbooks it would appear. Spent some time browsing them and found a lovely recipe for vegetarian burgers or patties. I replaced the ordinary green beans with edamami beans, to improve the protein content. The original recipe came from the book ‘CARB Conscious vegetarian’, which has …
Scrambled Tofu with salad Back home in Cape Town now, and back to eating healthily again. Karen, my vegetarian wife, loves buying cook books, and yesterday came home with one called ‘Yummidy’ – Not only meatless, but low carb as well. We have been trying to follow a low carb diet for a while now, …
Vegetarian Nut Roast Being in the UK reminds me of the traditional Sunday Roast. Being vegetarian does not mean you need to miss out on this at all. Take a slice or two of vegetarian nut roast, and serve up with the roast potatoes, gravy and vegetables. Of course, make sure the gravy is vegetarian …
Ricotta rissoles and salads Entertaining again last night – and a number of tricky people to feed. 1 wheat intolerant and fussy eater, 1 on diet, 1 vegetarian and a couple of runners who always want to eat healthily. A chance for me to experiment a bit, and for Karen to use one of her …
Spinach and rocket salad A while ago I promised the recipe for the salad I served with the fritata. For meat eaters, salads tend to be some variation involving tomato, lettuce, cucumber, onion or carrot. Occasionally this is made a bit Greek by adding olives and feta cheese. And of course there is the ubiquitous …
Tofu chocolate pudding That’s the question that popped up at a friend’s birthday breakfast this morning. A whole group of us were sitting round one table enjoying the meal – either the scrambled egg and bacon, or the ‘healthy option’ of fruit, muesli and yoghurt. Both were very good indeed, and there was much comment …
Ingredients for ricotta stuffed mushrooms I love cheese, but have always stuck to the blander ones like cheddar, edam or ementhaler. Living with a vegetarian, I have discovered how to use some more adventurous types such as mozzarella, haloumi and ricotta. At this point I have to confess I am a wholehearted fan of Jamie …
Living with Karen, my vegetarian wife, I have learned a lot! The first is probably that to be a committed vegetarian and get ones required daily nutritional intake is hard work. So, is being vegetarian necesarily healthy? Quite possibly not. If one simply drops meat out of one’s diet, one is likely not to feel …
