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 …
Vegetarian larder items Last time I promised you a list of the items the staunch vegetarian keeps handy in the kitchen or larder. If you go to our website which is now up and running Meat Free Everyday you will find a full list. That list includes a few things that might well be in any …
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 …
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 …
