Gingham's vegetarian menu planner SPRING

studentphil

What about adding some Quorn or Soya meat as it would increase what you can make?

studentphil

A really good snack you can make is:
cooked Pasta, pesto, few slices of Mozzarella, then something green like green pepper, rocket, bazil leaves. The flavour of the cheese goes really well with pesto and the refeshing nature of the green leaves.

Jo_R_2

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I'm not brave enough to make a quiche yet, so I'm going to try broccoli soup using this recipe. Now it's out there I have to do it!

I make quiche LOL - and believe me I'm no chef!

Really easy:
3oz wholemeal flour/3oz self raising flour/3oz butter - butter rubbed into flour (I also add some herbs/a dash of veggie bouillon for flavour.) Add a splash of water (go easy!) until it makes a soft dough. Roll out to size of a flan dish and line, and stab with a fork and bake for about 10 mins.

In meantime, fry onion, add grated carrot and frozen sweetcorn (you can vary what you put in, like you can add pre-cooked broccoli, or chunks of red pepper, but I tend to stick with three ingredients.) Fry gently until soft. Spread over base of quiche case. Add a handful of butter beans or other beans (I lke chick peas.)

Break three eggs into a bowl and whisk. Add a handful of cheese and mix in, and seasoning, I usually use black pepper but don't add any salt as the cheese is fine for this.

Bake at gas 7 (sorry don't know equivalents!) for around 20-30 mins, I usually find it doesn't take too long before it starts to gently brown on top.

I have found this recipe means the base is slightly more crumbly than a shop-bought one, because of the w/m flour. It's reeeeally easy to do with a three year old and a shouting eight month old round your feet and I usually serve it with some bits of salad and HM potato wedges.

Gingham_Ribbon

Gingham_Ribbon

Thanks for the recipe, sexymouse. The BBC site is running very slow this morning so I'll try to look at it again later. Sharra, I'll try yours soon too. Thanks.

Jo, you inspired me to experiment. I made a quiche! I will post a pic later. Here's the recipe:

Leek and butterbean flan

Line dish with wholemeal shortcrust pastry, !!!!! base and bake for 10 minutes.

Small leek
Tin butterbeans rinsed and drained
clove garlic
parsley
1 egg, beaten
2oz grated cheese
milk and single cream to total of 150

Fry small chopped leek in garlic and veg oil
Rinse and drain butterbeans. Add parsley and leek
Add to dish.
Top with 2oz grated cheese
Mix 1 beaten egg with 150 of milk/single cream mixture

Bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

Now can anyone explain to me what the difference between a flan and a quiche is please?!

Gingham_Ribbon

STANDARD VEGETABLE BAG @ £10.55
Lady Balfour Potatoes
Carrots
Garlic
Cauliflower
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Courgettes
White Mushrooms
Celery
Hass Avocados
Eggs £1.25

Morrisons:

Mozzarella
Cheddar
Milk
Single cream
Chick peas
onion (This came to about £9 but I spent extra on some more salad etc later in week.)

STANDARD FRUIT BAG (suitable 2-4 people) @ £7.50
Mango/Ruby Grapefruit
Bananas
Navel Oranges
Conference Pears
Royal Gala Apples
Kiwi

Gingham_Ribbon

Churchmouse, I didn't think of adding the cheese to the galette dough/batter! I was going to layer it on top of the leek but made the quiche instead, so I'll give that a go this week. Lovely idea.

Gingham_Ribbon

Lunches:

Courgette quiche with grated carrot and mixed seed salad
Cold creamy pasta salad
Cheese and spring onion sandwich
Cold pasta salad with PSB pesto
Crusty bread with red lentil and swede pate
Baked potatoes with PSB pesto and mozzarella
Cauliflower soup and crusty bread


Dinners:

Troll's bean burgers with carrot and seed salad and roast potatoes with garlic and rosemary
Pasta with avocado dressing
Leek and cheddar galette with quick braised celery
Courgette quiche with crusty bread and carrot and seed salad
Sharra's creamy mushroom and chickpea pasta
Pizza with courgette, onion, olives
Cauliflower soup and fruit crumble

**purpleprincess**

Hi Gingham!! Thank you for all your fab ideas, we're not veggie but love eating veggie dinners, I do get stuck for inspiration sometimes and these have really helped!!

Couple of questions for you if you don't mind.....

could you please post the recipes for

• Broccoli and potato gratin
• Nut roast
• HM mushy peas

(or direct me to their location)

Also, where can I find/how can I make Aubergine pickle???

Thank you!!

Gingham_Ribbon

The nut roast I have been buying but if anyone has a recipe I'd be glad of it. The broccoli and potato gratin I didn't make but I was just going to make a cheese sauce with garlic in, slice the potatoes thinly and steam with the broccoli for a few minutes before putting in the oven with cheese sauce on top and add some grated cheese to top at the end. Again, if anyone has a recipe that'd be grand.

The aubergine pickle is lovely. It's with the lime pickle and mango chutney etc in Morrisons near the curry pastes. I stir a little of any of them into curries for more flavour.