Only freedom will do

gallygirl

Filth? Surely not!

One man's filth is another man's entertainment .

I'm loving the smell of the giant pot of SC lentil soup that is on the go (inspired by GG).

Fine. Ignore my advice on the oxtail but get the bl**dy lentils out :rotfl:.

edinburgher

I'm not badmouthing entertainment, but I can't quite picture myself with a collection

Anyway, let's take this discussion back to the land of SFW.

Fine. Ignore my advice on the oxtail but get the bl**dy lentils out .

If it's any consolation, I put chorizo in.

Karmacat

As a longstanding veggie, if you're cutting down the amount of meat you eat, you need to think about which foods complement one another. Soya is famous as the only bean having *all* the essential amino acids. But another combo which has everything is rice and lentils, eaten together. For texture's sake, only use red lentils as a sort of thickener, they're so tiny they dissolve.

The other thing is tofu - its soy, of course, and terribly bland and textureless on its own. But if you freeze it and fry it, couple it with the sort of sauce you like, it chews like steak - not fall-apart steak, but stewing steak, sort of thing. As does seitan mushrooms, which are astonishing. Before I found out about them, I was served them in a restaurant, and I complained they'd given me a meat dish :o:o how's a working class girl from the north of England supposed to know?

And don't buy tins of beans, will you? Buy dried, soak 'em, slow cook 'em, then use them in whatever dish you're concoting

HTH.

edinburgher

Are seitan the mushrooms they make mock duck from? Actually, now that I Google it, it's wheat gluten?

Another one to add to the list would be quinoa, although I would be wary as to where it was grown.

I use dried beans and pulses wherever possible, although I can't always find a dried equivalent. We've currently got a sack of chick peas, some 10 bean mix from WR and some rather ancient lentils doing the rounds...

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

If it's any consolation, I put chorizo in.

Not really. Haven't recovered from Tom Kerridge's chorizo, chick pea and pollock casserole on Sat Kitchen today - nearly had me licking the TV :rotfl:. I love chorizo but on a diet and it's not exactly low fat

Edit: KC when I decluttered some old sauces yesterday it made a gap for the box of Tofu to be seen :eek:. I'm building up to it slowly, tomorrow I may actually pick the box up .

muddywhitechicken

gallygirl wrote: »

Edit: KC when I decluttered some old sauces yesterday it made a gap for the box of Tofu to be seen :eek:. I'm building up to it slowly, tomorrow I may actually pick the box up .

GG - if you can't face the tofu in a healthy recipe, this is delicious!

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

GG - if you can't face the tofu in a healthy recipe, this is delicious!

Needs to be healthy

That does sound nice - probably substitute the tofu with fish though .

muddywhitechicken

gallygirl wrote: »

Needs to be healthy

That does sound nice - probably substitute the tofu with fish though .

:rotfl:

I'm thinking of making this whilst Mr MWC is away (but using a stock cube!)

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

:rotfl:

I'm thinking of making this whilst Mr MWC is away (but using a stock cube!)

Lovely recipe - till it gets to the tofu :rotfl:.

edinburgher

That recipe looks fantabulous, KC, although it is physically impossible to split tofu. Mine has been known to split into boulders by the time I even get it out of the flippin' box! Slow cooked tofu in satay sauce is also healthy and tasty :think: