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Do you have a nut roast recipe Foxgloves?  We love the Mr T one but its been out of stock forever!

Dottles1

I too have used up my (rather old) flour stocks but I do have some gram flour in.  Jack Munro mentioned using this with the addition of an egg, to make pizza dough.  I might try that in the next few days.  I don't have cheese in s I'm dairy intolerant but I think I could make it quite tasty without.  Have you used gram flour for anything Foxgloves?

PurpleFairy26

I use it to thicken curry sauce in one of my favourite recipes @Dottles1 I also saw Delia coated her chickpea burgers in it in a recipe I found this morning after foxgloves post. Not sure it’s the one you were referring to but sounds yummy and we have chickpeas soaking at the moment. 

foxgloves

Kayannie - Thanks for the author recommendation. I've made a note of that for future library excursions.

Moving_forward - I sometimes do a cheese & peanut one, but mostly I've used the recipe from the standard Crank's Vegetarian Cookbook which we've mentioned on here a few times as it is packed with useful chunky food.

Dottles1 - Yes, I've used gram flour, but only in an Indian vegetable side dish where along with everything else, it kind of made a nice spicy coating.

Purps - It could well be the same recipe. I use the one from her vegetarian cookbook. It says to coat the burgers with beaten egg then wholemeal flour, so I just do that, but there's no reason why gram flour wouldn't work fine. I've even zizzed up oats for coating them when I haven't had much else in.

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foxgloves said:

Moving_forward - I sometimes do a cheese & peanut one, but mostly I've used the recipe from the standard Crank's Vegetarian Cookbook which we've mentioned on here a few times as it is packed with useful chunky food.


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Ah! I think I brought that book on your recommendation on kindle but haven't actually tried anything.  Time for a looksie!

foxgloves

Hello Chilly April Mortals,
Gosh it dropped cold here today. I think all those sunny sessions sitting out on my bench by the pond reading, have spoiled me. I got up this morning & put on handknitted socks as my feet were so chilly & have been wearing my Mum's nice purple hoodie all day. Mr F mentioned lighting the fire, but I gave him a look & I think he abandoned the idea. I hope so, as the heating has been off over a week now & I really want to start building a bit of credit ready for next winter.
Well, I was brought breakfast in bed this morning! How nice was that? And he even went downstairs to fetch me a coffee top-up. He's a good 'un! But the later getting up time has put me out all day. I'm just a natural early riser & that's all there is to it! It's been a bit of a bread day today, because while I was making a loaf with a small bag of spelt flour which was sitting all by itself like a billy no-mates at M*rrisons at the start of the flour shortages, Mr F was driving a bit further north in our county to a fully functioning windmill (it was even in sail when he arrived!) to collect my flour order. I ordered plenty, kind of without being silly about it. It will be lovely not to have to ration wholemeal flour for a while. I haven't been able to buy any for ages, although the above mentioned supermarket did have limited amount of white bread flour & plain flour last time we shopped there. So I enjoyed looking at my lovely new flour bags & putting them away. I ordered some jumbo oats too & a bag of semolina. I've never had wholemeal semolina before. I hope it works well for my old semolina cake recipe. I bet it will. I will try it later in the month.
Apart from bread baking, I've tidied up & have sorted out my spring/summer clothes & packed away my winter ones and haven't really done any other jobs today. It's Mr F's cooking night, so my only remaining task is to pop down to the greenhouse to cover up my plant babies, then I will read some more of my book.
Oh wouldn't you just know it? After the greyest toe-freezing day here, the sun has suddenly appeared, just as it's too late really to do anything! It had blimming well better be thinking about putting in an appearance tomorrow!
Take care all, I enjoyed reading all your comments. 
F x

foxgloves

Lol, defo, Moving_forwards.......as techinically, without 'a looksie', that's just a SPEND!
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It was all your fault foxgloves.  You mentioned baking some type of biscuit and that was that the book was purchased, glanced at and nought much else! I am definately going to try the nut roast adding the brocolli and other ingredients from our fave Mr T one.

foxgloves

Baking a biscuit? That doesn't sound like me! (Lol, it so does, as am a biscuit hoover!) I wonder if it was the Country Biscuits. I love making those. They are so buttery & just right with a nice strong coffee, but you can kind of convince yourself they are good for you because of the wholemeal flour. I bought the paperback edition of that book when it first came out.....I think if would have been around 1986 or so. And I've put a tick by all the recipes I've tried over the years. My copy has sadly exploded into a couple of battered covers & a whole load of ancient loose yellowing pages, so I am going to source another one when I get around to it. I get quite nostalgic about cookery books though & have sent a couple off to the charity shop in the past which I now very much wish I'd kept. 
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foxgloves said:

Baking a biscuit? That doesn't sound like me! (Lol, it so does, as am a biscuit hoover!) I wonder if it was the Country Biscuits. I love making those. They are so buttery & just right with a nice strong coffee, but you can kind of convince yourself they are good for you because of the wholemeal flour. I bought the paperback edition of that book when it first came out.....I think if would have been around 1986 or so. And I've put a tick by all the recipes I've tried over the years. My copy has sadly exploded into a couple of battered covers & a whole load of ancient loose yellowing pages, so I am going to source another one when I get around to it. I get quite nostalgic about cookery books though & have sent a couple off to the charity shop in the past which I now very much wish I'd kept. 
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Yes I think it was the country biscuits.  When I can get wholemeal flour I will try them out.  I;ve printed out the nut roast and the savory crumble for starters. Like you we are meat eaters who eat veggie food as we like the taste and its just food.