Help! I'm incompetent in the kitchen!

PinkLipgloss

Evening all,

I have heard wonderful things about you all on the other threads - so I thought I'd ask for your help.

I am vegetarian and I am currently eating way too much pasta but am pretty much at a loss for other ideas (back home I was a student and lived off ready made veggie meals as I could never be bothered cooking).

Now that I'm "more mature and sensible" :rotfl: I would love to be able to prepare fresh veggie meals from scratch and I'm in bad need of some recipes. I did find some online resources but they didn't cater to my level of cooking stupidity (e.g. I have no idea how many grams equates to a portion! why can't they just say "serves 2" or whatever!)

Any link/tips/help would be grately appreciated!

m.colak

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

Evening all,

I have heard wonderful things about you all on the other threads - so I thought I'd ask for your help.

I am vegetarian and I am currently eating way too much pasta but am pretty much at a loss for other ideas (back home I was a student and lived off ready made veggie meals as I could never be bothered cooking).

Now that I'm "more mature and sensible" :rotfl: I would love to be able to prepare fresh veggie meals from scratch and I'm in bad need of some recipes. I did find some online resources but they didn't cater to my level of cooking stupidity (e.g. I have no idea how many grams equates to a portion! why can't they just say "serves 2" or whatever!)

Any link/tips/help would be grately appreciated!

Thought i'd give an idea:

Veggie chilli con carnie

1 pack of quorn mince 225g
1 veg stock cube
1 motherpride stir in sauce (chilli flavour)
half an onion
1 tin of beans
1 small tin of kidney beans
tablespoon of olive oil

oil in pan heat then add onion (chopped). Lightly fry and then add some chilli flakes if want before adding quorn mince. Cook for 5-10 mins approx (medium heat) until quorn becomes slightly brown. Sprinkle vegetable cube over top and then let fry for another 5mins. Add kidney beans and then beans then wait 5 before adding sauce. Leave for 5 mins out a high heat stirring occasionally.

Serve and taste's just like normal chilli except veggie:D ps don't forget the rice (half small teacup of rice for 1 person). Put on rice at same time as you start chilli to make sure cooked properly (med heat). For an extra tip poor boiling water over rice after you have drained it to remove all remaining starch.

gunsandbanjos

This is a 4 week meal plan by Gingham Ribbon, it is vegetarian and has some fantastic ideas. I'm slowly working my way through it to try and incorporate some vegetarian meals into my week.

This is the complete cooking collection, if you scroll to the bottom (its in alphabetical order) there is a whole section on vegetarian cooking.

HTH:D