My apologies to all. I have been busy and have fallen behind with my reading. I will therefore be launching a reading campaign tonight, but comments may be short and banal. This isn’t too far from my normal standard, but I thought I’d get my apologies in first.
Same for the brown potato soup. It is not my best, but it is acceptable for someone working in the cold and requiring warmth and nourishment at mid-day. It is healthy and free of additives. It was, I confess, meant to be celery soup but having over-softened (burnt) the onions and added what seems to have been too much potato, the result is a reminder to look at more recipes. If at first you don’t succeed, rename the recipe. The plan was to add Stilton cheese, but I may wait until I produce a soup where you can taste the celery. No point throwing good ingredients after bad.
Tonight’s cauliflower was huge. I couldn’t cut steaks as it would have needed a machete, and I’m not sure we could manage a whole one. Not sure what we will be eating for the next few days (I’m back to a no menu/no clue situation) but I’m fairly sure it’s going to feature cauliflower.
Anyway, it’s time for the cheese sauce now, and a nice healthy meal of oven-roasted parsnips, carrots and leeks with cauliflower and cheese sauce. I’m resigned to, rather than enthusiastic about our new vegetarian lifestyle, but sometimes you have to do these things. It cheap, it’s healthy, it’s better for the planet, and it’s possibly more moral (I really don’t have a problem with killing animals to eat them). Whether it’s more fun, I wouldn’t like to say.
I am behind and catching up, but yesterday and today were not good days. I took a cat in on emergency yesterday, where she was diagnosed with left heart disease. The clinic kept her overnight and tried to stabilize her with various drugs, but she had a clot in one of her atria, and it moved this morning, lodging in a front leg. She was in pain, and could not survive outside the oxygen cage. She had to be put down this morning. It has not been a good day.
I’m sorry to hear that Lavinia. It’s always a blow to lose a companion.
I think you should write the alternative cookery book
I can certainly produce alternatives to food. 🙂
You can’t go wrong with cauliflower and cheese sauce. It is a favourite in my house.
Yes, always been a favourite of mine, and more so now that I have discovered an easier way to make the sauce (just melt cheese and a drop of milk in the pan – so much easier than making a rux). 🙂
I make mine in the microwave. Also very easy.
I’ve never really come to terms with microwaves – too modern for me. 🙂
We’ve gone from vegetarian—pretty easy—to mostly vegan—very hard. Onward, ho!
One day at a time . . .
I would find it very hard to give up meat completely. We don’t eat meat every day and I enjoy vegetarian meals but I would get extremely bored if I never ate meat.
You are right, but after deciding to eat less meat I have found myself eating even less than I planned. Vegetarian food is surprisingly good.
Cauliflower cheese is always fun in my book . . . but it is quite a limited book, I admit.
It’s funny. When I’m not cooking for my husband I totally eat veggies and maybe eggs. But I pretty much always order meat when I go out to eat
It sems a waste not to when you are out, and the vegetarian food can be quite salty/processed when you eat in a restaurant.
And they often add engineered product, which to me defeats the purpose
Yes. My favourite meal at the moment is vegetable stew with dumplings. It needs vegetables, water, flour, vegetarian suet and herbs or a stock cube. Almost as natural as is possible.
I’ve been doing sauteed veggies with pasta and a touch of cream and parm
Cream and parmesan – a bit adventurous for me. 🙂
I live on the edge
That is often the way with you cutting edge media stars . . .
😂