veggie burgers

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:57 pm

Ian's a veggie and when he's here i dont eat meat and we eat quorn in curries etc and you would'nt know the difference from chicken.

I do have to add that i do love meat although i dont have a lot of it.

Gawd i sound like finbar saunders fnar fnar :wah:

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:16 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: Does the smell of bacon frying, have the same effect on vegetarians as it does on the rest of us. Is it hard for them to resist ?He loves the smell of bacon but eats the veggie option, which smells & tastes like smokey bacon crisps! :-2

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:26 pm

What is quorn?

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:38 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: Does the smell of bacon frying, have the same effect on vegetarians as it does on the rest of us. Is it hard for them to resist ?

I like the smell of bacon cooking, but it doesn't make me want to eat it. It's just another nice smell for my nozzies. I've generally gone off meat altogether. I will eat meat if there's absolutely no alternative.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:48 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: OM posted that he had become a veggie burger. As a fully paid up member of the red meat brigade, I am actually not opposed to eating vegetarian stuff

But what I do want to know is, suggestions for vegetarian food/recipes without going anywhere near that god awful tofu and quorn and stuff they use to make things look like sausages

I am actually drinking soya milk on my breakfast cereal (not by itsef ugh !) I like it

So, any tips ?

Get a vegetarian cookbook.

I have 7 vegetarian and bean cookbooks. There are hundreds of recipes without soya/tofu.

Have you tried marinated tofu, though. It's rather nice. I don't like ordinary soft/hard tofu. It's only good for using as a mix with something else in cooking.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:58 pm

And don't forget beans on toast and stuffed baked potatoes. Cheese/egg/potato salads for hot days.

I've got other recipe books too that are meat/poultry/game/fish based but they also have vegetarian recipes in them too.

I've even got vegetarian recipes from the beginning of the 20th century. These include cheese balls, cheese cakes, cheese pudding, cheese pyramids, cheese souffle, cheese straws, egg balls, eggs baked with tomatoes, eggs curried, poached eggs, scalloped eggs, scrambled eggs, Swiss eggs, fritters, lentil cutlets, macaroni cheese, macaroni cutlets, nut cutlets, nut salad, omelettes, savoury pie, soups, vegetable pie, and more.

mostly though, I'll just have a cheese and marmite sarny.:wah:

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:46 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: OM posted that he had become a veggie burger. As a fully paid up member of the red meat brigade, I am actually not opposed to eating vegetarian stuff

But what I do want to know is, suggestions for vegetarian food/recipes without going anywhere near that god awful tofu and quorn and stuff they use to make things look like sausages

I am actually drinking soya milk on my breakfast cereal (not by itsef ugh !) I like it

So, any tips ?

Most Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians and have some great vegetarian recipes. My grandparents were missionaries in that faith and I can remember my grandmother (when I was 5) making a mock turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner. I love meat and glad I never followed in their footsteps.

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:55 pm

chonsigirl wrote: What is quorn?

It's a mushroom substitute.

I hate soya and tofu and loathe marinated tofu, but quorn is fabulous!

Quorn mince looks like ordinary mince but is VERY low in fat and cooks in just a few minutes, from frozen. The only problem is that its tasteless. So mix in tomato sauce or tomato puree, stock and herbs plus anything else you fancy, eg, baked beans, sweetcorn, mushrooms, any veggies, leftoves, whatever.

Put it on pasta and sprinkle some cheese on top and you have a fab spag bog;

put it with mash and you have a fab shepherds pie!

You CANT taste the difference from ordinary beef mince (except its less greasy and more flavoursome with herbs and stock) AND its a healthier option!

ANY mince recipe can use quorn instead and the chicken style pieces can be used instead of chicken (VERY useful once bird flu hits our shores and chicken is off the menu!)

One fab & VERY easy recipe that we like is to buy a yellow box of taco dinner stuff.

Chuck quorn in the pot with some chopped mushrooms and sweetcorn add water and the taco powder from the box. (Its better with 2 packets of taco powder so buy a 2nd spare sachet of taco powder.) Open a bag of grated cheese and chuck it in a bowl. Open a bag of mixed salad and chuck it in another bowl. There's salsa sauce in the yellow box, empty it into a third bowl. The yellow box has 12 taco shells in it. Put 6 shells on a plate and microwave for 1 1/2 minutes. Then microwave the other 6 shells. The quorn mixture cooks in 5 mins, them empty the mixture into a bowl. In 10 mins you have a very delicious dinner!

Hold a shell, put in some quorn mixture, a little grated cheese on top, a little salad on top of that and some salsa sauce on top of that (if you like salsa, I dont) then munch! It's gorgeous! Can be a bit messy tho! Enjoy!

PS Leave the Linda McCartney veggie stuff in the shop! Its overpriced tasteless cardboard!

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:05 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote:

But what I do want to know is, suggestions for vegetarian food/recipes without going anywhere near that god awful tofu and quorn and stuff they use to make things look like sausages

So, any tips ?

I buy ready made, frozen hamburger patties made from portobello mushrooms.

Very good, indeed !

R.B.

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:10 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: Does the smell of bacon frying, have the same effect on vegetarians as it does on the rest of us. Is it hard for them to resist ?

No temptation for me.

I've recently been working in a store in a small shopping mall. There's a diner across the hallway, and our store smells like bacon, toast and coffee until the early afternoon.

R.B.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:24 am

I don't know if you have this product there, Arnie, but Pepperidge Farms makes a really good veggie burger. Zapped in the micro for about 90 seconds with some muenster cheese....yummmy!! Frozen food section of my grocery.

No tofu, or any of that crap, but the sodium is a tad high, so if you watch your salt intake, read the label first.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:44 am

i'm Italian. i grew up on fantastic Italian foods. and my Mom was southern. so i had southern traditional foods as well as classic Italian foods. i would just as soon have another heart attack as give up what i loved all my life, the proscuitto, the fish, the sausage. etc etc. read any Italian cookbook. life to me is about flavor and sensuality of food. good food. good sex. what the hell, i'm not living forever, but i am going to have the food and the man i want. if it takes off a few years of being a slave to the south beach diet, then screw it.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:50 am

Lon wrote: Most Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians and have some great vegetarian recipes. My grandparents were missionaries in that faith and I can remember my grandmother (when I was 5) making a mock turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner. I love meat and glad I never followed in their footsteps.

I can't say that I particularly want to make something that's like an animal product.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:01 am

LC - I just cooked an Italian veal dish.. with a load of weird mushrooms and loads of bacon.. all simmered in garlic, oregano and red wine. It was not bad!! There's loads of great Italian pasta dishes which don't have meat - basil pesto with pinenuts. Mushroom dishes.

I thought Quorn was what grew in the midwest ifn you happened to come originally from Noo Joisey. Or Queens.. grin.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:08 am

AussiePam wrote: LC - I just cooked an Italian veal dish.. with a load of weird mushrooms and loads of bacon.. all simmered in garlic, oregano and red wine. It was not bad!! There's loads of great Italian pasta dishes which don't have meat - basil pesto with pinenuts. Mushroom dishes.

I thought Quorn was what grew in the midwest ifn you happened to come originally from Noo Joisey. Or Queens.. grin.

The company grow their own mushies. I don't know where though.

venus · Post by **venus** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:18 am

Well lm a veggie who loves food and there are lots of ways of making meat dishes with a substitute.

mexican chicken, stirfry, curry, casseerole all with quorn chick either the fillets or pieces.

sheperds pie, chilli, pasta dishes etc etc the list is endless all done with veggie mince and like soneone else said its all low in fat etc

l have made dishes for avid meat eaters who swore they would be able to tell the difference and they didnt..

Im with abbeys husband on hte bacon substitute and also a sandwhich meat sub..no reason to live on nut cutlets etc there are loads of choices:D