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[Roger Mexico]

1 hour ago, Numbnuts said:

Mmmmm I’m a bit of a cook and never tried veg lasagne . Going to try that this weekend . 

As always a good place to start is Felicity Cloake's 'Perfect' article on it:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/aug/14/how-to-cook-perfect-vegetable-lasagne

The good thing about those columns is that even if you don't follow her recipe to the letter she gives lots of links to alternatives and suggestions for variations and how they might taste different.  And there's lots of other suggestions in the comments that are worth browsing through.

[TheTeapot]

5 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said:

As always a good place to start is Felicity Cloake's 'Perfect' article on it:

 

She's great. Make these, they're incredible and dead easy 

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/dec/18/how-make-perfect-gougeres-cheese-puffs-felicity-cloake-recipe

[TheTeapot]

Cayenne pepper rather than nutmeg though.

[Kopek]

The imitation meats, while seeming like an oxymoron, do give new to 'veggy' meals something familiar to work with. The Quorn chicken and mince are easy substitutes for the meat equivalents,  sausages for a weekend brunch.

However, as the market has expanded, some 'plant' products on the shelves are really not too good, stodgy , cloying, they tend to give the market a bad name? I've tried a few and given up on them. There are plenty of veg that can be used instead!

Once you have the hang of veggy cooking, you shouldn't need substitutes???

[Roger Mexico]

24 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

Well it wasn’t a lasagne without meat mince

Lasagna has nothing to do with mince, it's the name of the pasta sheet being used (plural lasagne) and the baked dishes in which they are most commonly used.  But there's a whole ranges of such traditional dishes, with (as usual in Italy) hundreds of regional variations.  Just because a particular version is available frozen in British supermarkets doesn't make it universal or compulsory.

While we're on this topic, both burgers and sausages are shapes not recipes and people are entitled to mould anything they want into those shapes and call them that.  If you accept chicken burgers and beef sausages, then you have to accept non-meat versions as well.

I'm not a great fan of most meat substitute products as all the efforts seems to go into making the texture meat-like rather than having them taste of anything.  But burgers/sausages/whatever is what they are.

[WTF]

38 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

Well it wasn’t a lasagne without meat mince

 

lasagne

/ləˈzanjə,ləˈzɑːnjə/

noun

pasta in the form of sheets or wide strips.

an Italian dish consisting of lasagne baked with meat or vegetables and a cheese sauce.

 

 

googled it ,   notice the 'OR' between meat and vegetables ..........

but i do get what you mean , you can't have veggie chilli con carne as the carne bit refers to flesh/meat

[slinkydevil]

40 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

As long as they are not aggressive in trying to impose their own views upon me. ( Like a lot of cyclists do)

 

[Kopek]

6 minutes ago, WTF said:

and a cheese sauce.

Trad bechamel sauce with cheese on the top!!!

[Kopek]

8 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said:

both burgers and sausages are shapes not recipes

Isn't burger a contraction of Hamburger relating to a German 'beef patty'? Americans have further used it to describe minced beef in any form? It's convenient for us to refer to the shape as being any content but the French win out with their term 'patie', probably many years older than the German use?

[kevster]

Aren’t cows and sheep just processed grass?

Should be OK for vegetarians 

[La Colombe]

3 hours ago, mollag said:

I see nothing noble in it at all

I do. It's better for the environment. And it's animals innit. They're quite cute really. Even if they are quite tasty. 

[La Colombe]

1 hour ago, The Voice of Reason said:

Well it wasn’t a lasagne without meat mince

I'm guessing it was a vegetarian lasagne. 

[quilp]

Lasagne's a bit like having the pastry inside the pie. 

[La Colombe]

I love it. 

[Lilly]

I fed my dog plant food smoky bacon rashers this week, and he gave me such a look and sniffed it.  l don't think he was convinced; that's not his usual reaction to food; he normally wolfs it down.