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Can anyone recommend a good vegetarian cookery book?

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GillT57 Fri 14-Feb-14 15:33:07

I have always had mixed feelings about eating meat, and have decided to give up beef again ( did it for about 6 years once) as I drive past some beautiful bullocks in the farm yard on my way to work and cant help thinking of what is ahead of them.sad The problem is so many vegetarian cook books replace meat with cheese and eggs, and i dont want to eat gloopy cheesey vegetables all the time. I do quite a lot with lentils, and love Indian food, but dont want to eat it every night. I also plan on eating fish. Any suggestions or recommendations?

durhamjen Sun 16-Feb-14 00:21:47

www.viva.org.uk has lots of recipes, including stuff about the 5:2 diet.

TriciaF Sun 16-Feb-14 13:27:35

We were vegetarian for a few years, when everyone was at home, and I used a Rose Elliot book, also Sarah Brown. We were living near Hull at the time and she came to do a demonstration for a women's group I belonged to.
We still have no-meat meals 5 days a week.
Mostly I use lentils and other pulses for protein. Plus fish.

Ariadne Sun 16-Feb-14 14:15:06

I still use my Cranks cookery book, and am very fond of Rose Elliot and Delia too. (Roquefort cheesecake with pear salad!) My favourite right now is by Yotam Ottolenghi, who is Israeli but combines that with lots of Middle Eastern and Mediterranen ideas. He is not vegetarian, but many of his recipes are, and they are spicy and different.

(Bit late here to refer to the veal- but I became a vegetarian over 35 years ago, and the what finally convinced me was being in a queue at Dover docks while lorries full of veal calves drove on to the ferry. The sound will stay with me always.)

GillT57 Mon 17-Feb-14 09:15:22

Thank you all so much for your suggestions, and apologies for delay in my reply, but due to the high winds and rain our broadband connection at home got blown out! It has been like having my arm cut off. I too do not like HFW as I find him a little pompous and unrealistic, yes we could all go fully organic and cook on our eco Aga if we earned what he did from telling the rest of us what to do! I dont know why I didnt hink of Delia ( or Saint Delia is she is known in my house) as her recipes always work. I have Ottolnghi book, he is fab. So all I need to do is have a look at Amazon and see if I can find a Cranks book. Will keep you posted. Thank you all for your help. cupcake

Mumseyme Mon 17-Feb-14 13:18:38

Have you tried the NHS app Be Food Smart? They have both vegi and meat with quick easy recipes.