Vegetarian - eating out?

Varian I put chopped sun dried tomatoes in with the asparagus. Tasty and gives it a nice colour.

I said that I never eat meat in India.I also said that apart from Indian vegetarian menus that vegetarian food is boring.Which means, if I need to spell it out, that I find vegetarian food bland and uninspiring except for Indian menus.Simples.

I must add IMHO which as they are my own taste buds is very much the case.

But I wouldn't want to pay the same price for a tiny goat's cheese tart with a salad and chef's special beetroot as someone else's hearty steak pie with accompaniments

"Vegetarian meals are the most boring on earth apart from what is served in Indian restaurants."

This is what you said, lemongrove. The implication there is that vegetarian food is the most boring, but food served in Indian restaurants is even more boring.

I doubt whether anyone else read it that way, durhamjen.

I tried veggie for a few months. Nut roast on Xmas day and missed my turkey, but the thing that really sent me racing back to meat was tofu in a Thai restaurant. Yuk!

Why do vegetarians eat vegetarian 'sausages', 'bacon' and stuff that looks like mince? I have eaten the stuff that looks like mince in a chilli but why copy meat with look-a-like products? Surely more imagination is needed?

It's just a shape, Jalima. I never eat bacon, but sausages are just a shape, as are burgers. The only reason sausages are that shape is because they were stuffed inside the animals intestines. That did require imagination!

My grandson often eats me out of tofu. Delicious.
Sounds like you really gave vegetarianism a chance, Coco.

durhamjen I don't live in central London - we're not millionaires! However, I worked in Chancery Lane about 10 years ago so I assume Vanilla Black was opened after that time. I'll look out for it when I'm next in the area.

Yes, it was just before we moved from York that they moved. I have been here seven years.
It's somewhere to go for a special treat, not an everyday meal. Unless you are millionaires, of course. Take someone you want to impress.

The same tired mushroom risotto, goats cheese tarts and pasta are served up in Australia too. Super salads are gaining popularity which is good.

One of the worst and I have had a few awful meals was a pasta dish. The only vegetarian meal was predictably risotto as a main dish and pasta as a entree. I asked could I have the pasta as a main dish, yes he said we can bulk it out. It was terrible, bulked out with green uncooked beans, hardly any pasta, so half cold.

We had an Indian meal the other night, the type of food that makes you go mmmmmm. Home cooked though, DD made butter chicken and rice, I made Tarkadal and a potato and cauliflower dish, DS made naan and DIL made samosas but used puff pasty and a recipe that was very spicy and I could have eaten them all week, they were so delicious. Except for the meat that I never eat it was far nicer than most restaurants, we really can cook delicious food and I love it when my family get together and do their best dishes for a family meal.

As a vegetarian of 25 years' standing, my pet hate (apart from goat's cheese, blue cheese, beetroot, etc) is that so many fish-eaters have jumped on my bandwagon. I wish someone would invent a word they could use, or rather WOULD use, as I resent being tarred by their fishy brush. And it's really annoying to go into a restaurant and ask what veggie dishes there are, only to be shown the fish section of the menu.

Quick recommendation though. I recently bought M&S's new beetroot and lemon filled pasta (you only taste the lemon, not the beetroot!) and am now addicted to it. Heavenly fresh taste.

'Being tarred with their fishy brush' love it! ?

I do like steamed beetroot and it goes in all my salads.

Pescatarians, HMarie.

HMarie

My friend says she is vegetarian but in fact she is a pescetarian as she will eat fish.

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it just took me longer to type!

At least we agree with each other, Jalima.

Does anyone eat at Mamie's in Covent Garden? Lovely veg.

I had to chuckle when Debbie McGee's veggie option on Master Chef last night was mushroom rrisoto.

Norah Yes! I'm an Edith Piaf fan - delicious

Another favorite, if we are to the park, is Graze in Bowness-on-Windermere.

I can't stand the taste or smell of goat's cheese, but I have found if you tell them that they sometimes offer to use another cheese. I did this recently and got a caramelised red onion and Camembert tart.