is there any vegetarians here lads? I feel this step is about to bring my life to another level of happiness and fulfilment
No but Id say theres plenty if vegetables
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Did it for a year, pal. Missed meat and fish too much for a finish.
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I go veggie a few times now year pal. Will stay off meat for a few months at a time. Usually after xmas into the spring, and do a detox too.
Hugh’s Veg book is excellent. Some very good core skills and base recipes that you can tweak yourself. You can use various nuts and leafy herbs to make a pesto, not just pine nuts and basil - e.g. walnuts and parsley. Enjoy it pal.
your inner roaster won out
I haven’t been as excited in years
I was travelling through Asia…too much nice food to miss out on.
would you not like a nice lentil curry?
I love it, often have veggie dishes but I love sea food and meat too much… The first thing i ate after the year was a baby octopus curry.
Jesus that green saffron dhal curry is exceptionally nice.
@Tassotti - from Hugh’s Veg book - this was waiting for me at home tonight. Sourdough bread with squash, walnut, goat’s cheese and a drizzle of honey.
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That’d be nice now with a rasher on top.
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lovely, but I don’t ate bread
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Why not?
white bread is poison
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That’s a spelt sourdough that Mrs. Moth made - it’s far from poison. Now, store-bought bread… correct! Grade-A poison. Lidl’s greatest trick on the Irish public is the installation of those ovens and baking bread in-store. If you saw the shit they add to it… “but it’s freshly baked!”
Btw, a good yeast white bread is better for you than brown soda. Any idea why? This’ll test ya!
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tell me
Throw up a recipe for homemade sourdough there, pal.
It’s down to the yeast and the processes you use to prep the bread for the oven. When flour absorbs water the proteins in it form bonds to make elastic chains of gluten (same as in brown bread, only yeast helps the bread rise much more than you’d find in a soda bread). Kneading a standard white bread before baking has the effect of working out the gluten - stretching it, letting it rise, then knocking it back and repeating 2 or 3 times. This makes it less dense and easier to digest. Probably why we have high levels of IBD and gluten intolerance in Ireland with our high intake of brown soda bread.
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