5 June 2022

Visitors

 

See above. We had special visitors this weekend  - our lovely son Ian and his equally lovely girlfriend Sarah. They came up to Sheffield from London to attend a wedding. Here they are in their glad-rags just before I ferried them to the town hall in Clint. The official part of the proceedings happened in the city's registry office.

Today, Sunday, meat was of course off the menu for Sunday dinner so I had the bright idea of making a vegan pie. It had to be big enough to serve six adults and a baby of sixteen months.

The pie contained sliced leeks, small florets of broccoli, fried onions, courgette slices, flat leaf parsley and a cheese sauce that I made from vegan milk, cornflour and grated mature vegan cheese. It  turned out well and the vegan chef was duly impressed.

We ate it with roasted potatoes, Scottish baby potatoes, roasted carrots and leeks and garden peas with vegan gravy. It was well worth the effort. 

Dessert was a "Bosh!" vegan carrot cake from Sainsburys along with sliced English strawberries.

Here is my massive pie, with its delicious vegan filling hidden from view. You will just have to imagine it. I didn't follow a recipe. Just used my noddle...

35 comments:

  1. That's such a beautiful photo and your meal sounds excellent. You're a creative cook! My dad used to say "glad rags" quite a bit. I sure do miss him.

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    1. Like you, I miss my father Margaret even though he died in 1979.

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    2. Love has no time limit.

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  2. Anonymous12:33 am

    It's a very nice photo of your son and his girlfriend. You have a book full of vegetarian recipes at hand and you go off on your own way.

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    1. Ironically, I have never been one for following recipes. I prefer to cook from instinct based on past experience and imagination.

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  3. I find it challenging to make something without following a recipe. Your visitor couple looks great (and happy)

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    1. I feel more comfortable cooking from instinct. I especially like cooking haddock!

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  4. I'm impressed by your culinary ability ... vegan of otherwise.

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    1. I hereby invite your good self and Lady Kline round for an evening meal next Thursday evening.

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  5. Ian must have inherited his vegan cooking talents from you! That looks delicious! I am a recipe follower usually.

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    1. Normally we have roasted meat on a Sunday so I had to come up with a vegan alternative.

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  6. Don't you just love when you put something together and it turns out great? The problem for me is always when I try to repeat that success. It never turns out quite the same.

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    1. I have had very few disasters in the kitchen.

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  7. The pie looks delicious. You are clever. It's been a long while since I made anything that required pastry. Pizza dough is as close as I get these days.

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    1. I hope this will have inspired you River.

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  8. I don't usually follow recipes although I sometimes browse through them for inspiration for a make-it-up-as-you-go-along.

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    1. I suspect that most recipe books are for decoration.

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  9. Bob Marley had a minor hit called 'No Rum And No Pie'.

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    1. I preferred his big hit about that city in Devon - "Exeter".

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  10. It looks delicious - may give your ingredients a try, though doubt I'll find vegan cheese or milk in the supermarket. How did you make your pastry, or do you use margarine instead of butter?
    By the way, I frequently read that margarine is one of the most deadly edible substances, and can trigger certain cancers. It is, after all a by-product of the oil industry!

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    1. I must admit that I cheated by buying two rolls of ready made puff pastry from Lidl but please keep this secret.

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  11. Your son and his girlfriend make a beautiful couple, glad rags or not.
    The pie looks delicious even though we have to imagine what it is like inside. Like you, I rarely follow recipes but I do like them for inspiration. In the end, I cook what I think pairs nicely, matches the season, occasion and number of eaters. I am nowhere near as accomplished a cook as you, though, being a single non-cooking household during the week.

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    1. You have made my big head grow bigger Meike! Now I will never be able to get through the doorway!

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  12. Yes I wondered about that when I saw the puff pastry. It looks delicious and filling and plenty of vegetables to go with it.

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    1. All of us are vegan or vegetarian at times. It puzzles me why some meat eaters get angry or uppity about the very concept of veganism.

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  13. Not a vegan but I would eat a scoop of that anytime.

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  14. Sounds like a great meal. And that vegan pie looks beautiful!

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  15. Lovely photos, both!

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  16. That looks amazing. My kind of dish...I love anything surrounded in pastry. I'm a vegetarian with a few vegan friends and family. I can guarantee you I will be attempting something similar for a gathering this summer.

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  17. The only part of that pie that gives me pause is vegan cheese. Can vegan cheese really taste as good as the real thing? It's hard to imagine! Otherwise it sounds delicious. We had an almost vegan meal last night: fresh peas (from the market) and rice, steamed new potatoes (that I grew!) with butter and salt, sliced tomatoes, and corn on the cob. Delicious. We're making an effort to eat much less meat these days.

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  18. That sounds delicious. I must say, I always get a bit panicky at the idea of vegan cuisine as it usually seem to consist of things I've never heard of, but I think you probably hit the jackpot there. (By the way, my blog has been cranked into life again.)

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  19. You are truly a chef! Not a simple cook at YP's kitchen!

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  20. I salute you. Nicely done.

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