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October 2015 £3.95 HealtHy • SuStainable • DeliciouS www.vegetarianliving.co.uk 56 meat-free reCipes Family feasts 25 dairy-free Comfort food ideas for everyone IndIan Courgette, InSpIratIon ltahbynmeeh t anrtd At home with prAshAd’s kAushy pAtel make your 100 own labneh get hooked on YEARS fermented favours of the women’s institute Super SquaSh SupperS seasonal produce, global infuences Mezze Style A shAring menu for friends healthy living vegan delight Rising staR lorraine pascale’s this dairy and gluten- olia hercules cooks a nutritious and free mousse cake is ukrainian feast inspired delicious dishes chocolate heaven by her childhood PLUS: Veggie Morocco | Halloween cookies | Posh toast toppers 001_VL63[OctCoverV7]digi.indd 1 20/08/2015 18:25 Feroglobin15 VegLiving FP Ad.qxp 10/08/2015 3:35pm Page 1 Is your family looking for IRON that’s gentle and great tasting? 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VL63_002.indd 2 14/08/2015 11:40:10 ADFERCONP 19-06-15E The UK’s best-selling, award-winning vegetarian magazine Rachel 22 Demuth ‘I fnd it fascinating to take Welcome one vegetable and cook it in a variety of ways, Te chillier days of October provide the perfect excuse using favours from all to head into the kitchen and try something new, and we over the world to achieve highly recommend the latest foodie trend – fermenting completely different and (page 29). You can ferment everything from beans to tea, but a great place to start is with labneh yogurt cheese. exciting results’ It’s cheap and easy to do – just take a few minutes to prepare it in the evening and by the morning you’ll have a delicious homemade ingredient that can be used for all kinds of sweet and savoury recipes, including our cover star courgette and thyme tart. Te Women’s Institute is celebrating its centenary year, and our feature (page 34) discovers these proactive women are about so much more than perfect preserves and beautiful bakes. For decades they’ve been championing chaRlotte issues as diverse as equal pay for women, Keeping Britain 29 Pike Tidy and Fairtrade food, and the modern WI’s campaigns ‘Fermented foods really have focused on sustainable farming and SOS for shake up the senses Honeybees – but they do still know how make a lovely and the taste buds… Victoria sandwich (page 37). Now barbecue season is over, it’s time to move on to and you don’t need a new approach to cooking for a crowd, whether it’s to invest in much feeding your family or a gathering of friends. We’ve equipment or time’ plenty of recipe ideas to inspire you, from the exotic to the everyday. Try Ghillie Basan’s mouth-watering Middle Eastern mezze (page 56); Prashad restaurant chef Kaushy Patel’s vibrant menu of Indian dishes (page 50); Liz Martin’s ‘make and take’ meals – with leftovers for lunch (page 44); or Lorraine Pascale’s nutritious yet delicious comfort cooking (page 40). Enjoy… Lindsey Harrad, Editor olia 60 heRcules ‘You have to be much more creative when cooking vegetarian. It can be so much fun – I love working with vegetables, they are all so beautiful’ Subscribe today… And receive these fabulous scales for FREE! See page 84 for full details. 03 003_VL63[editorial]NTSJ.indd 1 14/08/2015 16:21 COVER RECIPE: Courgette, thyme and labneh tart (page 33). Photograph by Tara Fisher From Fermented by Charlotte Pike (Kyle Books) © DAn PEARCE © KRIs KIRKhAm © TARA FIshER © ROB WICKs/EAT PICTUREs win! one of three In this issue… Grocycle mushroom kits, paGe 79 78 82 41 76 76 FooD matterS 15 Season’s eatings slow cooking from your october larder, 60 featuring wild mushrooms and orchard pears 50 56 Share the love 22 Join the squash club Ghillie Basan’s delicious middle eastern mezze 29 34 onion squash three ways: a Brazilian stew, menu is perfect for relaxed entertaining a coconut curry and turkish fatayer 22 60 Tales from a 56 29 Go fermented! Ukrainian kitchen Editor’s meet fermenting expert charlotte pike and olia hercules’s recipes draw on the pick learn how to make your own labneh cheese culinary traditions of her childhood 40 Suppers of substance 66 Get together 3 ways to buy lorraine pascale serves up hearty, sarah Beattie says a pumpkin is the gift that Never miss aN issue of comfort fare that’s good for you too keeps on giving when you’re feeding a crowd Vegetarian LiVing l S ubscribe: get the equivalent of 44 Make and take 72 Home cooking with Chava two free issues delivered direct Get two for the price of one, with liz martin’s suppress your inner ‘witch’ with easy family supper ideas – with tasty leftovers for lunch meals, plus convenient ‘cheats’ for busy days! to your door – see page 84 l B uy online at www.selectps.com 50 At my table 75 Sugar and spice l D ownload the digital edition prashad restaurant’s kaushy patel shares the create a batch of cute pumpkin cookies for from www.pocketmags.com vibrant indian dishes she makes at home halloween or thanksgiving gifts 04 | 004-5_VL63[Contents]NT3LHSJLH.indd 1 14/08/2015 17:25 Contents Subscribe today and receive a fabulous gift for FREE! – see page 84 50 18 89 Te success of the WI has been in its ability to 62 72 nurture a sense 80 Toast toppers regulars Jazz up ‘something on toast’ with these tasty of community... ideas for breakfast, lunch or tea 03 Welcome Staying relevant, 87 Pumpkin pie 07 Shopping List natasha Corrett’s healthier take on a classic stylish accessories for mezze-style entertaining that’s always been 88 Nourish yourself 08 New shoots the key lisa roukin’s free-from dishes achieve the news, views and ideas, including our pick of ideal balance of delicious and nutritious delicious veggie and vegan products 69 Back issues Marylyn Haines-evans on 100 Features Don’t miss out! order your copies here years of tHe Wi, page 34 34 Preserving Britain 92 Beauty notes the proactive women of the Wi celebrate 100 Discover our new regular beauty column. years of campaigning, baking and making jam! this month we’re in the pink for breast cancer 76 Wild ideas 94 Conversion tables and next issue get children inspired to save our bees, plus Cooking conversion tables, and Vegetarian cookies to bake and fun ideas for half term Living’s next issue on-sale date! 78 On the toadstool trail 98 Places to go: Morocco gardening editor alice Whitehead goes alex Bourke recommends where to eat out foraging for wild mushrooms in this north african holiday destination www.vegetarianliving.co.uk | 05 004-5_VL63[Contents]NT3LHSJLH.indd 2 19/08/2015 13:41 E Shoppinglist Nuts & nibbles Service, please Greet your guests with These ornate ivory ceramic pre-dinner nibbles or servers are the perfect dips served in an elegant utensils for your guests to stainless steel Bolo bowl help themselves. and board set. £19.50 from £49 from www.in-spaces.com www.marksandspencer.com Olive lover For the ultimate olive fan, the new Taylor’s Eye Witness olive serving set comes complete with stylish olive sticks and a separate section for discarded stones. £25 from www.bakewellcookshop.com Dress to impress Perfect platter A simple board is a stylish way to serve If staying in is the new going out, make your cheese, fruit or other mezze. Try this homemade dishes look even more special with naturally smooth board handmade from stylish accessories that are perfect sustainable mango wood as part of a for entertaining mezze-style. Fairtrade scheme in India. £35 from www.puji.com Serve & store vAe gfuenta wblaeys tion soeilr, vteh edsiep sli totrle r ojaarst aerde Editor’s An eMxooticr oNocrctha Anf rviciabn-estyle handy for storage in the fridge too. pick tray is ideal for handing around Set of three, £8.50 from www.lukuhome.com glasses of mint tea at the end of the meal. Or simply use to display a tempting pile of warm fatbreads. £29 from www.idyllhome.co.uk Centre of attention The Just Slate Company’s serving set has a hand-beaten copper fnish and comes with black acacia wooden servers for Rustic charm a really stunning centrepiece. Eco-friendly and £60 from www.black-by-design.co.uk Fairtrade brand Dassie offers these handmade bowls for nibbles. With a simple homespun Gold blend look they come in Don’t forget the after-dinner four muted colours coffee. This Linea gold cafetière to mix and match. immediately gives your home £14.95 each from brew a more exotic look. www.dassie.co.uk £35 from www.houseoffraser.co.uk www.vegetarianliving.co.uk | 07 007_VL63[ShoppingList]NTLHSJ.indd 1 13/08/2015 09:10 newshoots All the lAtest vegetAriAn And vegAn lifestyle news And products, plus wine, events And much more... Vintage apple lunchbox, £4.95 www.dotcomgiftshop.com Food waste Love your solutions A new online tool helps you sAve food And money Leftovers Storage can be stylish – try these We throw away 7 million tons of food and handy containers for keeping leftovers drink every year from our homes, most of fresh in the fridge, or take them for which is perfectly edible. The scale of the lunch the next day. waste is not only bad for the environment, it’s the equivalent of throwing away £12.5 billion from our pockets too. In fact, research suggests that the average family throws away £60 worth of good food every month. As part of its mission to tackle the problem, Love Food Hate Waste has launched a new online interactive tool – also available on mobile and tablet – which is designed to help people avoid throwing away everyday foods at home and help busy families save up to £700 a year. The digital tool, called Your Food Waste Assistant, provides people with practical help and advice on more than 600 food products, Make your food offering more than 30 solutions and tips to common problems that can result in food go further… being wasted. stAle breAd Whizz up old crusts Research from Wrap has found that and store in the freezer. Add garlic, household food waste arises from a number cheese and herbs to use as a crunchy Aladdin mason salad jar, £14.99 of complex, often unrelated behaviours. This topping for savoury bakes. www.johnlewis.com new device offers a quick and easy way of blAck bAnAnAs Turn squidgy fnding solutions to food waste. All you need bananas into healthy sugar-free to do is specify the food you have thrown ‘ice cream’. Simply freeze overnight, away. The tool then suggests ways in which allow to soften for 20 minutes, then it could have been used, with links to recipe whizz in the food processor until soft ideas, storage solutions and tips to prolong and creamy. the life of foods, helping to avoid wastage in the future. squishy tomAtoes Toms too soft Emma Marsh, head of Love Food Hate for a salad? Roast with oil in the oven Waste, says: ‘None of us set out to waste and use for a pasta sauce, or blitz fresh food. Busy lifestyles and changing plans in the blender and use in curries or mean good food sometimes ends up going sauces instead of tinned tomatoes. to waste. Our new Food Waste Assistant is over-ripe peArs Pop them into a unique tool that offers practical hints and your slow cooker (or a big pan on the tips to help us all to waste less food and save stove) with a little red wine and sugar, more money.’ then simmer for a delicious dessert to Your Food Waste Assistant can be found at serve with yogurt or ice cream. Insulated big dots lunch bag, £12.98 www.lovefoodhatewaste.com. www.beckyandlolo.co.uk 08 | 008-09_VL63[NewShoots]NTLHSJLH.indd 8 14/08/2015 17:26 VegFest in London My veggie life The leading vegan lifestyle event, VegFest, returns to Olympia London on Anna Solaiman 10–11 October, with a packed programme of events and exhibitors celebrating Tell us about everything vegan. your life… The event showcases over 200 stalls I’m a bridal hair and featuring food, beauty products and m ake-up artist. fashion, with exhibitors offering lots of How do you feel about special discounts and free samples to try. winning PETA’s ‘sexiest Visitors can also be inspired by events vegan’ award 2015? and attractions including vegan cookery It was a real surprise demonstrations, a Living Raw prep zone, a to win! The best part is performance area offering entertainment h aving a platform to be a voice for animals. including comedy and live music, and How long have you been vegan? talks on nutrition, health, campaigns and Almost two years. I became vegetarian lifestyle issues. As always, there will be frst, but as I learned more about the egg a line-up of high-profle speakers from and dairy industries I realised I had to all over the world, and a range of invited celebrities and special guests are expected b ecome vegan. I’ve never looked back since. to make an appearance too. What are your go-to meat-free meals? Take a break from browsing to tuck into My parents are from Bangladesh, so it has delicious vegan food from 15 specialist to be rice with veg curries. For a snack, it’s caterers, while young people can join in l For all show and ticket information, go to avocado on toast with cherry tomatoes, if the fun with entertainment and cookery www.london.vegfest.co.uk. Tickets can be I’m being good. If not, it’s Oreos with vegan classes designed for children, plus a bought in advance or on the door; entry is whipped cream! TeenVGN zone. free for children under 16. What’s your favourite cooking ingredient… Nutritional yeast. It’s so versatile and has a n addictive umami taste. WiN a juicy prize at VegFest! Your must-read vegan blog or website? Come and visit the Vegetarian Living team at VegFest London, Angela Liddon’s www.ohsheglows.com as we’ve teamed up with Tribest to offer a fabulous prize draw blog has really helped, as well as the for new subscribers at the show. Facebook group What Fat Vegans Eat. Simply take out a subscription to Vegetarian Living at I love being vegan because… VegFest London and you’ll be in with a chance to win the There’s no better feeling than educating Tribest Slowstar Vertical Juicer (worth £399), which crushes yourself and then doing everything you fruit and vegetables at an incredibly gentle 47 rpm, reducing can to switch to a life of compassion. It’s oxidation for superior juice quality, while still producing ‘slow’ like a huge weight lifted off your shoulders. juice extra fast. A mincing attachment can also turn the And in return, I have more energy and feel Slowstar into a multipurpose tool to make sorbets, nut happier, healthier – and of course, sexier! butters and sauces. This two-in-one machine is the perfect solution to get the most out of your fresh produce. Find out more at www.tribest.co.uk. Dates for the Diary 17 October 23–25 October 1–31 October NortherN VegaN FestiVal Dartmouth FooD FestiVal great Bath Feast Returning to Manchester for This Devon festival (pictured right) The Great Bath Feast is a month-long 2015, this popular vegan festival has evolved into one of the leading foodie festival with events showcasing promises to be bigger and better UK food and wine events, offering the best of local produce and talent, than ever, with events on offer an exciting mix of celebrity chef as well as visits from celebrity chefs, across four city centre venues. appearances, food markets, family including Matt Tebbutt, Nigella The programme includes talks events and demonstrations to Lawson and Tom Kerridge. Events and cooking demonstrations, celebrate the talent and produce include gin tasting, urban foraging, flm screenings, food stalls, free in the Southwest. This year’s line- a celebration of artisan cheese and a tastings, a vegan beer and cider up includes Diana Henry, James vintage kitchenware fair, with shops festival at the Thirsty Scholar pub, Ramsden, Mark Hix and Mitch Tonks and restaurants throughout the city plus vegan speed dating! – plus entry is free for visitors. holding special events too. www.northernveganfestival.com www.dartmouthfoodfestival.com www.greatbathfeast.co.uk www.vegetarianliving.co.uk | 09 008-09_VL63[NewShoots]NTLHSJLH.indd 9 14/08/2015 17:26 newshoots Buy a E H T T E E M Better M A R E K Burger Plantalicious founder Barry Honeycombe has developed a delicious range of vegan burgers, sausage rolls and casseroles to tempt the taste buds. Keen foodie Barry Honeycombe juggles biochemists, it is made in small batches in a a part-time day job in software sales with kitchen using wholefood plant proteins, and running Plantalicious, the company behind is as healthy as I can possibly make it.’ More Than Meat, a new and fourishing range More Than Meat products are based on of vegan burgers and casseroles. After wheat protein with ingredients such as oats years of yo-yo dieting, Barry discovered a and beans for texture, all carefully favoured ideas in development, and he’s also busy wholefood, plant-based approach to eating, and seasoned with herbs and spices. His increasing his network of stockists. He says which he says transformed his life and health. products include More Than Beef Burgers, a the ‘overwhelmingly positive’ feedback from ‘I have a certifcate in plant-based nutrition ‘lamb’ casserole in a rich vegan red wine and customers continues to inspire him along from Professor T. Colin Campbell’s Centre tomato gravy with butter beans, favoured the way. ‘Seeing people enjoy my food is the for Nutritional Studies,’ he says. ‘It was while with rosemary, mint and red currant jelly, best bit of this job. There is nothing like it. studying that I completely changed my plus a Lorne sausage (a rectangular sausage Knowing that I have made something that diet. Having always been a passionate and patty) favoured with smoked apple, sage is healthy and delicious, that someone is enthusiastic cook, I turned attention to how I and fennel seeds, a recipe he also uses to fll prepared to spend their hard earned money could craft delicious, healthy food.’ his jumbo sausage rolls. on and enjoy is such a great feeling.’ Barry was concerned by how many His meat replacement products appeal products aimed at the vegan market were to ethical vegans and vegetarians, as well l Buy More Than Meat products at meat- and dairy-free but still loaded with as those who want to reduce their intake of The Pantiles Market in Tunbridge Wells refned carbohydrates, fat, sugar and meat but still enjoy familiar, traditional foods, fortnightly on Saturdays, at Sydenham salt. ‘I describe my food as “no added fat, which also makes them an ideal choice for Market in southeast London on the second wholefood, high protein, plant-based”,’ he those who want an easy transition into a Saturday of each month, as well as online at says. ‘My philosophy is to make familiar plant-based lifestyle. www.morethanmeat.co.uk. Follow on food that is great tasting and as healthy When he’s not out and about cooking Facebook at www.facebook.com/ as possible, or more healthy than the and serving his food at local markets, morethanmeat and on Twitter @More_Than_ alternatives. My food is not made in a lab by Barry always has plenty of new product Meat for product updates and news. TasTe TesT… 3 chocolate treats It’s National Chocolate Week on 12–18 October, so we’ve been sampling new organic and artisan products this month… well, someone has to do it! 1 Green & Blacks 2 Madécasse 3 Chococo The new Green & Black’s Organic Thin Handmade in Madagascar in small batches Popcorn, dark chocolate and salted caramel is made from the best organic Trinitario using organic, rare heirloom cocoa varieties, sounds like a fantasy combo, but Dorset- cocoa beans and Fairtrade ingredients and the new Fairtrade Madécasse Milk Chocolate based artisan brand Chococo has made it offers four delicious favours, including Toasted Coconut Bar is made from silky a reality with their devilishly delicious new Mint Crisp, Salted Caramel (our favourite!), smooth milk chocolate and contains delicate Salted Caramel Popcorn Brittle Clusters, Dark 70% and Milk 37% Chocolate. pieces of toasted Madagascan coconut to available in milk or dark chocolate – the dark l £2.29 for 100g from all major retailers give it that on-trend tropical taste. chocolate variety is vegan too. and selected independents. l £2.99 for 75g from Waitrose. l £5.95 for 100g from www.chococo.co.uk. 10 | 010-11_VL63[NewShoots]NTLHSJLH.indd 10 14/08/2015 17:28

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