Vegetarian Living - October 2015

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meat-free
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Family feasts
25
dairy-free
Comfort food ideas
for everyone
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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
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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’
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COVER RECIPE: Courgette, thyme and labneh tart (page 33). Photograph by Tara Fisher
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In this issue… Grocycle
mushroom kits,
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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
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Contents
Subscribe today and receive
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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
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Shoppinglist
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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
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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
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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.
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