The Eco Potato

Our Friday nights usually involve a 'lazy' meal. Chips and a good bit of something else. I decided to try a veggie burger recipe by I saw in the Tesco Magazine by Jamie Oliver. The ingredients are very simple, so nothing special I had to go out specifically for (after stocking up on chickpeas). I did minus the coriander and the lemon purely because I didn't have them to hand. I had to use a food processor to blend up the sweetcorn and chickpeas, which I don't have. Instead I ended up using my Breville blender for shakes. It was quite a faf because you need a liquid in the mix to get it going and it kept just blending the bottom ingredients. I had to keep emptying out the blended bits and re-filling to get it all blended together. The consistency probably wasn't as good as it could have been. Some blended too much and some hardly at all.  Once padded out with flour they didn't look too bad. I left them in the fridge to set while I ma...

Our Tesco shop includes a variety of Tesco's own vegetarian meat alternatives. We picked these kievs as we definitely enough a good kiev. Upon appearance they look exactly like a regular kiev, I'd even go to say that the texture is very similar to a meat version (processed kind not homemade). I guess the meat versions are so packed with breadcrumbs and re-shaped that they resemble the same texture and look as the soya version. When I tried the first mouthful I was surprised at how enjoyable the texture was, they seem to have many negative reviews over them being bland and tasteless. I think it actually had a unique taste that I couldn't exactly pin point. It wasn't bad but it wasn't an amazing taste. The more I ate the more I got this 'taste'. The cheese was quite disappoint. In the picture, as you can see, it looks runny and gooey. However, our cheese just sort of sat there. It was soft but it didn't run down when you cut the kiev open nor did it...

If you live in the UK you'd have been many adverts of Tesco. They have a series of adverts called Love Food Stories which feature different recipes to make at home. The latest being Carls 'all change' casserole. Recipe here :  I used Linda McCartney's vegetarian Chorizo and Red pepper sausages which were on offer in Tesco. The recipe feeds four with two sausages each so I halved a few of the quantities as I'm only feeding two.  Some adjustments to the recipe I made were, keeping the same amount of butternut squash so this bulks out the meal a bit more. I didn't have Harriott beans so instead used butter beans. I also had no spinach so just went without.. (next time I will try the spinach). I also added a yellow pepper which was not in the recipe. I felt it would pack it out more. It was simple and easy to cook which is great for coming home after work.  I was quite impressed with the simplicity of the recipe but it was really tasty. The sausages are actu...

I have always been one of those people who respond with a firm 'No' when asked, "Would you ever be a Vegetarian?" I love meat, why would I give something up that I love?  My fiancee asked me, "Why do you eat meat?" and I simply responded "Because I like it". Then I thought about it and I realised, is liking something enough reason to do it? Or is it just selfish? I'm 25 years old and eat meat on a daily basis, I've been bought up to eat meat and naturally followed my upbringing. My brother and mum became vegetarian over a year ago but I moved out at the age of 22 so never saw the change in their meals or lifestyle. Whenever I visit home the freezer is jam packed with Quorn and I've tried some here and there. (May I add, I remember one of my most favourite school dinners was actually vegeterian Quorn curry). As I prepare and cook our meals at home the idea that turning vegetarian would just make an even more difficult job of t...