Erm's Photo Diary

[Honeyoc]

That book's fabbo! Pretty complex some of it though so I only use it for w/e's really. Actually its not that complex once youve tried the recipe once, I guess its just when its all new and stuff, you can adapt most stuff to make it a lot easier than they make out

The BNS falafels were good, the mushroom ban khoai pancakes were FAB! :drool: Various hummus recipes, oh the chana chaat... ! :drool: Ohh and the smoky black bean soup is a regular of mine now! :drool: The carrot & coriander fritters! Yummo!

Ha ha! Yeah I like that book a bit! Think Im gonna try the Vietnamese soup next. Got 2 more books coming my way for Xmas (I think... ), the HFW River Cottage one and a curry one, so yumtastic New Year coming up!

These are all from/adapted from the Veg book:

Oh Lord Erm! I *need* that book now! Since getting "acquainted" with your diary, I've been eating a lot more veggie meals! Can't be a bad thing

Walked past a hummus/falafel place on 3rd ave and thought of you. I would have loved lunch there but everything looked oily and cheesy. What's with veggie menus and all that oil and goat's cheese??? Humpf! Went to a steak house instead lol!

 

[ermintrude]

Oh Lord Erm! I *need* that book now! Since getting "acquainted" with your diary, I've been eating a lot more veggie meals! Can't be a bad thing

Walked past a hummus/falafel place on 3rd ave and thought of you. I would have loved lunch there but everything looked oily and cheesy. What's with veggie menus and all that oil and goat's cheese??? Humpf! Went to a steak house instead lol!

Yeah i must admit veggie stuff is usually laden with cheese, pasta, nuts and thats about it. Oh and chuck a load of oil in, yeah. And their favourite vegetable is aub*rg*ne :9529: . Its really rubbish. :sigh: Nut roast, anyone?

Mad really, I eat more veg now than when I was a veggie!

 

[moonwatcher]

Oh Lord Erm! I *need* that book now! Since getting "acquainted" with your diary, I've been eating a lot more veggie meals! Can't be a bad thing

I was thinking along similar lines a few minutes ago. I was a veggie for 13 years and I still have several of my vegetarian cookbooks from that time. I think I'll hunt them out and re-visit some of my veggie favourites!

For a pub menu I once had to come up with five choices of starter, main course and desert for a vegan who could also eat no nuts, mushrooms or fruit - or anything else fermented or yeasty. Now that was a challenge!

 

[JackieN]

I reckon Erm will turn us all into vegetables :giggle: I mean veggies :giggle:

I keep dreaming about making veggie stews etc

Love your diary Erm and the piccies, always looks so yummy xxxxxxx

 

[dirtydancing]

hi erm. was wondering what the book was called as have a veggie friend who would love it. thanks.

made you cheese thing several times, did it with roasted red peppers all chopped up was divine.

 

[miss_emmajane]

This thread is amazing, your photos are making me drool!

 

[ermintrude]

hi erm. was wondering what the book was called as have a veggie friend who would love it. thanks.

made you cheese thing several times, did it with roasted red peppers all chopped up was divine.

It's just called "vegetarian". It's here.

 

[ermintrude]

I'm not keeping very up to date recently

Tuesday 29th - Green

Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Leftover Bean Soup 1 syn for orange juice
Tea: Indian Mixed Veg Soup 1 HEXB for cashew nuts & olive oil, about 1 syn for sugar and mustard
Snacks: Peach, Pear, figs

Didn't like this. I have a habit of just copying and pasting the recipe and emailing it to myself and I didnt realise until it was too late that this was from the same Canadian website as the last one I didnt like The nut & mustard sauce was delish when I licked the spoon before adding it, but the curry leaf thing you add later was revolting, it just SOOOOOO didnt go with the sauce! Bizarre, bizarre choice :sigh:

Unfortunately it made tonnes so Ive got it for leftovers for the foreseeable future...

 

[ermintrude]

Wednesday 30th - Green

Breakfast: Big flask of coffee 1 HEXA
Proper breakfast: Beans on toast! 1 HEXB
Lunch: Cold Beans on toast! 1 HEXB
Tea: Microwaved leftovers from the bladdy soup 3 syns for cashew nuts, 1.75 syns for oil, sugar and mustard
Snacks: Errrr cabbage in brown sauce? 1 syns aaaaand tomatoes and a Marmite cheese <1 HEXA. Jolly good snacking on strike days

Brekky: Steaming beans on toast brought in by supporters!

Lunch: Very-cold-beans-on-toast!

 

[emsie14]

Hi Erm hope you don't mind me peeking at your diary...

Your food looks FREAKIN AMAZING to say the least!

Huge congrats on your fantastic weight loss so far!x

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[dirtydancing]

It's just called "vegetarian". It's here.

thanks very much for that have passed it on to my friend

 

[ermintrude]

Thursday 01st - Extra Easy

Breakfast:Coffe & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Salad with labne 3.5 syns for dressing & yoghurt
Tea: BritMum's Keema curry with roasted BNS - Free (as of January )
Snacks: None

This was yum. Id been feeling really low didn't even want to eat as I had no appetite, but made this for tea so the b/f had something to eat when he got home and it was so tasty I had some after all

Funny dish, never had Keema curry before, it was a bit dry and I put a bit too much water in, but the flavours were fabbo! Definitely make it again, with a few adjustments.

I felt so crap I wasnt gonna even gonna do any rice or anything but I had a BNS that was going soggy so bunged some BNS chips in the oven to feed to the OH. Also stuck some spinach in too as it needed using up, or at least I thought it did until I checked out my menu this morning and found out it was sitting there waiting to be used tonight in a Mexican pancake.

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to Waitrose I go... :sigh:

 

[chubbers]

Wow!! This thread is amazing. I love how creative you are with your recipes. I can't eat any yet as I'm following exante but I will definitely be coming back here in the future Fantastic weight loss as well, great work!! xxx

 

[ermintrude]

Friday 02nd - Extra Easy

Breakfast:Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Salad with roast BNS wedgies
Tea: Mexican Tladuya with poicamole, salad and spicy celeriac chips 5.5 syns for wrap and oil
Snacks: Carrots, figs

O. M. G. This was amaaaaazing! :drool:

Mexican Tlayuda:

I did it with my own version of a poicamole!! Which is also lush! I will be making this LOADS, it would great with all sorts and also as a dip, just like hummus:

Did a chickpea mix:

And an onion mix:

Fried the wrap and layered the spreads on:

Served with salad & spicy chips.

Yummo! :drool:

 

[Clavicles]

Friday 02nd - Extra Easy

Breakfast:Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Salad with roast BNS wedgies
Tea: Mexican Tladuya with poicamole, salad and spicy celeriac chips 5.5 syns for wrap and oil
Snacks: Carrots, figs

O. M. G. This was amaaaaazing! :drool:

Mexican Tlayuda:

I did it with my own version of a poicamole!! Which is also lush! I will be making this LOADS, it would great with all sorts and also as a dip, just like hummus:

Did a chickpea mix:

And an onion mix:

Fried the wrap and layered the spreads on:

Served with salad & spicy chips.

Yummo! :drool:

WOW Ermintrude - I usually just read and drool at your fab food but this looks really AMAZING!! I'm starving now! lol

 

[Honeyoc]

Erm! I got the Vegetarian cookbook yesterday and I've been reaing through it, it's an amazing book! The pictures are so vibrant and exciting and appetising, can't wait to get started on some recipes. I saw so many of your food pics in there, your dishes are a really good representation of what's in the book. Well done, and thank you for the recommendation!

 

[notokettlechips]

You should write a recipe book. Honestly. Your recipes are SO much better than I have read in the SW books which are frankly quite dull - your pictures are fantastic and you are so creative and original with your food. Have you thought about it? You can publish books on the Kindle so easily now. You might make a bit of extra cash to spend on squashes!

 

[ermintrude]

ha ha noooo most of my recipes are just adaptations/mergers of other people's recipes I find as I scout around Admittedly a lot better than the SW ones but that's not difficult...

 

[JackieN]

OMG Erm that looks amazing :drools: please come and cook for me

I am so excited I just popped in waitrose and they had a few different squashes I got the last two acorn squashes they did have one beginning with K that I remember you loved but couldn't remember what to do with it so left it for someone else this time and they had queen squash but again was unsure so grabbed the acorn ones as remember I wanted to try them

Hope all is well with you sweetie I am trying to catch up with everyone and get back on plan properly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[ermintrude]

Saturday 03rd - Extra Easy

Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Sausage salad 1.5 syns for mustard, 1.5 syns for sausages
Tea: Beef & ale stew with baked bubble & squeak cakes 5.5 syns for flour, ale & honey. (Would have been 3.5 had it remained a stew serving 4 rather than a cremation offering serving two and a bit... )
Snacks: Peaches, figs, Muller cheesecake 1 syn, Advent calendar choccie 2.5 syns


Aaaaaggghhhhh!!!

and AaaagghhHHHHHHHHHH!!!

And AGGAAGGGGAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

My knob exploded!!!

WTF is the logic in designing a cast iron pot that can withstand temperatures up to +260°C and then sticking a poxy ****ing plastic knob on that can only handle 190C? Would I buy a ferrari and then stick cheapo second hand tyres on? No I would ****ing not

Heard a big pop about an hour and a half after I had put it in, it had burnt out already. My fault for not checking sooner I guess but how the hell did this:

turn into this:

in 90 min at 140C? Grrrrrrrr I am SO not a meat person :sigh:

Its lucky the knob did explode tbh or nothing would have been left at all :sigh: What a waste of a ten quid joint

So, we got this out of it:

Not exactly a stew Still, the bubble & squeak cakes were interesting. Liked the texture, but definitely needed 'something else' without the butter. A lot more salt & pepper, but the first thing that I thought as I was mashing it togther was how it was crying out for cheeeeeeeeeeese!!! :drool:

This would be fab fab fab with a HEXB of cheese per cake or something! :drool: Maybe even a little chilli, or some bacon? Oooooohhh the possibilities for bubble & squeak cakes must be endless! Gotta get cooking!!!!

I think you could even do these with celeriac or something an make it free on red as well as green/EE... :drool: