What I Ate This Week #18

A fairly mixed bag this week, look, barely any pasta for once! Lots of veg though, I'll be making the mushroom biryani again, it's always nice to discover new recipes that are easy.

Nothing wrong with eating up leftovers is there? I always seem to be eating up butternut squash curry!

Corr this blog is glamorous isn't it? I mean check out this beautifully arranged vegetable lasagna on my dressing gown, phew, get Vogue on the phone ASAP, this needs to go in their next issue.

Raw tomato pasta sauce, bit of a strange one as it was hot pasta mixed with cold mashed up skinned tomatoes with basil and chilli. I skipped the capers which were in the recipe as I hate very salty foods (olives are vile to me). This sauce was a little bland if i'm honest.

The Frankie & Benny's Mediterranean vegetable burger. Not too bad at all but the relish is far too sweet. The fries were darn tootin' tasty though. (I took off the gherkins, urgh.)

Lunch at my favourite cafe Topaz. Halloumi pitta with salad, cous cous and hummus. The Cawston Press cloudy apple is my absolute fave soft drink.

This mushroom biryani recipe was in The Telegraph and was super simple so thought i'd give it a go. I didn't use as much oil as the recipe said and ended up putting quite a bit more of the spices in but it was really tasty! Definitely easy to scale up or down too depending on who wants to eat it.

Half a cauliflower cheese grill, half a nut cutlet (that tasted like ash), broad beans, peas, slices of crispy potato with onion and carrots. Desperately need to get some new veggie grills!

What I Ate This Week #11

Hello! Starting WIATW back up again as I think it's good to show that vegetarians don't just eat salad, they eat tonnes of different things (my diet does admittedly contain a lot of rice and pasta, pretty samey but nevermind).

Started off the week at my favourite vegetarian cafe, Topaz. I have never once been disappointed there, the food is amazing quality, lots of herbs and veg is grown in their own allotment, it supports a local charity, it is reasonably priced (you get a hefty portion for your money) and it is SO TASTY! I had a lentil curry with raita, rice and a freshly made chapati. 

I love the colour of butternut squash curry, such a beautiful orange! I was obviously feeling the love for lentils at the start of this week. Butternut squash curry is a staple in my house, we have it with naan bread and padadums. 

Smoked paprika, tomato and pepper sauce with chilli penne pasta. I've never had chilli pasta before (this one is from Sainsbury's). It had a subtle chilli taste and was something a bit different, it enhanced the sauce and was pretty tasty!

So this was meant to be roasted butternut squash and garlic risotto with cannellini beans but I didn't have those in so I used black eyed beans instead. Bit strange but it was alright. This risotto is rather time consuming roasting all the veg and having to cook it for a while but it is worth it. I could have roasted the squash for longer to blacken it a little but it was nice and soft as it was. It contains a fair amount of garlic and I definitely would have warded off any vampires the next day!

I love homemade mixed bean enchiladas. So easy, filling and yummy. This is kinda a lazy meal but my boyfriend and I love it, usually I can eat a bigger portion than him of this stuff! We had it with potato wedges and onion rings, naughty.

Well would you take a look at those Yorkshire puddings! Er HELLO, best thing ever! My Mum made them using this Brian Turner recipe (minus the beef dripping). Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, mash and a Quorn cheese and broccoli grill.