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I dont know, if it gets agitated it may lash out!

I've been a veggie for about 20 years, and still can't find anything as good as a pork pie. Indian food and Thai are tasty. Thai is quite easy: if you buy the authentic ingredients it's quite simple to pound them up into the right paste. You could take a cookery lesson (if you live near West London, try Thai Cookery School).

Alternatively, middle eastern and especially Lebanese food is good. Get the Women's Weekly Lebanese recipie book: lots of good veggie recipies like Tabouleh (bulgar wheat and parsley) and various dips with flat breads.

This Christmas I made Mujadara following Ottolenghi's recipie in the Guardian. This was so popular, I made it for about two weeks. Even my brother in law, who is the sort of meatatarian who thinks a meal is not a meal without meat loved it. It's not spicy, just tasty. the only time consuming part is deep frying the onions which takes ages. The recipie is here http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... ottolenghi. If you wanted to, you could have sausages with this for the meat eaters, but it's not really necessary. We had tahini dips and tomato salsas with jacket potatoes. Try it.

spooneythegoon wrote:

Jean Eugene Roberts wrote:It was more the casual hostility and schoolyard 'anti-veggie' humor from other posts. None of them botherd me but a few caused me to roll my eyes.

I hope my carrot post didnt upset anyone
I didnt mean to be hostile towards veggies (I would explain what it meant but I have literrally no idea For some unknown reason I keep writing strange things without thinking).

I do apologise

Relax. What other people think doesn't matter a great deal, especially what vegetarians think... JOKE!! .RELAX... and anyway I have a hunch that nobody is burning your effigy.

aporia wrote:.
I've been a veggie for about 20 years, and still can't find anything as good as a pork pie.
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A pound of salt is as good as a pork pie and contains nearly as much salt.

Talking of veggies and pork pies, I worked at a summer camp in the US one summer. Most of the kids were jewish. Half way through the eight week summer a co-worker told me that catholics were being shipped into the local town every Sunday morning for mass, and had a full fried breakfast (including gorgeous American bacon) afterwards. I immediately declared myself a catholic. Funnily enough by the final week a second bus had to be put on for all the jewish kids who had declared themselves catholic for the bacon.

Some editing has taken place. Please guys, let's keep this thread on the topic of veggies rather than zoom off on deep ponderings on matters of faith.

I was vegetarian for almost a year. A pork pie in a supermarket chiller was my downfall After all those bacon sarnies I had resisted too.