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Sorry VC it's all mine.....mine....mine......nnnnnmmmwwwwaaaha [manic laughter]
Erm, sorry about that....
Now don't get me wrong, I love a nice bloody steak (bought from Mrs Vince's uncle's butcher's, so we know where the meat has come from), but equally the number of no-meat meals we have these days is on the increase. (I'm the cook in the house, by the way.) It started out as just a means of making sure we use the veg we grow, but actually....simple fresh healthy veg meals are full of flavour. For instance, we had courgette soup for supper tonight: used up 5 courgettes, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 cayenne and a few basil leaves all simmered in chicken stock then blitzed - luminous green but delicious. Yesterday's dinner was parboiled then griddled fennel, sweetcorn cobs and courgettes, plus roasted toms with garlic and thyme, plus a couple of sausages that needed using up (again from Uncle Clive's shop).
Edit: OK, not totally veg meals due to chicken stock and leftover sausages, but could easily have been with veg stock and Quorn sausages, but you know where I'm going....meat is not the centrepiece of the plate.
Now I'm never going to be a vegetarian VC (although I did live with one for 18 months "in a past life" and survived to tell the tale), as I enjoy meat, although I do feel uneasy if it is not clear that it has come to my plate in a relatively ethical manner, but never did I think I would be lauding the merits of vegetable meals in the way I am now, and I think the pleasures of growing our own is largely responsible for that shift in attitude.
Anyway, it's probably the gin talking now. We've never particularly been "salad-dodgers" but more veg is on our plates now than ever before. Nonetheless VC, you're still not sharing it !!!!
Erm, sorry about that....
Now don't get me wrong, I love a nice bloody steak (bought from Mrs Vince's uncle's butcher's, so we know where the meat has come from), but equally the number of no-meat meals we have these days is on the increase. (I'm the cook in the house, by the way.) It started out as just a means of making sure we use the veg we grow, but actually....simple fresh healthy veg meals are full of flavour. For instance, we had courgette soup for supper tonight: used up 5 courgettes, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 cayenne and a few basil leaves all simmered in chicken stock then blitzed - luminous green but delicious. Yesterday's dinner was parboiled then griddled fennel, sweetcorn cobs and courgettes, plus roasted toms with garlic and thyme, plus a couple of sausages that needed using up (again from Uncle Clive's shop).
Edit: OK, not totally veg meals due to chicken stock and leftover sausages, but could easily have been with veg stock and Quorn sausages, but you know where I'm going....meat is not the centrepiece of the plate.
Now I'm never going to be a vegetarian VC (although I did live with one for 18 months "in a past life" and survived to tell the tale), as I enjoy meat, although I do feel uneasy if it is not clear that it has come to my plate in a relatively ethical manner, but never did I think I would be lauding the merits of vegetable meals in the way I am now, and I think the pleasures of growing our own is largely responsible for that shift in attitude.
Anyway, it's probably the gin talking now. We've never particularly been "salad-dodgers" but more veg is on our plates now than ever before. Nonetheless VC, you're still not sharing it !!!!
I would 
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