Snappy Veggie

Cooking

with The Mollster

£1
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 Mollster’s Gospel Of course, you can’t go wrong with cereal,
Before we start, let’s get it straight - what toast and juice. I’m a sucker for soya milk
Name: Molly
exactly is a vegetarian and what about on my cereal - that cow’s milk plays
Alias: The Mollster
e
Profession: Und ercover detectiv those freaky vegans? naughty tricks on my stomach and people
assignments: Food have been known to talk! I simply adore
Specialist
Strong points: Food Well, a vegetarian cuts a splendid figure porridge with a fat blob of golden syrup in
Weak points: Food because they neither eat dead animals nor the centre and always whop my favourite
Height: Small chew on any slaughterhouse by-products. spread on the toast - yeast extract (eg
ore
Weight: Con siderably less bef That means they consume no meat, poultry, Marmite) or peanut butter.
this job fish or seafood (like prawns or crabs) and
Weapons: Hypnotic eyes no by-products like gelatine. Don’t be But perhaps you prefer more lardy feed? If
Bone
Mentor: The infa mous Thomas deceived by the innocent sound of the so, why not treat yourself to a full English
Distinguishing feat ures : word gelatine in things such as jellies, brekkie and scoff a king-size plate of
Veg etarian, wet nose yoghurts and sweets because it is actually grilled veggie sausages, veggie rashers,
and it’s made from boiled up animals’ bones, horns baked beans, mushrooms, waffles,
detective work on meat issues
Rig ht, you’ve done a bit of , thos e little nog gin cells and hooves - ugh! scrambled tofu and fried onions.
ing. In fact
given you r head quite a kick nas ty fact s
inually chu rning out
won’t give you any peace, cont of you r bur ger. So A vegan doesn’t Or maybe you consider
and the contents
about factory farmed animals ter once and for all. Yep, eat anything yourself a touch more
grey mat
you’ve decided to sort out the stic! derived from a hoity-toity? How
’re going to give this veg gie malarkey a bash. Poocheta
you in you r bell y, a task dead animal in about a
distant rum ble
The next step is to fix that e you r ama teur spy addition to sophisticated
So put asid
best left to the professionals. ate
ss and false moustache and make way for The Mollster, priv rejecting dairy muesli topped
gla products, such with yoghurt,
eye extraordinaire. as milk, cheese or fresh fruit
w
out fine veggie mor sels, I kno butter, along with salad or
Gifted since a pup in sniffing ering, fing er eggs and honey. toasted bagels
talking mouth wat
exactly what you want. We’re
iously mor eish dishes which you can chomp in with marge and
licking, scrumpt ing
est and dearests with. We’re talk What I’m saying is that fruit conserve.
singledom or dazzle you r near crue lty free food , once upon a time when
t. We’re talking
All photographs of food and Molly by Corin Jeavons

a little exertion but no swea els. brains were being handed out, Lunch
food of ang
utterly eth ical munchies, the vegetarians and vegans were first in Once you’ve waved adieu to dead
e, in a disguise that would put the queue! animals, you’ll become wide-eyed to the full
And so I, Mollster the Detectiv ish
d far and wid e across the Brit wonders of gorgeous vegetarian yums. Limp
Hol mes to sha me, have travelle cuisine. Competition has
s veg gie Okay. You know what you can’t eat. But salads and white bread spam sandwiches will
Isles to find the most deliciou
e has what can you eat? Here’s a brief guide to soon seem mighty tame and tasteless. Friends,
been stiff and my trim wais tlin
ng but I can now lay veggie nosh 24 - 7. suspicious at first, will learn to crane into your
taken a batteri
you a sele ctio n of the easi est and lunchbox everyday to drool over another
before
yummies t veg etarian reci pes. Breakfast succulent addition to your veggie diet.
A veggie breakfast is like a non-veggie
into the
So read my travelogue, rock breakfast. So, as long as you’ve been well Think generous and give the good old
uten sils and
kitchen, waltz with the behaved, you can look forward to tucking British sandwich a celebrity make-over.
veg etables, send me a into a small bowl of cold gruel and a glass
salsa with the
text and I’ll be seat ed at you r of tap water. Okay, okay, let’s not be frugal c Grab something other than your sliced
cryptic
ore you can
table, napkin on lap, bef with the truth. The great veggie breakfast white - think malted brown,
say ‘veggiefest’. throws open enough taste windows to wholemeal, French bread, ciabatta,
make your tonsils rattle! pitta bread, bagels or olive bread.

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 Now slop on a filling:
c How about peanut butter and sliced
cucumber,
c or Marmite and tomato,
c
c
or mashed banana?
Why not try houmous (hummus) - a
yummy blend of chickpeas and garlic
which can be found in the chilled
c
cabinet in supermarkets - in pitta bread
with grated carrot and salad.
Maybe some vegetable pate
c or a bacon substitute
BLT with lettuce,
tomato and
mayonnaise.
c Don’t forget
(soya) cheese
with pickle,
c veggie
sausages and
mustard
c or falafel -
chick pea patties
- with houmous
and salad.
c If you fancy, you
could also tuck into
fake ‘meats’ like ‘chicken’
or ‘ham’ - available in
health food stores and
major supermarkets - with
salad and mayo.
And if your pot desires more,
shovel down a jacket potato with
lashings of baked beans, coleslaw,
vegetable chilli or curry.
Or gorge yourself on a steaming bowl of
vegetable soup and lovely crusty bread.
Snacks
As with all diets, there are wholesome
snacks and there are tooth-rotting, fat-
increasing munchies. Veggie diets are
capable of doing both very well, thank
you. No doubt you will continue to scoff
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your crisps and choccie bars, however, I
highly recommend you try out a few of Jody Pilkington 18 Cheshire
these numbers. Munch on carrot, cucumber I was
or celery crudites - sounds posh! - which absolutely
are small manageable sticks useful for
dipping in mayonnaise, houmous or (soya) Spaghetti bewitched by this
subtle sauce - it
yoghurt. Or chew, like a grazing sheep, on
dried fruit such as apricots, dates, raisins Sort-of slips down your
throat with such
and even mango. Maybe mix up a handful
of nuts, sunflower seeds and dried fruit
and plop them into a tasty (soya) (serves 2-4)
Bolognese ease. Perhaps a
little too easily.
yoghurt. Popcorn’s great too,
especially if you pop your own and sniff out
lightly salt them. 250g Realeat soya mince (widely available in
supermarkets)
Dinner 1 tbs olive oil
Aha. Now this, my friends, is 1 small onion, chopped finely
where your imagination can 1 carrot, chopped
really run wild - just take a 1 courgette or 1 stick of celery, chopped
gawp at the following 1 bay leaf
recipes. Maybe they will 400g tin chopped tomatoes (including juice)
inspire you to think of your 1
/2 vegetable stock cube dissolved in a little hot water
own barepawed creations Big pinch of dried basil
- if so, send a copy to 1 tsp yeast extract (eg Marmite)
mollster@viva.org.uk Or, 2 tbs tomato puree
more respectfully - since I Wholemeal spaghetti (cook according to instructions on packet)
am a mutt many years Black pepper
your senior - invite me
to dinner. follow the paws
So there we are, it’s Lightly fry onion, carrot and courgette/celery in the oil.
simple. Follow the
ropes and very soon
you’ll be munching
to the meat-free tune
with the best of them.
1
2
To the vegetables, add the
mince along with the bay
leaf, tomatoes, vegetable
stock, basil, yeast extract and curious canine
?
Before we start, may I doff tomato puree. Simmer
my cap at you in recognition of your gently for about 30 minutes. Why veggie Jody?
love for animals. Off to your guilt-free “I became veggie because I hate
recipes now! Meanwhile cook spaghetti. the idea that animals, with feelings just
3 like the companion animals I love and care
Tips Remove bay leaf, season for everyday, could suffer so horribly. I
Woks are, quite frankly, the best. They 4 with black pepper and pour couldn’t bear the idea that animals were
spell an end to burnt pan bottoms. over spaghetti. being killed in my name”.
In case you’re unsure, the measurement
‘tsp’ is a teaspoon and ‘tbs’ is a tablespoon
(next size up from a dessertspoon).
 Fran Rance 15 Hampshire Anna Bradley 14
West Yorkshire

Big Bean Cajun

Burgers Potato
(serves 2)

sniff out
Munch these
flavoursome burgers
aloft in a seeded bun, (serves 2-4)
Wedges
340g tin kidney beans topped with sliced
115g wholemeal breadcrumbs (made by tossing tomato and lettuce and sniff out
some bread into the food-mixer) thick with tomato 4 medium to large potatoes, scrubbed but not peeled
60g semolina ketchup or mayonnaise. 1 tbs sunflower oil
1 fresh tomato Team it up with a dish 2 tbs brown breadcrumbs
1 garlic clove, crushed and chopped of cajun wedges, sit 1 garlic clove, crushed and chopped Very seductive
1 heaped tsp chilli powder back and enjoy. 1
/2 tsp cayenne pepper to the taste
squeeze of lime 1
/2 tsp ground cumin buds...mmm. I
1 tbs soya sauce 1
/2 tsp paprika really mustn’t. Oh
flour and sunflower oil for frying 1 heaped tsp freshly-ground alright, perhaps
black pepper just one more...
follow the paws 1 heaped tsp fresh thyme leaves
Sea salt to taste
Roughly mash the kidney
1 beans. follow the paws

2
Finely chop the
tomato into small
cubes.

Mix the beans, tomato and chilli

1
Heat oven to 220ºC/gas mark 7/425ºF.

2
Cut the potatoes into 6-8 pieces
lengthwise, depending on size of
potatoes.
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3 powder together in a bowl.

4
Add the breadcrumbs and
semolina and mix well.

Add the soya sauce and enough

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Dry them and place in a large bowl.

4
Add the oil and toss well.

Mix the other ingredients in another bowl.

5 lime to make a soft texture
which can be formed into balls.
Form into burgers and
6 lightly coat in flour.
Lightly fry until brown on both
7 sides.
curious canine
Why veggie Fran?
“I just can’t imagine eating meat. It
would be like chewing on one of my
friends! Additionally, a veggie diet is
far healthier. So you’ve nothing to lose
and everything to gain”.
curious canine
Why veggie Anna?
“I’ve been veggie since I was six but
started to get more ‘active’ during
5 the last three years. I abhor animal
Add to potatoes and coat well. Season cruelty and think it’s vital to make a
6 with salt. stand against it!”.
Place on an oven tray in a single layer. Bake for
7 about 25-30 minutes until crisp and cooked through - test by pushing fork
into one of them.

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 Charlotte England 11 East Sussex Gemma Chambers 15 Wolverhampton

(serves 2)
Smoky Korma (serves 4)
Hot Sun Soup
sniff out sniff out
I simply can’t resist these Basmati rice (cook 200g red lentils
spicy, creamy morsels. Don’t according to 1 onion, chopped Due to several ‘incidents’
be tempted to add more instructions on 2 bay leaves with soup cans - oh, how
curry powder - despite these packet) 2 (or more!) garlic cloves, crushed I wish I too had an
modern times, bottom- 1 large red onion and chopped opposable thumb - home-
belching is still not 1 tbs olive oil 1 tbs fresh thyme, chopped made soups are a must. This
considered good 1 pack smoked tofu A sprinkling of black pepper enchanting number takes a
etiquette. 2 tsp curry powder 1250 ml vegetable relaxed country dance around your
2 tsp tomato puree stock (read mouth, especially when partnered
1
/4 tsp white sugar instructions on with some crusty bread.
140 ml warm vegetable stock (read instructions on packet) the packet)
1 tbs ground almonds 230g tin chopped
6 tbs Soya Dream (soya version of single cream) tomatoes
Pinch of sugar
Touch of sea salt

follow the paws follow the

paws
Start cooking the rice.
1 Put lentils,
Chop the onion into chunks and fry with the oil for about 1 onion, bay
2 2-3 minutes or until soft. leaves,
garlic, thyme

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Chop the tofu into 2 cm chunks and fry with the onion for and black
3 about 2-3 minutes. pepper in a pan.
curious canine
Stir in the curry powder, curious Add the stock and
4 sugar, tomato puree and canine 2 tomatoes. Bring to the Why veggie Gemma?
stock. Bring to the boil. boil and boil for 5 “I used to feel really guilty when I
Then stir and simmer for Why veggie minutes. thought about what was on my
about 5 minutes. Charlotte? plate, be it a ‘Babe’
“I have been almost Reduce the heat and simmer sausage, a fluffy little
3
5
With the heat down low, stir in
the ground almonds. Then stir in
the Soya Dream.

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Serve with basmati rice.
vegetarian since I was five but I
decided to become a proper
veggie about a year ago. I got
into animal rights and realised
that it was murder to take away
the life of any animal, whether
for 20 minutes until
thickened and tender.

4
Add sugar and salt.
? lamb chop or a cute little
chicky. But I decided to
do something about it
and so should you”.

it looked cute or not”.

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 Rowena Searby-Rodgers (and boyfriend Mark) 18 splash of soya milk
Nottingham and mash together - The
make sure it’s not
Mollster’s
Layered Cashew and too dry.

Garlic Bread
(serves 6-8)
Mushroom Roast 3
Fry the onion and garlic in
the oil until soft.
sniff out
Grind the cashew 1 large baguette
sniff out 4 nuts in a food 50g margarine
3 medium parsnips This is an irresistible roast processor and mix 6 garlic cloves, crushed and
A little soya milk which pokes other nut roasts with the breadcrumbs chopped
1 tbs olive oil in the eye. It makes in a bowl. 1 tsp dried mixed herbs
1 small onion, finely chopped fantastic Christmas fare A dash of black pepper
2 cloves garlic, crushed and teamed up with roast Add the parsnips, garlic,
chopped potatoes and parsnips, carrots 5 onion and herbs to the dry follow the paws
225g cashew nuts and leafy green veg. Equally, it mixture. Make sure to scrape
115g fresh breadcrumbs can be served cold with a salad the pans for all the juices. Heat oven to 200ºC/gas
1
/2 tsp dried rosemary or stir-fry; or even sliced in a 1 mark 6/400ºF.
1
/2 tsp dried thyme sandwich. Dissolve the yeast
1 tsp yeast extract (eg Marmite) 6 extract in the hot Slice vertically into the
140 ml hot vegetable stock (read stock and add to the 2 baguette at equal
instructions on packet) other ingredients. spacing along the
Black pepper bread - a large
50g vegetable margarine Season with black pepper. baguette would
7
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225g mushrooms, chopped require about 10 cuts.
Vegetable margarine for the parsnips Melt the margarine Make sure to only half
and greasing tin 8 in a frying pan and cut into the bread.
saute the chopped
follow the paws mushrooms until soft. Mix the margarine, garlic,
curious canine 3 mixed herbs and black
Pre-heat oven to 175ºC/gas mark Grease a 900g loaf tin with pepper together in a bowl.
1 4/350ºF. Why veggie 9 margarine.
Rowena? Spread the
Make mashed parsnips: peel ”I am veggie because I could not bear Press in half the nut 4 margarine mix
2 parsnips and cut into the guilt of knowing that in my lifetime 10 mixture. Cover with evenly throughout
quarters. Put in a saucepan, I would be responsible for the death of the mushrooms. Top the baguette.
cover with water and bring 900 animals. I only have to look at my with the rest of the
to the boil. Turn heat down dog and think would I eat him? No, I nut mixture. Wrap the loaf in baking foil.
and simmer for about 20 wouldn’t and I wouldn’t eat any 5
minutes until they feel soft creature who lives and breathes, feeling Cover with foil and bake for Bake for 10 minutes.
when a knife is stuck into the same emotions as us. Then there’s 11 1hr. When cooked, remove 6 Remove and fully
them. When cooked, drain the health side. Intensive farming the loaf from the oven and open the foil. Bake
off excess water. Add a large means animals are often diseased and let it stand for 10 minutes for a further 5
knob of margarine and a pumped full of drugs. No way I’m before turning out. minutes.
putting that in my mouth!”.

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 The Mollster Abbie Crathern 15 West Sussex

The Mollster’s Closet Lentil and Rice

(serves 2-3)
Chickpea Stew Burgers
(serves 2-3)
sniff out
/4 tbs olive oil
3

/2 onion, chopped
1

2 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped

3 medium carrots, roughly chopped
150g broccoli florets
This recipe has been in
my family for years
and is so called
because great-
sniff out
1

1
/4 cup dried lentils
/4 cup long grain brown rice
1 cup water
1 small onion, finely chopped
? curious canine
Why veggie Abbie?
150g mushrooms, sliced great-great- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped “Deciding to turn veggie was the best
400g tin ready-cooked chickpeas grandfather Paddy several sprigs of fresh coriander, finely decision I ever made. It wasn’t difficult
150g long grain rice was caught many times chopped to change my diet as there are tasty
1 heaped tbs peanut butter devouring it on the sly. 1
/2 tbs soya sauce veggie options everywhere. I feel a great deal
1 heaped tsp yeast extract (eg Marmite) Always escort it with a 1
/4 tsp yeast extract (eg Marmite) healthier than I did before which is no doubt due
1 herb bouquet sachet or bay leaf salivatious stick of garlic 30g semolina to the fact that a veggie diet is the healthiest diet
1 stock cube bread which has the added flour and sunflower oil for frying in the world. But best of all is the great feeling
750 ml boiling water bonus of hiding all the that I am helping to save some of the millions of
nasty niffs in your mouth. follow the paws animals that are slaughtered every week”.
follow the paws
Put the lentils, rice and water in a
Fry onion and garlic 1 saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove any scum that surfaces, turn down
1 in oil until soft. Take the heat and simmer for about 25 minutes until all the water has been
pan off heat. absorbed and both the lentils and rice are soft.

Add all the Meanwhile gently fry the onion in a little oil until soft.
2 vegetables, 2
chickpeas and Mix the fried onion, chopped garlic and coriander together in a
rice. Mix well. 3 mixing bowl.

Dissolve the peanut Add the cooked rice and Forming burgers will always
3 butter, yeast extract 4 lentils along with the be a problem for those with
and stock cube in the soya sauce, yeast extract paws. These lovely aromatic
water and pour over and semolina. Mix well burgers went down a dream until
the vegetable mixture. Add herb bouquet sachet or bay leaf. and allow to cool. my dinner companions began to pull
hairs out of their teeth...
Return to heat and wait until mixture starts to bubble. Reduce heat Form into burgers and coat
4 and simmer for 25-30 minutes or until rice is cooked thoroughly, 5 lightly in flour.
adding a little more water if needed.
Shallow fry on both sides until browned.
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 Devour this continued...
Amy Erridge 16 divine dish
East Sussex on its Turn the heat up until it boils. Then reduce heat and put the lid on for 10
lonesome or 7 minutes.

Rocking suggest a brief

rendezvous with a
8
Cut the apricots into small pieces. Add the apricots to what on
earth?
Risotto
(serves 4)
hunky bean burger. the bubbling mixture along with a little salt and
pepper. Bulghar wheat is also called
cracked wheat and can be
Take the lid off the pan and let the mixture cook for a rooted out in supermarkets.
sniff out curious canine 9 further 5 minutes or until all the stock has been absorbed. It is made from wheat
4 spring onions, which has been boiled,
topped and tailed Why veggie Amy? Break the stalks off the parsley and snip the leaves dried and ground.
100g button “I’m a vegan because I love animals and 10 into small pieces.
mushrooms, find it impossible to eat something which
sliced thinly has had its life taken away merely to Stir the parsley and half of the flaked almonds into the mixture.
1 1/2 tbs sunflower feed a human being. Animals raised for 11
oil meat suffer terrible pain and the Sprinkle the rest of the almonds on top and serve immediately.
50g flaked conditions they are forced to live in are 12
almonds appalling.
1 vegetable stock cube
225g bulghar wheat (see what We don’t need meat to
on earth?)
8 ready-to-eat dried apricots
4 sprigs of fresh parsley
salt and ground black pepper
? survive; in fact, I’ve been
healthier since I became a
vegan. I used to suffer from hay
fever and many other allergies
but since I stopped eating dairy
Kelley Griffiths 14 Carmarthenshire

Me Ma’s Salad
follow the paws products, they’ve disappeared.
sniff out
Cut the spring onions into pieces. Remember being veggie doesn’t Fresh spinach leaves A warm, hairy handshake
1 just save the lives of millions of animals, Fresh broccoli florets to Mrs Griffiths for
Gently warm the almonds it benefits your body too”. Mushrooms, sliced this creation. It’s a
2 in 1/2 a tablespoon of oil Tomatoes, chopped curious fine show of a ‘real’
until they are golden. Spring onions, chopped canine salad - nothing like
Remove from pan and place on kitchen paper to absorb any excess oil. Carrots, grated those sham salads with
Celery, chopped Why veggie their limp lettuce leaves,
Fry the mushrooms and spring onions in 1 tablespoon of oil for 5 minutes Sunflower seeds Kelley? dry cucumber slices and
3 or until they are soft. Stir often. Hemp seeds “It’s lush and mega soft tomatoes p’lease.
Cashew nuts healthy”.
Dissolve the stock cube in 600ml of boiling water Pistachio nuts
4 Pumpkin seeds

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Add the cracked wheat to the mushrooms and spring onions. Stir for one Sesame seeds
5 minute.
follow the paws
Pour stock over mixture.
6 cont... Mix together in a bowl!
1
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 We’ve all heard the
Oliver Edwards 16 Hampshire Sausages but not a jokes about tofu - the
porker in sight. Bless pasty-faced wall-
me curly- flower - but, believe
Sausage Pasta
Salad
tailed
chums. Scrummy me, after a quick makeover
you’d never recognise it.

(serves 2)
(serves 2)
Stir-fry Smothered in herbs and
spices, it makes an absolutely
captivating dinner partner -
sniff out quite the belle of the ball.
Pasta (enough for two) sniff out
1
/2 stock cube 1
/2 tbs olive oil
5 veggie sausages, cooked and sliced 1 packet tofu, cut into chunks (see what on
Celery, chopped earth? - Tasty Tofu and Pasta on page 18)
Beansprouts 1 tsp ground ginger
Spinach leaves curious canine 1 tsp dried coriander
Red pepper, chopped 1
/2 tsp dried mixed herbs
Lettuce leaves, chopped Why veggie 1
/2 tsp dried cumin (optional)
Cucumber, diced Oliver? 1
/2 stock cube dissolved in 1/2 cup of boiling water
Tomato, chopped
Onion rings
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 tbs chives, finely chopped
1 tbs parsley, finely chopped
1 tbs olive oil
“I decided to go
vegetarian
because eating
meat fuels
unacceptable
cruelty, contributes
? Lots of veggie stuff, think:
Cashew nuts
Carrots and celery, cut into matchsticks
Broccoli florets
Sugar snap peas
Red pepper and mushrooms, sliced
curious canine
Why veggie Leah?
“I am vegetarian because I think
animals should have rights in
1
/2 tbs vinegar to environmental Cabbage, shredded this world. I can’t bear to
1 tbs lemon juice pollution and sets your Spinach think about all the animals
Lots of black pepper
Salt to taste

follow the paws

Cook the pasta according to the
personal health back”. Beansprouts
Garlic - how much can you handle?
Couscous - cook according to packet (see what
on earth?)

follow the paws

cramped together in
sheds or cages waiting to
die. Think of all the
animals which regain
consciousness on the
slaughter-line - ahhh!”.
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1 instructions on the packet but
adding the stock cube to the Warm oil and add tofu. Coat tofu with
water whilst it cooks. ginger, coriander, mixed herbs, cumin and stock. Gently turning at intervals, fry
1 until brown and crispy.
Let pasta cool in a big bowl.
2 Add the cashew nuts and all the vegetables
Add sausages, salad ingredients 2 except the beansprouts and cook for 3-4 minutes. what on
3 and herbs. earth?
Add the beansprouts and fry for a further 1 minute. Couscous is made from
In a separate bowl, mix the 3 finely ground wheat and can
4 olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, black pepper and salt. Meanwhile, cook couscous. be tracked down in
4 supermarkets.
Pour over the other ingredients and mix well. Add garlic to stir-fry and serve with couscous.
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 curious canine
what on
Alice Gorman 16 Why veggie Alice? Holly Maguire 11 East Sussex earth?
Derbyshire “I’m veggie quite simply because I Soya cheese, like Scheese
love animals and hate all types of or Cheezly, is widely

Tasty Tofu cruelty. Going veggie has really

opened my eyes to what happens Pizza available in health food
stores. It’s made from

(serves 4)
and Pasta behind closed doors.
I didn’t want to support the pain,
torture and death of the meat
(serves 1)

sniff out
soya instead of milk.

industry. Also, I feel so much 1 large crustless slice of bread

sniff out healthier as a veggie and I am A little melted marge This brings back childhood memories of
250g tofu, cut into cubes (see what on always amazed at how many 1 tsp tomato puree long hot days with my Italian aunt Bessie in
earth?) health advantages there are with 3 onion slices East Croydon. If you want an even more
3 tsp olive oil a vegetarian diet. 2 slices of unskinned tomatoes authentic touch, stick it in a cardboard box
1
/2 tbs basil 2 slices of red pepper and get a friend to
1 large courgette, diced One of my A handful of grated (soya) cheese (see ring the doorbell and
1 orange pepper, diced
400g tin chopped tomatoes
2 tbs tomato puree
1 tbs red wine vinegar
salt and pepper to taste
favourite recipes
has to be Tasty
Tofu and Pasta
because it’s, well,
really tasty. It’s
? what on earth?)
Large pinch of mixed herbs
Dust of black pepper

follow the paws

deliver it.

250g penne pasta (cook according to packet) healthy and

150g (soya) cheese, sliced (see what on earth?) filling so it doesn’t Heat oven to 175ºC/gas mark 4/350ºF.
need to be served with 1
follow the paws much, I usually have salad with it”. Cover the bread slice with
2 melted marge and place on
Put the tofu in a bowl with the olive a baking sheet.
1
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oil and basil and leave in the fridge for
30 minutes to marinade. Cover with tomato puree.
3
2 Fry the tofu for 5 minutes or until browned. Top with onion, tomato,
4 pepper and finally curious
3 Separately fry the courgette and pepper for 5 minutes in a little oil. cheese. Sprinkle with canine
herbs and pepper.
4 Heat oven to 190ºC/gas mark 5/375ºF. Why veggie
Bake for about 20 minutes. Holly?
To the courgette and pepper, add tomatoes, tomato puree, red wine vinegar, 5 “I am a veggie because I don’t
5 salt and pepper and simmer for 15 minutes. Try it with different see why animals should suffer
6 toppings like mushrooms, and die just so we can have a
6 Meanwhile, cook pasta. what on sliced veggie sausages meal when there are so many
earth? and olives. meat-free alternatives. Once you
7 Mix pasta, tofu and tomato mixture and put in Tofu is soya bean curd. It know the truth about the meat
an oven proof dish. Arrange cheese slices on top. can be found in the chilled industry I don’t know how you
cabinets of supermarkets. couldn’t be a veggie”.
Bake for 25 minutes or until browned Plain tofu is unflavoured and
8 on top. needs a bit of spicing up
when you’re cooking
with it.
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 James Fordham 16 Devon Whisk in water, oil and mustard.
2
Cook and stir until the sauce thickens and bubbles. It will get thicker the
3
Lovely Lasagne
(serves 4-6)
more it cooks and can be thinned down with a little water.

sniff out (Lasagne at last!)

920 ml pasta sauce (recipe page 20)
sniff out (Pasta 10 large lasagne sheets (see what on earth?)
Sauce) 450 g tofu, well-drained and crumbled
50 ml olive oil This is your offensive charmer. Should you 460 ml cheezy sauce (recipe page 20) what on
I large onion, finely chopped ever be caught out by your ‘rents, this A little margarine earth?
400g tin chopped tomatoes stunner, accompanied by garlic bread and a Nutritional yeast flakes are...
85g tomato puree green salad, is a totally safe form of follow the paws well... yeast. They have a
2 tsp basil brainwashing. It has already released me cheesy taste and can be
1 tsp oregano from a couple of tight scrapes - people just Heat the oven to 175ºC/gas mark 4/350ºF. nosed out in supermarkets
3 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped can’t seem to resist its creamy 1 and health food stores.
1 stock cube allure. It seems to fog the Grease a pan approximately 30cm x 22cm with
460 ml hot water mind of elders - perhaps the 2 marge.
Italian magic takes them
follow the paws back to their romantic Put a little tomato sauce in the bottom.
heyday long, long ago. 3
Fry onion in the oil. Layer half the pasta sheets on the
1 4 sauce.
Stir in tomatoes, tomato puree, basil, oregano what on
2 and garlic. Spread half the tofu on top. earth?
5 Lasagne sheets are large,
Dissolve the stock cube in the water and add Whop on half the cheezy flat pasta rectangles. You
3 to the pan. 6 sauce. can find them with all the

?
other pastas in the
Cook on a low heat for 15 minutes, curious Pour half the tomato sauce on top. supermarket.
4 stirring occasionally. canine 7
Make another layer of pasta sheets.
sniff out (Cheezy Sauce) Why 8
120 ml nutritional yeast flakes (see what on earth?) veggie Spread on the rest of the tofu.
120 ml cornflour James? 9
2 tbs flour “I became vegan Pour over the rest of the tomato sauce.
1 tsp salt because of the heart- 10
460 ml water breaking way calves are Pour over the rest of the cheezy sauce.
120 ml olive oil wrenched away from 11
1 tsp wet mustard their mothers at a couple Cover the pan with baking foil.
of days old so we can 12
follow the paws drink their milk. I was Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.
already veggie because I 13
Mix together nutritional yeast flakes, abhorred the horrors of Remove the foil and bake for a further 15 minutes.
1 cornflour, flour and salt in a saucepan. factory farming and the 14
slaughterhouse”.

20 21
 Elasticated trousers are
simply a must in my
profession. Without
Arthur Parkinson 9 them I could never Melt marge, syrup and sugar in a pan over a low
Nottingham get down on my knees 3 heat until the marge has melted. Take off the heat.
and worship all this
Chocolate sugary sweetness. Add the oats and stir well. Then press into the
4 tin and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
Crunchies
sniff out
110 g margarine Grace Dawson 16 Suffolk
55 g sugar
2 rounded tbs golden syrup curious canine
30 g cocoa Chocolate Pudding Cake
4 cups of cornflakes Why veggie Arthur? (serves 6)
cake cases “Just yummy! I’m a vegetarian
because I love animals and birds sniff out
follow the paws and I hate factory 3 tbs cocoa powder curious canine
farming which is 230 ml white flour
Melt the marge, syrup and sugar hideously cruel.” 2 tsp baking powder Why veggie Grace?
1
?
together in a pan. 2 tbs sunflower oil "I am vegan because a vegan diet means
1 tsp vanilla extract everyone wins - you, the environment and,
Take off the heat and quickly add the cocoa. 170 ml sugar of course, the animals. It’s THAT simple.
2 1
/2 tsp salt
Add the cornflakes, mix together and divide the mixture into 120 ml soya milk This is a fab recipe cos it’s
3 little cake cases. Let harden. easy to make and tastes

Sita Ruskin 14 Bristol curious canine

Why veggie Sita?
follow the paws

1
Heat the oven to 175ºC/gas mark 4/350ºF.

2
great - especially to those
with a sweet tooth".

Mix together all the ingredients and stir well.

?
Flapjacks “To me it’s simple. I am
repulsed by the cruel and
inexcusable treatment of
3
Pour the thick batter into a greased 20 x 20 cm baking pan (a baking tin
with deep sides).

sniff out animals and the fact that then sniff out
A little margarine (for greasing tin) our species do it just for 170 ml brown sugar
220g margarine
8 level tbs golden syrup
160g sugar
450g rolled oats
? their taste buds. On top
of this, there is the bare
fact that people are
eating the flesh and old
blood cells of an animal -
50 ml cocoa powder
400 ml boiling water

and follow the paws

follow the paws they’re eating a carcase!”. Mix the sugar and cocoa
4 together and sprinkle the mixture over the top of the cake batter.
Heat the oven to 160ºC/gas mark 3/335ºF.
1 Pour the boiling water gently over the mixture. Then cook for 45 minutes
Grease an approximately 20 x 30 cm shallow tin with marge. 5 and serve warm.
2
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 Snappy Veggie Cooking
is a straight-talking vegetarian recipe
guide for teenagers by teenagers,
compiled by Viva!'s doggy detective,
The Mollster

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