So What Do You Eat Then?
  • So What Do You Eat Then?
  • The Recipes
    • Savoury >
      • Full Meals >
        • Aubergine Stuffed Peppers
        • Aubergine and Sweet Potato Tagine
        • Bean Stew with Herby Dumplings
        • Carrot and Mushroom Flan
        • Chickpea Curry
        • Chinese Style Vegetable Skewers
        • Grilled Polenta with Butternut Squash
        • Lentil Soup
        • Mock Duck Stirfry
        • Mushroom and Asparagus Tartlets
        • Mushroom Plait
        • Mushroom Risotto
        • Mushroom and Tofu Parcels
        • Pizza
        • Quiche
        • Raw Creamy Nut & Mushroom Soup
        • Roast Pumpkin
        • Sauerkraut with Sausage and Roasties
        • Sausage Casserole
        • Shepless Pie
        • Slow-Cooked Paella
        • Spaghetti Bolognese
        • Spicy Bean Pasties
        • Spring Stew
        • Stuffed Marrow
        • Three Bean Chilli
        • Tofurkey and Stuffing Roll
      • Snacks, Light Meals, Sides and Starters >
        • Avocado and Butternut Salad
        • Coleslaw
        • Creamy Vegetable Soup
        • Falafel
        • Green Lentil and Couscous Salad
        • Herby Potato Salad
        • Houmous
        • Japanese Style Dumplings
        • Jenny's Sticky Tofu
        • Jenny's Sweet Green Bean Soup
        • Lime Pickle
        • Mediterranean Soup with Black Olive Tapenade
        • Mini Pizza Grills
        • Moroccan Style Leeks
        • Nettle Soup
        • Nomelette
        • Not-Cheese
        • Onion Bhaji
        • Pâté de Faux Gras
        • Pitta Bread
        • Raw Linseed Crackers
        • Red Pepper and Two Butter Soup
        • Samosas
        • Scamiar
        • Seaweed Salad
        • Seedy Cornbread
        • Shanxi Style Cucumber Salad
        • Split Pea and Mushroom Patties
        • Sushi
        • Tomato Bread
        • Tzatziki
        • Winter Rainbow Salad
    • Sweet >
      • Cakes and Biscuits >
        • Apple and Elderberry Cookies
        • Apple Cake
        • Battenburg Cake
        • Blackberry Muffins
        • Blueberry Muffins
        • Buried Treasure Brownies
        • Carrot Cake >
          • Raw Carrot Cake
        • Cashew and Apricot Rawkies
        • Cherry Bakewells
        • Cherry and Chocolate Sponge
        • Chocolate Cookies
        • Christmas Cake
        • Coconut Macaroons
        • Fig Rolls
        • Gugelhupf
        • Fondant Fancies
        • Fruit Choc Crispies
        • Gingernuts
        • Half-Moon Coffee Cake
        • Jam Tarts
        • Lavender Scones
        • Meg's Bicycling Banana Bread
        • Millionaire's Shortbread
        • Mince Pies >
          • Mincemeat
        • Mocha Recovery balls
        • Pepparkakor
        • Pineapple Upsidedown Cake
        • Popcorn Cakes
        • Spiced Pear Slices
        • Strawberry Citrus Cupcakes
        • Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits
        • Summer Celebration Cake
        • Tropical Jack Flaps
      • Chocolat >
        • Aztec Chocolate Orange Cake
        • Caramel Cups
        • Celebration Platter
        • 'F**k Off, I'm Fabulous' Fondants
        • Notgat
        • Spiced Hot Chocolate
        • Strawberry Creams
      • Desserts >
        • Apple Crumble Icefu
        • Autumn Equinox Pie
        • Baked Apple
        • Banchocado
        • Banoffee Pie
        • Blackberry and Apple Lattice
        • Cherry and Chocolate Not-Cheesecake
        • Chocolate Pots
        • Fruit Chaat
        • Fruit Crumble
        • Ginger and Lemon Not-Cheesecake
        • Ginger and Rhubarb Tart
        • Green Bean Ices
        • Lemon Tart
        • Meringue
        • Mini Strawberry Not-Cheesecakes
        • Orange and Blackberry Fool
        • Pancakes
        • Pineapple Pudding
        • Polenta Passion Pudding
        • Pumpkin Pie
        • Raspberry Crumble Pie
        • Spiced Vanilla Stars
        • Strawberry and Chocolate UpsideCrumble
        • Strawberry Icefu with Frozen Fruit Skewers
        • Summer Pudding
        • Trifle
        • Triple Choccy Muffins
    • Breakfast >
      • Apple Spread
      • Apple Turnovers
      • Apricot Puffs
      • Crumpets
      • Elderberry Syrup
      • Fruit Loaf
      • Lemon Curd
      • Quick Strawberry Jam
      • Rowan Jelly
      • Spiced Apple Porridge
    • Seasonal Suggestions
  • The Components
    • Not-Meat
    • Not-Eggs
    • Not-Dairy

Do you know what I think the world really doesn't need?

Another cookery website by a tattooed hippy who thinks they are on a one woman mission to save the world by promoting their alternative lifestyle and personal convictions that lentils can cure cancer.

I am not (and yes, I have genuinely encountered these conversational confusions) a Vulcan, a vagrant or a vegetable. Neither by some people’s standards am I a vegan, since I will occasionally wear second hand silk, leather and wool instead of throwing perfectly good items away, and I have been known to bend the rules for honey if I've accidentally missed it in the ingredients of something I've already bought. Maybe those bees need all the help they can get at the moment anyway, even if that does involve human fiddling. I also accidentally ate jellyfish in China. I do, however, choose to omit animals from my diet and find using the word ‘vegan’ the easiest way to quickly describe this without getting into the ‘What not even eggs? What about fish? Surely you don't mean cheese!?’ territory.

The omission of these products from my food is for a combination of reasons best visualised in the following pie chart (damn I’m funny):
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Aside from conversations about what my tattoos mean (yes, I’ve fulfilled my first stereotype) the one conversation I am guaranteed to have to try really hard not to roll my eyes at is about my dietary choices. I inflict these choices on no one I'm not cooking for and they are equally welcome to head out to the chippy as they are to eat my offerings, not that I tend to get complaints. Neither am I judgemental about what other people choose to ingest and cannot think of anything more dull than discussing the input data to my digestive system. I will however, gladly discuss the outputs if you like? No? Well then.
In my experience, most of these conversations start with me trapped in a corner and end with the bemused question ‘So what do you eat then?’ as if the interrogator cannot possibly conceive of a meal that does not contain some form of biological protein. Since it is apparently impolite to reply ‘FOOD!’ before fleeing to the kitchen, I have made this website. If you’ve arrived at the site because I’ve given you the URL, then the chances are you asked The Question. If not, maybe you’ll enjoy some of the recipes anyway. Either way, well done for reading this far through my rant (unless you’ve skipped to this sentence in which case; naughty, get to the back of the queue).

Having said all this, I do enjoy cooking. I find a creative approach to the activities of the kitchen to be a relaxing way to add value to a necessary part of staying alive. I also enjoy cooking for others, most of whom are more than happy to eat what I give them, despite being proudly unflinching omnivores. I’ve also noticed that my Facebook posts of food get a disproportionate amount of likes. So maybe the world doesn’t need another cookery website (and maybe I do have tattoos), I'll leave it to you to decide if I'm a hippy or not... but this site is certainly not about telling you what you should be doing with your own stomach.

Neither does this site attempt to be a vegan bible for the newly converted, a nutritionally reliable dietary model for concerned mothers or an advertisement for saving the whales. I take no responsibility for your culinary disasters and you are equally welcome to your own personal gastronomic triumphs as well as your own ethical opinions for that matter. Feel free to use, abuse and ignore bits, add stuff, change quantities and cook the contained recipes before continuing with your omnivorous lifestyle. Get messy, lick the spoon, rub it behind your ears, throw it at the walls but most of all have fun.

Just don’t mention the V word.

Cut the waffles and get to the recipes...

Rant over.  Here's some other stuff I do in cyberspace...

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