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Anyone have any experience cooking vegan food? Need some ideas other than the boring stuff ie a plate of vegetables!

Oh just to make it harder, can't eat wheat/gluten either.

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Spinach riccotta canneloni type thing with wheat and gluten free pasta or whatever it is, that's what my missus cooks my dad's missus whenever they visit (she is of a similiar disposition).

I've an American friend who's the same.  Have sent her a message and will post back when she replies.

Thanks both. Appreciate it, wasn't as much on google as expected either.

Ricotta no good tho- dairy is a no no

quorn is handy for vegan dishes

If you want to cheat then quite a lot of the Linda Mcartney range always used to be vegan as well as vegetarian

tofu?

Doing this for a prop bet Dave?

cant miss this opportuity to post one of my favs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEzEiP8ggMc

How about a nice glass of water ?

There isn't enough money in circulation to make this happen!

We had a funny conversation the other day. The question was for how much money would you need to get paid to eat the 15 course tastin menu, every day for the next year at the fat duck, you can't eat anything else and you have to have the wine pairings. Plus the staff have a memory loss so they never recognise you so each day you have too listen to them describing each course and each glass of wine. I reckon it's nearly impossible to do, imagine how tilted you would be when for the 300th time they describe sound of the sea dish and recommend you put the iPod on to get the whole experience

I'd struggle to imagine the 15 course tasting menu with wine pairings, never mind doing it for a full year.

is the fat duck that good?

my friends said it was ok

and said the experience is better then the food

i reckon my price would be fairly low -- care to make an offer? ;)

Pick up the tab would get my attention to do it!

I guess anything everyday for a year would be pretty dull after a while, at least Heston's ok at cooking.

Your friend is right. Great place to go once, menu barely ever changed so you need a long time between to go the second time. Food still decent but the experience is really good, the first time anyway.

Cathy just got back to me with a couple of links.  She says gluten free vegan isn't really her thing (she tried gluten free and hated it), but these are a couple of links to keep you going while she digs out some more...

http://www.theglutenfreevegan.com/

Not all of the recipes in the next link are gluten free, but you'll find a few and might be able to work with some of them.

http://veganmenu.blogspot.co.uk/

This link has loads of recipes, so take your pick...

http://www.justapinch.com/search/recipes/?k=gluten+free+vegan

Good luck!

Thanks a lot. Had a look at some of the food and actually sounds really good. My missus is on a diet for an abroad wedding we got to go, and she was salivating to VEGAN food when I sent her the link. Bless

Think going to go along the lines with Vietnamese summer rolls with a spicy dip followed by 3 bean chilli with gluten/wheat free tortillas. If its boring just whack load of spice to mask the blandness

A good pal of mine did a load of work on a land deal for a client who promised to take my friend and the lawyer to the Fat Duck if the deal went well, which it did.

They turned up for lunch and go for the tasting menu but chose the cheapest wine match option from the waiter. He then went for a piss and the lawyer beckons the waiter back over and says they have changed their mind and would opt for the spunkier wines with every course.

They lunch for about 4 hours and throughout the poor guy keeps saying how nice the wines were and how happy he was not wasting money on the expensive list. The bill arrived for £2.4k. He was about to flip out but looked to see his two dining buddies just crying laughing.