To ask for cooking help? I am a shit cook.

[Hullygully]

As a result of the No Sugar thread, I have realised that I can't cook. Not one bit. No siree.

I need help.

These are the rules:

1. No cheese of any kind.
2. No meat
3. Not more than two pots for any one dish
4. Mustn't take hours
5. No cheese.

Thank you please help me.

I like this book. I just replace the chicken or prawns or whatever with lentils or vegetables or soya mince.

There are a lot of veggie and cheese free recipes anyway.

Veggie chilli is the way to go, quick, easy, ticks all your boxes

By the way, on the back of soya mince bags there is usually a spag bol recipe. My kids don't really that we use soya rather than real mince. We are not vegetarians but are almost meat free by preference.

I have got books, but I don't look in em. How can I make myself take an interest?

I should have also said that I hate cooking.

Not veggie as such but been watching the River Cottage Veg everyday and bought the book - some simple recipes there. Comes in handy now DS has a veggie girlfriend too. Got some nice and quick dishes in it.

-Vegetable curry
-Pasta with tomatoes, carrots, onions and peppers.
-Tuna pasta bake

I am sure there are others. As I'm a meat eater and a sweet tooth, it's hard for me to come up with things that aren't either of these. :)

To take an interest just focus on a meal you really enjoy having (at someone elses house or out at a nice restaurant etc) and prepare that meal yourself. Because when you do you'll not have to go to someone elses or a restaurant to have it, you can have it whenever you fancy it. :)

You can't. I opt to do the cooking for the following reasons:

• it gets me out of the housework
• I get to control what we eat (healthily)
• I can batch cook at the weekend while drinking wine

*In no particular order.

stir fry with marinaded tofu (cauldron foods, from supermarkets). we're not veggie but this is a favourite.

Ok.

Re the meat free, is quorn acceptable? If so then just change what you put in the recipe to quorn rather than meat.

Re the cheese free, again is this intolerance or dislike? If intolerance you can get lacto-free cheese from bigger supermarkets. It tastes very processed though.

I am veggie and also lactose-intolerant and also a lazy cook so your rules are mostly my rules.

Suggestions for recipes:

pasta with simple sauce - tomato and basil, tomato and roast veg, broccoli and nuts, etc.

Stir-fries with cashew nuts etc to bulk them out.

Risottos - mushroom (use dried mushrooms for a better umami taste), pea and mint, etc

more complicated is various vegetable stews - ratatouille, winter vegetable stews etc - take longer but involve basically chopping veg and throwing in a single pot.

Vegetable curries - also lentil dhals - indian food generally is lacto-free and veggie indian cookbooks can be found. Can be more complicated though.

Once a week or so I will do a big cook and cook something more complicated like a veggie lasagne or moussaka or veggie cottage pie (can use soy milk etc to make it lacto-free if required) and I'll make four or five so I have them in the freezer for weekday evenings when I just can't be bothered/don't have the time.

If don't like to cook there is really no way to start liking to cook, I don't think. I find it's an either or thing.

If cheese free is dislike, YABU. (I hated cheese as a child... what a little fool I was!)

Yeah I do loads of veg in a pot, but none of it tastes very nice. I bung spices in a bit randomly and it's all a bit nothing, excpet hot from chillis.

CHEESE IS DISCUSTING COW CURD

I have a fabulous Greek Pasta Bake recipe that I make with soya mince. Tis yum.

The Lemon household watched Gok Wan's cooking programme. He uses a wok, a ladle, cleaver, chopping board. That's is - oh, apart from his "basket of loveliness" - rice wine, soy sauce etc. etc.

Recipes seemed really easy - no cheese but veggies aplenty.

No cheese. No cheese. How does Hully manage??

Here you go - just miss out the parmesan from the topping.

GREEK PASTA BAKE

1/5 of basic mince recipe (1lb mince)
2tsp chopped oregano
2tsp chopped thyme
1 bay leaf
1tsp ground cumin
1tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ pt red or white wine
½ pt passata
4oz dried pasta eg penne
3 tbsp fresh coriander
7 fl oz carton Greek Yoghurt
2 eggs ? size 3
2 tbsp milk
4 tbsp Parmesan, finely grated

Heat the mince through. Add the herbs (except the coriander) and spices and cook for 5 mins. Season, then add the wine and passata. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 20 mins.

Cook the pasta for 10 ? 12 mins until tender. Drain and stir into mince mixture. Stir in coriander. Spoon into an ovenproof dish.

Whisk together the yoghurt, eggs, milk and Parmesan cheese until smooth. Carefully pour this sauce over the mince and pasta mixture and bake at Mark 5/375ºF/190ºC for 30 minutes or until it becomes golden brown.

I could not imagine a life without cheese.

Without cheese and wine I would be slimchick of the year.

Look.

I need recipes with really simple steps.

C'mon. I'll print them out.

What about that Greek thing?

I love this veggie paella. Made in one pan, takes less than an hour, and it's delish:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/6044/vegetable-paella

Sometimes I fry off some diced chicken and add it at the same time as the stock, for the meat eaters out there :o

Oh look! ^^ Magic.

Pasta or jacket potatoes are your friend.

Mushroom pasta:
Cook pasta. Peel and slice a clove of garlic. Slice mushrooms. Heat a pan and put a knob of butter in pan. It should melt and sizzle quickly. Put garlic and mushrooms in the pan and fry quickly. You can serve like this over the pasta with some olive oil. Or put a little white wine in pan (enough just to cover the base) and let it bubble them pour in single cream while stirring. You just want enough cream to create a sauce. Then serve over pasta with salt and pepper.

Roast veg: cut a variety of veg into chunks- sweet potato/butternut/courgettes/onions/carrots/beet root/peppers wtc. Put in a large roasting dish. Add cherry tomatoes and a few cloves of unpeeled garlic. Sprinkle with mixed herbs and some chilli flakes. Drizzle generously with olive oil and roast at 180 for about an hour turning at least once. You can serve it with couscous.

Oh I do do roast veg like that but I have to put it in a blender and mash it to a pulp and put it on pasta for the dc

Chip shop.