Inspire me please!

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Just about to do a Sainsbo's order and can't decide what I want to eat next week!

Please can you inspire me with ideas for:

• vegetarian slow cooker recipes which do not involve tinned tomatoes
• something delicious and veggie to do with a slice of ready made puff pastry
• a yummy veggie pasta dish which doesn't use tinned tomatoes or a cheese/cream sauce (I fear that this may be an impossible ask)
• a really easy homemade pizza base recipe
• anything else you think I might fancy. :)

TIA.

With the pastry I would do some kind of roasted pepper and goats cheese tart kind of thing. Mmmmm goats cheeeeeese.
Also, do you eat seafood? (Thought I'd ask considering the AIBU thread about what veggies are supposed to eat or not!) If so, maybe buy some fresh mussels and do a mussel in white whine, garlic, cream pasta dish.

No to seafood.

Roasted peppers sound good but none of us like goat's cheese - suppose I could use feta though?

Sorry - thank you.

pasta with broccoli, olive oil, garlic, dried chilli flakes and fresh parmesan? sounds boring but the chilli perks it up.

do you like blue cheese?
you could do a gallette base with stilton, mushrooms, and walnuts on. i like a bit of honey drizzled on top.

Ooh my dds LOVE brocolli, so that pasta recipe sounds perfect. Thank you. I don't like it much (it goes cold so quickly) but I do like purple sprouting. How do you do it - just stir fry it?

Puff pastry
Use whatever veggie cheese you like instead of the stilton.
Slow cooker
Pizza
Thai yellow curry
Don't have a pasta dish to hand, but what about a pasta salad?
Pasta with whatever veg and dressing you like stirred through?

Love the sound of the potato plait thing.

Like the sound of the mushroom thing too but the dds won't eat mushrooms, so dp and I just gorge on them if alone!

Would never have thought of doing falafel in the slowcooker - must try that, although I think I'll have to save it for a weekend.

No to cauli pizza base though - just can't get my head around that at all. I rarely eat pizza, so if I do I want carbs! :) In fact, if I have pizza I want carbs, asparagus, artichokes, pine nuts, feta cheese - the whole whack. :)

We're having calzone tonight, not veggie but easily could be, as you choose whatever toppings you like.
No base recipe though, I've bought the dough as my poor Kenwood is currently broken and I don't do hand kneading.
There's Imam Bayildi on there too if that appeals?
It had fresh cherry tomatoes in it, no tinned.
One of the curry selections was meat free too, and the chinese aubergine dish. (I'm saying meat free, as you might have to watch things like fish sauce, and meat stock, obviously I don't as we are omnivores)

You bought ready made dough? Where does on get such a thing? Love calzone and haven't eaten it for ages (and have never cooked it). That is a brilliant idea.

Not v fond of aubergine, I'm afraid. I have tried and tried to like it but failed thus far.

Oh I'm going to pinch the blue cheese/mushroom idea!

here's yer basic pizza recipe:

250g plain flour
1tsp easy blend yeast
1/2 tsp salt
150ml warm water
2tbsp olive oil

mix the above into a dough. when it comes together, knead for 5 mins . makes a really sticky dough. roll into a ball and put in an oiled bowl and move it around to cover lightly with oil. leave somewhere warm for 1hr until it doubles in size.

knock it back, and stretch it over a baking sheet. cover with about 200g chopped tinned toms (more pulp, less juice IYSWIM) and season. cook for 20mins at gas 9. when ready, the base of the dough should sound hollow when knocked. then add your toppings and cook for another 5-10 mins.

Ready made dough from Asda, the brand is Wewalka. I bought it online, so others may be available. It has the V logo on it though, so is veggie.
Not tried it before, so will let you know how it goes and will blog it too.

How about macaroni peas as your veggie pasta dish? We all love it.

macaroni peas recipe

Thanks Charlotte. When I've bought yeast before, it's been in little packets rather than measurable by teaspoon - do you think one packet would be about right?

Netto - will see if Sainsbo's do the dough too.

Macaroni peas - erm - not sure about that tbh. 3 of us love macaroni cheese and I make a really nice one that doesn't look like mashed Kermit (we tend to have peas on the side). DD1 won't eat anything in a cheesy sauce though (and since I won't eat anything with tinned tomatoes, that does limit us a lot I'm afraid).

I have the Hugh FW book that the macaroni peas recipe is in and so far I've not been v impressed. The potato and chard curry got a big thumbs down - although the sauce was nice, the chard was horribly slimey, even though it was hardly cooked at all.

I love the recipe, the colour doesnt bother me at all. Im not veggie though, so maybe my tastes are different.

What about the chickpea ketchup curry from HFW?
We had that with a dahl, and the cauliflower pakora. DD made most of it.
It was before I started taking photos, and I ended up in hospital that night, but that wasn't the food, it was my crappy lungs!

i get 2 lots of pizza dough out of one sachet of sainsbury's fast action easy blend yeast.

Balsamic roasted vege pasta. Roast some peppers, courgette, shallot, mushroom, tomato with balsamic vinegar and olive oil for 30 mins till soft them toss through cooked wholemeal pasta. Its also really nice on salad.

Ooh yes to roasted veg - haven't had it for ages. And thanks, Flora, for the yeats guidance!

Jimmy - I'm sure all of us but dd1 would like the taste of the puree of frog pasta too, but dd1 just won't do cheese sauce. :)

Netto - we have chickpea curry a lot and the idea of tomato ketchup makes me feel ill so I think I'll stick with my own recipe/s for chickpea curry. have dahl a lot too (in fact had it tonight). Yes to cauliflower pakora though - although I can't be doing with deep fat frying on a week night, so again that willhave to wait for a weekend. In fact, dd2 says she's getting bored of curry as we have it so often, so maybe a weekend when she's not here?!

Any more puff pastry ideas folks, please? Or pasta?

Or maybe a super-dooper slow cooker recipe or five?

We eat curry too much too I think, but it's so easy, and tasty.
I need to steer clear of it for a while.
Mind you,there is a korma in Rick Stein and DD loves korma. We shall see
I actually find the deep far fryer quite an easy way of cooking. It's quick, though it does need to be supervised.

What about the afore mentioned roast veggies with a 'pillow', of puff pastry on top as the carb element?
Mind you, I'd happily eat plain puff pastry, I love it.

You could do a Sicillian style pasta -
chop black olives and capers, add a crushed clove of garlic, add some sultanas and toasted pine nuts, a handful of chopped parsley, some olive oil and a dash of red wine vinegar, season, and mix in to cooked pasta. It's yum. Also nice with lemon rind grated in.

Macaroni peas doesnt have a cheese sauce? Just a wee bit of parmesan.

How about another river cottage recipe, breadcrumb pesto spaghetti?