Old Fashioned Vegetarian Food

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I ate at Good Earth in Leicester last week. It's a totally vegetarian restaurant. It's been open nearly 50 years.

The menu is great, so unpretentious. I'd love to recreate some of their style of dishes. They had things like parsnip loaf, bean bake. Much more of an emphasis on grains and pulses.

I used to make a great nut loaf and a veggie shepherd's pie.
We eat too much pasta, chilli, curry etc.

I want to move back to basics. Can anyone suggest some old ( I want to say hippy style) dishes they love or used to love?

Now that's a good idea. I have an enormous tub of smoked paprika to use up.

Which Cranks book would people recommend please?

The original Cranks paperback recipe book, written by founder David Canter which you can find on EBay for a few quid. They reissued it with a different cover and called it The vegetarian classics, but the content is the same.

Don’t bother with the New Cranks revamp version by Nadine Abendur, it’s a totally different style of cooking.

I've only been there once and I thought it was a gloomy and depressing place - very 'brown'. Am I misremembering it?

I’m still making my way down the thread but this is making me think of Maxine’s in Nottingham long ago

Probably not, vegetarian food was a thing in the seventies and that was a very brown decade.

Sweet smoked works best in “minestrone”, hot smoked for spicy dishes. Its brilliant stuff!

I love Hendersons in Edinburgh, it’s a must!