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?

OK, bumping this as I have had a request for some specific recipes from Food from The Place Below by Bill Sewell. Photos will follow shortly.

Hope these are legible!

Thanks @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g . They aren't all that clear for me but if you rustle one up, I can pop round for supper.

Seriously, I might treat myself but I need to cull my cookbook collection as it is.

I have that cookbook! It’s a classic!

Sarah Brown and Rose Elliot - had forgotton both.
Loved vegetarian kitchen - Sarah sadly died in May this year

I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope she had a happy and fulfilling life wherever she ended up.

Oh, that is so sad. RIP Sarah Brown.

Sarah Brown (cook) - Wikipedia Both Sarah Brown and Rose Elliot's recipes are reliable.

I want my recipes to be by vegetarians. My complaints about eating out is that it seems to be food prepared by cooks who think they know what vegetarians like, resulting in repetitive and unimaginative dishes.

There's a great collection of classic and modern recipes here for free: https://www.seasonedpioneers.com/recipes/ just select Vegetarian.
The first and only recipe I looked at used fish sauce.

This is your shop I take it? As pp points out, if you are going to tag recipes on the shop site as vegetarian its a good idea to make sure they are vegetarian.

That is sad to hear. Upthread I was wondering what happened to her - she had children not so very far ahead of me and I used some of her toddler recipes. Then I didn’t hear more about her so figured she had settled into a happy private life with her family. I hope she had that until this year.

Looked at another 3 recipes. 1 of those wasn't vegetarian, @SeasonedP .

This thread inspired me to buy The Vegetarian Kitchen from ebay. I cooked from it years ago and very happy to have it back.

@jonseymour , only if you do that, some of the recipes contain ingredients that are NOT vegetarian. The link is not a reliable source.

People sometimes do not realise that some products like chicken stock, oyster sauce, fish and lard are not vegetarian.

That's why I said to "do that"? I wouldn't have said to "do that" if you don't need to. It really isn't that complicated.

@jonseymour , which part of " if you do that, some of the recipes contain ingredients that are NOT vegetarian" do you not understand?

Ah I see what you mean. Silly Jon. Sorry about that.

I had read the post properly the first time and followed the instruction, hence my post.
I feel like I'm back in the days of 'and for the vegetarians there's turkey'.

Spammers will spam.

Its a bit of a giveaway when a new user jumps onto a random thread to spam their shop, then changes name to repeat the spam after being deleted.

The inability to tag the content properly just makes it more obvious.

I did wonder, @C8H10N4O2 . I know I could omit or substitute the non-vegetarian ingredient but I've been fed things like fish sauce by cooks who didn't realise it wasn't vegetarian.