I’ve divided them into nine categories including pies, savoury puddings, nut roasts, tarts, stuffed vegetables and so on, and the recipes range from the simplest of assembly-jobs to more involved recipes for confident cooks
We’ve tried all sorts of recipes over the years – moroccan-spiced filo affairs, gooey baked cheesey pies, nutty patties, mushroomy wellingtons, aubergine stacks, chestnutty bites which were fondly nicknamed ‘reindeer poo’…
My go to base for vegetarian pâté is always walnuts with some kind of bean or chickpeas. Just brush a few slices of crusty bread lightly with olive oil and pop them under a grill (broiler) or into a hot griddle pan for a couple of minutes
Vegetable & nutWellington. If you like nuts, add those to your food. First of all welldone for taking the first step to changing your diet to vegetarian
The cookery lesson was given to me by Waitrose as one of my recipes ( Vegetable and NutWellington for a Vegetarian Christmas) was included on their website
This was followed by a tasty vegetarian roast butternut squash and mushroom Wellington with goat’s cheese, chestnut, sage and roast cherry tomato which even the meat eater said he’d be happy to choose as a main course
